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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?.

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  Blood Transfusion Revisited Like Never Before (with a gift to readers)

  by arko_n9ne in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  blood, blood, blood.

  blah, blah, blah.

  we'll see.. the resource material is from january 2000's awake!

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  Another Point Against Disfellowshipping (Even the WT can't deny)

  by arko_n9ne in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i have been shifting some ideas around and the threat of disfellowshipping may actually help me in this instance.

  if you've read my other posts, you know why it is i'm on here.

  and you know that i am adamant.. but in the research of disfellowship, i've tried thinking of good, alternate arguments or points of reasoning before pressing the red button.

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  Organization/Congregation

  by arko_n9ne in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  in this new-fangled age of the internets (yes, plural), it is going to be easier for active witnesses to understand that there is no scriptural basis for the creation and abusively excessive use of organization in comprehension of bible truth.. .

  i'm going to be the apostate prophet here and say that it's only a matter of time before they make a drastic change to suit their purpose in either "congregation as it turns out, really translates to organization" and a 2014 revision of the nwt comes out littered with organization in place of congregation.

  or the "pure language" forbids any publisher from calling the wts "the organization" and commands that it be called "the congregation" and only that.. my task to anyone with the know-how:.

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  Searching For an Elder's Manual (with margin scribble)

  by arko_n9ne in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  every day i am on here, i learn new things.

  a little while back, there was a post about the existense of elder manuals with km required notes in the margin area that gave away a little more than the gb wanted.. how do i get my hands on a copy of that?

  i know it's difficult to obtain pay attention (with margin scribble) and it's all the more difficult to obtain a copy of shepherd the flock of god (with margin scribble) since it is relatively newer.. if anyone could help me find a copy, be it hardcopy or pdf, i would give my left cheek.

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  One at a Time

  by arko_n9ne in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i live with my wife and her two brothers.

  her two brothers are witnesses, though one seems to have "faded" but denies it whole-heartedly.

  regardless of position, they stick to their guns, well, the wts's guns, about everything.. unless you've read my other posts, you wont know their names, so i'll refer to them as 28 and 31, for the sake of time.. to understand my passion, you need to understand the audacity of my experience with these two.. a lil bit about me-.

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  Dear WTS, if higher education is a waste of time, don't eat the fruit it bares

  by arko_n9ne in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  it's 9pm over here, so good evening to those without the sun, and good morning to those who just got it from us.. i've been pretty aggitated with the needless demonizing of higher education from the wts.

  they make subtle gestures but their lawyers are too clever to let them say it directly these days.. but i was rereading the february 2011 awake magazine.

  i use my watchtowers and awakes for giggles on the can these days.

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  My wife's sister (lengthy but I need help)

  by arko_n9ne in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  in march 2005, i met my future wife zuly.

  a month later, i met her sister anahi.. zuly is younger than anahi, and is the only one in her family to have never conformed to being a witness.

  in fact, she just today told a guy in a santa clause costume that she had no clue about the outside world until she met me, and that she realized her family had been demonizing everything for nothing.

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  Jehovah Can Be Killed, as per the Watchtower's teachings

  by arko_n9ne in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i know no one has brought this up publicly but with the watchtower teachings of death it brings up a valid point.

  when anyone dies they dont go to heaven.

  they stay in the ground.

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  jw-media's take on blood: huh?

  by arko_n9ne in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  this is my first post here, and i don't know if this has been talked about yet.

  but today i was on the jw-media site to see what it was about.

  i was curious how they handled their stance on blood and it was a bit of an annoying read.. from the site (http://www.jw-media.org/aboutjw/article01.htm#accept):.

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