Is it really about skin colour? Or what's in your heart, what's in your head and how you act?

(Colossians 3:9-11) . . .Strip off the old personality with its practices, and clothe yourselves with the new [personality], which through accurate knowledge is being made new according to the image of the One who created it, where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, foreigner, Scythian, slave, freeman, but Christ is all things and in all.

(Luke 6:43-45) “For there is not a fine tree producing rotten fruit; again there is not a rotten tree producing fine fruit. For each tree is known by its own fruit. For example, people do not gather figs from thorns, nor do they cut grapes off a thornbush. A good man brings forth good out of the good treasure of his heart, but a wicked man brings forth what is wicked out of his wicked [treasure]; for out of the heart’s abundance his mouth speaks.

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J. W's Are Afraid of Old Literature

by IWant2Leave in

i'm reading babylon the great has fallen, god's kingdom rules, published 1963. this was studied years ago when i was about 10-12 years old.

i wanted to just read some of the beliefs from decades ago.

my wife wants to know why i'm reading this book.

Anna Marina

Watchtower time keeping - it's 3 o'clock so it must be Thursday. When it gets to 4 it's Friday. When it gets to 5 it's 8 o'clock and 8 o'clock'll be lasting 12 hours. And that'll be the new length of the midweek meeting.

Now we're going to sing our new Kingdom Song. Why not try to memorize the lyrics? Then when you are in prison you can find comfort by singing it to yourself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eps81-QV_e4

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J. W's Are Afraid of Old Literature

by IWant2Leave in

i'm reading babylon the great has fallen, god's kingdom rules, published 1963. this was studied years ago when i was about 10-12 years old.

i wanted to just read some of the beliefs from decades ago.

my wife wants to know why i'm reading this book.

Anna Marina

Yes and if you control the platform that that the information is disseminated from.

There's a game called Simple Simon Says - you have to do something if the words 'Simple Simon says' come before the command. If those words are not expressed you don't do the command.

Similarly if today the words on the Broadcast are this, you do this. If tomorrow the words are that, you do that.

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J. W's Are Afraid of Old Literature

by IWant2Leave in

i'm reading babylon the great has fallen, god's kingdom rules, published 1963. this was studied years ago when i was about 10-12 years old.

i wanted to just read some of the beliefs from decades ago.

my wife wants to know why i'm reading this book.

Anna Marina

How to totally annoy her - find old literature being used in current videos. See that'd evidently demonstrate they are apostate. Look at this video on the OFFICIAL site! It's title is:-

A Tool to Help Us Explain Our Beliefs About 1914

They are using the Is Satan Real Magazine from 2014! Old light. Oh how could they! :D

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Spiritual Paradise Watchtower Style

by Vanderhoven7 in

can you believe the presumption?.

https://youtu.be/1mamt-krcnc.

https://youtu.be/wjnk-mr_860.

Anna Marina

I'm not convinced they are simpletons. The organization is carrying out a massive con-trick - a media company aiming at taking over people's moral compasses.

If you are a con-man and get found out, a useful tool in your box is humour. "Oh it was only a joke." GB members laugh, can look a bit clownish. Then its easy for the audience to not expect perfection or blamelessness.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jh27CeneQ0c

GB don't compare well to Noah.

Gen 6:9 - This is the account of Noah and his family. Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time, and he walked faithfully with God.

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Bias in News

by Simon in

jw
friends

you can't escape bias in the news media, so making it visible is the next best thing.. just came across this site which aims to label the news stories to show who is covering it.

you can see how some stories are only covered by one side which shows either their bias, or the bias of the other side from not covering it.. well worth checking out:.

https://ground.news/.

Anna Marina

Also their is generational divide. In the 1960s, there was the idea that the young would move into the future and bring about a better world. There was an idea that a revoultion would come and then everyone would have a TV.

Now they think the young will move into the future and bring about a green world where everyone is on TV - sorry Zoom.

But maybe it'll come down to whose go the electricity to run the platform. Then the elements being intensely hot will melt or something - there'll be a hissing noise and people will be looking at a blank screen. Hope the blank screen wont be biased. But it might be - after all the victors can write the history on the blank screen.

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Bias in News

by Simon in

jw
friends

you can't escape bias in the news media, so making it visible is the next best thing.. just came across this site which aims to label the news stories to show who is covering it.

you can see how some stories are only covered by one side which shows either their bias, or the bias of the other side from not covering it.. well worth checking out:.

https://ground.news/.

Anna Marina

The BBC a culture that covered over Jimmy Savile - in the centre? Slightly misleading???? Er???? I want to know what it's the centre of.

JImmy Savile, this DJ/paedophile even managed to get used in public safety films!

Clunk Click Every Trip!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6iynaLC5sY

George Orwell (AKA Eric Arthur Blair) used the BBC as the basis for his Ministry of Truth in novel 1984.

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Looking for suggestions, I'm being called on by a JW

by Tameria2001 in

just before the pandemic affected my area, a couple of jws came to my door.

this was the first time i didn't tell them to hit the road but instead had a pleasant conversation with them.

i never revealed that i am a former jw, nor do i ever want the jws in my area to know that i was ever one.

Anna Marina

See if you can get her on why the GB have authority - see if you can get her onto the subject of 1914. Then ask her what date they start counting from to get to 1914.

The date is 607 BCE - just see if she knows what year of Nebuchadnezzar that was (she should say 19th). FYI Watchtower changes it to the 1st year of Nebuchadnezzar. They say his first year was 624 BCE and his 19th year/aka his 1st year was 607 BCE.

The reason I suggest this is because if you look on the official website and go to the 2 videos which purport to be an explanation of their twaddle, what you notice is they do not mention how they arrive at the start date. They waffle on about 1914 being the end of the 2520 years. But they don't explain what the starting point is. Maybe it'll start her questioning if the subject interests her.

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CO zoom visit this week part deux

by nowwhat? in

so within a week he changed the end time chain of events.

this time he said false religion will be along side with the govt.

powers when they declare peace and security!

Anna Marina

They have zero legitimate connection to the Scriptures. Old or New Testament.

Anna Marina

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