Please take into account that Watchtower does not take 12 months (365 days) to be one year. Twelve months is at least 8 years, sometimes. Ok.
Anna Marina
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Time, times and half a time - nerd time
by Anony Mous inso, the famous 607 calculation to 1914 involves the above prophecy.
the common explanation is that time is one unit, times is an unsubstantiated number of units.. to prove you can make it say any date, we must write it as a formula:.
date = t + nt + 0.5t where n >= 2. so simplified:.
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Return From ISIS
by frozen2018 ini'm watching pbs's frontline.
the story, "return from isis," is about an american woman who went to syria with her husband who was a isis soldier.
now she wants to return to the states.
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Anna Marina
WT's false doctrines can be traced back to Theo Sufism. A woman called Blavatsky was leader of this movement for a time. Is it just a coincidence that she wrote a book called Isis Unveiled? I don't know.
Here is some info about the book
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My new definition of cult.
by Yomama inforcing someone to believe something that is untrure and shunning them if they do not believe it.
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Anna Marina
So what is a 'deity'?
A football club? A religion that says there is no God? A religion that says you are God?
If a religion is disorganized is that ok? But if you are your own God and you are disorganized... how do you do your weekly shop?
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My new definition of cult.
by Yomama inforcing someone to believe something that is untrure and shunning them if they do not believe it.
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Anna Marina
Pistolpete said
NO ONE WOULD JOIN IF JWs WERE HONEST FROM THE BEGINNING
But the problem is that some know it is a lie and others are fooled. I know people who have brought people in who did not realise it was a con. Then, even the person they brought in, throws them out.
So if an innocent person is conning you it points to the fact that understanding is the issue. Watchtower clouds understanding.
A person taking the study MAY NOT UNDERSTAND IT IS A CON. The person who is having the Bible study cannot imagine it is a con.
When a person joins they think they are being helped to understand the Bible not abdicate their powers of reason to a group of people who will exploit them.
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The Mysterious Missing Islam.....
by snare&racket ini've discussed this before but not in this context alone.. i remember being about 14 years old, 1994 and starting a study in the uk with a charming muslim from the congo.
he was a very pleasant middle aged guy with a big family, two wives, always the most hospitable.
at the time the watchtower had a book on many religions, a thick red book called 'mankind's search for god' so i would read and discuss the section on islam with him.. interestingly, but not surprising, many details they had were wrong about islam and he would explain how and correct me.
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Anna Marina
Change time, times and half a time from 3.5 to 7.5 and divide 1260 by 7.5 = 1176 and then do a day for a year and you can get from 607 BCE to 570 AD - the birth of the Mohammed.
Replace Bible with a couple of magazines and don't let anyone keep back copies of the mags. In time replace mags with broadcast called Koran-t-truth. Don't let anyone watch old broadcasts.
Tell everyone God's a bit of a footballer - he has goals but no plans. Sometimes he has to change his entire strategy to accomodate unforesee emergencies.
Tell publishers they are all of the Aladdin Class - getting new light for old.
Job done.
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My new definition of cult.
by Yomama inforcing someone to believe something that is untrure and shunning them if they do not believe it.
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Anna Marina
Constantly changing teachings - issues that are difficult to grasp and deliberately made even more difficult to produce mental fog. That is what comes from the top. A fog to prevent understanding, a fog to prevent getting accurate knowledge.
Within the uncertainty of that fog a forceful attempt is made to get individuals to abandon their own powers of reason and defer to 'big brother' who 'knows better', owns the platform and will speak for everyone and many not be contradicted.
The Greek term for Jesus' disciples was the 'mathete' - it means one who is able to get accurate knowledge.
Jesus is the way, the truth and the life. His disciples were able to get accurate knowledge. They were able to get understanding.
The the prevention of an individual's understanding is what cults do.
(John 8:31-32) . . .And so Jesus went on to say to the Jews that had believed him: “If you remain in my word, you are really my disciples, 32 and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.. . .
Also they remove freedom of Christian speech.
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Anybody Here That Still Wouldn’t Take or Give Blood?
by minimus ini would think that the first thing to go for ex jws is the blood ban.
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would you take a transfusion or give blood now!.
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Anna Marina
Is that before or after the bottle of Glenfidich?
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The Mysterious Missing Islam.....
by snare&racket ini've discussed this before but not in this context alone.. i remember being about 14 years old, 1994 and starting a study in the uk with a charming muslim from the congo.
he was a very pleasant middle aged guy with a big family, two wives, always the most hospitable.
at the time the watchtower had a book on many religions, a thick red book called 'mankind's search for god' so i would read and discuss the section on islam with him.. interestingly, but not surprising, many details they had were wrong about islam and he would explain how and correct me.
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Anna Marina
All WT false teachings are from Theo Sufism. Sufism is a form of Islam.
Note the role of the Governing Body is very similar to that of Mohammed. Do what the Governing Body says, not what Jesus Christ the first born only begotten Son of God says.
Oh and you can trash Jesus Christ but don't you dare say one word against the Governing Body.
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Anybody Here That Still Wouldn’t Take or Give Blood?
by minimus ini would think that the first thing to go for ex jws is the blood ban.
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would you take a transfusion or give blood now!.
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Anna Marina
Non blood medical management is the safest (and cheapest) - it was one of those things they were actually right about.
But in those distressing situations where medical knowledge is lacking and the condition of the patient is life threatening, the important thing is to save the person's life. God is kind, loving, understanding and merciful and He has pity. He does not want anyone to die.
(Matthew 12:1-8) . . .At that season Jesus went through the grainfields on the sabbath. His disciples got hungry and started to pluck heads of grain and to eat. 2 At seeing this the Pharisees said to him: “Look! Your disciples are doing what it is not lawful to do on the sabbath.” 3 He said to them: “Have you not read what David did when he and the men with him got hungry? 4 How he entered into the house of God and they ate the loaves of presentation, something that it was not lawful for him to eat, nor for those with him, but for the priests only? 5 Or, have you not read in the Law that on the sabbaths the priests in the temple treat the sabbath as not sacred and continue guiltless? 6 But I tell you that something greater than the temple is here. 7 However, if YOU had understood what this means, ‘I want mercy, and not sacrifice,’ you would not have condemned the guiltless ones. 8 For Lord of the sabbath is what the Son of man is.”
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Nurses are unwilling to take the COVID-19 Vaccine
by adjusted knowledge ini work at two separate hospitals and most of the rns i work with have stated they won't take the vaccine.
i've read a report that 1/3 of rns will refuse the vaccine.
for those in other countries do you see this being an issue or is it more an american phenomenon?.
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Anna Marina
And what's happening with young children and pregnant women? Are they getting it? Is it safe for them?