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  Scary Pictures in the Live Forever book

  by Surfacing in

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  i remember as a kid being freaked out by two pictures.

  one was of the demons floating away leaving their screaming wives and babies during the flood, and the other was the collage with the gas mask guy and the kid holding his hands over his ears and the dead guy with the chopsticks..... oh yes, did i mention that i wasn't allowed to watch the care bears movie as a kid because of the "frightening and demonic" scenes?

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  Watchtower = Pharisees

  by drwtsn32 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the wts always talks about how wrong it was for the pharisees to make an endless number of rules.

  but the wts is guilty of the same thing.

  you can't have a beard... you can't watch rated r movies... you must report your field service activity... you cannot go to costume parties... you can have some blood fractions but not whole blood... you can't read any stuff that is against our opinion... yadda yadda yadda.. my mom (an active jw) argues that theses are not rules but only guidelines.

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  Most Annoying "Kingdom song?"

  by doodle-v in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  what's a kingdom song you can remember singing that gives you the creeps now?

  mine is "move ahead" i think that was the title, anyway it has so much rhetoric... but the tune is so darn catchy.... darn.... in my opinion, those songs are the perfect example of mind control.

  move ahead.. move ahead ... blah blah blah blah blah .

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  The dreaded disfellowshiping

  by link in

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  i have been informed on good authority (a dub for 27 years) that you cannot get disfelowshiped for committing a wrongdoing, only for being unrepentant.. can anyone tell me if this is true or not, and if it is not where the misunderstanding comes from?

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  Why do JW cringe at certain words?

  by TR in

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  for example: bulletin board.

  (from cambridge international dictionary of english).

  (british and australian) a notice board (am bulletin board) is a board on a wall on which notices can be fixed.

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  Did God Change?

  by tdogg in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i had a discussion with some greek orthodox members recently.

  i was pointing out the disparity between the brutal behavior of "gods people in the o.t.

  and the pacifistic way in which jesus was to have behaved in the n.t.. they accounted for this by explaining that god changed during that time.

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  1914 - on the way out?

  by PopeOfEruke in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  as i haven't read any jw literature some 10 years or more now, can anyone tell me when was the last time that 1914 was seriously mentioned or discussed in a wt or book or whatever?.

  and when was the last time the calculation of the "7 times" which leads to 1914 was actually put down in writing in jw lit?

  has it been in a wt study article recently?.

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  Partaking of the emblems

  by pralis in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i've always been curious as to the reasons why only "the anointed" were permitted to partake of the emblems at the memorial.

  we all know that the wtbts says the "other sheep" are the non-anointed christians who merely observe the memorial (by the way, by "other sheep" jesus was talking about the gentiles that would become part of the new covenant; he wasn't referring to some strange class of non-anointed christians).

  they've often compared the situation to the foreigners in the congregation of israel who were not permitted to observe the passover (see exodus 12:38, 43 -- they draw this correlation because the memorial is the replacement for the passover observance).

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  Eternal Life on Earth?

  by Flaming Seraphim in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  hey do you guys really believe that we are going to live on a paradise earth forever and ever?

  if so, count me out.

  there is no way i want to spend the rest of eternity confined in physical body on this planet!

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  Spoke with a dub on ever changing doctrine...

  by stocwach in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i asked him how could it be the true religion with all the numerous doctrinal changes.

  this is how he replied to me in an email:.

  " another thing mentioned was the apostles (known as the governing body).

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