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Black Lives Matter Flags To Fly Worldwide In US Embassies
by minimus in
1. jw
2. friends
….for the anniversary of george floyd’s death per president biden.

smh .
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Dead. Resurrected. Saved in the Second Temple period
by Doug Mason in
1. watchtower
2. bible
another subject in my attempt to understand the second temple period.. https://www.academia.edu/s/980704b536?source=link .

doug.
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It took a lot of lies, ignorance and corruption to create CHURCHIANITY!
by TruthMatters in
1. watchtower
2. bible
have you gone back to that- or lost you faith because of 'brothers'?.
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Most of you KNOW it that we witnesses have the Truth from the Bible
by TruthMatters in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
it just that the gb has a problem mixing biblical fact with goofy opinions.. but at least is isn't like the churces!.

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It took a lot of lies, ignorance and corruption to create the JWS religion and the results were ?
by Rocketman123 in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
looking back at the jws religion and all what it did to people who joined the results are not very becoming, one might even say regretfully harmful.

here of some things of which i'm thinking about ........ first on the list has to be the thousands of people to date that refused a blood transfusion and died in doing so.. the people that have committed suicide indirectly caused by the jws df social restrictions and other reasons.. all the time wasted distributing the wts literature door to door, only to realize the doctrines the wts (gb) heads created were false and misleading.. all the marriages by young people which were enforced due to strict sexaul behavior, only to end up in divorce for incompatibility reasons.. all the families that have broken up over the decades because of the jws religoius convictions.. all the young teenagers who were persuaded to not obtain higher education because the end is so near.. all the social relationships that could have been fulfilling and good but were halted because someone wasn't a jws.. all the money people gave the wts.

some giving their entire inheritance to the organization which ended up being full of deceit and corruption after all.. .
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Did Jesus lie about his generation?
by Anony Mous in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
we all know the scripture where jesus says 'this generation will by no means pass away before the end will come'.

the jw interpret this as the destruction of the jewish state in jerusalem by the romans and the dispersal of the jewish people.

however, while researching the history of judea, i come across various facts about the region.. so jesus died about 30ce and his disciples were likewise well in their thirties or older, the 'generation' by definition would've lasted until ~50ce (the time during which children are born and raised to have children of their own).
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Interesting Find with Chronology
by Kelley959 in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i hope this is in the right area.

i've been studying the 2520 days/years 607/587/586 debacle.

for a while now i have felt 1914 was wrong.
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The three wise men
by Simon in
1. watchtower
2. bible
just a thought.... looking through the greatest man book, something just occurred to me which i can't recall has ever been highlighted (but please correct me).. i always thought it a bit strange that jehovah allowed the three pagan astrologers to find jesus especially as they were obviously guided to him by satan's star (remember they were led to herod first who wanted to kill the messiah).

what purpose did it serve?.

well, a few pages earlier in tgm book, we see mary presenting a dove as a sin offering at the temple - this was the cheapest offering that was acceptable which must have meant that they were pretty poor at the time.. shortly after the three wise men visited the family had to flee to egypt when herod started to kill all the young boys in an attempt to kill jesus.. what would they need to travel and live as exiles for a couple of years?.