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  "Armageddon is already here"; "the preaching work is done" -- rogue teachings in your congregation?

  by FatFreek 2005 in

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  2. beliefs

  one of my jw sons seems to be putting pressure on his non-jw brother apparently to scare him into accepting the troof and start coming to meetings.

  wild statements like our topic title, which i know are not supported at jw dot org, have been made to my non-jw son several times over the past year or so.

  while i haven't been privy to the actual phone conversations i tend to believe that the jw son is being pressured by the local elders to cut ties with the non-jw since their conversations seem to degrade into arguments -- therefore tending to weaken the jws faith in wt teachings.. either my jw son is lying about what i would call rogue teachings (and this would disappoint me greatly) or he is in some close knit clique in his congregation which has secretly chosen to go rogue on certain wt issues.. based on many of the recent posts here about drastic money and wt organization problems this could be a sign of pending splits of certain congregation members.. what do you think?

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  "the preaching work is done"

  I wouldn`t think so with only about 1/3rd of the worlds population having ever been preached to and as every hour of the day goes by the ratio of JW`s to the population gets wider and wider ,making it harder and harder for the words of Jesus to ever be accomplished.

  It hasnt been acheived in 103 years of Jesus Christ rule so far and does not look like it could ever happen with the winding down of so many JW activities.

  And as I have indicated before JW`s have always only been riding on the backs of Christendom poaching off of them for their members ,never entering into virgin territory where Christendom has never been before them.

  Jehovah`s Witnesses are true parasites in the true sense of the word.
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  JW view of apostates is of human origin

  by venus in

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  2. beliefs

  god doesn’t take action against a person who has long history of faithfulness when he fails for the first time.

  for example, satan is freely permitted to move in heaven and on earth even after many many sins he keeps on practicing.

  israel as a nation was not rejected at the first instance of their disobedience.

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  God doesn’t take action against a person who has long history of faithfulness when he fails for the first time. For example, Satan is freely permitted to move in heaven and on earth even after many many sins he keeps on practicing. Israel as a nation was not rejected at the first instance of their disobedience.

  So for the next 6 thousand years Satan had free range of shifting between heaven and earth with no other penalties on him or his followers .No suffering ,no death ,no indignity`s ,no anything.

  except for some future punishment thousands of years in the future no doubt.

  Big deal

  How does that compare with Adam & Eve ? They were immediately sentenced to a life of misery outside of Gods favour and so were their offspring to what we see today 6,000 years later of misery , disease ,indignity`s ,suffering and ,death .

  No normal parent today would put their child through any suffering of any sort for a minute however Jehovah God has put his children through the worst of sufferings for thousands of years.

  Wasn`t Satan the original apostate ? If anything he should have recieved the more heavier sentence.
  
  
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  What can the leadership at Watchtower do to turn things around?

  by UnshackleTheChains in

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  2. beliefs

  let's play devils advocate here.. put yourself in the governing body's shoes.

  they are well aware of all the issues they are facing.

  they know their numbers (they 'do the math' as they say in the us).

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  I hope they never ever turn things around .I don`t want them to reform or change their ways ,I want them to go into oblivion if that`s at all possible.(though I doubt it will happen in the near foreseeable future)

  The damage they have done to millions of people with their policy`s since their inception in the late 1800`s ,and (that is no exaggeration saying millions) ,reform or change in policy`s now would not do justice for all the suffering and wrongs that have been endured by members over all these years and is still being endured by members and there family`s still under the control of this sect.
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  So, is God a rapist!?

  by stuckinarut2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  ok, i apologise in advance if this seems irreverent to those who believe in god.. but, the bible says that god (jehovah) impregnated mary.

  without her consent.

  so that would seem to be rape...right?.

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  I think Ever Apostate sums it up nicely,what more needs to be said ?

  Then again I suppose we could all be tormented eternally in a Hell-fire ,or exterminated once and for all at Armageddon .
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  October 31, 2017 TO SELECTED BOEs IN THE US BRANCH TERRITORY Re: Discontinuation of the Funds-on-Deposit Arrangement

  by wifibandit in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  october 31, 2017 to selected bodies of elders in the united states branch territory re: discontinuation of the funds-on-deposit arrangement.

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  We can only hope so BbW
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  October 31, 2017 TO ALL CONGREGATIONS Re: New Visitor Exhibit at Bethel (UK)

  by wifibandit in

  1. watchtower
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  october 31, 2017 to all congregations re: new visitor exhibit at bethel.

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  I wonder who`s going to buy their second hand printing presses and all the equipment that goes with it ,are they going to have a garage sale ?

  Or are they going to be the new/old Visitor Exhibits of how we used to reach the other sheep to fleece them.
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  oh witnesses

  by zeb in

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  we attended an orchestral concert last night.

  before the show there was have a drink mingle thing and my dear wife met some sisters who she sees so many times a week and got into a round x round conversation on......fs arrangements.. no commentary on the music to come, the beautiful venue or the opportunity to take in such a concert.

  i went to the loo .....

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  It`s like trying to convince themselves and there Bros & Sis`s that they are no part of the world ,they are only at these functions to please their partner otherwise they wouldn`t be their

  like stuck says I feel your pain
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  Highwood Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses v. Randy Wall

  by TerryWalstrom in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  http://www.scc-csc.ca/case-dossier/info/webcastview-webdiffusionvue-eng.aspx?cas=37273&id=2017%2f2017-11-02--37273&date=2017-11-02.

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  Isn`t this the same as "For those wanting to view history " by search ? a court case in Toronto Canada ?
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  October 31, 2017 TO ALL CONGREGATIONS Re: New Visitor Exhibit at Bethel (UK)

  by wifibandit in

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  october 31, 2017 to all congregations re: new visitor exhibit at bethel.

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  smiddy3

  Kramer you beat me to it ,i was wondering if their were white Elephants on the Ark that are just surfacing now.

  A good point Listener Jesus Christ must have been very busy coming up with that one ,what else has he done ?
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  February 2018 Watchtower

  by Listener in

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  2. bible

  note the picture on the top right hand side.

  the little boy in green is standing between the man's legs (jesus), face forward.

  the picture is not appropriate at all and suggestive.

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  I think this is a ridiculous suggestion/post not worthy of a comment

  OOPS