i'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.
why was is Islam, the fastest growing religion, missing from JW doctrine? - because some Muslims react extremely violently when their religion is disrespected. A glossy little brochure from the WTS arguing against Muhammad's teachings would certainly fall into this category.
Yeah, ask the guys at Charlie Hebdo in France. The WT did actually publish Two scathing articles about islam in 1950 and 1951 or was it 51 and 52??
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for giving another disfelowshipped person shelter because he was homeless.
so i told him he should thank wt for preparing him for social isolation by shunning you as evil as shunning is..
This is their true colors.
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i'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.
She was very mixed up no doubt. Only let her back in when she provides evidence of quiting islam.
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a vaccine is here!!!
the light at the end of the tunnel is visible!!!
so what happened to armageddon?.
Pistolpete -"A lot of my JW family are confused. Some of them have opened up after all these years and are telling me they don't understand what is happening. Some have told me that it makes no sense that Jehovah would stop the preaching work for an entire year. Why would he do that if we are living in the last days and lives are at stake"
I seem to remember back in the mid 80's to mid 90's when the "increase was on" there was no end of hearing scriptures like Isaiah 2:2 (KJV) And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD'S house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.
These days with all of the congregation amalgamations ("What a blessing from Jah") and hall sales, how can the regular Dubs not be confused?
The society is haemorrhaging credibility.
RB.
a doozy in today's study article brought me to post here for the first time in a while.
once again, watchtower leadership is doing its level best to make their adherents as fearful of inconvenient facts as they, themselves, are.. "like timothy, we must also discern the danger of false information spread by apostates.
(1 tim.
I like to distill it down to "real truth is never afraid of scrutiny".
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you cannot make this up: financial help and the hand of jehovah complete project.
january 2016 jw broadcasting..... video starts at 35:30. a local design construction department manager named travis brooks tells a story about a building project on the island of yap, micronesia.
a small kingdom hall needs to be expanded because the facility wasn't big enough for those in attendance.
Beach sand is full of salt, that will go well in concrete... not.
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russia's reason for banning jehovah's witnesses is said to be due to extremism.
but what exactly does that mean, or refer to?
specifically, what practice (or practices) of jehovah's witnesses does russia consider to be extreme?
Or was it because the Borg was really just a cover for a big money pump back to the USA?
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australian senator anna rushton has said that all orgs who "don't take reasonable steps to join the redress scheme" will be stripped of their charitable status come feburary 2021.. https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/k1pur7/the_jehovahs_witnesses_will_be_stripped_of_their/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share.
Anybody up for a zoom cork pop in Feburary 2021?
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2020--articles of association and bylaws--3 pages.. .
2020--notice of special meeting in december--8 pages.
if you are a jw read carefully before you sign.. .
Yes please!!!
RB
will it ever end??
will a vaccine end this pandemic?
will it suddenly dissipate if joe biden becomes president?
Could this video be "dissinformation" fielded by a foreign actor for the purpose of sowing discord and mistrust?
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