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  Watchtower SlangJamaican Patois: Gods son came fe mash up the world😂

  by Diogenesister in

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  2. humour

  🤦‍♀️this 25 million different languages thing is getting ridiculous.

  this link is hilarious!

  they've only gone and translated into jamaican patois and boy this isn't just translation, they're literally using slang....what next?

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  NotFormer

  Diogenesister, I actually have a copy of the Bible in Cockney. 🙄 Approved by none other than the Archbishop of Canterbury.

  https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Fun:Cockney_Bible&ved=2ahUKEwjO0NW35KmMAxVQ6DQHHZa6PDYQFnoFCJsBEAE&sqi=2&usg=AOvVaw3rDlVP4acSyqD0DVKiJcYq
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  Are There any JW Teaching that you DO Agree With?

  by NotFormer in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  (apologies for the typo in the title.

  "teaching" should read "teachings".

  i misread vanderhoven7's most recent post as being the above.

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  NotFormer

  Duran, this isn't meant to be a thread for argumentation. If you think that the JWs are right about "Jehovah", then write that as your contribution to this thread. 🙄

  Just the things you personally think the JWs got right, Peeps! Don't argue with other respondents' answers; play nice! 🐱
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  What are some of the JW Teachings That you do not Agree With

  by Vanderhoven7 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  casey sabella writes.

  many of their teachings have no biblical basis whatsoever.

  they claim those leaders are in fact the faithful and discreet slave jesus spoke about in matthew 24. further, they alone were selected by jesus himself in 1919 to identify as this slave and that all other churches are false.. only 144,000 can partake of communion and go to heaven.

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  NotFormer

  That the true religion as approved by Yahweh Himself would be incorporated as a US company and have an unpaid workforce of book salespeople (colportueur, anyone?)

  The term "spirit creature" has always irked me, for some reason. When did they start using that term? Was it Chuckles T Russell himself, or did he steal that from someone else, or was it someone later than Russell who came up with that peculiar turn of phrase?
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  Are There any JW Teaching that you DO Agree With?

  by NotFormer in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  (apologies for the typo in the title.

  "teaching" should read "teachings".

  i misread vanderhoven7's most recent post as being the above.

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  NotFormer

  (Apologies for the Typo in the Title. "Teaching" should read "Teachings". 🙄)

  I misread Vanderhoven7's most recent post as being the above. So I started on that topic, until I realised that I needed to learn how to read properly. 🙄😱 Anyway, here are my answers (feel free to add any, if you can think of them):

  1. That the Christian religion should be based on the Bible alone. (It's up to you how well you think they succeed in their stated goal, of course)

  2. That the Tetragrammaton was better transliterated "Yahweh". (Found in the introduction to their earlier bibles)

  (That's all I got!)

  Vanderhoven7's post that sparked this one: https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/6244295636418560/what-some-jw-teachings-that-you-do-agree
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  Ex-jws request congregation info on file

  by blondie in

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  2. friends

  https://www.oakbaynews.com/news/grand-forks-jehovahs-witnesses-lose-privacy-law-appeal-7897541 .

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  NotFormer

  I imagine that they will. They've got a lot to lose. More of these kinds of decisions being made only leads to more governments taking notice, and that is never good for the WT.
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  New World, New World Order, New System of Things

  by blondie in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the wts has used to above terms, over the years, some more preferred in certain time periods.

  more though, but these occurred to me first.

  also the terms "new world" and "new world order" have been used by some us presidents and other leaders..

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  NotFormer

  "The lines containing "new order" now say...."Go tell far and wide that the paradise is near."

  Of course they edited the reference to God out! 🙄 I'm surprised they didn't try to shoehorn a reference to the GB instead! 🙄🙄🙄
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  WA bill mandating clergy report abuse clears Senate floor

  by blondie in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  https://columbiabasinherald.com/news/2025/mar/24/wa-bill-mandating-clergy-report-abuse-clears-senate-floor/ .

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  NotFormer

  "If Senate Bill 5375 passes and becomes law, religious leaders would have to report incidents to law enforcement or the Department of Children, Youth and Family Services within 48 hours, with no exemption. This would include information learned during penitential communication, such as confession in the Catholic Church or within the Committee of Elders in a Jehovah's Witnesses Kingdom Hall, among others. Failure to do so could be considered a gross misdemeanor. "

  Interesting that they specifically point out a JW procedure and deliberately define it into this law. The tide may eventually turn.

  If the WT has any sense, they'll drop any involvement with CSA and simply tell victims and their families to go to law enforcement. And if they did,It would be nice if they would accept the results of a police investigation as grounds for disfellowshipment. And that they don't penalise the victim or family for warning others.

  And they need to dismantle Ted Jaracz's idiocy (and covering of his own posterior*), the two witness rule.

  *I don't buy the "we'll never know, so let's not talk about it" approach. He did something over here that led to him being sent back to headquarters under a cloud of some sort. That he made it his personal crusade to weaponise the two witness rule to protect paedophiles is a pretty strong hint.
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  Will They Change the Memorial Talk This Year?

  by raymond frantz in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  https://youtu.be/o5almnehew4?si=kdgrjgbiutjkvcxe.

  i’m hoping the memorial talk will be different.

  change the talk!

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  NotFormer

  "'twas Nisan 14 when your glory was seen...."

  Man, talk about Vogon poetry! 😱😳🙄

  Scuttlebutt amongst us mainstream Christians in the 80s was that JWs would answer "Yes" if you asked them if they were born again, presumably to deflect from certain arguments.
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  Telling People You Used To Be A JW

  by JW_Rogue in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  since i faded i've told a few people at work about having been raised in this organization but i found that most people don't really get what it is like at all.

  they just focus on not celebrating holidays as if that is the worst thing about growing up jw.

  i didn't explain much because it's too much for most people to handle.

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  NotFormer

  Most people who've never been in don't realise how profound a sentence like "I used to be a Jehovah's Witness" is. They probably think that leaving is no more stressful than cancelling a subscription. From what I've read, it's more like trying to leave the Mob: you can't!
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  Australian blood donor who saved 2.4 million babies dies

  by Diogenesister in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  blood donor james harrison has died aged 88 in australia (17th feb) has saved the lives of over 2 million babies.

  after receiving a huge blood transfusion during heart surgery aged 14, he vowed to become a donor at 18. he held the record for the most blood plasma donated until recently, donating every two weeks from the age of 18. his blood produced anti d used to produce jabs that protect unborn babies from hemolytic disease of the foetus & newborn (hdfn).

  this occurs in pregnancy when a mothers red blood cells are incompatible with her babys.

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  NotFormer

  It flies in the face of the WT assumption* that you'll probably inherit something nasty from someone else's blood. In this case, you inherit something good.

  Can you still find WT articles where someone had a blood transfusion and went weird because they'd acquired the donor's characteristics?

  * One of their many assumptions about blood