So, at the Zmeeting, they talked all about how “prepared” we are. Gasp.
What the hell preparedness are they talking about. They told us to be prepared to LEAVE, Not STAY.
Idiots.
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We’re ready to go.
by lastmanstanding inwe meticulously obeyed the divine counsel from the slave.
we prepared our “to go” bag, and we await gods direction from the slave on our exit plan.
we submitted our “destination” away back when, the address of our worldly relatives where we planned to flee to for salvation.
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The memorial-buffet style
by lastmanstanding ini was being silly at home and suggested this to family.
you know, put the wine and crackers on a table and everyone cycle through and touch the idols followed by a hand wipe sheet.. ...and then i thought, that’s what the catholics do, buffet style!.
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I was being silly at home and suggested this to family. You know, put the wine and crackers on a table and everyone cycle through and touch the idols followed by a hand wipe sheet.
...and then I thought, that’s what the Catholics do, buffet style!
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We’re ready to go.
by lastmanstanding inwe meticulously obeyed the divine counsel from the slave.
we prepared our “to go” bag, and we await gods direction from the slave on our exit plan.
we submitted our “destination” away back when, the address of our worldly relatives where we planned to flee to for salvation.
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We meticulously obeyed the divine counsel from The Slave. We prepared our “to go” bag, and we await Gods direction from The Slave on our exit plan.
We submitted our “destination” away back when, the address of our worldly relatives where we planned to flee to for salvation. We are ready to put divine direction to work.
Fortunately, since we made many contributions to the world wide work, we have air miles to use for the plane tickets to Italy.
We feel so blessed to have such fine guidance in “this time of the end, of the end, of the end”
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Hot off the press - Maintaining Congregation Meetings During COVID-19 Pandemic
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Elder texted today. Said the midweek service group is still on.
Now, I know Watchtology watches this site and others, so it’s gotta put the rage of Beelzebub in ‘em to see us gloat over their demise.
So, just to say ‘we are still preachin’ they command a midweek group for limited service.
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Hot off the press - Maintaining Congregation Meetings During COVID-19 Pandemic
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Watchtower is dead, long live the King.
A century old preaching machine just stopped cold. I don’t believe they will get it going again ...ever.
The fact that the preaching has stopped at all must be something that can dig into the cognitive dissonance. ‘It is not supposed to happen like this’
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How Are JWs Affected By The Coronavirus?
by minimus inwill meetings and conventions be canceled?
the ministry?
shepherding calls, get togethers?
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Letter read again last night here in Canada.
The letter goes on to tell dubs how to do everything including blow their noses. No kidding. Meetings mentioned. Blah blah.
Now, Watchtology can tell them how to behave in every aspect of life, but here’s the kicker, as careful and cautious as all the dubs should be, now grab your allotment of Memorial Invites and a stack of territory’s and go thee therefore and sell our religion at every house in the land.
”strain our the knat and gulp down the camel”
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May 2020 Watchtower They Admit, they don't know
by Listener inthey'll write pages and pages of stuff and yet they don't have any idea.. here's a paragraph from their latest speculations on future events, bolding is mine.. a prophecy recorded by ezekiel gives some insight into what may happen during the last days of the king of the north and the king of the south.
if we view the prophecies of ezekiel 38:10-23; daniel 2:43-45; 11:44–12:1; and revelation 16:13-16, 21 as speaking about the same time period and events, it appears that we can expect the following developments.. that's an awful lot of assumptions to make.
what they've done is picked out various scriptures from different parts of the bible and now state that they may or may not be talking about the same events.
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The Dubs are “a lost people”
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Coronavirus
by Iamallcool inare the dubs talking about coronavirus as a sign that big a is coming very soon?
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The Governpig Body is soon going to announce that Jehovah has given the Watchtower a Wuhan vaccine. It will be distributed at all Kingdom Halls at the literature counter, for a small or big donation. A free bible study comes with the novel vaccine.
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Brazil: Watch Tower claim raid on premises unlawful
by Antonio_Madaleno inin september 2019, the branch of jehovah’s witnesses and a number of kingdom halls in são paulo brazil were raided by the police, in search of documentary evidence of criminal activities relating to child sexual abuse.
the jehovah’s witnesses claim that the raid was unlawful.
below is a translation of the court of justice determination.
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Regards confession. See articles below, condemning the Church’s practice.
Note; most publications not available due to their condemnation of the Church. The Watchtower has made them as unavailable as possible because they don’t want Law Enforcement and Courts to see their hypocritical stance of now lobbying and pressing for their own ‘privilege’ whilst condemning its source.
Catholic Church: w85 12/1 4-7; w74 198; g74 11/8 27-28; g73 6/8 29; g71 5/22 29;g71 7/22 4; g69 8/8 30; g68 4/22 8, 24; g60 10/8 7; w58 511; w57 745; g55 1/22 4-8; g55 3/22 25-26; g50 5/22 24; g48 7/8 22; g47 4/8 23; g45 5/23 20-25; g44 1/5 22-23; g44 12/6 21; g42 1/21 21; g41 3/19 3-8; g40 10/30 11; g40 12/11 29
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Brazil: Watch Tower claim raid on premises unlawful
by Antonio_Madaleno inin september 2019, the branch of jehovah’s witnesses and a number of kingdom halls in são paulo brazil were raided by the police, in search of documentary evidence of criminal activities relating to child sexual abuse.
the jehovah’s witnesses claim that the raid was unlawful.
below is a translation of the court of justice determination.
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https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/1101989217
Confession
Definition: A declaration or an acknowledgment, either publicly or in private, (1) of what a person believes or (2) of his sins.
Is the rite of reconciliation, including auricular confession (personal confession into the ear of a priest), as taught by the Catholic Church Scriptural?
The manner in which the priest is addressed
The traditional formula, still often used, is: “Bless me, Father, for I have sinned. It has been [length of time] since my last Confession.”—U.S. Catholic magazine, October 1982, p. 6.
Matt. 23:1, 9, JB: “Jesus said, . . . ‘You must call no one on earth your father, since you have only one Father, and he is in heaven.’”
Sins that can be forgiven
“The Church has always taught that every sin, no matter how serious, can be forgiven.”—The Catholic Encyclopedia (bearing the nihil obstat and the imprimatur), R. C. Broderick (Nashville, Tenn.; 1976), p. 554.
Heb. 10:26, JB: “If, after we have been given knowledge of the truth, we should deliberately commit any sins, then there is no longer any sacrifice for them.”
Mark 3:29, JB: “Let anyone blaspheme against the Holy Spirit and he will never have forgiveness: he is guilty of an eternal sin.”
How penance is to be shown
Frequently the confessor directs that the penitent say a specified number of “Our Fathers” and “Hail Marys.”
Matt. 6:7, JB: “In your prayers do not babble [that is, utter in a meaninglessly repetitious manner] as the pagans do, for they think that by using many words they will make themselves heard.”
Matt. 6:9-12, JB: “You should pray like this: ‘Our Father in heaven, . . . forgive us our debts.’” (Nowhere in the Bible are we commanded to pray to or through Mary. See Philippians 4:6, also pages 258, 259, under “Mary.”)
Rom. 12:9, JB: “Do not let your love be a pretence, but sincerely prefer good to evil.”
Did not Jesus authorize his apostles to forgive sins?
John 20:21-23, JB: “‘As the Father sent me, so am I sending you.’ After saying this he breathed on them and said: ‘Receive the Holy Spirit. For those whose sins you forgive, they are forgiven; for those whose sins you retain, they are retained.’”
How did the apostles understand and apply this? There is no record in the Bible of a single instance in which an apostle listened to a private confession and then pronounced absolution. However, the requirements for being forgiven by God are set out in the Bible. The apostles, under the direction of holy spirit, could discern whether individuals were meeting such requirements and could on this basis declare that God had either forgiven them or not forgiven them. For examples, see Acts 5:1-11, also 1 Corinthians 5:1-5 and 2 Corinthians 2:6-8.