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  "Keith It is with Great Sadness that I write this Note!"

  by The Bethelite in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i grew up with steve pare who is now an elder in southern california.

  he sent me this note after i talked to him on the phone and sent him my book.. "the super-abundant blessings i have received in the advancing the earthly organization of jehovah have been fantastic !!!".

  "jehovah is not behind in creating the paradise & his mighty of 9,000,000 will work with 20-50 billion to be resurrected & in 1,000 years the paradise will be done on time!!

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  Beth Sarim - yup your right - it is 100 Billion.

  Thanks:)
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  "Keith It is with Great Sadness that I write this Note!"

  by The Bethelite in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i grew up with steve pare who is now an elder in southern california.

  he sent me this note after i talked to him on the phone and sent him my book.. "the super-abundant blessings i have received in the advancing the earthly organization of jehovah have been fantastic !!!".

  "jehovah is not behind in creating the paradise & his mighty of 9,000,000 will work with 20-50 billion to be resurrected & in 1,000 years the paradise will be done on time!!

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  By the way - its 100,000,000 who have died and would need resurrecting :)

  Where they F will they all live? And we would need like 20 earths to supply them.
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  Family drama... a personal share.

  by Princess Daisy Boo in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  hi guys.

  i was an active member of this forum many years ago and it played an integral part of my awakening and making peace with my decision to leave.

  it’s been a while since i posted here.

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  PDB - So sorry for what you are going through.
  Being in the cult spares no one.

  No one can help, but know that so many of us here know the pain that family and "friends" can inflict on us when we decide to leave the cult, or even just not go to meetings.

  Sorry again.
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  Day One After Armgeddon written by a JW awaiting the Big A w/eager expectation - Warning: LOOOONG!!!

  by Eve Deceived in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  once we found out we were all witnesses, we all hugged.

  now we just had to see if our kingdom hall was still standing.

  when we came to the hall we had such a huge shock.. there were so many people there.

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  I can't believe that I, for decades, was so anxious for the HORRIBLE deaths of BILLIONS, so I could pet lions, move into the home of some rich person nice house, and NOT ever have to worry about going to work.
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  Magic

  by Rattigan350 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the april 2019 study edition page 20 has an article on resisting wicked spirits.

  it says "magic refers to practices associated with the occult, or the supernatural.

  it can include curses and the casting or breaking of spells.

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  iwantoutnow

  I still was an Elder when this happened. I freaked out a couple older sisters.

  We were at a "gathering" and they were talking about how all these "spiritistic movies are out now", like it was something new.

  I was already PIMO too. So I was getting annoyed under my skin.

  I was asking them what is "magic" and they gave the answer - demons using their powers to do something that couldn't be done.

  I asked them, what's a "miracle"? God or angels doing something with their powers that could not be done.

  Then I asked them, who gave demons the power to do "things that could not be done normally"?

  "well I guess jah did, but....."

  Then I said, well if the power came from the SAME place, and it does the same thing "do something that could not be done normally", using the word miracle or magic, is just semantics right?

  And most people when they hear the word magic, they think of what magicians do, which everyone know is sleight of hand or complicated tricks. No one thinks David Copperfield actually made the statue of liberty disapear, right?

  OMG you could smell the short circuits in their heads, and the Cognitive Dissidence was in full swing.

  I am sure they didnt think of me the same after that, though what I said was 100% true.
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  How Can You Recognize True Worship?

  by pale.emperor in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  had to laugh when i read this in the good news from god publication on the website.. https://www.jw.org/en/publications/books/good-news-from-god/recognize-true-worshippers/.

  basically, watchtower just rattling of a list of things they (claim) to do when trying to identify "true" worship.. the closing question though, "which religion bases all its teachings on god’s word, honors god’s name, and proclaims god’s kingdom as mankind’s only hope?

  which group practices love and shuns war?

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  No way to do that - but you can recognize "True Believers"

  And they are a dangerous bunch usually.
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  New Upcoming Changes - No More Publisher Record Cards & Reporting Hours

  by thedepressedsoul in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  publisher record cards and reporting hours will be going away.

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  coming soon.. made this post 4 years ago, it happened - https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/24020002/kingdom-consolidation-sales-coming-reliable-source.

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  They are leaving in droves

  
  I don't think there is any evidence of that. The growth rate is the same as it has been for a long time. DF rate is about the same. Growth is just over population growth average.

  No one is coming in really, only kids getting baptized mostly.

  If people were leaving in droves (which is what we ALL hope for) the yearly numbers would go down and not up.

  
  
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  Happy Fathers Day

  by Still Totally ADD in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  it felt so good to read a card from my youngest son today.

  it was a funny card about duct tape and cussing.

  it was a day of joy for me being it was my first fathers day card from my son since he and his family left the cult.

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  Thanks - Happy Fathers day to all!
  
  My youngest daughter made me breakfast - sent out a beautiful instagram - and is making me dinner.

  Makes me happy:)
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  What is the biggest doctrinal mistake made by the Watchtower /JWorg. ?

  by Finkelstein in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  personally i think it is 1914 and the following " this generation " doctrine.. this particular doctrine went right against jesus's own words of " no one knows of the time not even he " .

  he also admonished his true followers to not set a time upon god's own sacred time .. the leaders of the wts even back to the late 1800's set a time calculated on their own theology 1874 being the first time set and proclaimed by c t russell, also proclaiming 1914 would likely be the year of the final day of judgment armageddon.

  all throughout the 20th century the wts held to this doctrine but was eventually revised of course when it was realized this generation had passed away who saw the events of 1914. .

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  iwantoutnow

  That there is a god.
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  New Upcoming Changes - No More Publisher Record Cards & Reporting Hours

  by thedepressedsoul in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  publisher record cards and reporting hours will be going away.

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  coming soon.. made this post 4 years ago, it happened - https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/24020002/kingdom-consolidation-sales-coming-reliable-source.

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  iwantoutnow

  Publisher record cards and reporting hours will be going away.

  Haaa - NEVER!

  Well... that will happen right after having Gay Sex at the KH during the Memorial isn't a DFing offence.
  

  ELDERS will always know your FS time - and be the ones giving it to the WT.

  It is a MAJOR way of controlling the congregation.