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  What Do You Think of The News Media?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i used to pretty much believe anything they would report.

  now, though, i find myself questioning “journalists “, with the realization that much of what is said may be inaccurate or slanted..

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  Fred Franztone

  Op-Ed pieces are what really bug me, especially those found in the Huffington Post, an online newspaper for crybabies
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  Please Switch Off Your Critical Thinking

  by pale.emperor in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i have an uneasy feeling inside that something is coming this year or the next.

  perhaps a new big announcement that turns jwdom on it's head.. we've seen the statement in the watchtower november 15th, 2013 which said:.

  watchtower november 15th, 2013 - page 20, paragraph 17.. .

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  Fred Franztone

  Whatever it is, it'll be about money, they've started to drop the pretence of it being about anything else. Remember though, there is always something coming with them, it's how they sustain themselves, through keeping the R&F in suspense
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  Why do (did) the majority of the general population see the JWS is a decisive fraud ?

  by Finkelstein in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the jws /ibsa have been going door to door now for over 100 years in many lands and countries, with numerous pieces of supporting literature counting in the millions.. you would think after all of the publicizing that the jws faith would have grown leaps and bounds but to date the jws has only 8 million following adherents.. other christian based faiths have grown vastly more but never publicly proselytized their faith to the extent the jws have... my basic concise guess is that they see this organization as a bit of commercialized fraud, orchestrated by a religious publishing house namely the watchtower corporation, trying to get people to purchase and read the wts's literature.. and yes the wts did place a set price on its literature including yearly subscriptions.

  was it just too obvious ?.

  did the wts not think that many people who they called on were from even bigger and older established christian faiths but didn't say or preach what the wts was preaching in their apparent version of the gospel ?.

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  Most people couldn't care less about the JWs. I've met hundreds of people in my life who haven't even heard of them, they aren't that well known anymore, assuming they ever were. They account for a mere 0.1% of the world's population, which is nothing, and most of their growth is in poverty-stricken places like Africa and the US
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  John the Baptist has no heavenly hope?

  by Ireneus in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  jws teach that john the baptist would not inherit kingdom of heaven.

  however, there are problems with this teaching.. john’s mother elizabeth was both barren and too old to conceive.

  (luke 1:7) birth of john was an act of “holy spirit.” (luke 1:15) then we find jesus saying: “among those born of women there has not risen anyone greater than john the baptist; yet whoever is least in the kingdom of heaven [“kingdom of god,” luke 7:28] is greater than he.” (mathew 11:11; luke 7:28).

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  Heaven doesn't exist
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  monthly broadcast "serving while raising a family"

  by road to nowhere in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  don't know if this a belief or scandal.

  did you get the guy who had raised his family while serving?

  it didn't say how he or his wife became witnesses, but;;;;;; he is a doctor, was invited to be a doc for the wt, sold out his home (at loss ((i bety)), moved, but you can be sure he didn't get a room at bethel.

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  Fred Franztone

  On the topic of adjectives, I remember an elder once proclaiming from the platform that an adjective is a doing word. In his case, some basic infant-level schooling might have been an idea, let alone higher education
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  hijabs

  by road to nowhere in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the news had macy's or some higher end store showing hijabs.

  i made the mistake of showing wife.

  her only comment was it was about time they made some modest clothing.

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  Sexy is a matter of taste
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  Personal opinions spouted from the platform?

  by purrpurr in

  1. jw
  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