so i've been sharing some a little at a time with my sister.
she is married and very scared of actually learning too much.
she doesn't want to ruin her marriage.
Here is a great link to JWFACTS.com where you can find loads of info about the JW beliefs and how they cannot be based on reality.
If ever in doubt, try this site. When on the jwfacts.com site, they have a search function and I just typed in "william miller" and got this link as a result.
Hope this helps with your research.
http://www.jwfacts.com/watchtower/607-1914-7-times-history.php
NJY
i struggled with this question before i got baptised.
what helped you to overcome any doubts?.
SFPW Jesus said to keep on the watch, and that's what those faithful brothers have done throughout the years.
Keeping on the watch and giving false hope/promises that armageddon is imminent are two very different things.
If my smoke detector went off every day I would not be grateful that there 'might' be a fire. I would throw it away as clearly defective.
If the manufacturer of that smoke detector also made other items which kept failing, I would no longer buy from that manufacturer.
Splash.
Great thought, I wish I had heard this one about 2 years ago when 2 elders were at my door asking me why my family was missing meetings.
They mentioned that if my house was on fire, would I want them to kick in the door and run in and drag my family out to safety. I said yes of course, but I also mentioend to them that it is illegal to shout "Fire" into a crowded theatre if there is not an actual fire. One elder came back with a "Where theres smoke, there's fire" comment, I would have loved to "dove tail" your thought into his comment.
NJY
i struggled with this question before i got baptised.
what helped you to overcome any doubts?.
The Watchtower are nothing but false prophets. They were the most guilty of that sin during their 1918-1919 inspection. There's no way in HELL, they were appointed by Jehovah. Everything from that time period is riddled in false predictions, pyrmidology, and Jesus' presence occuring in 1874 (until 1943 this was taught).
I thought that I had read on jwfacts.com that this was taught until 1929 or so.
Says that in 1930 they made mention of 1914 instead of the 1874 presence of Jesus.
Here is the link to that page.
http://www.jwfacts.com/watchtower/607-1914-7-times-history.php
NJY
it cracks me up if you bring this subject up to a witness , they always try to convince themselves that i'm reading into this!!!.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpqwknq31ie&feature=youtube_gdata_player.
One of the halls I attended as a youngster was bought from a church and converted into a KH and the baptism pool was filled with old Watchtowers and Awakes then a stage was built over it. ( was told this by an elder) and then years later it was sold to another church.
Not sure if they ever found the stash.
NJY
i've noticed something that is very odd even by wt/gb standards.
why is mark sanderson suddenly so prominent in all things wt/jw?.
others have commented on the obvious narcissism of the gb pushing themselves to the fore recently, in particular after their huge doctrinal change at proclaiming themselves and only themselves as the faithful and discreet slave.. this is clearly true as evidenced at the agm, not only throughout the agm, but also in the video that was featured as part of that meeting.
I think he was the one that kept saying. " uh" throught out his entire time in that video. Give him a big "W" since he needs to work on that a bit.
NJY
so... i have been working on an excel spreadsheet that has "ttatt in a can"... i have it both in spanish and in english.
here's a preview:.
category / year1879188018901891name?bible studentsbible students "time of the end" starts in the year?17991799 "parousia" (presence)?18741874 jesus enthroned?18781878 end of the harvest?19141914 earthly resurrection?
Marked,..
Wow, splash,..
touched by an apostate.
i cant decide if i want to curse or hug and kiss all the friends on jwn for giving me a bite of the red pill and allowing me the clarity i never had growing up.
we were raised one hundred-percent cult and our family obeyed all the rules that we could, some rules from the cult my mother refused to obey for a greater-good, like humanity, helping disfellowshiped ex-jws who were poor or depressed, she did not follow the cult's code of treating weak or mentally ill people like shit.
Aunt Connie,..
Hang in there, you are on your way and realizing that you are in a cult is a BIG step forward in getting out. And that is what a person should do when they come to the realization that they are in a cult right, get out?
I had just started a thread over at jehovaswitnessrecovery.com a few minutes ago and this url was still in my "copy" and it seems to fit in real nice here so I will do my best to place it here also. Try to view the video with the WTBTS and the time spent there in mind.
Keep up the good work with clearing your mind of the decades of indoctrination.
NJY
so... i have been working on an excel spreadsheet that has "ttatt in a can"... i have it both in spanish and in english.
here's a preview:.
category / year1879188018901891name?bible studentsbible students "time of the end" starts in the year?17991799 "parousia" (presence)?18741874 jesus enthroned?18781878 end of the harvest?19141914 earthly resurrection?
Thanks info that info and I had though about trying do something like this in the past. looks good NJY
seriously guys, can you really give the wt app a negative review?.
i mean it does what it says it will do in a sleek way... right?.
so why the calls to give this app bad reviews?
Tere are so many positives that I would not even try to make a negative, just make a positive that says,.. " does this app allow acces to the jw facts.com site for more detailed info?"
Or something similar,... A few jws will see it,..
NJT
what the heck are they?
should i learn more about them?
do you think there will be career opportunities?
There is a video on you tube showing how NASA could take one on a flight maybe the space station and could just create a tool as needed for repair. Instead of taking ALL the specific repair that may never even be needed, just bring a 3D printer and IF you need a tool, just print it out A needed.
NJY
