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  How many former Jehovah's Witnesses bury their head in the sand when it comes to reasoning about the NGO "conspiracy"?

  by Change Name in

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  hi all - sure sure, you can call me a troll or brainwashed cult member.

  i am totally interested in how your answers to these questions.. .

  do you find yourself ignoring anything that jehovah's witnesses bring out in regards to their former status as an ngo?.

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  Hi again Emery - I do not know what TTATT is. You must remember, the JW's are a group of humans who are sinful and fall short. They can and will make mistakes.

  TTATT = The Truth About The Truth

  I don't expect perfection as we are all imperfect and sinfulful. I can deal with mistakes, but I will not put up dishonesty.

  Change Name, the Watchtower has not been honest to it's adherence. They do not provide transparency to its members as they have hidden and white washed their history and mistakes. They demand absolute authority that isn't deserved or backed up by ANY evidence. Research their claims as to their being chosen in 1919 and you will see how they do not just claim to be imperfect, but divinely appointed with all of Christ's belongings on the earth --- meaning they own YOU.

  Change Name, your faith is a borrowed faith, it is temporary and flexible. It changes at the quim of 8 men in Brooklyn that you have possibly never met. Your faith has to be shielded away from any challenge as it is too fragile and cannot hold up to scrutiny. As a JW you have to attack people's motives, integrity, or beliefs before ever considering the questions asked. The foundation to the organization is terribly weak.
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  Check this out - North Korean literature vs. WT literature

  by sir82 in

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  http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2013/03/12/christian_aslund_the_legacy_of_kim_documents_a_limited_view_of_north_korea.html.

  look at that first photo.. don't those books look eerily like wt literature?.

  the ones in the top 2 rows look exactly like the last of the hard-bound "thin" yearbooks.

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  LOL that's amazing!
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  Twelve foot high Jehovah's Witnesses

  by RayPublisher in

  1. social
  2. humour

  conan o'brian doing a funny skit about jws:.

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  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=el-wufuzagc.

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  Of course Conan has to polite to all JWs watching.
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  Who plays video games?!!

  by DATA-DOG in

  1. jw
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  any gamers out there?

  i love a good game.

  to me a great game is like a great book!

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  Halo Anniversary online, NCAA, MADDEN, Black OPs 2 and Halo 4
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  Going to the meeting tonight ARGH!!!! So wanna end this pain NOW!

  by Julia Orwell in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i'm only going to the meeting because of my husband!

  i was 'in' solo for years while living with my unbelieving family and i know how it feels to be the only one in your house going to the meeting.

  i also respect my husband's decision, and know what it's like to have family try to tear down your beliefs.

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  AnnOMaly

  Those are all the things I do when I have to go! haha. I thought about reading "apostate" material on my iPad going forward, bringing Satan's literature into the building of Almighty Holiness.
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  Is apostate an appropriate term for us?

  by sleepy in

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  how do you feel?do you like to be called apostate ?.

  apostate just means: someone who renounces a former belief or principle.. to people who have never been witnesses it may not symbolise much.but to witnesses the word means a lot.in many of their minds it is synonymous with evil and perverted.. since it jw's who will likely call us apostate not others the term almost always has a bad or negative useage.. but it does identify us as people who have completely rejected the religion.. so is it good for us to use it or not?

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  All praise be to punkofnice for his all powerful resurrection!
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  The ten most embarrassing scriptures for Jehovah's Witnesses

  by slimboyfat in

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  1. mark 7:15 "there is nothing from outside a man that passes into him that can defile him; but the things that issue forth out of a man are the things that defile a man.. so how can eating black pudding or having a blood transfusion be a sin?.

  2. roman 14:5 one [man] judges one day as above another; another [man] judges one day as others; let each one be convinced in his own mind.

  so how come they say birthdays and festivals are a sin?.

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  The organization has inserted their own ideas within the verse of Hebrews 10:25 "Do not give up meeting together". The context is of Christian fellowship, not scheduled indoctrination sessions at lecture halls 2,000 years later. Such meetings are not necessary for holy spirit or for God's direction according to Jesus' promise found in the gospel of Matthew.

  Matthew 18:20- "For where two or three gather in my name, there am I with them."

  Matthew 28:20- "... And remember, I am with you each and every day until the end of the age."

  To say anything contrary to this is to call Jesus a liar, which the WT often does.
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  Bloody Hell! How did I miss the JW Graphic Novel?

  by cantleave in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  as a comic book fan this makes me cringe!!!.

  http://www.jw.org/assets/m/ijw13fr/502013169/ijw13fr_id-502013169_e/502013169_e_cnt_1.pdf.

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  Sucks they have such great artists. They must be really trying to market the youth movement as of late. Too bad they keep disfellowshipping them!
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  The bible is a letter to the 144,000

  by sosoconfused in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i don't really remember where i heard this... either at a public talk or a district convention or c.o.

  visit or something.. .

  my question is, has anyone else in there time with the org heard that said?

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  Yeah I felt that one coming leaving_quietly, for any lurkers wondering....

  Jesus never mentions the preaching work in Matthew 25:31-40. The "least of these my brothers" has been expounded by theologians to mean Jesus' disciples present during this very discourse.
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  Friends are studying with the JW's

  by LouBelle in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i was studying spanish a little while ago - had to stop because of finances but became friends with the spanish teacher and we keep in touch, see each other now and again.

  i just got a message from him:.

  "hola louise, i would like to talk to you about 2 things, about the jws, as we are following this fatih, we find it interesting, we haven't been baptised yet, i want to make sure before making a mistake and the other thing that allan and i wold like to talk about is starting your own business.....".

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  You can add a few more things to that list:

  1919 - Faithful and Discreet slave, belief in pyramids, false prophesies, all the cooky stuff they believed in when Christ supposedly chose them.

  Inconsistency with medical advice - blood, blood fractions, organ transplants (cannabilism).

  Information control - discouraging college, researching information, being objective, demonizing information not originating from the WT.

  Works vs Grace - all the scriptures in the bible showing how no amount of works determine righteousness.

  Schedule - service, meeting attendence, conventions, kingdom hall builds, cleanings, etc.

  Judgmentalism - being judged for petty things (beards), car group gossip, lack of love.

  I would just really focus on their claims to authority, that normally shakes up most non-jws i talk to. They always end up telling me how they see its a cult after I explain 1919 and disfellowshipping.