Topics Started by arko_n9ne

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I'll have to think about that and get back to you
by donny in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
yesterday afternoon i was speaking to my jw neighbor and he managed to get on the topic of "unity" that defines true christianity.

i then said "what if you have some in a church who believes certain days are more holy than others and yet others who think all days are the same?

is that acceptable?".
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You may be a jw if.....
by just Ron in
1. social
2. humour
you may be a jw ........if you spent last saturday traped in a car with at least 4 other people you may be a jw.. if you have sat through a sheparding call where you were told you are unworthy you may be a jw.. if you have alienated your worldly relatives with your preaching you may be a jw.. if you have ticked some one of buy knocking on their door on one of their religous holidays you may be a jw.. if you think the governing body is goods direct channel you may be a jw.. if you have no clue when this system is going to end you may be a jw.. .

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ron.
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This makes the "birther" issue pale by comparison....
by Glander in
1. social
2. current
read this, it's short - very interesting.. .

stolen ssn# 042-68-4425. .

an intensive investigation has revealed the identity of the man whose.
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Thoughts and Opinions on the VAA?
by arko_n9ne in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
as i've posted multiple times before, i am new to many of the aspects of wts scandals so a couple weeks ago, i was on youtube and heard of a group concept from tim kilgore called the vaa (vast apostate army).. personally, i like the concept of former witnesses and anti-watchtower proponents uniting to stand against the wrong doings of the organization.

i would like their rally in a few years to succeed.

if things look promising enough, i more than likely will go.. but honestly, i don't know much about the vaa, and since it's not a concept with that "new car smell" i imagine people have more infor to offer.. i saw on older posts that witnesses are not fans of the idea of anyone banding together en masse against them, as they go to the lengths of calling the vaa a terrorist organization (though no acts of violence or tyranny have been committed or threatened).. so if anyone can offer insight into this group, it would help a man know if it's a group worth rallying with.. .
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Acts 17, where's the organization, guys?!
by arko_n9ne in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i was listening to the radio today.

kdkr dallas.

they were playing a q&a with ravi zacharias and he pointed out a passage in acts 17 that i was unfamiliar with, but it rung some bells in my head.. acts 17:24,25 (nwt): "the god that made the world and all the things in it, being, as this one is, lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in handmade temples,neither is he attended to by human hands as if he needed anything, because he himself gives to all [persons] life and breath and all things.".
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Getting Ready to Go To War
by arko_n9ne in
1. jw
2. experiences
this whole thing of jehovah's witnesses--it's not my war.

but that doesn't mean a soldier doesn't have a part in it.. i live with my wife and her two brothers (for those who need the refresher course in arkonomics) and the brothers, being witnesses, tend to be real p's in my a. you ever been talked down to by a star trek geek?

he gets all smug because he can speak klingon and "relate" negative star trek events to you?
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Circuit Leasing selling on JW.ORG ????
by yknot in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
so i was poking around jw.org a lil recently...... noticed this advertisement was still present in the 'privileged' section (ie you gotta have login access).

this was posted on jw.org a little over a year ago (as shown in pic) but since it is still viewable......figured it is fair-game for jwn fodder.

thoughts?????.
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My JW Brother-in-Law's Crisis of Conscience
by arko_n9ne in
1. jw
2. experiences
me and my brother in law share a computer at home.

we have different accounts and for the life of me, i still don't know his password.. but it hasn't stopped me from putting "apostate" literature on his desktop screen.

i am an amateur it geek who knows the ins and outs of computers, so i don't look twice at things like passwords.. anyway, a few months ago, i slipped three files onto his desktop.
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Education brochures by request!
by Atlantis in
1. watchtower
2. bible
we had two members request these brochures and thought someone else might need them for research.. click the links below and when the next page appears scroll down and click the link inside the long blue box.

*1983 school and jehovah's witnesses*http://www.sendspace.com/file/awmb7b*1995 jehovah's witnesses and education*http://www.sendspace.com/file/4idbl4**atlantis.
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Does Jehovah Still Call Black People the "No-No" Word?
by arko_n9ne in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
i feel the title is an attention-grabber, but in no means am i looking to start racial tension on jwn.. i know in the past, at least to the 50's from what i've read, the watchtower society has been very demeaning toward people of a less alabaster pigment.

in one instance saying white people were superior and god blessed them that way for good reason.. however, i have not been able to find an official statement from them in any of their printed works that either clears up or apologizes and further corrects that bold standing.. so, to those much wiser than me, is there an official statement from the watchtower identifying people of different race as equal?

and if not, to the ex/current brothers and sisters who are of an "ethnic" background, what are your feelings on the society's derrogatory statements being left unchanged 60-100 years later?.