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  The Last Cup [please add an ending]

  by compound complex in

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  2. friends

  good morning, fellow posters and friends:.

  please use your imagination to complete this little tale.

  several endings came to me while drinking my morning cup of coffee on the patio.. thanks.. cc.

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  Splash

  You, dear reader, may wonder why . . .

  ... I called my lifelong confidante and friend and asked her to bring her video camera over. After all, what could be better than two girls and one cup...
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  Theocratic Warfare - Is it in writing?

  by cappytan in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i'm just wondering if the theocratic warfare doctrine is anywhere in writing or if it's a word-of-mouth kind of thing where it's mentioned at elder's school, but not put in writing.. anyone?.

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  Watchtower June 1, 1960, pages 351-352
  "We must tell the truth to one who is entitled to know, but if one is not so entitled we may be evasive."

  Insight On The Scriptures, Volume 2, 1988 pages 244-245.
  "While malicious lying is definitely condemned in the Bible, this does not mean that a person is under obligation to divulge truthful information to people who are not entitled to it"

  w07 2/1 p. 6 Why Be Truthful?
  So while Jesus did not utter an untruth, he gave them an incomplete answer in order to limit the possible harm they could do to him or to his followers.

  But then they speak out of the other side of their mouth:

  w11 12/15 p.8-9
  Will we let Solomon's course be a warning example for us? With similar rationalizing, one might share in extracurricular sports or clubs at school, underreport taxable income, or tell untruths when asked to reveal actions that could be embarrassing.
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  The Jehovah's Witnesses a Pretentious Commercialized False Prophet, Yes or No ?

  by Finkelstein in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  doing some reflective research onto the jws and even further back to the ibsa, there is a lot of obtainable information about these organizations and the people who headed up these adjoined organizations.

  i myself found many bits of information that were left blank, missing pieces that i may have assumed on speculation but upon reviewing those bits of information actually reconfirmed of what i had originally thought.

  most of that involves the pressing agenda of the wts to proliferate its publications by using dubiously concocted but nevertheless alluring doctrines to promote literature which the organization and its head editorial writers devised on their own.

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  *** w00 10/1 p. 10 par. 9 Bible Reading—Profitable and Pleasurable ***
  "Wise King Solomon wrote: “Take a warning: To the making of many books there is no end, and much devotion to them is wearisome to the flesh.” (Ecclesiastes 12:12) One might add that the reading of many books published today is not only wearisome to the flesh but, frankly, dangerous to the mind."
  
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  Tony's life story

  by life is to short in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so i finally read tony's life story and this one point really hit me where he was talking about his son's.

  on page 7 he say's "because they made the truth their own, they make susan and me look good.

  so those who children leave the "truth" look bad?.

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  Didn't some of Gods' children leave the 'truth'?
  About one third of them if I recall correctly.

  What is AM3 saying about God then?
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  'Tracing All Things With Accuracy' - How the Watchtower Society's Writing Department never makes a mistake

  by jwleaks in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  from the 2011 yearbook of jehovah's witnesses.. source: 'tracing all things with accuracy'.

  tracing all things with accuracy.

  jesus said that the faithful slave would be discreet in giving the domestics their food at the proper time.

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  YB2011 "Additionally, our researchers make use of nearby public and academic libraries."
  

  Not after they've moved they won't.

  How about the quotations from spiritualist Johannes Greber?
  The 1955 and 1956 WT quotes him as saying he communicates with spirits, but then from 1962 until 1976 repeatedly quote from his books where he corroborates with WT interpretation.

  It's not until 1983 they they again 'remember' he is a spiritualist and stop printing his demonised thoughts in the WT.
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  Theocratic Warfare - Is it in writing?

  by cappytan in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i'm just wondering if the theocratic warfare doctrine is anywhere in writing or if it's a word-of-mouth kind of thing where it's mentioned at elder's school, but not put in writing.. anyone?.

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  *** it-2 p. 245 Lie ***
  "While malicious lying is definitely condemned in the Bible, this does not mean that a person is under obligation to divulge truthful information to people who are not entitled to it... Evidently the course of Abraham, Isaac, Rahab, and Elisha in misdirecting or in withholding full facts from nonworshipers of Jehovah must be viewed in the same light."

  
  There should be a difference between the way God does things and the way Satan does things, but being deceitful and misleading is a trait of Satan:
  *** w00 1/1 p. 6 par. 3 Serving With the Watchman ***
  "Over the millenniums the great Adversary, Satan the Devil, has wickedly sought to discredit the testimony of God’s witnesses. As “the father of the lie,” this “great dragon . . . , the original serpent,” has been “misleading the entire inhabited earth.” He has been relentless in his warfare..."

  So next time a JW tries to justify WT lies as "theocratic warfare", reply "Oh yes, just the same as Satan does."
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  Theocratic Warfare - Is it in writing?

  by cappytan in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i'm just wondering if the theocratic warfare doctrine is anywhere in writing or if it's a word-of-mouth kind of thing where it's mentioned at elder's school, but not put in writing.. anyone?.

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  A poster called unclebruce posts some good info at the bottom of this page in an old thread http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/114754/theocratic-warfare-apostate-strategy
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  Leaked New Songs 139-142

  by toweragent in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  http://jwtalk.net/forums/files/download/498-songs-140-142/.

  i don't know if anybody has seen this (or if anybody cares).

  but it seems that some of the "new" new songs have been leaked by somebody at bethel.. just a bit of a warning, do not click on that vocal rendition of song 142... it is awful.

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  Number 1 in your list has been released (song 120), so I can't wait for the rest!
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  15 Years of Jehovahs-Witness.com

  by Simon in

  1. forum
  2. announcements

  yes, today is the forum's 15th birthday!.

  i never thought for one moment that it would survive this long or have so many people post so many great subjects over the years.. it is still humbling when i get pm's or emails from people expressing how the site has helped them and of course thanks goes to all the posters who have shared their experiences and make helpful and supportive comments to others who are in the sometimes difficult process of learning the real truth about 'the truth'.. the site has gone through several different incarnations over the last 15 years running on different platforms, different databases and different hosts but we've been able to keep all the old topics.

  the current site is still being developed and i'm hoping to push another major upgrade soon.. i also may have some other news to share soon about the future of the site so stay posted.. until then, here's the the next 15 years!

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  It's frightening how quickly the time goes!!!!
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  JW.org Email Service - Now I've Seen EVERYTHING!!!

  by jw07 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  maybe i'm late but i just discovered that elders now have an email service run on the jw.org domain name.. those emails might contain a treasure trove of very sensitive material regarding rape, molestation, pedophilia cases etc.. the cult keeps getting creepier and creepier.

  why would they do that in this day and age, lots of damning stuff in one place?.

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  Splash

  Cheers Caminante