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  Female Angels

  by peacefulpete in

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  2. beliefs

  for some reason i never noticed this before: .

  5 then the angel who talked with me came forward and said to me, “look up and see what this is that is coming out.” 6 i said, “what is it?” he said, “this is a basket[b] coming out.” and he said, “this is their iniquity[c] in all the land.” 7 then a leaden cover was lifted, and there was a woman sitting in the basket!

  [d] 8 and he said, “this is wickedness.” so he thrust her back into the basket,[e] and pressed the leaden weight down on its mouth.

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  FFGhost

  That is interesting, I never caught that either.

  The WTS skirts (sorry) the issue of “female angels” in their “literature” by claiming this was a vision of “symbolic women”, despite the author’s pretty clear intention to portray them as angels.
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  What does God eat ?

  by stan livedeath in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  beans ?

  ( human beans ).

  to those of you that believe in god: do you all believe the same thing ?.

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  FFGhost

  I would have said “soul food” but what do I know?
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  How Do Jehovah's Witnesses View Education?

  by southyukon in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i have a question about this article.. https://www.jw.org/en/jehovahs-witnesses/faq/jw-education-school/.

  higher education can lead to moral and spiritual dangers.

  a bible proverb says: "the shrewd one sees the danger and conceals himself.

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  FFGhost

  You may not be so familiar with JWs and thus not able to correctly interpret the coded messages in your snippet.

  Here Is what they mean:

  Jehovah's Witnesses feel that the environment in some universities or similar centers of higher learning can pose moral and spiritual dangers

  Translation:

  ”Hey JW parents! If you give permission to your kids to attend a university, there is a 100% chance they will immediately become drug-addled drunken fornicators engaging in orgies between sessions of mainlining black tar heroin.”

  many Witnesses choose not to immerse themselves or their children in such an environment.

  Translation: “If you allow your offspring to attend a university, you will be ostracized completely by our community. You will lose any and all ‘privileges’ we may have granted you. No one will include you in any social events, and you will be a virtual outcast.

  Oh but hey, it’s ‘your choice’ on whether you want to go or not.”

  Ok yeah the above is a bit hyperbolic, but there is a frighteningly high percentage of JWs who would read the article that way, and an even more frighteningly high percentage of Bethel heavies, primarily in the Service Department, who would love to be able to print something closer to my words than theirs.

  The real reason they hate &fear higher education is that it teaches young folks how to think for themselves, examine ideas critically, and to see firsthand that “worldly” (non JW) kids are perfectly sane and rational and normal and the vast majority are not drug-addled drunken orgy-attenders as the WT paints them to be.
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  The FDS Photoshop

  by Vanderhoven7 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  for those interested in the latest version of the faithful slave.

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  from the february 2024 watchtower .

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  FFGhost

  It’s on page 130 of the printed version.

  They swapped it out with an image of silhouettes sitting around a table in the online version you get on the JW library app.
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  The FDS Photoshop

  by Vanderhoven7 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  for those interested in the latest version of the faithful slave.

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  from the february 2024 watchtower .

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  FFGhost

  Heck some may be dead by now and we’re just watching AI of them now. Sure that sounds far fetched but at this point nothing would surprise me.

  Of course this is preposterous.

  On the other hand….

  Have you noticed that all, every one, of the talks given by Losch & Herd over the past couple of years - every Gilead graduation, every annual meeting, 3 times a year - have been pre-recorded in front of a green screen? And every talk is word for word read from a teleprompter? Every time they read a scripture, they cut away and show the text of the verse on the screen, presumably so you don’t notice them not looking down at their Bible.

  I guess, maybe, since they are the oldest guys, maybe they get too nervous to do it live anymore, or they’re too afraid they’ll keel over dead in front of the live audience, but still….

  It’s just weird.
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  February 2024 Study Watchtower -

  by BoogerMan in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  february 2024 study watchtower p. 2 par.

  2 - "however, a question may arise: 🤣 what will happen to christ’s “other sheep” who will be serving jehovah faithfully on earth during the “great tribulation”?

  (john 10:16; matt.

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  FFGhost

  Lol.

  Clue #8,483 for the governing bumbleheads:

  If you have to write an article telling everyone “we ourselves are so beloved”….maybe you ain’t quite so beloved.

  Idiots.
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  The FDS Photoshop

  by Vanderhoven7 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  for those interested in the latest version of the faithful slave.

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  from the february 2024 watchtower .

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  FFGhost

  LOL.

  That’s all over Reddit now.

  The funny part is, the original photo comes from the “God’s Kingdom Rules” book, published in 2014. The original had Guy Pierce in the middle and Morris on the right.

  They just keep photoshopping that same photo over and over. Later they published it after they took out Pierce when he died. Later in another publication there was the same photo with Cook plunked in.

  Now they publish yet again the same photo but with Morris pulled out and Fleegle & Winder smushed in.

  It really says something when the GB can’t even be arsed enough to take a new picture together, but instead they keep photoshopping the same pic over & over & over again.

  I’m not sure what it says, but it sure says it!
  
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  Just had a thought…

  by Vidiot in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i been reading quite a few experiences on reddit lately, and their seems to be a common theme coming up….

  …dialed-up-to-eleven shunning of xjws by their witness relatives.. it reminds me of back in the day, listening to some of the over-the-top vitriol displayed by hard-core loyalists when the topic of evolution or apostates came up….

  …i was gobsmacked when i finally realized these guys weren’t offended and indignant because they thought it was lies….

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  FFGhost

  I think you nailed it.

  Some of the most hysterically vicious comments I’ve ever heard were JWs ranting, sometimes at a meeting, sometimes in a private setting, about either gays or evolution.

  It’s interesting, I never heard such utter vile disgust directed toward, say, murderers or drug dealers or child pornographers, etc. Just solely directed toward, as you noted, persons or concepts that very likely, on some level, they hoped were wrong but maybe weren’t.
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  Six minute video of WTBT$ begging for money, now on JWBorg website

  by EasyPrompt in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  six minute video of wtbt$ begging for money, now on jwborg website.

  https://www.jw.org/en/library/videos/#en/mediaitems/accomplishministry/pub-mwbv_202311_1_video.

  "thank you for 'setting something aside'" robert butler.

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  FFGhost

  Yeah, used to be, when they still printed Watchtowers 24 times a year, every October there was an article with “loving reminders” on how you could donate lots of your $$$$$$ to the WT.

  They’d remind how faithful and loyal you would be to donate your stocks, bonds, jewelry, real estate, etc. over to them, and how you could set up a trust to benefit them, or give them your entire estate upon your demise in your will, etc.

  It was like clockwork for decades - “October? Time to insert the give-us-money article”.

  Now of course most of the content of the Watchtower is filled up with study articles so there isn’t room for a printed give-us-your-money article, so instead they did this video.

  They always did it in October, I figured, as a reminder to the handful of wealthy American JWs to send in their money, while there was still time for it to count as a tax deduction (to “charity”) before the end of the year.

  Same old, same old, the usual message in a new format.
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  Steve Lett doesn’t look well

  by Teddnzo in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  as soon as you see steve letts talk at the agm you think to yourself “oh my, what’s happened to him?.

  his hand has plasters and his skin doesn’t look healthy, like he has inflammation or something serious going on.. he had put on weight and is all bloated and puffy .

  his skin really doesn’t look good, the kind of inflammation many people notice after the experimental covid vaccines.. there have been very high numbers of people reported inflammation after the experimental covid vaccines.

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  FFGhost

  Let has had the “puffy” look of someone who has been on prescribed steroids (for example Prednisone) for many years. It’s frequently used to treat arthritis.

  His fingers, when not encased in bandages, have the look of bratwursts. I suspect he has major issues with arthritis in his hands.

  Pretty much all of the old guys (Herd, Lett, Jackson, Splane) are looking noticeably more haggard these days.