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  $10 per pub. Money begging session last night

  by StarTrekAngel in

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  last night, during our "christian life and ministry" meeting, we had a session on local needs.

  elder opened the talk with a disclaimer saying that this was a reminder (cited psalms about how david loved jehovahs reminders).

  he reminded us of how bless we are of having our own local assembly hall.

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  Nauseating money-grab...
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  Having Jehovah as a friend.

  by Darkknight757 in

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  2. beliefs

  i've always found it amazing that people can say with such conviction that jehovah is their friend.. we are talking about a "friend" who perhaps daily "tests" us to see if we are his friends.

  all of us have dealt with some form of hardship such as the death of a loved one, chronic illness or whatever.

  it is in these cases that the brothers will tell a person that perhaps it is a test, or that "jehovah knows you're not ready" or some other lame excuse.. do our real friends "test" us to see if we will be loyal to them?

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  Heartsafire is spot on,

  Their intent is to deprive the rank and file of any sense they are God's children -- sons and daughters, and instead to accept the devalued status of God's "friends".... something like Harvey Jimmy Stewart's imaginary rabbit friend:

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvfXvW2wsuQ
  
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  Fisticuffs Erupts Between Mormons and JWs at Montreal Airport... WTF?

  by Room 215 in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  apologies if someone else has posted this before: .

  http://vaticanenquirer.com/canadas-mormons-and-jehovahs-witnesses-brawl-trying-to-get-to-refugees-first/.

  sorry, meant to say "fighting erupts" ... my bad.

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  Apologies if someone else has posted this before:

  http://vaticanenquirer.com/canadas-mormons-and-jehovahs-witnesses-brawl-trying-to-get-to-refugees-first/
  

  
  

  
  Sorry, meant to say "fighting ERUPTS" ... my bad
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  Is the religion of Jehovah's Witnesses really an inferior form of Christianity?

  by nicolaou in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  seems to be quite a few posters recently pulling down the beliefs of jw's as not biblical or truly christian.

  maybe you're right, maybe you're wrong, i really don't care.. in some important ways though mainstream christians often behave better than jehovah's witnesses; most don't practice shunning or impose lethal medical prohibitions on their members.

  many are far more tolerant of the lgbt community and a few even make the awkward attempt to square the fact of evolution with their faith.. please note that i'm saying some, not all.. so i suppose it's fair to say that differing forms of christianity can be better or worse for individuals, families and the wider community.

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  Thinly veiled Neo-Judaism, with the occasional perfunctory reference to Jesus.
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  Canadian Branch Office directed a congregation to lock the door during the meetings

  by Watchtower-Free in

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  2. beliefs

  http://www.jw-archive.org/post/137091096103/canadian-branch-office-directed-a-congregation-i.

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  They've long ago abandoned the pretense that the Sunday "public" lecture is for anyone but the initiated JW, anyway, what with the speakers' frequent recourse to "theospeak," i,e. JW-only jargon like "circuit assembly," "pioneering," "unbaptized publisher," "Faithful Slave" etc., etc., blah, blah, ad infinitum, ad nauseum.

  You gotta wonder whether they really want the public at meetings anymore, so they might as well lock the doors, as long they'll let you out when you wanna barf!
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  Masterful Paper on JW Blood Doctrine's History

  by Room 215 in

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  2. medical

  check it out:.

  http://meletivivlon.com/2016/01/06/jehovahs-witnesses-and-blood-part-1/.

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  Check it out:

  http://meletivivlon.com/2016/01/06/jehovahs-witnesses-and-blood-part-1/
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  Is Watchtower Really A Real Estate Business?

  by OneFingerSalute in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  i told a still in dubya that the wt was now officially in the real estate buisness.. they looked at me like i had grown a second head.

  so i showed them a web site, which they loudly proclaimed to be "apostate".

  then i showed them the rest of the web site and asked how long the official jay dubya dot org web site was aligned with an "apostate" web site.. i hate to link that site but as it is somewhat covered up by the dubya's and it may be of some use in making someone think about the money grabs, and the constant begging for more money from those who have little of it for the necessities of life i do so here.

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  Nauseating
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  Elders, oh my God what a bunch of losers!

  by Crazyguy in

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  ok i don't mean to put all of them into just one box so to speak, their are some that are smart successful etc.

  but my god most of them are just wasted space, ignorant, no drive, horrible jobs, make nothing for income and the only thing in life they have going for them is this title.

  no wonder so many will not wake up and hold on to this stupid cult, it's all they have.

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  Although I quite agree that such generalizations are unfair, it's true that even the most intelligent of them are "losers" in one sense: they're betting on the wrong horse!
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  Has Watchtower financial strategy taken a very dark turn?

  by slimboyfat in

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  2. beliefs

  as shepherdless pointed out on another thread, the watchtower business model of using free labour to produce and sell books and magazines for profit started to break down when charging for the literature ended in 1990, and has now begun disintegrating completely in the face of the internet and declining donations.

  over this same period there has been a noted increase in hardline rhetoric on disfellowshipping and pushing early baptism.

  might these hardline trends actually be related to their money woes?

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  It sounds nightmarish, but based on what's happened recently, I wouldn't exclude it. Things just keep getting crazier and crazier in Absurdistan.
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  In the past we taught it, but now we teach other thing....

  by opusdei1972 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i have been reading the watchtower study edition of march 2016. here some deceptive statements so as to justify their new lights:.

  when were gods people held captive by babylon the great?.

  that spiritual captivity lasted from the second century c.e.

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  Wasn't that period supposed to be identified as the fulfillment of Revelation 11:3: "And I will appoint my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth?" What then of those three and on half years?