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  Who Do JWs Fear The Most? Top Five

  by Fred Franztone in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  it's a fear-based religion, at its core.

  jws fear many things, but what or who do they fear the most?

  let's find out.... 5) satan.

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  What do they fear?

  5. Beards

  4. The internet

  3. Education

  2. Independent thinking

  1. Facts and the truth
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  QFR - Posting JW publications on a personal website/social media

  by Listener in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  the following is a qfr from the april, 2018 watchtower.

  just a couple of articles back the organization was explaining how jws need to be encouraging and even when admonishing congregations jesus would start out with encouraging words.

  we see none of this in the qfr, rather, it is heavy handed and legally incorrect.. why is it not permissible to post publications of jehovah’s witnesses on a personal website or on social media?.

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  WT April 2018 QFR By directing interested people to our official websites, we are connecting them with the one true source of spiritual food, “the faithful and discreet slave.”

  How does this tie up with

  Watchtower (Study Edition), February 2017, pg. 26:

  Jesus did not tell us that his faithful slave would produce perfect spiritual food.
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  I know this shouldn’t bother me...but

  by MTSman in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  so i woke up this morning with nothing planned for the day.

  i rolled out of bed around 9am and went to local mcky ds to get some breakfast, and lord and behold there was a group of jdubs sitting around eating and sipping on coffee, probable counting time.

  anyway, i glanced over and recognized all of them and they glanced back at me.

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  They have become McWitnesses.
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  Files you might want!

  by Atlantis in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  here are a couple of boes you might want.. .

  https://we.tl/kf2lzhkzzu.

  https://we.tl/isqx2qf9kg.

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  St. George I'm sure those in Scotland and Northern Ireland will be delighted to have the opportunity to drive to Chelmsford, buy their hat and boots in order to work for the day before returning home satisfied

  Just like the ministry then. Start on a nearby call, drive about for a few hours and end on a call back in town. Everyone self deceives by proudly giving Jehovah their time, but achieving precisely nothing.
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  Dinosaurs in Paradise

  by The Real Edward Gentry in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i'm so thankful for sites such as this.

  i realise it's our imperfection but god's organization is not always open to 'outside the box' thinkers such as ourselves.

  i've been researching dinosaurs and god's reason for not preserving these beasts beyond the flood of noah's day.

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  TREG I've been researching dinosaurs and God's reason for not preserving these beasts beyond the flood of Noah's day.

  So the Bible lies then. Noah was not instructed to preserve two of every kind at all. He was told to exclude certain animals to ensure their extinction.

  Why does the Bible lie about this? What else has it lied about?

  Maybe you don't "think outside the box" quite as much as you imagine you do.
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  AAAAAAAArrgh!

  by zeb in

  1. forum
  2. tech-support

  sir simon,.

  how many dozen bloody times do i have to do the capcha thing before i get in.

  one round of street signs or cars and that was it.

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  Do the poles constitute part of the roadsigns?

  I had to log in just to ask this.
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  Pull the Plug Already...

  by megaboy in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  after reading and seeing so many detailings of the dealings with people in this religion, i have to wonder how to get people who are just extremely asleep.

  reasoning doesn't seem like it works, there needs to be some kind of plug pull event, like the leaders doing something so uterly stupid that it causes the immediate downfall of the entire religion.

  but because i am naturally curious i want to know from people who have more experience with jw structure why they seem to have a resistance to an event like this?

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  When you are emotionally invested in something, facts and logic count for very little.

  Waking up is less about finding the truth about the WT, but more about dropping the emotional barriers in order to accept the truth about the WT.
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  New NWT, then and now - a comparison of the 2013 NWT, 2013 vs 2017.

  by MeanMrMustard in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  acts 2:9. old text:.

  acts 2:10. old text:.

  acts 2:11. old text:.

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  Thanks MMM, I still have the comparison work from your original project - brilliant problem solving!

  I've found all the differences in the above list. Most are single character changes or insertions, with just a few textual changes.

  Oil trees become pine trees and a couple of other minor changes which do not appear to have a fundamental thought change.

  For your info, a font change wouldn't trigger a hit in your algorithm because a font is merely a collection of glyphs which overlay the underlying unicode values.
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  Can JW's celebrate Hannukah?

  by Splash in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  what's the official teaching on celebrating this jewish festival?.

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  So the Awake! from 27 years ago is the last reference to Hanukkah and merely says "there is no reason for Christians to commemorate Hanukkah".

  Their reasoning is that the old Law no longer applies. Maybe they should remember that when they start using the Hebrew scriptures to create their own catalogue of laws. Anyway...

  There's no reason to have fish on a Friday, but it's not wrong to.

  There's no reason to do lots of things, but if you do do them they're not necessarily wrong.

  That WT article also quotes Paul as saying "let no man judge you in eating and drinking or in respect of a festival ", which is precisely what WT try to do.

  The bottom line is that WT would like to stop you from celebrating Hanukkah, and tries to word things in such a way as to make you think you shouldn't, but they are once again over stepping their authority and making rules they cannot justify.

  My recommendation is that if you see a JW on the street, at a cart or at your door, wish them Happy Hanukkah and see how they squirm!
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  Can JW's celebrate Hannukah?

  by Splash in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  what's the official teaching on celebrating this jewish festival?.

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  What's the official teaching on celebrating this Jewish festival?