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  Personal opinions spouted from the platform?

  by purrpurr in

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  2. experiences

  have you ever heard some brothers own ideas and opinions spouted from the platform?

  perhaps off brand or crazy ones?

  some that i've heard is:.

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  Fred Franztone

  I'm in favour of JWs staying away from pubs and bars, personally
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  Photo Drama of Creation

  by jaydee in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  g-day all,.... i've watched on youtube, 'warwick: a journey to my former faith'.

  and at 25.33 re the photo drama...it is mentioned that,.

  it was the first major screen play to incorporate film.....blah blah blah.... back in 1914, this effort must have been a great piece of propaganda ,.

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  Fred Franztone

  The WBTS love pointing to the PDC and boasting of its supposed innovations, but ironically they'd never allow the R&F to watch it, as it's brimming with old light, i.e. arrant nonsense, even by their standards
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  Medical Explination Found For "Demonic Posession"

  by pale.emperor in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  in 2007, doctors discovered an illness that is suspected of being an underlying cause of the historical accounts of demonic possession: anti-nmda receptor encephalitis.. it's caused by an attack on the immune system.

  symptoms include:.

  agitation, paranoia, psychosis, and violent behaviors, seizures and bizarre movements, mostly of the lips and mouth, but also including pedaling motions with the legs or hand movements resembling playing a piano.

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  Explanation*

  For some reason, engineers in particular seem to have a propensity to believe in crackpot notions, I'm not sure why this is
  
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  Wives With Unbelieving Mates

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i knew many witness wives with unbelieving mates who pretty much led a double life.

  “my husband says i have to go the workplace christmas party.” or my mate tells me i have to make a thanksgiving dinnner.

  or “ my mate insists i do things in the bedroom that i know the watchtower has talked against.

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  Fred Franztone

  The use of the term mate is creepy
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  WT studied by all congregations 4th Feb 2018.

  by skin in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  from the wt dated dec 2017 - study 1 para 11 studied by all congregations 4th feb 2018. the question asked on this paragraph is:.

  what did the physician luke report happened to a young man, and how did that affect others?”.

  paragraph 11 in this wt reads:.

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  Fred Franztone

  I like how they emphasise the fact that he was a physician (which in those days was little more than voodoo) so as to give his account more weight.

  Appeal to authority.
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  Have you ever gone back to a meeting out of curiosity?

  by stuckinarut2 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  just wondering if anyone has gone back to a meeting out of curiosity?

  (perhaps to an area far from your old khall where you know no one).

  with all the changes from 2012 onwards (videos, tv screens, new meeting format, new songs etc) it would be an odd experience to be in attendance!.

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  Fred Franztone

  I haven't been inside a kingdom hall since 2006 and I haven't missed it. But inevitably I'll have to enter one again some day either for a family wedding (not very likely, thankfully) or funeral. Although even JW funerals usually take place at cramtoriums actually, but it's still a JW talk. I can't think why else I'd ever be forced to return, I certainly.wouldn't go out of choice.
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  May I ask for help about Egyptian chronology and Neolithic settlements?

  by paradiseseeker in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  one of the first things that shook my faith as a teenager was learning about egypt and how its history goes back as far as 3500 bc, much earlier than the flood.

  also learning about the first settlements like çatalhöyük, which flourished around 7500 bc, much earlier than the creation of adam.

  the only answer i got from my mother was that this world is dominated by satan and thus we cannot trust in worldly chronologies.

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  I remember trying to work out the date of the flood using the bible stories book when I was about 7 or 8; we were studying ancient Egypt at school at the time. I was very confused because my date for the flood was around 2250BCE* but at school we'd learnt that the Egyptian civilisation began more than 5000 years ago, which contradicts the JW belief that the Egyptian civilisation descended from Ham, after the flood. Even the pyramids & sphinx at Giza pre-date the flood by a couple of centuries.

  I could never reconcile this in my head, and I never received a satisfactory answer about it from my parents, who from what I can tell simply ignore inconvenient facts like that, with surprising ease.

  *I know that the actual date that JWs use is around 2370BCE, but I had limited information available to me in the bible stories book, and this was before we had the internet. It's academic however since the Egyptian civilisation still pre-dates the flood by several centuries.
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  Attention!! There will be sex in heaven

  by James Mixon in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  well i thought i had heard it all but, the mercury columns "will christians enjoy sex in heaven" just hurt my brain.

  how can god allow sexual relations in heaven without marriage??

  in heaven there is no need for anyone to belong exclusively to another(wow!!!

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  The Mercury Collumns?
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  Creepy, creepy movie "Wanda Nevada"

  by James Mixon in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  wanda nevada (brooke shields) a 13 year old girl and a man 30 some years old (peter fonda) not only expressing their love for each other, but forming a relationship and end up running away together, yes a little creepy.

  couldn't sleep last night so around 4 o'clock it was on....the movie made in 1979 what the hell was hollywood thinking when making this movie, a love story romance/westerns......

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  Fred Franztone

  No, a 16 year old with a 30-something would not be sick, it's quite common, and it's just prissy to act all indignant about it. Where I live (and in the vast majority of countries) it's perfectly legal.
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  Do You Know Any “Gay” Jehovah’s Witnesses?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  of course the religion condemns homosexuality but did you know any gay witnesses?

  i knew some bethelites that were very effeminate and i remember 4 women who were suspected of being lesbians by many in the congregation.

  they eventually moved away and were very vocal against males, especially elders..

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  Fred Franztone

  Do you still believe the WTS is the FDS?