I prefer to read about the God of the New Testament. The OT God is very insecure, jealous, and narcissistic. The Old Testament portrayal of Yahweh displays a more human personality, that which you find among dictators. No wonder Marcion of Sinople said the OT God couldn't have been the God of Jesus, it doesn't add up. You either are love, or you are not. Your history either backs up love and forgiveness or it doesn't. Of course I am agnostic and have lost my faith in much of the bible, but I do respect and live by many of it's christian principles.
Posts by Emery
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7Sabbath, why the change in the sacredness of the Sabbath?
by jam inyou may recall a poor fellow was put to death for.
gathering sticks on the sabbath.
numbers 15:32 the lord.
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Notes from "Safeguard Your Conscience" Special Assembly Day
by WinstonSmith inrecently we had the 'privilege' of attending our local special assembly day.
the theme for this year was safeguard your conscience, and you guessed it, they looked up every reference to the word 'conscience' in the bible and then wrote a talk about each one.
it was most definitely a case of "pack your bags, we're going on a guilt trip.".
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Also, wedding ceremonies are pagan in origin.. so why should you be having them in the holy Kingdom Hall anyway? Haha just a thought for these legalistic "pagan-free" pharisees. You could always tell the elders that since wedding ceremony roots are so embedded with paganism you wish not to have it at the hall .
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April 2013 Our Kingdom Ministry and other files
by Atlantis instanding in for atlantis.
i post as [vulcan] with my daughter [petra] who helps as typist.
atlantis said that all of you would know about the download procedures.
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I really think there should be a huge campaign for all of us to visit halls where nobody knows us and partake to cause a major inflation. The 2014 Year book would be grand to look at.
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Today's watchtower study... Ugh.
by OneDayillBeFree inwatchtower studies like today's really make me feel anger for this cult.
i mean almost all of them do but this one is one of those articles that takes things too far.. i mean they are condemning the people who are trying to help/save the earth because it's "satan's" world and instead are saying that religious salesmen with magazines are doing way more than the others!like are you f**king kidding me?another reason why i hated this study article is for what some of the young ones did in response to the study.
as one was unwrapping a piece of candy, he decided to throw the wrapper on the ground.
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I had a friend who was very OCD about having his car clean, everytime we grabbed fast food from a drive thru, he would-- once he finished-- toss out his entire bag and drink out the car. I remember I told him how he shouldn't litter, he turned to me and said, "When Armageddon comes, im gonna have to clean it all up anyway, so why worry about it now?." Obviously this isn't the attitude of all JWs, however they do have a careless attitude about the earth (magazines = trees) and local communities since God is gonna handle it all in the future. Thus, their activities for ophans, widows, charities, education, etc. are completely absent. Their only interest is to convert, if you don't convert they could care less about you as a neighbor.
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Deteriorating content of the WT
by His Excellency inhas anyone noticed the recent deterioration in the quality of wt's contents lately?..
the spiritual food seems to be getting more and more shitty these days.
i have given a thought to what could really be going wrong, and if it is likely that some on the wiriting committee is consciously dishing out those nonsense to facilitate more poeple seeing ttat.
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A year before I learned TTATT, I remember I made an effort to study 2 WT magazines completely within a week to be way ahead of schedule. It was the March 2010 and April 2010 Watchtowers. By the time I was done with both of them I remember thinking..."Wow its all the same, same content just repeated over and over--nothing new at all". Of course, this thinking was followed up by my indoctrination, "Well Jehovah must really want me to memorize this".
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Notes from "Safeguard Your Conscience" Special Assembly Day
by WinstonSmith inrecently we had the 'privilege' of attending our local special assembly day.
the theme for this year was safeguard your conscience, and you guessed it, they looked up every reference to the word 'conscience' in the bible and then wrote a talk about each one.
it was most definitely a case of "pack your bags, we're going on a guilt trip.".
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Some like to find fault with the organisation, they cast aside the trust that comes loyal service.
The organization finds fault with the entire human race, religions, political governments, movies, music, entertainment, former members, etc. Yet they demand pure immunity when they themselves have shit the bed. They cannot even meet the very standards they have set for themselves! With an embarassing history that is heavily documented (within their own publications) of committing apostasy way before any of us were born.
Why dedicate a whole assembly to this subject? Because we are in a fight. The Devil wants to make our conscience falter.
A fight against irrefutable facts not the Devil. Facts can cause anyone's conscience to start rejecting WT dogma regardless of the years of service dedicated. Our pressupositions are organic and change according to data. When we recieve additional data our presuppositions or conscience changes accordingly.
Brothers, have you ever nicked your neck while shaving and got blood spots on your collar? Sisters, have you ever nicked your finger while preparing dinner and got blood on your dress? The blood is hard to get rid of. How on earth could one get rid of bloodguilt?
Fallacious reasoning first off. Secondly, I wonder what kind of blood guilt the governing body has felt over Malawi/Mexico? When organ transplants were considered cannibalism? When fractions weren't allowed? When Jws commit suicide when having to face disfellowshipping? If you want to avoid bloodguilt, stop being one of Jehovah's Witnesses and practice love, real love, unconditional love.
Weddings. We do all things for God's glory. When a couple are making arrangements for this, they should always keep Jehovah in mind. They would of course want to use a Kingdom Hall, because they love and are thankful to Jehovah as the originator of mariage. The husband would take the lead in the arrangements. There are no rules, but many have chosen to have a modest small occasion that focuses on praise of Jehovah.
When my wife and I were getting married we avoided the route of using the kingdom hall (lecture hall building for a wedding was not in our taste). Friends who ended up using the KH for their wedding told us they will interrogate you prior to your use of the Hall to get a final confession on whether your engagement was "clean" or free from sexual misconduct. This is a bait and switch tactic for sure.
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The huge impact the JWs have out in their door knocking --- May 15, 2013
by RayPublisher inthe may 15, 2013 washtowel has a cute little piece of artwork about what an impact they make out in serve-us.
i thought some captions might help make it clearer!.
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"Oh hi there neighbor, you throw this away."
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WT 5-15-13 Can anyone find this quote from the Boston Target ?
by trujw inwe all know about the wt's famous quotes.
i can't find this article from the magazine on page 9 paragraph 8 from the lincolnshire boston target uk?
can i get some help from our crack staff her on jwn.
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http://www.thisislincolnshire.co.uk is the site for them.
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THE REASON THE GB FEAR OPEN DISCUSSIONS OF DOCTRINE.
by DATA-DOG inhave you ever wondered why the gb do not have open, honest discussions with other religious adherents?
have you ever pondered over the reasons that rank & file dubs are told not to debate their beliefs with a householder?
certainly if someone's life depended upon your 5 minute presentation at their door, you would be eager to discuss your beliefs.
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What Room 215 said. They cannot defend themselves from themselves.
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When is the memorial this year?
by I quit! ini normally don't care when they hold their yearly anti-eucharist, anti-communion or whatever you want the damned thing but this year i'm going on vacation around that time.
if it falls within my vacation time i think my wife will want to go somewhere and attend it and that would suck but we could work it out.. .
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I think we should all go and partake, inflate the numbers and jack up their record keeping. Visit kingdom halls where no one knows you, say you are of the annointed, visiting from x hall out of town and have a feast!