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  Thank goodness for the org's insights!

  by BoogerMan in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  w52 2/1 p. 78 par.

  7 jehovah’s theocratic organization today "when christ came for judgment in 1918 (1) he found some associated with this group that thought the lord had delayed his coming and they were oppressing their fellow slaves in christ.

  these were cast off as the “evil slave” class.

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  Even in 1952 they couldn't accept the fact that some Bible Students saw Rutherford's power grab and left the WT, and branded these dissidents the Evil Slave when in fact the Evil one was Joe Rutherford and his conspiratorial cronies.

  Now they try to hide the fact saying the Evil Slave is just a literary construct and not part of a prophecy. It was never a prophecy, it was a parable, an illustration.

  The WT can't have it both ways, either the Evil Slave is a real thing or It's not. Frankly, the WT hierarchy acts like the Evil Slave in the parable, plain and simple.
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  2024*S*147**A&R

  by Atlantis in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  a&r means announcements and reminders.. 2024**s*147. here:.

  https://pdfhost.io/v/diikuykdl_untitled_1 .

  petra!

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  iloowy.goowy

  What I also found surprising is that by attending a kingdom school for a couple of months one could become a missionary or a circuit overseer at 21 y.o.a.
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  JWN, 23 years posting Blondie

  by blondie in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  can i call you friends, i think so after 23 years posting here.

  i am dismayed how jwn is being "dominated" or taken over by a few posters, peppering the comments.

  in the past, the admin did not approve of this and did remove some posters from jwn.

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  iloowy.goowy

  I remember the old posts that Leolalia used to make. They were long but they were her own research and her own words. They were definitely worth reading.

  However, these long quoted from someone else's work are best shared through a link, frankly, I Don't read the whole post if It's more than a few paragraphs if it seems people are just throwing information out.

  To me such long quote posting smacks of someone who lacks reasoning skills and who doesn't want to spend the time discussing anything.
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  Fifty years ago today

  by JeffT in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  october 6th 1974 debbie and i tied the knot.

  the elder that performed the ceremony managed to personalize it a bit for us.

  seems like something worked.

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  iloowy.goowy

  Congratulations!🖒💖
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  Proof of two destinies for believers in the Bible, heavenly and earthly

  by slimboyfat in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the jw idea that believers are destined either for heavenly life or for endless life on earth comes in for significant criticism by critics of various kinds.

  even some groups, such as the christadelphians, who share belief in a future paradise earth, don’t share the view that some christians are destined for life in heaven.

  yet there is surprisingly quite a lot of evidence in the bible for the existence of two distinct groups of believers.

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  iloowy.goowy

  Moses was talking to Jehovah face-to-face. Just like He did in the garden of Eden with Adam and Eve.
  

  @ FreeTheMasons, the Jehovah talking with Moses or with Abraham at the trees of Mamre was the Word, the Angel of Jehovah. Go read "Two Powers in Heaven" by Alan Segal, you can find it in Amazon.com and it has excellent points explaining this.
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  How did JWs arrive at a clearer understanding of what the Bible teaches than other Christian denominations?

  by slimboyfat in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  for jws who believe that jehovah had a hand in reviving the truth in the nineteenth century this is enough explanation for how jws managed to achieve a closer approximation to early christian beliefs and practices than other groups.

  but is there an explanation for this phenomenon that doesn’t rely on supernatural intervention?

  new testament scholar james dunn explains the difficulty of interpreting the biblical texts in this way:.

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  iloowy.goowy

  
  

  Russell was an Egyptian freemason

  Sooo, where did you come up with any evidence to back up this nugget of conspiratorial BS?

  Look, FreeTheMasons, you should provide evidential proof fo such wild affirmations or stop pushing what amounts to be nonsense. It makes your posts look idiotically misguded.
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  WTS 2024 Annual Business Meeting ...

  by careful in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  ... is just three weeks from this saturday.

  the org has been tight-lipped, really, successfully secret about advance info on these in recent years,.

  now that these relatively recent changes on dress and grooming, reporting fs time, judicial matters, etc.

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  It’s probably safe to say that more people have encountered JWs preaching than any other religion
  

  Indeed, and the result is they have turned them off from following Jesus as the only way to salvation, for some end up disgusted at their abusive cultish practices and others they dupe to follow men and not their savior, give the WT the best years of their productive lives and resources ending up nearly destitute for the benefit of a man made organization.
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  Where is Tony?

  by Athanasius in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  on february 22, 2023, anthony morris iii was officially removed from the governing body of jehovah's witnesses.

  a few months later it was revealed that the watchtower bought him a house in lumberton, north carolina.. however, and correct me if i am wrong, since leaving the gb nobody has reported seeing tony attending jw meetings or participating in field service.

  in fact nobody has reported seeing him anywhere, not even at a local liquor store.

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  iloowy.goowy

  Nobody here is angry that I've seen. There are some sincere people here but there are also a bunch of paranoid Watchtower two-faced fakers who are trying to cover for their falling tower.

  Better take cover. WT's falling fast.

  Well, FTM when you start flinging Sh*t pile emojis around it can be taken for hostile and angry statements.
  But as to the WT falling fast, my opinion is that you're sadly mistaken. The "tens of billions" in the Ireland assets management scheme will keep them going for a lot longer than we have years to live, most likely.

  Much wishful thinking and conspiracy mongering will not bring the WT down any time soon.
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  how do you feel about the use of the name Jehovah now?

  by enoughisenough in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  for those who still believe in god and the bible, how do you feel/think about the name jehovah now?

  i am one who never wanted to bring reproach on god's name.

  i will admit using the word jehovah now makes me feel rather icky...like i am promoting a lie of sorts.

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  iloowy.goowy

  I have no problem with the usage of Jehovah for God's personal name in English. Just like I have no problem with the name Jesus being pronounced like DJEE-zuhs and in Spanish it's HEY-soos. The pronunciations can vary with language, because it's the same name but pronounced by people with different sound habits in their own languages.

  If I wanted to go around saying Yahweh or Yeshua, well maybe I should just talk Hebrew. But since I'm using English, then Jehovah is a well established pronunciation of the Tetragrammaton in English and that's fine by me.

  This whole idea that we shouldn't use Jehovah because of some Spanish monk from centuries ago wrote in latin IEHOVA is getting overplayed. There's nothing wrong in what the Spanish monk might have been trying to do, just vocalize the tetragram in Latin. And since Latin isn't Hebrew then that's fine by me too. Besides he probably had a cousin whose name was Jesus and he pronounced it Hey-soos too, not Djee-zuhs so I see no problem there at all.
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  MAJOR WIN FOR THE WATCHTOWER IN EUROPE ON THE BLOOD ISSUE

  by raymond frantz in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  https://youtu.be/xhpnp8xtsk4?si=kq55iap5anhlehgd.

  so on the 17th of september the european court of human rights (echr) condemned spain over a case involving a jehovah’s witness who was given a blood transfusion during emergency surgery, against her will, this case was well documented earlier last year as a victory for the exjw community and a sign that european countries are turning on the watchtower, unfortunately this was a shortlived victory since the finally authority are no longer countries and their courts but nefarious organizations like the echr that over rule their decisions, and i'm afraid this is the same way is going to go if the victory in norway ends up in strasburg in the hands of the echr.. the case involved an ecuadorian national residing in spain, who was given a transfusion despite her religious objections.

  spain found itself in a difficult position when confronted with this case.

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  iloowy.goowy

  Right, so good for human rights to one's own body. Now, Spain should take non-profit status away from the 0rg since their corporate rights result in harm for citizens. We'll see how long it takes the 0rg to change policies when it affects their pocket book.