You are right. Ones like my mother have latched onto the idea of eternal life in a paradise and no amount of scandal and evidence that JW are just another false religion, will shake her from her resolve to do exactly as they say in order to get there.
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God! No one really cares!!!!
by JaniceA inthere are exposes right and left.
australia, canada , uk, usa.
news reports, court cases.
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Special Talk
by EmptyInside inanyone listen to the "special" talk today?
i guess it was given by one of the governing body members and shown at all the halls.
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Wow! If I had gone and seen Terry O'Brien on the screen I would have had to leave. His outright lies and deception during the ARC can not be forgotten.
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A funny idea about dating in the paradise...
by JW_Rogue inhow in the hell would it ever work?
everyone is youthful, everyone is perfect, everyone's personality is loving and kind.
how would you choose somebody?
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HB the answer to your question would be Matthew 22:23-30
23 On that day the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came and asked him: 24 “Teacher, Moses said: ‘If any man dies without having children, his brother must marry his wife and raise up offspring for his brother.’ 25 Now there were seven brothers with us. The first married and died, and having no offspring, he left his wife for his brother. 26 The same thing happened with the second and the third, through all seven. 27 Last of all, the woman died. 28 So in the resurrection, of the seven, whose wife will she be? For they all had her as a wife.”29 In reply Jesus said to them: “You are mistaken, because you know neither the Scriptures nor the power of God; 30 for in the resurrection neither do men marry nor are women given in marriage, but they are as angels in heaven.
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After leaving the JWs - Has anyone stayed with Christianity?
by rulehayl ini recently made the decision to stop studying with my study conductor, due to a situation i found myself in that led to a high possibility of my unbaptized publisher "rights" being taken away from me.
i have since told my study conductor i have joined a new church (to which she dropped me like a hot rock, of course).... last time i posted on here, i was progressing nicely towards baptism, and was well into it.anyhoo, i like my new church, very hillsong-esqe.
so just wondering if anyone else has stayed the course of christianity after leaving the jws, and if so - where did you go?
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What is this "religion"?
by Kom 197 infor a long time, i was convinced jehovah witnesses were just people preaching the word of god in a different way than other christians.
i was shown the real truth over the past few months.
i've been friends with this guy for over 5 years.
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It is unfortunate that your heart is already taken by this man. Your path choices will hurt which ever way you choose to go.
If you had only just met him and came here for advice, I would say run run run. Plenty of fish in the sea and all that.
You are not a JW. The elders have no say over you or control of you.
You should continue to research this religion as much as you can. Share what you find with your boyfriend. It is NOT a harmless, loving religion. It IS a mind control cult.
He started this relationship with you in contravention of the rules of the cult. The burden is his not yours.
Make no mistake, if you want to continue to see him, you will be expected to convert.
Choose wisely.
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"DO NOT look here! Seriously...just dont!"
by stuckinarut2 inok, so you all looked here??.
this thread is prompted by losch's stupid 'decrees' in the march 2018 broadcast, where he denounced online information that may be 'negative' about the organization.. it strikes me that the gb are so dumb!
the moment someone says "dont look at something", human curiousity will make most people look.
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Unfortunately there are still those who will not look at anything other than the borg site for fear of Satan taking over their brains. -
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Now That JWs Are Encouraged To Use Ipads Is There Evidence of Getting in Trouble on the WWW?
by minimus ini’d imagine that if you have a ipad or ipad that some witnesses will get into trouble.. what say you?
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My mother just this week accused my sibling of feeding me "rubish" to stop me from attending meetings. Said he was killing me. He told her that he has not spoken to me at all and that the internet is full of information. She told him the internet is full of apostates. They are scared to look anywhere other than the borg site. Satan will take over their brains from one wrong click!
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Help Elders poking nose in
by Formerbrother inwhat can i do when elders want to poke their nose in?.
they want to have another chat with me and my wife, but we dont want to, it just gets us down..
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Get an answering machine and screen your calls. Just don't talk to them at all.
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How long is a generation?
by LevelThePlayingField inwhat splain does in his talk and chart illustration is make the leap that a generation can have two groups.
and in this case the two groups span more than 108 years.
but no where in scripture is there ever a notion that a generation has two groups.
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Generation definition is. "all of the people born and living at about the same time regarded collectively". Synonyms "age, age group, peer group, cohort, stage of life.
It is mind boggling that anyone at all actually buys the overlapping generation explanation. Further proof that they are not actually listening. They have latched onto the promise of eternal life with raised dead ones in a panda patting paradise and all the rest is not relevant to them.
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The increase in the Anointed Ones
by Sour Grapes into illustrate how the botchtower's groupies are losing brain cells...last year an elder told me some of the increase in the anointed is due to those who have been unfaithful and needed to be replaced.
when i was in first grade i knew that if i had 10 marbles and i lost one and a friend gave me a marble to replace the one i lost that i once again had 10 not 11 marbles.. jdubs are very good at not thinking..
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And the thing about the anointed is, even the GB knows that there are a lot of posers and liars out there, and even some people who genuinely believe they are anointed but are simply delusional. Why do you think the anointed are never given special treatment? Not because we're not supposed to "idolize" our fellow humans or give certain people preferential treatment.
Yes well the GB know all about the posers and liars because that is what THEY are. Yet they absolutely want to be given preferential treatment and love being idolized on their very own show.