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  Accepting Responsibility Is Something Many People Won’t Do

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  poor jussie.

  it’s really not his fault.

  poor politicians, they were simply misquoted.

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  john.prestor

  Oh for Christ sake who's whining now? Talk about a victim mentality.
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  Awake No. 2 2019 - Way To Destroy Your Childrens Hopes And Dreams Watchtower!

  by pale.emperor in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  not that i spend much time on the cult's website, but i like to skim through their latest propaganda to make sure i'm up to date with their nuttiness.

  (and when i say skim, i mean just that.

  the wafer thin, dumbed down content can be read in like 2 mins flat).. i just had to share my thoughts on the above piece of trash.. no.

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  john.prestor

  It's their wording that creeps me out more than anything. 'A privilege to serve others,' really, how and why? Limit your kids access to social networking also comes across as isolationist because it's coming from them and they don't want kids talking to non-Witnesses.
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  shunning of those who have "left da troof"

  by resolute Bandicoot in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  hi friends, .

  can somebody please help me locate a recent thread that dealt with shunning of family members and the policy double standard, e.g.

  jw.borg explanation that the family relationship is unchanged and the recent daily text that suggested that we should shun them.. tried searching but could not find it.. thanks rb.

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  john.prestor

  Ding, that isn't true. If they actually said that it would be everywhere.
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  shunning of those who have "left da troof"

  by resolute Bandicoot in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  hi friends, .

  can somebody please help me locate a recent thread that dealt with shunning of family members and the policy double standard, e.g.

  jw.borg explanation that the family relationship is unchanged and the recent daily text that suggested that we should shun them.. tried searching but could not find it.. thanks rb.

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  john.prestor

  Amiable atheist, I remember seeing that clip. That man is a liar and knows he's lying, he should be ashamed that he got up in front of the court and tried to deceive them, what a bold witness he gave. What difference does it make if someone can 'come into the congregation and sit wherever they like,' how does that relate to shunning.
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  Jesse Smollett

  by Bill Covert in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  in the news northwestern memorial hospital [where jesse smollett was taken after attack], evidently fired 6 nurses for accessing jesse's file.

  i did a topic [i was unable to locate in order to bump up] on the sept.1 1987 wt.

  article "a time to speak when?

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  john.prestor

  What are you talking about? Give us a little more background.
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  Russia Confiscates $30.4 Million Property From Jehovah's Witnesses

  by Room 215 in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  https://www.worldreligionnews.com/religion-news/russia-confiscates-30-4-million-property-jehovahs-witnesses.

  it would appear that with this most recent confiscation the total taken from the jws by moscow amounts to more that $75 million.

  (ouch!

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  john.prestor

  Yeah, I'm with Corney on this one, just because Jehovah's Witnesses piss off the government doesn't mean they get to steal their stuff.
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  “Millions now living will never die”

  by HappyBlessedFree in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  so i’m just reading the part in ray franz book “crisis of conscience” about the 1925 prediction of “millions now living will never die”.. ofcourse all witnesses are very familiar with this campaign.

  yet none of us ever had an issue with it, including myself.

  since the booklet was published in 1920, we are one year away from 100 years from that time.

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  john.prestor

  Ding, sounds like it's just an excuse for them, an easy way to wish something away, to pretend it out of existence.
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  Giving fake address to elder

  by Addison0998 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so i got married a few weeks ago, living a great life now with my husband, he was definitely the perfect guy for me :) but anyways, we are going to work on slowly fading, going to meetings once a week or every two weeks, and then in a few months move to a hall where nobody knows our families and the elders hardly know each other, and fade out a lot more.

  but an elder asked for our address, which we didn’t feel comfortable giving him, because we don’t want any unexpected visits to “shepard” us, when we miss a few meetings, because they already text us when we miss 2 meetings in a row, which we had just gotten back from our honeymoon 🙄 so we “accidentally” gave him the wrong apartment number.

  so if they ever come pokin around they will be lost, and if they call or text us we will just have an excuse for not replying.

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  john.prestor

  To be fair it would be nice if the Elders admitted they keep tabs on people unless, correct me if I'm wrong, pretending this is about locating someone in the event of a disaster or the Great Tribulation. Like I get if you live on the coast of some tsunami-prone island but in rural America or some European city like what kind of disaster do you guys expect?
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  “Millions now living will never die”

  by HappyBlessedFree in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  so i’m just reading the part in ray franz book “crisis of conscience” about the 1925 prediction of “millions now living will never die”.. ofcourse all witnesses are very familiar with this campaign.

  yet none of us ever had an issue with it, including myself.

  since the booklet was published in 1920, we are one year away from 100 years from that time.

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  john.prestor

  Carla, that's hysterical, I mean damn apostates are just utterly committed to this whole 'lead them astray' thing, they even forge old books. Liike what is this, how naive do you have to be to believe something like that, like apostates just lurk backstage fabricating documents or something? Either the person really wants to believe that or the person is stupid, there's no nice way to say it.
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  Meaning of Luke 9:49,50

  by truthlover123 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  these two verses indicate that "others" were preaching in jesus' name and when the apostles reported it to him, he said "let him alone for he who is with us is not against us".... since the wtbts states they are the only way to salvation, what does this scripture mean?

  others have the right to salvation as well - straight from jesus' mouth- as long as they preach ( in the verse it says expel demons as well) using jesus name?

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  john.prestor

  Mithraism and Ophism weren't 'Christ cults,' just wanna clarify that.