Posts by smiddy3

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Critique/Rebuttal of May 2018 Watchtower study article - "Know Your Enemy"

by doubtfull1799 in

important note: i am not a theist and this is all meaningless of course from an atheist perspective, but this critique is written from a theistic perspective for those who are interested in picking apart jw theology or are still religious.

if this is not you, please just ignore!.

comments, additions, corrections to my crazy ramblings all welcome.

smiddy3

Amen to that A.J. I had to LOL at that last quote "We can be confident that Jehovah will not allow the Devil to do us lasting harm" Tell that to the Billions of people who have lived ,suffered and died all of these past centuries

If Satan is the arch-enemy of GOD why did Jesus go with him to be tempted in the first place ? Shouldn`t he have shunned him as a bad association ? An apostate ?

"Satan misleads the entire inhabited earth" through governments and religion according to J.W.`s ,false religion "Babylon The Great "

And Govt`s claiming the "United Nations the Counterfeit Kingdom of God" in their publications

Yet Romans 13 says that the Superior authorities are their by the arrangement of God (Jehovah) and if you oppose them you are going against the arrangement of God and will receive judgement from God (Jehovah)

"Jehovah promised that Satan would eventually be destroyed" Had he done so in the first place humans wouldn`t have had to go through all this pain and suffering and death that many have gone through, some far worse than others.

Adam and Eve were like children they had no life experiences ,had no knowledge of good and bad ,had no concept of someone trying to manipulate them ,had no concept about another being lying or deceiving them yet they and all of their offspring to this day have suffered disease and death these past centuries while Satan and apparently all that followed him have had life ,no disease , illness , suffering ,or death these past centuries and could even front up in front of Jehovah and have a conversation with him face to face so to speak.?Until 1914-19.

If you believe Jehovah`s Witnesses .

I still wonder why Jehovah`s Witnesses still call themselves by that name when they admitted that it wasn`t the correct pronunciation .

Why witness about a name of God you know and admit is false ?

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Why go back to the Old Testament?

by Lost in the fog in

why do jws insist on still quoting from the old testament to back up some of their wacky ideas?

such as on blood, beards, abortion, tattoos, etc.

surely if the mosaic law code was nailed to the torture stake all of its parts were cancelled.

smiddy3

Because that is the ONLY scripture Isa.43:10-12 in the whole bible that they feel gives them validation for calling themselves Jehovah`s Witnesses and being Gods chosen people among Christendoms religions.

therefore they alone have the "Truth" so they believe.

Of course they ignore so many other facts.

1.The G.B. admitted in their publication the Aid book that the name Jehovah was not the correct pronunciation of Gods name however it was accepted as such because it was the most used and common placed in Christendom.

2.The actual name "Jehovah" did not appear in literature until the 13th Century when a Spanish monk used the Latinised version of the Hebrew Tetragrammaton ,the four Hebrew letters that represented Gods name in the Hebrew bible the Old Testament and added vowel `s to it ,coming up with JHVH and adding E ,O,and A and coming up with JEHOVAH which was then used throughout Christendom from the thirteenth Century on which is attestable to in many Churches throughout Europe and elsewhere on their buildings with the name Jehovah in stone.

3. After that scripture in Isa, was written hundreds of years before Jesus Christ came on the scene the Jews never did identify themselves as Jehovah`s Witnesses did they and Jesus when he came on the scene never berated them for not identifying themselves as Jehovah`s Witnesses .

So that was never the intent otherwise J.C.would have done so.

4.The ancient Hebrew language never had a J sounding letter that is why some Bible translations do not use J in their translations so instead of Josiah for example they might use y`osiah or instead of Jesus ,Yesus etc.

So the modern version of the more likely version of Gods name that the Jehovah`s Witnesses recognized in the Aid book was that Yahweh or some such was more likely accurate however Jehovah was preferred because it was more popular ?

Popular among whom ? they claimed that Christendom was hiding the name of God from everybody so who was the name more popular with ?

Why Christendoms Scholars of course whom the claimed were Apostates of Christianity .

And what did Jehovah`s Witnesses do ? They adopted Christendoms preferred name for God Jehovah .

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What Makes 🍕 Pizza Delicious To Tou?

by minimus in

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i am watching a tv show that highlights area restaurants and pizza is the subject.

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what is your favorite style and type of pizza?.

smiddy3

I think GLTirebiter sums it up for me just add sliced tomatoes .

OH YUMMY

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Dirt Fishing - Latest Coin Finds

by cofty in

it's that time of year again when i can get back on the fields with the metal detector looking for ancient stuff.

the first field to be harvested was full of peas - ideal as it leaves no stubble and it's a two minute walk from my house.

it has given up two coins in two visits this week.. the first one is a cut-half silver penny from the reign of henry ii.

smiddy3

Apart from the historical value and importance of these finds cofty which by the way I find immense for you personally having found them, what about the monetary value to you in finding them is their any reward their ?

I would expect their would be but are they of much value ? To Museums ? are they interested in such finds ? Historians ? Collectors ? etc .etc.

I`m just curious

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Stats just out: JWs in Wales decline (-3.4%) - COs primed for zero baptisms!

by Darth FayDehr in

figures from that latest 2-weekend convention in caridff (wales) reveal jw “growth” now in decline.

baptisms are discouragingly low (21, combined), and circuit overseers have been primed to deal with assemblies where there are no baptisms; see these leaked 2018 instructions:.

pdf summary: https://1drv.ms/b/s!arekzxkzlp8ybsl45pov7y6k26a.

smiddy3

Inflatables ,card board cut-outs I can just see it now ,and with the writing department juggling the numbers and counting the rubber duckies in the baptismal pool ?

WOW look at the growth achieved !

O.K I`m being stupid here .but any more so than what the G.B. come out with ?

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Stats just out: JWs in Wales decline (-3.4%) - COs primed for zero baptisms!

by Darth FayDehr in

figures from that latest 2-weekend convention in caridff (wales) reveal jw “growth” now in decline.

baptisms are discouragingly low (21, combined), and circuit overseers have been primed to deal with assemblies where there are no baptisms; see these leaked 2018 instructions:.

pdf summary: https://1drv.ms/b/s!arekzxkzlp8ybsl45pov7y6k26a.

smiddy3

" When their are no baptismal candidates present when he asks for these to stand their is no need to ask the two questions or to say the prayer "

Isnt that a no brainer ? And they have only come out with that instruction only recently ?

Thinking back though when I was in I`m sure they did still go with that ritual !

That`s crazy .

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Have they stopped writing new magazines?

by asp59 in

even if the world and organization(not for better,)change a lot from the 80s.

the watchtower articles seem exactly like the one we study in the ,80s.

there's a zombie feeling to them.

smiddy3

I think they have always been reprinting their articles since the 1950-60`s only to make a change according to the decade /news of the time .

Think of the books :

"Your Will be Done On Earth" ," Babylon The great Has fallen Gods Kingdom Rules" and "Revelation Its grand Climax"

I don`t think their has been anything "new" of any significance since these were published though I stand to be corrected since I`ve been out now for over 25 years .

They can only rehash "Old Truths" for "New Truths" for so long until it just becomes "Truth Garbage"

What`s that saying about re-arranging the deck chairs on the Titanic ?

That`s the Jehovah`s Witness /Watchtower Organization down to a tee.

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EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Angus Stewart QC on Jehovah’s Witnesses and the Australian Child Abuse Royal Commission (by Lara Kaput and Louise Goode)

by jwleaks in

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angus stewart qc, senior counsel, has had a long and distinguished legal career, beginning with his passion for justice in south africa, fighting apartheid, then later working in the truth and reconciliation commission, and more recently acting as senior counsel in the case studies on jehovah's witnesses in the australian royal commission into institutional responses to child sexual abuse.

angus discusses, from his own personal point of view, and not representing the carc or the commissioners, what the journey was like, learning about the internal law and policy of watchtower society, how he became determined to stand for justice for all the victims and for the whole community of ex jehovah's witnesses and how he felt about the evidence being presented to him and the people presenting it.. interview by lara kaput and louise goode for jw community podcast.. https://jwcommunitypodcast.simplecast.fm/cf4d380d.

smiddy3

I just listened to it ,thanks for posting it jwleaks . It highlites the humanity of the man .

Well worth listening to it.

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God hates liars

by Lady Lee in

quotes are from the 2005 wt cd red text is mine

the wts claims to be the sole source of god's truth on earth today.

truth is so important to them that they even use the term "truth" as a name for their teachings.

smiddy3

Every J.W. knows your not lying if you are doing it to gain converts ( sheep like ones ) and to put off and confuse those who oppose us.

Never mind that J.W.`s say that Satan is the father of the lie.

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What is the strangest picture drawn or other you ever saw in a JW article?

by blownaway in

what is the strangest picture drawn or other you ever saw in a jw article?.

smiddy3

Well I could go out on a limb here and say the illustrations of Jehovah sitting on a throne and with a beard ?

Isn`t that ironic ?