Posts by Emery

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A treacherous heart might decieve a Christian making him unable to see that his family is actually, Moloch.

by Theocratic Sedition in

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from this week's congregation bible study, the first 8 paragraphs of chapter 4 in the jeremiah book.

page 44 as follows.. in our case, we certainly do not think of ourselves as worshippers of idol gods.

however, under the heading of "god", one dictionary says: a person or thing of supreme value.

Emery

@SophieG, haha I would do the very same thing.

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IF THEY CAN CHANGE THEIR MINDS, WHY CAN'T WE?

by Fed-up in

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They use their chosen status and God to override anything anyone can say who isnt Watchtower.

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once i was little boy in fort worth, texas living with my maw maw and paw paw and mommy.. then, i was an 18 year old 6'4'' skinny 165lb religious nut being dipped in a baptismal during a local assembly.. suddenly, i was 20 and listening to a jail cell door clang behind me as a conscientious objector.. wow!

23 years old and put on parole until my 6 years sentence was ended!

i got married to a nice jw girl and had 3 kids!.

Emery

Happy birthday!

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A Quote from the January Public Watchtower: SHOULD YOU FEAR THE END OF THE WORLD?

by Londo111 in

a little preamble: of the handful of online friends i've made during my time on jwn, auntbee has certainly been the best.

the time and dedication that she has to help jws is amazing, even more amazing when one considers she was never a jw herself.

she is very well read.

Emery

Thanks Watchtower for feeding the evil gangrene machine!

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WatchTower 1/2013 Not THE END again?!

by BlindersOff1 in

another interesting video by "the snarky apologist" on youtube.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3aqh5xnzxa&feature=em-uploademail.

Emery

This was an excellent video! My oh my why did the Watchtower quote this without thinking about the fact checking us "apostates" do?

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Nursing School

by sooner7nc in

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i start the journey towards getting a degree as a registered nurse on jan. 14th, 2013. wish me luck.. .

Emery

Awesome, its a great field! My wife is doing the same this coming fall. You can get a job anywhere and get paid well.

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Jan. 1 WT, Their confession for given incorrect dates for the end.

by jam in

have jehovah,s witnesses given incorrect dates for the end?.

jw,s have had wrong expectations about when the end would.

like jesus' first-century disciples, we have "sometimes" (lol).

Emery

It may help them with 1975, but it doesnt help them with their appointment in 1919. They claim Jesus chose them during their worst times of false predictions and prophecy. The year 1919 is so vitaly important to address. Yes, they had wrong expectations on some dates, BUT they declared it as INDISPUTABLE FACT for the years of 1918 and 1925. They cannot out run or rationalize these 2 years in the least bit! They were already the established channel to Jah and invisibly chosen by the divine entities that be.

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Do JWs Really Still care about the "Truth"?

by XBEHERE in

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i often read posts on here citing some km school or wt article and the comment that "now they are tightening their grip" or "they will now go after faders" etc, etc.

my perception is that the vast majority of jws, including the elders, are suffering from apathy and fatigue.

most simply don't care anymore.

Emery

I spent some time this past weekend at my best friends house (active jw). His wife and I got onto the topic of the new faithful and discreet slave light. Sure enough, his wife had no clue of the old understanding...or the new light. So I went on to the explain the old light and planned on showing her the difference. When I mentioned that the faithful and discreet slave class was previously known as the 144k, she immediately said, "Well that doesn't make any sense, I have never heard of anointed ones communicating information back to Brooklyn." I then said, "Yup that's been a huge disconnect for me too", My best friend then chimmed with the usual response, "Light gets brighter, we are progressively getting there."

I ignored that and continued explaining the new light. I explained the new understanding of the Faithful and discreet slave, being only the 8 men in Brooklyn. Only when they are gathered do they form the Slave Class. They both looked at me puzzled, and his wife said "Umm I don't believe that's correct, we had our family study the other day and thats not what Hubby said." My best friend then answered, "Yeah I don't think thats right either. The slave class also exists in the branches, there are tons of anointed people there." I then challenged them to look it up on JW.org. Sure enough, he read it out loud and said... "Yup, Emery is right." Of course they were confused and then I used the Voltron analogy which helped them understand it better haha. She turned me to and said, " I still don't really get the whole Faithful Slave thing."

What was great about all this was they were somewhat talking down to me for missing meetings, yet this spiritual weakling managed to know more about the new light and core understandings of the faith better than they did, and they're the active ones! Haha

I find it really sad that the most important understandings that can determine your entire life is not really examined or cared about.

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JW's disdain for the Papacy, and their new light

by zed is dead in

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i love how the witnesses have contempt for all other religions, especially the catholic church.

their big gripe is about the pope being the spoksman of god.

they pride themselves in not having a clergy.

Emery

Its all semantics, same power and authority, different name.

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Greetings

by Monsieur in

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i visit this site often for various reasons, above all to see the opinions of those in regards to their present state in life in relation to past or present tendencies in thinking (religious, morals, etc).. i had not found anything constructive or worthy of adding to this conversation but for one reason or another here i am doing so now.

i am presently an active jw member.

i believe that our faith provides a haven or parameters from which members can significantly obtain structure and order in many different ways.

Emery

It really sounds like you would enjoy Bart Ehrmans book ' God's Problem: How the Bible Fails to Answer Our Most Important Question-- Why We Suffer '. Your thoughts and form of reasoning really harmonizes well with the issues brought up in his book. You should definitely check it out! I agree with you that religion and faith in God is a means to structure and community that works great for many believers. There is nothing wrong with being a JW, however the amount of control and authority its leaders possess over the lives of the rank and file is the issue for the majority here. Of course that's a whole other subject.