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  Today's Daily Text - Being Uneducated And Ordinary... WTF!!!

  by Divergent in

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  2. friends

  thursday, march 3. they were uneducated and ordinary men.—acts 4:13.. in recent years, the spiritual instruction provided by jehovah’s organization has reflected an increased emphasis on simplicity and clarity.

  consider three examples.

  first, there is the simplified edition of the watchtower.

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  I echo "BS".

  Have you read the simplified? Not a big difference. Just publish 1 and get it over with. Not many Princeton Grads in the Org that will be upset at cutting out a few 3 syllable words out of article.

  And - by the way - if you have to make literature studied at the Meeting simple for people who can't read well, isn't that a WARNING about who you attract, and how the WT is NOT a teaching org?
  

  Also not many years ago it was made know that they put Hard words (by Jdub standards) in the WT and you should use a dictionary and expand your reading and comprehension ability.
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  How did you feel when they eliminated the Con. Book Study?

  by Freeandclear in

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  2. friends

  years ago when i was "in" i loved the book study.

  it was my favorite meeting by far.

  mainly because it was a small group.

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  I felt like it was a mistake. It was built as SO important for all my life. I also thought it was a loss because it was a training ground for MS and Elders.

  After a few months I was SOOOO Happy to have an Extra Night to myself!!
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  Quote about Honesty and lies of omission in latest Watchtower.

  by cappytan in

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  2. friends

  jesus honestly identified himself as the messiah, even though his truthful admission could allow the sanhedrin to claim that he was a blasphemer and could lead to his execution.—matt.

  will we be honest in situations where a slight omission or twist of words might bring us material gain?.

  article here.

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  HOLY COW! Man they know or count on that almost no JW know anything about the ARC.
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  Louisiana Judge Rules That Priests Don’t Have to Report Abuse if They Hear It During Confession

  by ttdtt in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  leave it to the deep south.. sad.. http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2016/03/01/louisiana-judge-rules-that-priests-dont-have-to-report-abuse-if-they-hear-it-during-confession/?utm_source=silverpopmailing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=friendlyatheist_030116utc050309_daily&utm_content=&spmailingid=50816439&spuserid=mty4mdi2oty3odkws0&spjobid=880120009&spreportid=odgwmtiwmda5s0.

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  Leave it to the Deep South.

  Sad.

  http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2016/03/01/louisiana-judge-rules-that-priests-dont-have-to-report-abuse-if-they-hear-it-during-confession/?utm_source=SilverpopMailing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=friendlyatheist_030116UTC050309_daily&utm_content=&spMailingID=50816439&spUserID=MTY4MDI2OTY3ODkwS0&spJobID=880120009&spReportId=ODgwMTIwMDA5S0
  
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  Memorial campaign with videos??

  by BeautifulMind in

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  2. friends

  good morning from the east coast.

  i have a question.

  a friend of mine texted me and one of the things she said was that they were getting a lot of great responses with the campaign because they are showing the video.

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  Where do see about the video? It's not in the Workbook?
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  Elders & Ex Elders

  by brandnew in

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  2. friends

  i have a question.....if two jw have sex and only one of them goes to the eldurrs and confesses.....do they both get busted?

  or does the boe need a confession from both people.?

  if one of em denies it happened will that person still get df'd?.

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  There is the 2 witness rule. Unless there is any corroborating evidence, and if they follow the "rules" then they leave it in "gods" hands. But the one denying it will be scrutinized for sure. It will also be a topic when the CO comes.
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  Things we an say on our death bed...

  by The Rebel in

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  1) i am glad i had the courage to live my life true to myself and not the life others expected of me.. 2) i am glad i had the courage to express my feelings.. 3) i am glad i let myself be myself.. 4 ) and i hope i have so many days, and years to live those thoughts, because surely the most wonderful thing about having left our " watchtower death bed" is to start living?.

  in my case at 50 !!.

  but the important thing is when we leave, to start living.. any experiences worth sharing?.

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  Exact same boat - fading now - hard of course because of family.

  But I want to be able to say all those things too.

  So many doors have been closed, trying to kick open one or two new ones.
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  JW Child Abuse Documentary

  by cappytan in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulswb2avxvc.

  let's set aside our differences for the moment and appreciate this excellent documentary cedars put together that should prove to be an invaluable tool in helping to expose the child abuse issues in the organization.. i was humbled to be able to help with this project on such an important subject, though my part in it was insignificant..

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  We need CNN, the Times or MSNBC to pick up this story and make it national like with the Catholic Church!
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  Watchtower December 15th issue caught lying again!

  by freeman in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  watchtower caught lying again in the december 15th article “a living translation of god's word”.

  more like a lying then a living translation of god”s word if you ask me.

  but i digress... .

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  So I am no expert for sure. 3 things though.

  1. I don't know if using the "name" JWs use is really wrong. I have seen it spelled out in very old churches in europe for myself, so it was used in that past. Hard to say it's not been in use for a long time, maybe not as long as they claim?

  2. No one has issue with using the name and pronunciation of Jesus which has similar grammar.

  3. Your source. I don't trust other religious sources in general any more than the WT, and the article has not references you can check.

  It is infuriating how the WT crapps on everyone else, especially in light of how they had done nothing original themselves. Everything they have written about and the majority of the core beliefs were Pirated from others.

  For years I would argue when some article came out about history or science or such, that by the way I had heard about many months before on NPR (someone there has there radio tuned to WNYC), reminding people that the WT does not have a research department breaking new ground in Medicine, History, Science. The friends get the idea that the geniuses in brooklyn discover this stuff on their own, and don't just plagiarized things.

  I think the bigger issue with the "name" in the new "slippery sword" is how many times they put it in where it was definitely NOT! So much for "he who adds or takes away."

  Religion is just a destructive deceptive and corrupt force on man.
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  Jehovah's Witnesses: A Clear Decline

  by Hadriel in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  it is rather clear that the internet is to put it mildly, wrecking the world of the watchtower bible & tract society.

  if not for foreign language i doubt there would be much growth at all.. digital trends and analytics are very real.

  i live this analytics world i assure you to some degree you can take it to the bank.

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  Where did that chart come from?