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  Are we living in the LAST DAYS?

  by Fisherman in

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  are we living in the prophetic last days that will climax into armageddon?

  if this is true then how long should it take?

  as jw saw it, wt compared timing to within a generation using 70 ad as a parallel.

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  lastmanstanding

  I look at it this way, I don’t care about the timing, just the events.

  Poke fun all you like, it doesn’t change anything. It will happen like this.

  Daniel wrote about what was to come. Critics have poo poo’d his writings because they are accurate and hence “must have been written after” the events.

  In the part of Daniel’s writings labeled as chapter 11, Daniel explains the end of the Second World War, including the armada that advanced on the king of the north (Germany) which brought that king to an end. Daniel explains the actions of the king of the south hence, how the southern king would spend all his money (gold silver jewels) on armaments and dominate the planet, save a few countries (Moab, Amon, etc) and eventually the southern king “gets news” intel if you please, fromThe North and the East, (Russia and China) and this causes the USA to launch into its greatest military campaign ever “in order to kill many”. The end of it is the southern king “comes to his finish” and there is “no helper for him” … no NATO, not anyone.

  The USA has been riding “the White Horse” of the apocalypse with war, food inflation, famine and death in its wake. The lovely 4.

  The USA is bent on world “conquest “ and will stop at nothing to achieve it. Even now it is supplying new military hardware to Taiwan to provoke a southern Ukraine. Germany has been prodded to supply bigger missiles to Ukraine.

  And the USA’s financial world hegemony is coming to an end. It’s ability to finance its “conquest” is dwindling fast. It’s economic situation is perilous, NO is not in good shape. This you will see within months.

  More regional USA banks will begin to fail and then the larger financial institutions will feel the pain. The 40yrs of interest rate suppression that began with Ronald Reagan and ended just months ago was used to expand credit worldwide and Ronny”s war against the Russians has no backbone left. Rates are rising. Debt will go wild.

  And then comes the intel from h China-Russia.

  Anyone who thinks this piece of crap world will just keep spinning along and the good times will roll on is an idiot.
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  Where Does Watchtower Doctrine Contradict Scripture?

  by Vanderhoven7 in

  1. watchtower
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  here are some areas that i have found:.

  not only is watchtower eschatology offbase, which is not critical, but so is watchtower soteriology … which is critical.

  the bible says not to put trust in men who cannot save.

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  lastmanstanding

  The 120 in the upper room at Pentecost. It never happened.

  Don't freak out. And it’s not only the dubs that are wrong. It’s the rest of them all that teach it.

  It is quite simple to prove it out. I could post a 3 page dissertation that I wrote 20 plus yrs back, but I won’t. Those that want to know the truth need to do the work.

  Heres then breadcrumbs. Use the Jewish calendar and place on each day and week the events described in the biblical account. And there it is. It never happened, there was never 120 persons in an upper room.

  And quite Frankly it was technically impossible to cram that many persons into such a tiny room for one, and the construction of the building would not have supported the weight.

  For the Passover Jesus needed “a large upper room” just for the 12. Can you imagine ten times that many… and living there for an entire week… that’s right. Go back to the calendar.
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  Another big win for child molesters!

  by lastmanstanding in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  it just keeps getting easier and easier to molest.

  when big religion has got your back, and you know that you can rape kids with impunity as father religion keeps the door to heaven swinging wide, 24/7 absolution available for the superstitious pedo, why not should everyone rape kids….

  the pedophile loophole, the mainstay of the whitewashed, clergy penitent privilege, the hole e grail of the christian whore is swinging open, welcoming the perverts.

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  As long as pedophiles can go get some absolution from their religious dude and hence be assured of eternal salvation, they will continue to rape kids.
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  Another big win for child molesters!

  by lastmanstanding in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  it just keeps getting easier and easier to molest.

  when big religion has got your back, and you know that you can rape kids with impunity as father religion keeps the door to heaven swinging wide, 24/7 absolution available for the superstitious pedo, why not should everyone rape kids….

  the pedophile loophole, the mainstay of the whitewashed, clergy penitent privilege, the hole e grail of the christian whore is swinging open, welcoming the perverts.

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  lastmanstanding

  It just keeps getting easier and easier to molest. When Big Religion has got your back, and you know that you can rape kids with impunity as Father Religion keeps the door to heaven swinging wide, 24/7 absolution available for the superstitious pedo, why not should everyone rape kids…

  The pedophile loophole, the mainstay of the whitewashed, Clergy Penitent Privilege, the Hole E Grail of The Christian Whore is swinging open, welcoming the perverts. Watchtower could not be happier. Hard work all that political lobbying you know.

  https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/push-for-clergy-to-report-abuse-stalls-in-deeply-mormon-utah/2023/03/01/b29fc072-b7f6-11ed-b0df-8ca14de679ad_story.html
  
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  How did it come to this?

  by New day in

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  i am now in my early 60’s.

  i was baptized in 1980. i served as a ministerial servant and an elder.

  i gave my all for many years but about eight years ago i started to question many things.

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  lastmanstanding

  New day.

  We are close in experience, age baptism etc.

  I was questioning the org as I prep'd to get baptised. No sooner dunked than I wrote bethel questions about contradictions.

  Still, I hung in, met my wife and had offspring. But the questions continued. I voiced these questions to my mummy, rest her soul, while I visited one occasion and she said 'there's a book by a GB who wrote about everything'. She knew this from a long-time friend.

  I sought out the book at the library. Interesting story there for another time.

  Anyway, I contacted Ray Franz and got books. Crisis of Conscience was powerful. In Search Of Christian Freedom more so.

  I developed an ongoing relationship with Ray through letters and phone calls.

  The big problem I had was my wife. I loved her much. Still do. And we are still together.!!!

  My wife asked me a question about the UN affair one night, finally, after much working on her. I told her about Ray Franz, and in 10 minutes I handed her my phone and she spoke to him also for awhile.

  She was out.

  I was never under the illusion that the majority are/were. It was much easier for me to question. But I see the difficulty.

  I am working on a few brothers. It is getting easier, the stupid GB keep giving us material to work with.

  Hopefully, some of them will be posting here one day.

  Oh... yes, still loosely associated. It's amazing how little you need to do especially with ZOOM. Let's face it, nobody want's to go to those stupid meetings. It's easy to sideline. But, with the older's getting old, even the little I do to show the face will soon be too much.

  I just hope to free a few more before I terminate.
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  House Bill 1098

  by lastmanstanding in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  many of you are aware of the ongoing battle over clergy exemption from reporting of child abuse.

  the question is, are we in the field doing enough to push for what is right!?.

  there are always multiple ways of looking at an issue, and the viewpoint advocated by the catholic church, the mormon church and the watchtower church is that the provision of confession without the fear of being turned in to police allows an abuser to seek help to stop his abuse.

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  Some have commented about how reporting molestation to police will lose religion their money.

  Probably, but who cares….

  All I want to see is that media outlets present to their readers the simple principle that if the legislators close the loophole that allows superstitious pedo’s to gain their drug of absolution, then pedophiles will rape fewer children.
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  House Bill 1098

  by lastmanstanding in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  many of you are aware of the ongoing battle over clergy exemption from reporting of child abuse.

  the question is, are we in the field doing enough to push for what is right!?.

  there are always multiple ways of looking at an issue, and the viewpoint advocated by the catholic church, the mormon church and the watchtower church is that the provision of confession without the fear of being turned in to police allows an abuser to seek help to stop his abuse.

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  Email every journalist and explain to them that ending clergy penitent privilege for child abusers will help end child abuse.

  CLOSE THE LOOPHOLE
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  House Bill 1098

  by lastmanstanding in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  many of you are aware of the ongoing battle over clergy exemption from reporting of child abuse.

  the question is, are we in the field doing enough to push for what is right!?.

  there are always multiple ways of looking at an issue, and the viewpoint advocated by the catholic church, the mormon church and the watchtower church is that the provision of confession without the fear of being turned in to police allows an abuser to seek help to stop his abuse.

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  lastmanstanding

  Many of you are aware of the ongoing battle over clergy exemption from reporting of child abuse. The question is, are we in the field doing enough to push for what is right!?

  There are always multiple ways of looking at an issue, and the viewpoint advocated by the Catholic Church, The Mormon Church and the Watchtower church is that the provision of confession without the fear of being turned in to police allows an abuser to seek help to stop his abuse. And that without “clergy penitent privilege” many abusers that would otherwise be helped to stop abusing children, go on to abuse and abuse and abuse.

  Thats one way of looking at it.

  The other way is this, if a polluter has a place to dump his garbage, then he will go on generating more and more garbage, confident in his scheme.

  Superstitious pigs that believe they can gain absolution for their crimes by simply spending a few minutes in a booth with yet another pig while going over the details of their crime, will continue to abuse children with impunity. They can sexually abuse children left and right while holding a ‘get out of jail card’ in their pocket as well as a ticket to heaven with a fresh stamp from father perv.

  If mister disgusting is seeking absolution from a schmuck in a cloak it is because he is superstitious, thinking that somehow the confession mechanism will grant him eternal bliss in the afterlife. Take that away, and his superstitious grey matter will tell him that abusing children will condemn him to eternal damnation, in burning eternal flames (Catholic) or never ending oblivion (JDub).

  Not one of the news writers I have spent time entertaining on my tablet has covered this angle. Why not? Are they superstitious also?

  Please email, in your own words or copy mine, every news outlet you can to open the glued shut eyes of correspondents that have had been blinded to this simple truth.

  Regards
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  JW's in war zone

  by Gorb in

  1. jw
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  there is so much silence about the jw's in the ukraine conflict.

  are the jw men arrested because they don't want to fight?

  how is that going in the hyper nationalist fase the country is in?

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  lastmanstanding

  And the point is…? Bickering?

  I ask, what King, Caesar, Emperor, President or other self-empowered oligarch-dictator has not mounted his White Horse and ridden off with his bow to make conquest?

  And in which case of the above, has not the Red Horse made great the slaughter?

  And after which carnal warfare has there not come the Black Horse, inflation and hunger?

  And if someone can direct me, in which century of the last 2000 years has not the Pale Horse taken 25%, “the fourth part”..?

  There is another White Horse coming. The next one is different.
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  Help please.

  by lastmanstanding in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  recently, in the past few months, and this only applies to in dubs who might have taken note, the watchtower study edition made a change.

  it mentioned the “warning work” where dubs are going to march around and proclaim everyone is going to die.. anyway, this article said it was now only a possibility, not a sure thing.. i can’t find it.

  did watchtology change it already?.

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  lastmanstanding

  Recently, in the past few months, and this only applies to in dubs who might have taken note, the Watchtower study edition made a change. It mentioned the “warning work” where dubs are going to March around and proclaim everyone is going to die.

  Anyway, this article said it was now only a possibility, not a sure thing.

  I can’t find it. Did Watchtology change it already?