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Do children still get destroyed at Armageddon?
by Anony Mous in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
i know back in the day, that was taught, that if the parents were going to be destroyed, so would the children.

i just can't easily find reference to anything.

this thinking has been used to justify some egregious behavior towards children and their parents such as exclusion of children from jw family - why worry, the end is near, all will work itself out then - the end didn't come though.
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JW Vaccine mandate: The contrast between voices of reason and confusion
by ukpimo in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i was reading an intriguing post on the exjw reddit, a forum i do not with to sign up for, as i'm not interested in the internal politics of reddit.

https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/1hwlja8/the_governing_bodys_letter_that_shook_bethel_and/.

another post counteracted this one, driven by the "conspiracy theory" card.
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Found Anthony Morris out in the wild!!!
by BereanThinker7 in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
that was click bait.

did it work?

https://youtu.be/_spl7to0m3y?si=gujblhtzkpy0fvzz .
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2024 Annual Meeting Doctrinal Change
by Listener in
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2. beliefs
a change to their doctrine came from jackson.

this isn't a transcript of his whole speech but i thought i would try and get some of his main speech in writing.. at around 1hr26 minutes he starts talking about some dangerous thinking in feeling there is some wiggle room in regards to the schedule for the gt.

but you see, we need to be careful about what we are thinking about the number of anointed ones left on earth.
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Annual Meeting live updates
by ukpimo in
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2. beliefs
i have obtained the live link for the annual meeting tomorrow:.

annual meeting live link.

the meeting will begin at 9:45am eastern time, for those of us in the uk, that will be 2:45pm.
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What evidence is there for a biblical jesus?
by Touchofgrey in
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2. beliefs
is there any independently verified evidence that a miracle worker called jesus existed and did the things that the bible said he did?.

the four gospels were written by unknown authors many decades after the so called events, so can't be considered as eyewitness accounts.

i think that there may have been a apocalyptic preacher who was executed by the romans and the story evolved from their.
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JWhub
by Mikejw in
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2. beliefs
i’m an elder who is pima, i’m amazed how much info is available to all elders.

you can see all private details of every member of the congregation.

i wonder how these sisters feel about their private details being available to these creepy elders?.
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Be Obedient and Submissive to the Faithful Slave. Hmmm...Sounds kinky!!!
by WingCommander in
1. jw
2. friends
seriously, how have i never caught on as to how kinky this weird cult language sounds?

"be obedient and submissive to the faithful slave.

"may i have another flogging, mr.
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Rumour 144,000 literal number teaching to be abandoned at Annual Meeting
by slimboyfat in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
say it ain’t so!

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in one sense it’s a no brainer because the figures just don’t add up any more.. in another (negative) sense it’s a no brainer because it’s been fundamental to jws since year dot and might undermine the whole thing?
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Half hearted JWs compared to past generations
by JohnR1975 in
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2. beliefs
is it just me or has there been a massive change in jws of late?.

when i grew up in the cult they had a real sense of urgency and would do an hour minimum, these days it’s not even ten mins before coffee break.. same goes for everything else, it’s half hearted .