Fred Franztone

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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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  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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  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

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  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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  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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  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.