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  My Mom's Challenge to Me

  by lriddle80 in

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  2. friends

  so my jw mom messages me on facebook last night and says she wants me, for a month, to read the bible, but first pray using the name jehovah and in jesus name and then read it with an open mind.

  she is so ridiculous!

  first of all, i do pray but i usually just say father and i always pray in jesus name and i find it ironic that she is saying i should have an open mind when hers is closed.

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  smiddy3

  Ask your mother a couple of simple questions that she should be able to answer satisfactory.

  1. Why didn`t both Jehovah God and Christ Jesus never shun Satan the Devil ?

  Satan always had the freedom to come and go in the presence of Jehovah in heaven { JOB }

  Jesus Christ spent fourty days with Satan allowing him to tempt him in the wilderness and after that was concluded Satan left him until another convenient time { Jesus never shunned him} Luke 4.

  2.If Jehovah God loved the world of mankind so much why did he cast Satan out of heaven down to the earth to mislead as many of mankind as he could ? And that he has promised to do the same thing again after the thousand years have ended ? by releasing Satan from the Abyss to mislead as many as he can .?

  Ask her if she would do such a thing to her own son.?
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  a drive..

  by zeb in

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  2. friends

  its sunday am and i suggest we go for a drive.

  why i do not know as we have no conversation no banter at all.. so we did and had coffee.

  while we were doing so and looking at the scenery i realized she was humming wt songs to herself.

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  Maybe you should have asked her who is going to farm the coffee plantations in the "New System" and what enterprising young brother is going market a "new World Starbucks" or the like.

  I`m sorry zeb I feel your pain.
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  Notes I drafted for a local JW at a cart

  by Doug Mason in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  in recent weeks, a grizzled old man, obviously harmless, has been engaging with a nice lady as she regularly stands by her cart displaying watchtower material.. on monday, she eagerly wanted to know what this old man thought of the book she gave him, "what does the bible really teach?".

  when this old man posed some questions, she was very keen for him to write them down.. she also promised to provide facts that earthquakes proved we are living in the last days.. anyway, to make a short story longer, the old man drafted questions and observations on the topics that were covered.. would you please criticise the stuff that this old man has drafted for his next encounter.

  any help, anything at all, is most keenly looked for.

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  I would ask her to show you a scripture in the New Testament where Christians are instructed to be witnesses of Jehovah , just one.

  When she can`t do that point out that their are about 20 scriptures in the new Testament instructing Christians to be witnesses of Jesus Christ.
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  question about the go bags.

  by goingthruthemotions in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  its been a minute since posting, have been trying to put this cult in my review mirror and just live life.

  but you know this beast rears it's evil head.

  my wife found my crisis of conscience book and out came the horns plus i guess what she is hearing at the meetings isn't helping either.

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  I'm all for preparedness, but the tribulation and armageddon are supposedly worldwide, where the hell are you going to ?

  I don`t think Jehovah`s Witnesses have thought that one through,LOL

  And what`s the point of meeting in a bunker waiting for the authorities to break the door down ?

  Do these people even THINK ?
  
  
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  wt and charitable works.

  by zeb in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  my wife (uber) mentioned today an elderly man who comes to the kh and he suffers from a sever stomach complaint which needs surgery and that there is a 'waiting list' at the local hospital.. so i says, "why dont the elders put the $$ together to get his op done privately.

  " (ie out of the govt system and 'waiting lists').

  her answer was telling.

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  Charity is not a word that J.W. `s can compute .

  The purpose and main reason for the existence of Jehovah`s Witnesses is to provide spiritual food and not to provide material benefits in any form.

  That`s not what they do .

  Why would they give any material assistance to a non witness who is a part of Satan`s world who is destined to die at Armageddon anyway.?

  Their is nothing altruistic about the J.W.religion

  The WT organization itself will not put their hand out / money wise for any members in the religion no matter how long they might have loyally served as faithful brothers or sisters .
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  More on South Africa

  by zeb in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  https://killingfieldsmovie.com/.

  write to your mp help these people to leave to come to safety..

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  Farmers here can have a hard time with drought and floods but jesus who would want to be a "white" farmer in South Africa.

  And the stupidity of it is the Country is hurting its own economy by failing to take charge of the situation and bring it under control and put an end to it.
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  More on South Africa

  by zeb in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  https://killingfieldsmovie.com/.

  write to your mp help these people to leave to come to safety..

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  First thing to watch tomorrow when i have more time.
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  Want to have fun with a believer? Ask them if they agree with these.....

  by stuckinarut2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  just a fun idea inspired by seth andrews latest podcast (the thinking atheist).

  ask a believer if they agree with the following statements of faith:.

  one should strive to act with compassion and empathy towards all creatures in accordance with reason.. the struggle for justice is an ongoing and necessary pursuit that should prevail over laws and institutions.. one’s body is inviolable, subject to one’s own will alone.. the freedoms of others should be respected, including the freedom to offend.

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  Ask them to show you in the "New testament" a scripture /any scripture in the "new Testament" that Christians are to be /should be witnesses of Jehovah .?

  Also the WTB&TS published "The kingdom Interlinear Of The Christian Greek Scriptures" some time back .

  Ask them to show you in this publication of theirs where the Tetragrammaton { 4 Hebrew letters} or its equivalent 4 Greek letters occur in their word for word translation of the Greek into English that they base their New World Translation of the Bible on.

  And if neither of them are their then neither should the name/word "Jehovah" be in the "New testament" or the Christian Greek Scriptures as they like to call it.

  It is zero on both counts.
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  Review: Apostasy

  by neat blue dog in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  stan's recent post about the apostasy movie reminded me that i had watched it last month, so i thought i'd write a review.

  please note this will probably contain some spoilers so if you care about that sort of thing hold off on reading this.. first i want to say that this is probably one of the most if not the most accurate and reasonable cinematic portrayals of jws.

  however here is a list of little inaccuracies: an outdated view that preaching to all the world can 'make' the end come, jesus briefly portrayed with long hair, judicial reinstatement meetings being called "guidance meetings", a normal weekly public talk being introduced as "the first in a series of talks he's prepared for us", applause at the end of a local needs part, and a jw saying of god "you need to earn his love, it's conditional" ( i know this is basically true in practice but they'd rarely say it out loud).

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  Has this film been shown in Australia ? I would hate to think I`ve missed it .
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  Is attendance down in your location too?

  by StarryNight9 in

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  2. friends

  i was commenting on another thread about how local kh attendance is down.

  memorial attendance was also way down and the circuit assembly had hundreds less people than what is typical.

  my jw family has even mentioned it.

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  Spot on steve2

  ,Also I`d like to point out that when they count the number of attendees at the memorial they count every single person baptized or not young and old including those that only attend once or twice a year.

  Could it be they are now also doing that with meeting attendance in general ? and not only counting baptized ones ?