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  My JW Elder Brother Passed Away

  by minimus in

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  he was basically a good man, just a believer in the religion.

  when we were both elders we were best of friends and then things deteriorated when i was not an elder for a while.

  then after becoming an elder again, i slowly drifted away from the religion and he drifted further away from me.

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  smiddy3

  I`m sorry for your loss both religiously and physically ,mm
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  Daniel 10:13 and 20 speak of demons governing their respective nations?

  by I_love_Jeff in

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  territorial spirits-.

  daniel 10:13,20 prince of persia.

  deut: 32:9 “when the most high divided the nations, when he separated the sons of adam, he set the bounds of the nations according to the number of the angels of god.

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  smiddy3

  However "the existing Authorities stand placed in their relative positions by GOD" {Jehovah }..".he who opposes the authority has taken a stand against the arrangement of GOD"..".and will receive a judgement to themselves" ...".it is GODS minister an avenger to express wrath upon the one practicing what is bad"

  Rom.13: 1-7

  Doesn`t that contradict Satan being the ruler of the world ?

  I`m going by what the scriptures actually state and not what somebody interprets such and such a scripture is supposed to mean .
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  Shunning: Reasoning With JW's

  by The Fall Guy in

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  perhaps this line of questioning could agitate a jw's thinking.

  it can't hurt.. you: is shunning a biblical teaching?.

  jw: yes.. you: so it must be god's law?.

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  smiddy3

  Jehovah and Jesus have never shunned Satan the devil ,disagreed with him yes but have never shunned him !
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  Does Jehovah need any protection?

  by I_love_Jeff in

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  does jehovah need to be protected by a zealous scribe***** (masoretic text) or anyone else?

  deuteronomy 32:8 is a textbook example of how later scribes sometimes changed the biblical text in a misguided attempt to “protect” god’s reputation.

  deut 32:8, eliminates references to other divine beings (32:8, “sons of god”; 32:43, “heavenly ones” and “gods”).

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  To me these changes were made to get to the idea of a monotheist belief. Only one god. Elohim means gods plural and I believe the original texts says Elohim not Angels or sons of Israel.

  Genesis Ch.3 : 22 ...."here the man has become like one of us in knowing good and bad "

  The fact that God said the man has become like one of us is telling.?

  God is actually saying he has peers ,beings the same as he is , God`s.the same as he is.

  And Adam having that Knowledge now of good and bad put him on the same level in that sense of the Gods that then existed at that time.

  Not that he had the power of God but that he had the intellectual ability of knowing Good and bad right and wrong ,evil and good.
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  P-ed off with WT Dogma

  by AFRIKANMAN in

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  AFRIKANMAN

  How did you ever get that picture of the Governing Body ? You are THE man .
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  P-ed off with WT Dogma

  by AFRIKANMAN in

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  smiddy3

  If only we could teach them to poop on the carts as well ?
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  Zappa

  by JRK in

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  i am stoked about going to see dweezil zappa in concert on thursday.

  it is going to be a date night, and the person i am taking never had the chance to see his father frank in concert.

  i know that she will appreciate the complexity and beauty of his music, as well as some of his off-color humor.. yes "humor does belong in music!".

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  I hope you both score ...music wise that is ,Have a great nite .
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  Are there close parallels between Deuteronomy 32:8, Genesis 10 and the Ugaritic tablets?

  by I_love_Jeff in

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  according to these sources (city of ancient ugaritic tablets found in 1928) , elyon divided up all the nations into seventy nations, one for each of his sons (elim) .

  sons of god makes the most sense than the sons of israel-deut.

  32:8 especially since there was no nation of israel listed in the table of nations.

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  Leolaia had some interesting thoughts on the Ugaritic tablets she made 14 years ago in two posts if anyone`s interested , not to undermine your post I-Love_Jeff ,but to enhance it and elaborate on your post,

  Especially for the many newbies that have joined this forum in recent years who are interested in the so many other writings ,texts ,that existed even before and after the books of the Bible were penned.
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  Bethelite statistics

  by john.prestor in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  hey guys, i'm working on a paper about exploitation amongst jehovah's witnesses ( i'm also preparing a book about jehovah's witnesses and interaction ritual theory, and another paper about jehovah's witnesses and discrimination against women).

  i'm trying to calculate as exact figures as i can concerning how much bethelites are paid.

  does anyone know the monthly stipend as of now?

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  smiddy3

  Interesting thread keep us informed ,I only knew about the 14 dollar a month stipend but that`s going back to the 50`s- 60`s .
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  Dog Day Afternoon at the Carts

  by berrygerry in

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  https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/8fsaxu/so_this_just_happened/.

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  smiddy3

  Good doggy , Good doggy , Good doggy. Are you sure you don`t want to do a crap too ? Their`s plenty of paper to wipe it up with here .

  Pity it wasn`t an Elephant .