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  Why 6 Billion People Deserve to Die in Armageddon

  by Leolaia in

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  jehovah is such a righteous, merciful, loving god -- slow to anger, overflowing with loving kindness and blessing.

  yet it somehow bothers many of you that he will shortly execute his judgment on mankind and wipe out 99.9% of the world's population, as if that somehow is supposed to conflict with his loving qualities.

  personally, i have no idea why many of you feel this way.

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  ... and if all of these really nasty people have the good fortune to croak before the Big Day, they qualify for a resurrection!!
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  False Christians chose the modern Bible books

  by lifeisgood in

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  one of the issues that i discovered when i took two years off from the jws to just study the bible is the contents of the modern bible do not even come close to matching the contents of the holy books that the first christians used.

  not even close.

  off by over 550 books.. now, the jws claim that the catholic church is false religion.

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  I wonder how JWs, or any of the Protestant religions for that matter, rationalize their uncritical acceptance the canon as we know it, given its origin.
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  2011 district convention

  by obarac in

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  somebody know the theme of this years district convention or is still top secret?.

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  Ah, the annual "don't misbehave at the District Convention" article; as a sign of Spring as the chirping of robins and the daffodils coming up!
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  looky looky - A 'real' J-dub forum! (are they becoming normal???)

  by Reality79 in

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  2. friends

  so did the 'da society' give these dub internet savvies permission to start a forum?

  because last i checked, the ole boys in their oversized brooklyn bunker didn't want their members on the internet unless it was to view their own official websites.

  i thought maybe it was an apostate forum until i read their long winded, typically condescending jdub style membership guidelines:.

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  Are these yutzes tone deaf or not? How many times has GB railed against independent websites pitched even to loyal Jdubs?
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  WTF???

  by headisspinning in

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  2. bible

  http://www.seanet.com/~raines/review.html.

  the society at the time believed that some demons or fallen angels were honest and could be saved and return to god's organization.

  [6] angels and women, they believed, was channeled or "dictated" to the author by one such fallen angel who was honest and told the truth about pre-flood conditions on earth.

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  Snoozy, since this was published in 1924, the endorsement is clearly Rutherford's (Russell died in 1916).
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  June 15th WT, Trap Your Kids in the Cult

  by LostGeneration in

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  2. bible

  the new wt is up.

  the worst article is the first one, a non-study article.

  shows pictures of a kid, looks like he is 10 years old.

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  Articles like these show exactly why they split off the kool-aid WT from the one for general distribution....
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  Why was Rutherford sent to prison?

  by Alfred in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  well that was 93 years ago so well probably never know all the facts.

  but the wt claims that russell and others were falsely accused of sedition.

  the may 9, 1918 new york times article that covered these arrests and sedition charges states that they were charged with spreading doctrines calculated to promote unrest and disloyalty among the men of the army and navy.

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  Alfred, I appreciate your research and the excerpts, but these are hardly tantamount to sedition, and are admissable as freedom of speec. Borgia is correct in pointing out the more egregious examples of incitement to rebellion in the letters, etc. sent to members of the US miliary in the field.
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  If Witnesses Really Cared......

  by metatron in

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  2. friends

  being "in" a religion and actually believing its doctrines are two different things.

  i have little doubt that there are probably many leaders in the major religions who are actually agnostics and simply go thru the motions of being faithful to whatever ritual is asked of them.. this is possible because most religions put forth some effort to help people in some organized way - whether soup kitchens, public charities, hospitals or the like.

  it gives people who are zealous - but privately heterodox - a chance to be supportive.. sadly, this will never be the case with the "truth".

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  The belief that all outside your cloistered walls are pleasure-mad, greedy, self-seeking, violent, sex-obsessed criminals soon to be vaporised into oblivion is hardly conducive to your development of a social conscience....
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  "Something in the congregation is hindering the flow of Jehovah's holy spirit" - witch hunt JW style?

  by slimboyfat in

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  has anyone else experienced something like this?.

  in my mother-in-law's congregation a special pioneer was recently moved to the congregation and he gave a talk where he said he and the other elders felt there was a bad spirit in the congregation and there must be something going on that is preventing jehovah's holy spirit from operating properly.

  but he didn't state explicity what the problem might be and now gossip is rife in the congregation about whether there might be a sinner or a traitor in their midst.. for many this is just the excuse they need to gossip and bad mouth others.

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  They've been trotting out that old crapola since Rutherford's time, if not before.... it's usually a prelude to a witch hunt and/or wholesale removal of elders... a from of theocractic bloodletting!
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  Are we losing members quicker than the WT ??

  by wobble in

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  2. friends

  reading a thread from just a few months ago, made me realise that a lot of people who used to be regular contributors here no longer do so.. i know that people have always moved on, as the anger and hurt get less, as the wt mind-set totally disappears, we feel the need to come here less and less, but because of the intelligence, insight, wit and wisdom of these people, the board is somewhat impoverished each time one of these moves on.. this is a plea to all who post now, and some who still read but don't post, please do not leave us entirely, the contributions on here are literally life-saving for many.

  it is easy to get dangerously suicidal when the whole wt pack of cards falls down for you.. please do not become a stranger to us !.

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  Maybe the flow of the Spirit is being obstructed here? (Remember that one?)