Betheliesalot

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  Please Switch Off Your Critical Thinking

  by pale.emperor in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i have an uneasy feeling inside that something is coming this year or the next.

  perhaps a new big announcement that turns jwdom on it's head.. we've seen the statement in the watchtower november 15th, 2013 which said:.

  watchtower november 15th, 2013 - page 20, paragraph 17.. .

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  Betheliesalot

  Im surprised they haven't asked all to cancel their cable tv supscriptions and use the funds to support JW broadcasting. Tie in all computers to the mother borg, so they can run a tally on who is really watching the broadcast. Anyone caught watching "worldly" tv will be marked
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  Married witness is caught on video stripping on his door to door ministry! Hilarious

  by Betheliesalot in

  1. social
  2. humour

  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5058729/married-jehovah-s-witness-seduced-actress.html just saw this today and not sure if it is real or just a set up to "poke" fun at witnesses .

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  Betheliesalot

  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5058729/Married-Jehovah-s-Witness-seduced-actress.html Just saw this today and not sure if it is real or just a set up to "poke" fun at witnesses
  
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  Lack of young people in the congregation?

  by IAmJustMe in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  been baptized for two years but being in the truth for longer.

  one thing i have always noticed is the lack of young people in the congregation.

  does anyone feel the same ?.

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  Betheliesalot

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiIu0tm_DyM They started making god-awful videos in the 60,s to try and appeal to the young, but even 60 years later they are not getting much better at keeping ones from leaving.
  
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  The Preaching Method Has Flip-Flopped Again

  by pale.emperor in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  im currently reading a book called jehovah's witnesses: portrait of a contemporary religious movement (https://www.amazon.co.uk/jehovahs-witnesses-portrait-contemporary-religious/dp/0415266106).the researcher is a social scientist, was never a jw, who studied with the witnesses solely to write this book.

  his research has been quite thorough and objective which is commendable.he mentioned in the book how rutherford didn't want his colporters (pioneers) giving their own sermons or bible interpretation, but instead he had them going door to door with his records.

  (i have some converted to mp3, they're very boring).

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  Betheliesalot

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oN4VW2MXlLA I cringe whenever I see some religion going to the street to loud mouth their beliefs. I guess the former individual thinks there is some scorekeeper in the sky keeping score for their salvation.
  
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  Why were the Israelites so deplorable?

  by eyeuse2badub in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  what made the israelites so deplorable?.

  i started thinking about how the bible describes ‘god’s people’, the israelites.

  most of the time god was very pissed off at them.

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  Betheliesalot

  29 When he reached home, he took a knife and cut up his concubine, limb by limb, into twelve parts and sent them into all the areas of Israel. 30 Everyone who saw it was saying to one another, “Such a thing has never been seen or done, not since the day the Israelites came up out of Egypt. Just imagine! We must do something! So speak up!” This chapter in Judges exemplifies how low minded they were, just dismembering women after sending them out to be raped by a bunch of Benjamites, and having no qualms to sleep that night knowing what you had done to your mistress . Savages is what comes to mind.
  
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  Are JWs capable of a genuine discussion?

  by stuckinarut2 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i was just pondering whether jws are capable of having a calm, in depth discussion about religious or faith topics?.

  i have just finished listening to a great podcast by "dogma debate" (dan) episode 333. this fantastic, in-depth conversation between a theist and an atheist was a masterful example of how a dignified conversation can take place without it resorting to abruptness or even nastiness.. jws on the other hand seem incapable of having such discussion without ending up in the following ways:.

  1)they get dogmatic and defensive if a differing view is presented.. 2)if the conversation doesn't go their way, they cut it short saying something like "well, we had better agree to disagree" or the like.. so why the arrogance?

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  Betheliesalot

  I recall a well spread lie told at conventions and assemblies maybe 30 years ago, about someone arguing with a member of clergy or say a minister, and after a few studies, lo and behold they became brothers, and the audience chuckled and laughed with smugness. I hated that. Guess that,s where the term boasting session came from.
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  A New World is here, and YHWH's version is out of date

  by fulltimestudent in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  that highly emotive headline is just to have a wack at bible believers.

  but the world around is showing so many signs of change, that it's certainly looking like something new is here.. for example, driverless cars and buses are now possible.

  and its the buses that are already hitting the road.. watch this video, and say hello to the usa's olli:.

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  Betheliesalot

  Maybe the WTS should charter some of these and fill them with up to date carts that can only hold 3 magazines. They would have a captive audience, and put a few video screens playing "just around the corner" as it goes around the corner...
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  New to the truth

  by MatthewHewey in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i have been meeting with member's of the kingdom hall, and i have attended a few times now on sundays.

  i'd like to discuss experiences with this group since i'm new.

  so far, i love it.

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  Betheliesalot

  He is so far gone from this site, and looking back to see if someone saw him looking at it.
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  Apparently Jehovah`s Witnesses have no scruples about " LYING" to their GOD Jehovah

  by smiddy3 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i thought it was bad enough that jw`s put in weekly reports of fs hours every month in the d2d work when in fact the average publisher would never mention this "good news of the kingdom" to the householder .. more often than not it would be something like some mundane thing about what they have observed about the householders property whether they have kids ,what a lovely garden they have before being cut off by the householder with i`m not interested knowing jw`s are trying to convert them/sell them the watchtower and closing the door.. yet the jw goes away happily putting in a report telling jehovah they have spent so much time in the fs witnessing about him and the kingdom of christ jesus...... cart witnessing is even a worse lie ,why ?

  because jw`s make no attempt to witness to anybody they expect people to come to them to be witnessed to which of course never happens .

  they spend hours upon hours a month telling jehovah by their fs reports they hand in how much they have witnessed for him ,when in fact they have done nothing of the sort .. they chit chat among themselves witnessing to nobody for hours on end and then lie in their fs report they have been witnessing for jehovah ?.

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  Betheliesalot

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMP2ILjmQrg&list=RDkMP2ILjmQrg&t=13 Much like the Mormon,s , most of the JW,s are there to just put in time to impress other JW,s cause no one else gives a hoot, including their god.
  
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  What Is The Major Reason Jehovah’s Witnesses Exist?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i understand that cults and religious groups will always exist.

  but why do jehovah’s witnesses continue as a religion that people will join?.

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  Betheliesalot

  I think over 100 years of bothering people has finally caught up with them and no one hardly is listening to their 19th century way of thinking anymore. Movies and comedy skits have been widely disseminated thru out society, so much so that most people regard them as off center. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ki801ccg9Yo