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  False memorial partakers deserve to die???

  by Jofi_Wofo in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  every memorial, much emphasis is placed on making sure that only the (self-proclaimed) anointed partake in the emblems.

  this year, however, the speaker at my wife's congregation presented it as an even more serious matter.

  he likened it to individuals in ancient israel who sought position of the priesthood despite never been appointed by jehovah.

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  Challenging the teacher.

  by Jofi_Wofo in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  imagine the case where a student disagrees with his teacher's method, and believes that he knows a better way.

  the teacher realizes that if he kicks the student out of the classroom, the other students may begin to wonder if the teacher was hiding something.

  to settle the matter once and for all, the teacher gives the student a chance to prove himself.. wisely, the teacher takes a moment to lay down the parameters for the challenge.

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  Fear > Facts (WT Study Article 12/6/2020

  by Jofi_Wofo in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  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.

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  That escalated quickly... (Quote from today's Zoom public talk)

  by Jofi_Wofo in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the speaker at my wife's meeting: "a discouraging word can lead to inactivity, apostasy and death.".

  i mean, what the...??????

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  The rapture isn't what it is.

  by Jofi_Wofo in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i mentioned in my other thread that my mind wandered during the zoom meeting today.

  this was my second observation.

  note this exerpt on the rapture, from the july 15, 2015 wt and let's see what's wrong with it:.

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  Observations loosely based on this week's WT.

  by Jofi_Wofo in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i struggled mightily to stay awake for today's zoom meeting.

  at least we have it on saturday morning, so i don't have to dread it for the rest of my lovely weekend.. i suppose you could summarize today's lesson as such- "the annointed are annointed because they say they are annointed, and the annointed are special because god says they are special, and we know that god says what we say god says because we say god says that what we say god says is what god says.".

  lord helmet: everybody got that?!.

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  Publication 'Simple Swaps'

  by Jofi_Wofo in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  there are a number of wtb&ts publications that are quite useful in doing research, but would be significantly better if they weren't theologically and self-servingly biased.

  i'd like to find more reliable substitutions, especially from scholarly/secular sources, to help me, and others, get a look at the bible from a fresh perspective.

  here's a short list of "cool" books i'd like for which id like to find corresponding replacements.. new world translation of the holy scriptures w/references = ?

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  Special meeting next month (February 2020)

  by Jofi_Wofo in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  it was announced today that we will have a special weekend meeting next month.

  it will be 3 hours long and will include some streamed content.. no explanation was given as to what the meeting will be about, only that it will be exciting and we will not want to miss it..

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  Interesting WT Deluge Contradiction I just noticed.

  by Jofi_Wofo in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i was reviewing some of the evidence the wt proposes for their claim of the bible's scientific accuracy, when i came across this interesting assertion.. the mountains rise and fall, and today’s mountains were once under the ocean.

  (psalm 104:​6, 8) in contrast, several myths say that the mountains were created in their current form by the gods.. https://www.jw.org/en/bible-teachings/questions/science-and-the-bible/.

  interesting.

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  Just one foot in...

  by Jofi_Wofo in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  ...with one foot out.. *deep breath*.

  from day one, i've felt like i was one foot out of this religion, but it took me until over a decade to reach the point where i am ready to move on.

  i'm a newly registered user to this site.

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