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  JW Nut Telling His Story Online

  by pale.emperor in

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  while searching for some jw related stuff online, i stumbled across this page created by a pimi.

  his name is steve mcdowell and a watered down version of his story was published in the watchtower https://www.jw.org/en/publications/magazines/wp20150701/bad-to-worse-life-story/.

  however, this version, he says, is the full version.

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  I went through about 3 quarters of the way through his testimony and I just couldnt go any more .

  Can someone please tell me the end result ?
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  Blade Runner mentioned in the Watchtower

  by ThomasCovenant in

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  2. friends

  can anyone remember or point me to a quote in either the watchtower or awake where they spoke adversely about some of the violent scenes in the original blade runner film.

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  thanks.

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  So they talk about movies LONG after they come out? How is that supposed to warn anybody

  Good point jws

  That reminds me of a direction given in the 1980`s that the only "News" worth reading was "Watching The World " at the inside back cover of the "Awake" magazine

  The only trouble was that it was biased and about 3 months behind the times

  
  
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  What happened to Caleb and Sofia?

  by Sliced in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  where are the "golden children" lately?

  lol .

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  Caleb and Sophia went over to the dark side they handed in their D.A. letters and became born again Christians in a Unitarian Universalist Church
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  Is There Life After Death

  by Brokeback Watchtower in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  i think this is a well developed discussion, of ian stevenson's work in investigating people's past lives claims.

  it's a little long.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0attm9hgcdw.

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  Good one eyes
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  Prince's NWT Bible on the auction block

  by OrphanCrow in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  https://www.tmz.com/2018/07/11/prince-auction-bible-suit-purple-rain/.

  what's cooler than your copy of "purple rain" on vinyl?

  try owning one of prince's personal copies on vinyl!!

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  Their wont be any shortages of J.W.`s that will be bidding for that Bible owned by Prince himself.

  Mark my words.

  Such is the Cult of celebrity`s among Jehovah`s Witnesses
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  Why a Belief or Non Belief in the existence of "A God" or "The God" is Futile {In My Opinion}

  by smiddy3 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  because their are so many different god`s worshiped in the world today and none of them have made themselves known to us in this 21st century for all of mankind to see and verify .. all of the gods worshiped today are from hundreds and even thousands of years ago derived from ancient writings and texts in languages that are no longer in use today.. that of course brings up problems of another sort translating an ancient language into its modern day equivalent.. and nobody is in total agreement that such translations are accurate or correct anyway.. and their is no god coming to the rescue of translators to say which is the right interpretation.

  they are mute.. i`m not just talking about christianity/ judaism either, the same goes for all non christian religions too.. its a total cop out to say one must have faith to believe in god .

  "faith, belief in religious doctrines divine truth without proof" and no verification from any god christian/islam/judaism or otherwise ..

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  people want to do what they like. Citizens of each country know what are crimes and what are their punishments, and this knowledge has no influence on many people. Most people worship greed which would mean provisions for enjoyment of life would get depleted/destroyed at some point in time.

  I don`t think any body would argue too much about that as being what human nature can be about.

  .But to quote a scripture out of the book of Revelation to rationalize that ?

  Do you agree with every scripture in Revelation as a word of God that has relevance in the world today ? or not ?

  Or is this just a cherry pick in this instance that suits your agenda .?

  Would you quote the book of Revelation in other instances ?

  I`m just trying to see where your coming from venus.
  
  
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  News from Court in Europe

  by asp59 in

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  2. bible

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  basically the same as prohibiting house to house preaching?.

  https://europe.easybranches.com/finland/european-court-of-justice-rules-jehovah’s-witnesses-illegally-gather-personal-data-455622.

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  I don`t see how you come to the conclusion that this will impact on D2D preaching ?

  It just means if anything not to takes notes on the householders personal circumstances and keep a record of it .
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  new JW Online Bible Study Lessons

  by neat blue dog in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  has anybody seen the new online bible study yet, just posted yesterday i believe?

  it's the first thing you see now when going to the home page.

  the online bible study lessons on jw.org are free, have no obligation, and are easy to use.

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  J.W. Online Bible Study Lessons .In other words read a Bible passage that we give you and no matter what it actually say`s we will tell you what it means because we are God`s chosen people.

  And don`t question us because we are the faithful and discreet slave and the proof that we are his F&D.S is because we said so many,many years ago and Jehovah God has never contradicted us or told us otherwise.

  We have done so well with our Watchtower study articles with their question and answer responses whereby we ask the question and you answer according what is written in the paragraph we see no reason why this approach wont be just as fruitful .

  You will become a Bible informed genius in no time with our help.

  
  
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  "Jehovah's Organization"

  by Wild_Thing in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i was thinking about this phrase.

  when you get baptized, you belong to "jehovah's organization".

  when you go out in field service, you are.

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  one of the defenses the WT tried in the Candace Conti case was that JWs who are out in field service aren't acting as representatives of the WT organization; they are just individual volunteers.

  Another one :

  Where Mr Unthank took on the W.T. organization in a Morwell court about the Faithful & Discreet Slave Class the J.W.appointed lawyer said words to the effect that the "F&DS class was just a theocratic Arrangement" and nothing else.

  In this same court case brought on by Mr.Unthank the same excuse was used that Jehovah`s Witnesses were not employees of the WTB&TS they were only volunteers so the organization was not responsible for actions of the volunteers.

  When Geoffrey Jackson the Australian Governing Body member gave evidence under oath whether he believed Jehovah`s Witnesses were the only religion approved by God or words to that effect he stated " that would be presumptuous on my part to say that"

  Vincent O`Toole a Jehovah`s Witness Lawyer under oath at the ARC testified when asked about "Theocratic Warfare" as is practiced and sanctioned by Jehovah`s Witnesses Organization stated that he had heard the phrase but never knew what it meant ..
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  News from Court in Europe

  by asp59 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

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  basically the same as prohibiting house to house preaching?.

  https://europe.easybranches.com/finland/european-court-of-justice-rules-jehovah’s-witnesses-illegally-gather-personal-data-455622.

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  I posted this info on FB stating that the general public here in Australia have no idea what or how much information gathered about the householder is taken by a JW that knocks on their doors.