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  Jehovah's Witnesses and the Resurrection of Jesus Christ

  by JW Answers in

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  the bodily resurrection of the lord jesus is pivotal for the christian faith, yet the jehovah's witnesses do not believe that the lord jesus christ rose again in a body.

  the watchtower have taught their followers that the lord jesus christ rose again as a spirit creature, and that his body was disposed, disintegrated and dissolved by god the father.

  in this video, i explain the differences to what the jehovah's witnesses teach and what god's word teaches, showing without any dispute that the watchtower organisation is false, and that we can always rely on god's word.

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  In case anyone could forget, 1 Cor 15 is the prophetic guide to resurrection: who, when, how, and in which order ...
  
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  Watchtower attempts 997 mind trick segue to 1914

  by Darth FayDehr in

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  fancy a mind trick?

  here’s 2 for the price of 1; if you only want watchtower’s trick, skip to the next paragraph.

  you may need to write this down or use a calculator:.

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  amiable atheist

  9th letter = i

  Only bible book beginning with "i" is Isaiah. "Isaiah" ends on a h. h is the 8th letter of the alphabet.

  Isaiah 8:1 says

  Young's Literal Translation
  "And Jehovah saith unto me, 'Take to thee a great tablet, and write upon it with a graving tool of man, To haste spoil, enjoy prey.' "

  So, Maher-shalal-hash-baz means "haste spoil, enjoy prey". That's a strange name to give to your child.
  
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  Secret documents from WHQ: JWs do everything to avoid reporting CSA

  by jochie in

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  2. child-abuse

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clbnspvradui have seen the documents myself but i am not able to share them without jeopardizing the source.the rtl broadcasting company has spoken to the orginal source and we know that these documents are real..

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  Oh yes, Listener, I am all for protecting the child abusers -

  • let them rot in jail (protection against the lynch mob)
    
  • bury them under the prison (protection against grave desecration)
  • feed them JW Broadcasting 24/7 full blast (protection against Satan's detrimental influence)

  But only one episode of 'Caleb and Sophia' daily: It should be a bit of a punishment, after all.
  
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  Belief in God

  by jdash in

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  when did you guys start to doubt your faith in god?'.

  what made you doubt your faith in god?.

  thanks !.

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  amiable atheist

  As stan livedeath reminds me, we are all born as atheists. Then childhood indoctrination commenced — in my case at the age of two. That was, when JWs persuaded my parents to join their cult.

  When did you guys start to doubt your faith in God? &tc.

  I distinctly remember an occasion shortly after Christmas 1965, when I was five years old. Ironically it was the WT-doctrine that there is no Santa Claus which got me thinking. All these other, worldly kids stood firm in the faith, as it were, yet I knew better because my parents had told me, and other grown-ups had confirmed. So, I thought, what if there is not only no Santa racing across the sky with his sleigh and lots of very special reindeer, but also no invisible god, who was allegedly a loving but menacing all-powerful being, who obviously never actually did anything?? After all, the non-existent and the invisible look very much alike, especially when it lacks any observable effect.
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  Will Jehovah’s Witness be discouraged from watching any tv at all soon?

  by Addison0998 in

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  i know it sounds kinda stupid and dramatic, but lately there’s been a lot of suggestive content about not watching tv.

  the broadcast was telling people that watching tv snares you into getting an attachment to characters, (the one where the crazy sister prayed for a tv character).

  and today this watchtower telling people that the only news that should be watching, or even interested in watching is the broadcast or on jw.org news room.

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  Back in the 60ies we had a circuit servant -- as they were then called -- who told us all the time that the tv-set is the eye of the devil. Families, who actually dared owning such a malevolent device, would have a tablecloth spread over it, when he had "threatened" to visit them. And back then there was no mention of apostates and the danger they pose to the faith of the flock. So, I think, it could well be that they are restricting the information access even more, and more rigidly so.
  
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  It's a shame isn't it?

  by freddo in

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  ... that this forum, which is such an amazing resource for those needing support for their journey from watchtower's clutches has an increasingly present representation of unreasoning politically charged loudmouths..

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  Simon — I think the healthy approach is to [...] look critically at anything, even the things you were certain of.

  Why smart people believe silly things — by Alex O'Connor

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0TOG_bDrUY
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  My wife's JW literature...

  by TD in

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  ...it went into the trash yesterday.

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  this is not "goodbye" altogether, but i'm (understandably, i hope) pretty weary of all things jw at this point.. may all of you have a happy, healthy, exceptional, rocking future!.

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  ... — TD

  One pint for her and one for you?

  What about the spare Silver Sword and the Climax book as a field guide in her JW-emergency kit, the Big-A Rucksack ...
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  One aspect of the Bible I still greatly benefit from

  by Ireneus in

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  2. bible

  though many things in the bible do not make sense to me, there is something in it that makes my life easy.. this is how i arrived at it.

  bible defines god as the servant of his children because he makes provisions for the enjoyment of life in abundance (mathew 5:44-47) and ‘renews’ them if need arises (mathew 19:28) with no intervention whatsoever in between which means he is not interested in gratitude/worship from his children.

  yet history shows that people forget him in happiness and remember him only in distress which means he is not given love (though he is the giver of love), and he is not bothered of it.

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  @ Irenaeus - Your cherry picking exercise gets a "cute" for naïveté.

  
  
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  Montana jury awards two women $35M in sex abuse lawsuit against Jehovah's Witnesses

  by AndersonsInfo in

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  2. child-abuse

  https://missoulian.com/news/local/montana-jury-awards-two-women-m-in-sex-abuse-lawsuit/article_1bcabb7c-7381-574b-a2ba-e011cc0250a6.html.

  montana jury awards two women $35m in sex abuse lawsuit against jehovah's witnesses .

  a jury in northwestern montana awarded two women $35 million wednesday in their lawsuit against the local jehovah’s witnesses congregation and its worldwide headquarters.. .

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  That's Good News, indeed!
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  Critical thinking

  by Freedom rocks in

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  what kind of questions would you use to get a child'scritical thinking skills going from a young age with regards to the bible/god/jesus/anything to do with the religion??.

  my most hated answer jws gave to people when they said you can't see god so how do you know he exists was "well you can't see electricity or gravity but you know they exist".

  sorry but that doesn't prove god exists.

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  amiable atheist

  The Magic Of Reality - How We Know What's Really True
  

  Richard Dawkins
  illustrated by Dave McKean

  hardback edition

  Richard Dawkins' passion for science and reason has never been more evident than in his latest work, an attempt to convey to "readers of all ages" just how wonderful and magical reality is. The other side of that idea is that no matter how enchanting ancient or modern myths might be, they are not based on reality and they are not nearly as interesting or as exciting as the truth. Dawkins brings this double point home in each of twelve chapters presented as questions, with the myths of many peoples contrasted with reality as determined by science. There will be little controversy over how he handles such questions as What is the sun? What is a rainbow? Why do we have night and day, winter and summer? What is an earthquake? or even Are we alone?

  Unfortunately, many in America who should read this book probably won't because of their religious beliefs. Those who think Adam was the first person, that the god of Abraham created all animals individually, that the universe was brought into being by the will of some supernatural creator, and that bad things happen because god or the gods are angry with us will reject this or any book that tells the science like it is. Fortunately, the number of people who think the Bible is the word of god and must be taken literally as if it were a science text is not as great in other countries. I imagine the book will do quite well in the UK and other places (in translation) where fundamentalist anti-science is not so great as it is in the U.S.

  All but two of the chapters focus exclusively on scientific questions. Most chapters begin with a look at some of the traditional myths that have been produced by various cultures around the world. These are followed up with a look at what the science has to say about the subject. The final two chapters enter the realm of philosophy. Why do bad things (like tsunamis and cancer) happen? They just do. There are causes but nature has no purpose in bringing about harm to anyone. What is a miracle? Here he enlists the help of David Hume to convey the idea that belief in miracles is not reasonable.

  Many adults would benefit from reading The Magic of Reality because it will explain to them things that apparently many of them don't understand, such as why we have summer and winter. Many people think it is because the earth is closer or farther away from the sun that we have the seasons. Many people in the U.S. are clearly ignorant of what evolution means. Many seem to think that if evolution were true we should find one species giving birth to a new species from time to time. Every offspring is the same species as its parents. To help the reader who may not understand how species evolve, Dawkins asks us to imagine a pile of 185 million pictures, each picture being the grandparent of the picture after it. Any two or three or five hundred adjacent pictures will look very similar in terms of species characteristics. But if you go from your picture at one end to your 185 millionth grandparent, you'll see a picture of a fish-like creature.

  Dawkins doesn't just tell the reader how old the universe is, he explains how we know the age of the universe. He doesn't just tell us what things are made of, he tells us how we know what they're made of.

  Of course the fundamentalist literalist Jews and Christians will have an awful time with this book. Dawkins treats the Judeo-Christian myths in the same way he treats African or Japanese or American Indian myths. He doesn't make fun of the people who created the stories. He simply retells the stories, occasionally expressing his being baffled at certain parts of various stories, and then contrasts them with what science knows about the same reality that the mythmakers tried to explain. He doesn't ridicule religion or gods, but he does reject those who appeal to a god's intervention or a miracle to avoid trying to answer hard questions about reality. He has no tolerance for those who want us to give up trying to understand something because they claim it's miraculous and can't be understood.

  If you want your child or you want yourself to know something about the various myths of many different cultures without showing any favorites, Dawkins' book fills that requirement quite well. If you want your child or you want yourself to know something about evolution, cosmology, physics, chemistry, biology, geology, and the methods of discovery used in those fields, Dawkins' book fills that requirement as well as anybody could.

  What makes the book even more enticing is that Dawkins has teamed with artist Dave McKean, whose illustrations take the book to a level of visual enjoyment that matches the joy of following Dawkins as he attempts to explain some very complicated ideas in terms even those who will never read the book could understand if they dared do so.

  Robert T. Carroll
  October 10, 2011