I had that comment thrown at me once a long time ago, 'you made the choice to be disfellowshiped', I replied, 'And you made the choice to stay ' ie go along with it and disown your own child.
KerryKing
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What is Your Favorite WT Lie?
by Sea Breeze ini would like to start a thread on lies that the watchtower and their reps have told.
surely we all have one or two that truly sticks out in our memories, no matter how much we would like to forget.
my favorite wt lie: the reason they don't want to release the name of the "scholars" who worked on the new world translation is because they do not want to accept "glory and honor" from others.
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The unending and fruitless argument on Trinity
by Longlivetherenegades inthose who say they are christians or follow christianity needs .
1. father .
2. jesus .
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KerryKing
Doctrines taught by men rely on the interpretation of translations of copies of copies from ancient languages no longer spoken.
Even if you believed that all the copyists and translators were also under the guidance of holy spirit so the scriptures have been passed down as pure as the day they were written by inspired authors.....I still haven't found one single verse that states that we need to read and teach the written Bible in order to be saved.
There are verses where Jesus is quoted as saying that his followers will worship in spirit and truth. His disciples were commanded to teach all the things they had learnt from Jesus. Word of mouth.
The Bible as we know it, the NT, is never mentioned in any prophecy as being the guide of future Jesus followers. Jesus did not even command his disciples or apostles to write down his teachings. If our salvation depended on all that knowledge surely it would say that somewhere in that book of books???
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The unending and fruitless argument on Trinity
by Longlivetherenegades inthose who say they are christians or follow christianity needs .
1. father .
2. jesus .
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KerryKing
I don't even see why it's so important to believe in a trinity or not to believe.
The Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit are all spirits, literally air, wind, breath.
We can't see it, even though it's all around us, to me it's like arguing whether the wind is square, round, oval etc.
Humans try way too hard to visualise everything, but we can't, many times we just need to accept that not everything is seeable, it's not matter. Our brains seem to struggle with that.
Spirits are all around us, they can shape shift, enter and leave physical bodies, (human, snake, donkey, pig), walk through walls and doors, move physical objects in their spirit state etc etc.
I think they could probably do the same with each other whenever they choose to, and undo it when needed.
I doubt very much that anyone's salvation depends on whether you believe in a trinity or not.
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What is Your Favorite WT Lie?
by Sea Breeze ini would like to start a thread on lies that the watchtower and their reps have told.
surely we all have one or two that truly sticks out in our memories, no matter how much we would like to forget.
my favorite wt lie: the reason they don't want to release the name of the "scholars" who worked on the new world translation is because they do not want to accept "glory and honor" from others.
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KerryKing
That they were only a UN NGO for almost 10 years so that they could use the library......
While their brothers in Malawi were tortured and killed for not buying a party card as per WT instructions.
Yet their brothers in Mexico were allowed by WT to bribe officials in order to get out of military draft.
This particular heinous hypocrisy which directly led to mass torture and murder of their own brothers and sisters and children really affects me, I remember my mother writing one of those "please stop" letters to the president of Malawi, as recommend by WT, I was a child then.
The WT is a sick, evil and destructive corporation, just like a beast.
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WATCHTOWER JAN 2025: WHY IS THE WATCHTOWER OBSESSED WITH THE RANSOM?
by raymond frantz inhttps://youtu.be/ocufvpm3t04?si=75zmussxknhlsrs7.
the first watchtower for 2025 is out, and immediately, articles 4 and 5 drew my attention.
these will be studied near the memorial season, a time the witnesses prepare for their yearly commemoration of jesus’ death, i will be returning on this articles near at the time.
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KerryKing
I did a little lazy research and it seems that the word sin as we know it has only been used for about a 1000 years, so what was it before that?
Language evolves and meanings change, this simple fact is quite difficult to comprehend for someone who speaks only his mother tongue. But when people base religious doctrines, and thereby use it to control, enslave and punish others, on the understanding of a meaning of a word, it becomes very very important to learn about the origin of the words, original versus modern meanings, you have to go back to the root.
And even then, by focusing on individual words, we lose sight of the big picture.
The Nag Hammadi library is a great source for looking at everything in the Bible from a different but not contradictory angle. See things from a non Pauline perspective for a change.
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Will flu jabs STOP you from being infected & passing it on?
by BoogerMan inaccording to boots the chemist, their £20 flu jab (free for over 65's) will stop infection and transmission!
"whilst no vaccine is 100% effective, having a flu jab will help protect you from catching flu and passing it on to others.
https://www.boots.com/online/pharmacy-services/winter-flu-jab-services?srsltid=afmboorkiz37qybkdbbyfij7_ii1zytwkffhgagpllu7jxzg_maqdbqd.
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KerryKing
The NHS defense of vaccines sounds much like the WT explaining it's doctrines, maybe, likely, might.....😅
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Why didn't Watchtower go online with covid?
by Hellothere ini wasn't surprised they didn't go online, i was shocked.
the perfect opportunity handed in a silver plate.
more time goes, more proof coming they took wrong decision going back to hall's.
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KerryKing
From what I understood when I read the governments website regarding religious charities, it's part of the 501c3 agreement that they hold religious services in their churches for the local community.
I imagine that becoming a solely televangelist corporation would require a different charity status to the regular 501c3.
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WATCHTOWER JAN 2025: WHY IS THE WATCHTOWER OBSESSED WITH THE RANSOM?
by raymond frantz inhttps://youtu.be/ocufvpm3t04?si=75zmussxknhlsrs7.
the first watchtower for 2025 is out, and immediately, articles 4 and 5 drew my attention.
these will be studied near the memorial season, a time the witnesses prepare for their yearly commemoration of jesus’ death, i will be returning on this articles near at the time.
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KerryKing
Touchofgrey I agree, and the Bible translations we have are indeed unreliable at best, and open to the worst of interpretation, as history proves so clearly. That's why I've come to the conclusion that no body is actually able to or authorised to 'explain or teach' the Bible meanings.
If God or Jesus meant us to worship them by means of the interpretation of scripture, I am 100% sure they would have at least provided us with a fool proof manual or set of instructions. They did not, so we're obviously looking in the wrong place and arguing over nothing.
Whether Jesus actually walked the earth or not, we probably can't prove it without a shadow of a doubt. The fact that the man (or idea of him) has been worshipped, adored, died for, during the past 2000 years makes me think someone like that did inspire people around him enough to cause the flame he stirred to still exist today.
We could choose to focus on the evils of Christianity, the crusades, the wars, the oppression and cruelty done in it's name, or we could look at the basic teachings attributed to a man called Jesus, and think about how, if we lived by those, what would the earth be like?
Organised religion, religious corporations, and anyone else who preaches and prophesies AND asks for money to do so, by my personal deliberations, gets the no confidence vote. Any one who lives by the two commandments, to Love God and Neighbour (my belief is that to love God means to also love everything God entrusted to our care ; earth and animals), is part of the greater good, some call that the Fifth Dimension, others call it God's Kingdom. If everyone lived by those two teachings, this earth would be pretty amazing.
It's actually that simple. Whoever you believe wrote those two teachings first, Moses, Jesus, whoever, was onto something.
It's up to us to choose if we want to be a part of the solution, to love, or a part of the problem, to fight, argue and hate. Arguing over the details that are in the Bible has been done for 2000 years, it will never be resolved, because us being right or wrong isn't the point. Being motivated by love or by self, THAT is the point and the choices we have.
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Criminal trial begins for Lancaster, Penn., Jehovah's Witness Elder accused of molesting three girls.
by Balaamsass2 init appears the perp got the victims disfellowshiped!
the state attorney general has re-opened the botched case.. "the trial for a jehovah’s witness elder accused of molesting three girls in 1999 began in a lancaster county court monday with lawyers giving opening statements to the jury.. norman aviles-garriga, 45, was charged by the pennsylvania attorney general with two counts of aggravated indecent assault and 16 related offenses in connection with assaults alleged by three women who say the abuse happened when they were girls.. aviles-garriga is one of five pennsylvania jehovah's witnesses charged by a statewide grand jury with using their positions within their churches to sexually abuse children.
the attorney general’s office brought charges against the men in october 2022 and february 2023.. .
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KerryKing
'They never uttered a word of support for the three women ..or their families '
That's how they roll Judge, and that's how they keep on rolling until someone stops them.
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JWs on LinkedIn
by usualusername1 inwhen i'm extremely board i look up jws on linkedin.. steven is clearly counting his time.
lol.
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KerryKing
"Answers are not from mankind's opinions, which changes with the wind" 🤣🤣🤣