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  Most doubts aren't created by apostates. They are created in a Kingdom Hall.

  by pistolpete in

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  i found this interesting perspective on reddit.. post;.

  i remember the moment the first real crack in my faith happened as a jehovah's witness.

  i was sitting in the kingdom hall during the watchtower study where, as is common, the article was talking about how the israelites as a nation abandoned jehovah.. "but wait," i thought, "having a nation represent him here on earth was part of his plan.

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  Most doubts aren't created by apostates. They are created in a Kingdom Hall.

  Absolutely
  
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  What’s Your Opinion On The News Media?

  by minimus in

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  do you think most of what they cover is accurate?

  do you trust the media , especially mainstream?.

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  Were they ever unbiased? I remember Walter Cronkite throwing objectivity to the wind in his coverage of the Vietnam War and that was awhile ago
  
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  If you could pick out critical errors to the JWS religion what would it be ?

  by Rocketman123 in

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  many that have come to this forum have left the jws religion and moved on with their lives but from a outsider's viewpoint what do think makes the jws religion wrong or incorrect as a active christian faith ?.

  somethings come to mind such as its long continuous end times/armageddon soon doctrine which has really been a core doctrine for decades going right back to its beginning .. maybe they should have adopted the stance as other christian based faiths and adhered to jesus's own words when he said " no one knows of the time not even he ".

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  SBF
  

  In the US...1 in 273 of the US population is an active publisher.

  The nature of the question would preclude JW's themselves. Sorry for not being clear about what I meant by people on the street. I should know better than to use idioms like that.
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  "Young people ask" book claims 97% youth masturbatory or seen porn...not J.W youth??

  by Witness 007 in

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  as a youg man this stunned me when i studied the original "youth" book 97% had done it so i thought soo that's pretty much everyone i guess the 3% were witness youth!

  also "awake" claimed 90% of students had accessed porn at some time.

  everyone is doing it i guess 10% are the witness youth...how dumb was i?.

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  Like a lot of fundamentalist groups, Jehovah's Witnesses disregard the legal, linguistic and literary definitions of pornography and define it along purely subjective lines, which would include any portrayal of the human form that is pleasant to the eye at all.

  By that definition, pretty much everyone has accessed "porn" because even the swimsuit edition of Sports Illustrated would probably qualify.

  The German magazine, Stern, from which the JW's plagiairzed the picture of Pacale Petit for the Live Forever book, would definitely be considered "Porn" by JW's, which makes you wonder what they were doing with it in the first place.
  
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  The Rise of Skywalker (2019) - how much crack was JJ Abrams smoking when he made this? lol (spoilers)

  by LoveUniHateExams in

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  i saw the rise of skywalker (2019) a few weeks ago.. and it is totally crazy, lol, it has everything but the kitchen sink.. i can somewhat feel for writer/director jj abrams because rian johnson went f**k up in the previous film.. e.g.

  in the force awakens (2015), abrams introduced snoke, but then in the last jedi (2017) johnson killed him off, the same thing happened to luke.. but that doesn't really hide hollywood hack abrams from criticism of this movie.

  bringing back emperor palpatine - i mean, really?.

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  I haven't seen it (The Rise of Skywalker) yet, but I'm sure it's a train wreck. I'll give it a try though.

  To be fair, continuity and plausibility problems have plagued the franchise from the moment Vader knelt on the dais and addressed the Emperor as "My master." (And that was in 1980....)
  

  
  
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  If you could pick out critical errors to the JWS religion what would it be ?

  by Rocketman123 in

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  many that have come to this forum have left the jws religion and moved on with their lives but from a outsider's viewpoint what do think makes the jws religion wrong or incorrect as a active christian faith ?.

  somethings come to mind such as its long continuous end times/armageddon soon doctrine which has really been a core doctrine for decades going right back to its beginning .. maybe they should have adopted the stance as other christian based faiths and adhered to jesus's own words when he said " no one knows of the time not even he ".

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  Only if you managed to find 100 people none of whom....

  I'm kinda at a loss as to why you think that would be difficult. (Unless things are really, really different in your neck of the woods....)

  JW's are not known for what they believe. They are known for what they don't believe when they're known at all.

  You might find a few people who know that JW's don't celebrate holidays and fewer still who are aware that they are against transfusion medicine.

  But an imminent judgement culminating in the destruction of non-JW's?

  JW's themselves will usually argue with you on that point.
  

  
  
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  Do You Think Trump Will Make A Comeback?

  by minimus in

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  do you think he could get reinstated as president?

  do you think trump will run again for president or do you think he will just be a force for the republican party behind the scenes?.

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  Maybe he does, Min, but I hope not...
  

  The two examples I gave (Pence & Ducey) are pretty clear cut
  
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  If you could pick out critical errors to the JWS religion what would it be ?

  by Rocketman123 in

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  many that have come to this forum have left the jws religion and moved on with their lives but from a outsider's viewpoint what do think makes the jws religion wrong or incorrect as a active christian faith ?.

  somethings come to mind such as its long continuous end times/armageddon soon doctrine which has really been a core doctrine for decades going right back to its beginning .. maybe they should have adopted the stance as other christian based faiths and adhered to jesus's own words when he said " no one knows of the time not even he ".

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  From an outsider's viewpoint?

  I would say they've not lived up to their name
  

  If you were to ask 100 people on the street, a few might be familiar enough with Jehovah's Witnesses to know that they distribute literature, but not one of them would understand the message itself.

  Not one of them would understand why they would perish if the JW Armageddon were to happen tomorrow and in that sense, Jehovah's Witnesses have failed in their most basic mission
  
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  Do You Think Trump Will Make A Comeback?

  by minimus in

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  do you think he could get reinstated as president?

  do you think trump will run again for president or do you think he will just be a force for the republican party behind the scenes?.

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  The fundamental problem with Trump is not his ideology. I'd much rather have a conservative president myself.

  The problem is that he expects fellow Republicans to put loyalty to him above loyalty to the Constitution and their oath of office. We've seen this over and over now.

  Governor Ducey of Arizona was on very good terms with Trump right up until the 2020 election. Trump became angry and publicly lashed out at Ducey for certifying the results even after Ducey pointed out that this was a formality required by the state constitution and his oath of office and that he had no choice in this.

  We saw a very similar situation with Mike Pence. Constitutional scholars were unanimous that the Vice President simply presides over the session and does not have the authority to change its outcome. Trump still appears to be angry with Pence for not attempting to overturn the election by executive fiat.

  The recent attacks on William Barr and Mitch McConnell fall into the same pattern. Trump puts his own ego on such a high plane that disagreement is perceived as disloyalty. As a candidate in 2017, he promised to have the "best and most serious people" in his administration. As President, he repeatedly railed about the ineptitude of his own hand-picked choices.
  

  
  
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  Do You Think Trump Will Make A Comeback?

  by minimus in

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  do you think he could get reinstated as president?

  do you think trump will run again for president or do you think he will just be a force for the republican party behind the scenes?.

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  After his most recent (June 27th) attacks on two of his staunchest allies, (Barr and McConnell,) I've changed my mind. A political comeback is probably not in his future.