Topics Started by Hanged Man

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The increase in the Anointed Ones
by Sour Grapes in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
to illustrate how the botchtower's groupies are losing brain cells...last year an elder told me some of the increase in the anointed is due to those who have been unfaithful and needed to be replaced.

when i was in first grade i knew that if i had 10 marbles and i lost one and a friend gave me a marble to replace the one i lost that i once again had 10 not 11 marbles.. jdubs are very good at not thinking..
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What are you most passionate about?
by SplaneThisToMe in
1. watchtower
2. medical
i had an interview today and was asked a question o have gotten in the past: what are you most passionate about?

it was a struggle to come up with an answer on this one.

as a jw, the things i was passionate about were chosen for me.
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2 Kingdom Halls burned in Washington
by Lynnie in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
on the local news last night it was reported that two kingdom halls in olympia wa were set fire to.

i wonder who has a grudge with those congregations?

unfortunately we know the jw"s eat this crap up and enjoy the "persecution.
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Sunday's Watchtower Study March 18... Another Money Appeal
by BluesBrother in
1. watchtower
2. bible
january 2018 issue "why give to the one who has everything?

an unashamed contribution appeal... this one with the most manipulative language i can imagine... it may have been commented on before, but i am going to anyway.. p5 quote.

"would you not agree that jehovah is worthy of all the glory and honor that we can give him by offering the best that we have?
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Scholarly interview on the existence of Jesus
by careful in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
perhaps this has been linked here before.

if that's the case, i'm sorry.

however, new people join, others miss things, some forget, so i thought it was worth posting, especially since this issue comes up from time to time and some here have never worked it out or are in the process of trying to do so.
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Do You Think a Schism is in the Future?
by lepermessiah in
1. jw
2. friends
i was thinking about this over the weekend.

just this week, there was the "consolidation" talk (in my wife's congregation) , the article about shunning that went viral, and the annual "show your love and obedience to jehovah by giving us your money" watchtower.

i know my wife said people are running scared about this consolidation even though it was sold as maximizing space to help other areas, build kh in other countries, etc...... the media and government has hit them hard in many countries, but they have gotten off easy in the usa, where the majority of the people and money reside.
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How soon is soon?
by Sour Grapes in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i guess if the jdubs have no clue how long a generation is they also wouldn't know how long a time period the word "soon" refers too.. 60 years ago my mother would hammer into my brain how soon the great tribulation was.

soon jehovah would destroy the wicked.

then a few years later there was no need to go to college because the end was so soon.
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Cult words
by Great Cook in
1. jw
2. experiences
if there is any english literature teacher on this forum ...can he or she analyze those words of this song ?.

radicalization is going on ... and people sing without any reaction at the meetings...they are so brainwashed.... song 50.

1. take my heart and may it love.
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If the Watchtower corporation went bust
by Fred Franztone in
1. jw
2. friends
what do you think would happen to jehovah's witnesses as a religion and as a people?.
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Are you doing your part???
by James Mixon in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
are you sinning?

do we want jesus death to be in vain.

we must not forget, if you never sin jesus died for nothin.