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  God seems to have alot of failures?

  by purrpurr in

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  for an all powerful, all knowing god it seems most of his plans go awry, so why assume that armageddon/ new system will work?

  look at the track record.

  ... adam and eve... went wrong.

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  scratchme1010

  God seems to have alot of failures?
  

  I agree. The worst part of the way today religions interpret God is this perfect being that can do nothing wrong, yet somehow everything is according to their own rationale.
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  When You Die Would You Haunt The Governing Body? If It were Possible?

  by Brokeback Watchtower in

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  i've been reading a lot about reincarnation these days and i'm beginning to think that it quite possibly might be true, it seems to fit in nicely with the idea that we live in a computer simulation.. anyway according to the tibetan book of the dead when we die we seem to hang around on the earth waiting for rebirth.

  at which time we could be ghosts.

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/bardo_thodol.

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  When You Die Would You Haunt The Governing Body? If It were Possible?
  

  Isn't the idea of becoming ex-JWs freeing yourself from them, now, alive, wanting nothing to do with them, you know, getting a life instead of continuing wanting to know everything about them?
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  What Is The Most Ridiculous Thing You Have Heard From A Witness?

  by minimus in

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  i remember an elder questioning a woman who had admitted to giving and receiving oral sex from her unbelieving mate.

  he asked her the most intimate questions which clearly flustered her.

  interestingly, she “confessed “ to the elders because her conscience bothered her.

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  I've shared quite a few things that are off-the-wall. One that got a lot of attention was this CO who mentioned that two sisters became lesbians because they decided to watch Mexican novelas together.

  Also, I remember an elder who visited to give a talk, who mentioned that a brother was preaching in a dangerous area, and somebody shot him, but angels protected him and the bullet bounced from his head.

  Then there was what I consider one of the worse narcissistic personality disorder I've ever met in person. This elder said that he is Jehovah during a talk.

  This other elder trained himself to eat leaves because he was convinced that leaves were the only thing left during the great tribulation (He had 13 children; to me that's the real origin of the idea of eating leaves).

  Another elder loved to tell a rather diverse wealth of stories involving demons attacking JWs for being loyal. One that I remember (I was 7, and it was so inappropriate for me to be exposed to that kind of information at that age). was about a loyal JW woman who was always being attacked by demons because her husband wasn't and he was attracting them. He said that one night the demons were rubbing and licking her breasts, and touching her lady parts.
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  If they made 14400k symbolic how many jws would start to claim to be anointed?

  by purrpurr in

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  since there's debate here about wether the literal interpretation of the 14400k could be changed to symbolic, i was thinking such an announcement would allow for any jw to claim to be going to heaven... in which case i wonder how many jws would suddenly claim to have "been called"?.

  i can think of many arrogant holier than thou types who would be jumping on that bandwagon immediately!

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  If they made 14400k symbolic how many jws would start to claim to be anointed?
  

  I posted a while back that the rate of anointed happens to coincide with the rate of crazy people in USA.
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  Can the Borg tell what sites I've been to?

  by purrpurr in

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  if i go to the jw website and then afterward to say this website, is it likely that the jw website has then tracked what websites i go to after visiting theirs?.

  i don't know how cookies work btw .

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  Can the Borg tell what sites I've been to?
  

  No.

  Even if they did, they have no sating in your life unless you allow them to, You can go anywhere you want.
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  What if God never changed the languages

  by pleaseresearch in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  we have the account of god changing our languages and thus we all separated all over the world.. i wonder how different, maybe even peaceful if god didn't do that.. looking at the story now it seems pathetic that he needed to do this to stop men wanting to reach the heavens to take a sneaky peek at him.

  we've been much further than mankind back then could have ever imagined and god isn't visible.. but yeah how different would history have been if this account never happened..

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  Who knows...
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  Prayers for survivors of child abuse

  by Nicholaus Kopernicus in

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  i no longer attend jw meetings.

  i can't read jw literature either.

  it's so difficult now to contemplate opening the pages of a watchtower magazine knowing that the organisation which publishes it is steadfast in refusing to engage in child safeguarding.

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  Thanks for sharing. Their mistreatment and negligence of children's well being is very obvious. Those who do believe in prayer should be in fact praying for the right things and people.
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  Sign JW Data Protection Form Or Else!

  by AverageJoe1 in

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  2. beliefs

  in spain (and the rest of europe), the "improved" data protection laws come into force on 25th may 2018. this is a good thing and sadly america is still lagging behind; not surprising with their current president!.

  watchtower legal department are hot on the case and have instructed elders to hand out the new "release" forms out to all the publishers in their groups, whilst making it clear to them that they won't have any privileges if they refuse to do so!.

  note these points in the instructions:.

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  Not a surprise. All organizations protect their data, no matter if their data is pure nonsense.
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  Ex JW Recovery Group 3

  by awake!watcher in

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  is this group on facebook gone?.

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  Is this group on facebook gone?
  

  All members recovered.
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  My search for religion.

  by joe134cd in

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  2. experiences

  since leaving the jws i have become more interested in finding out about other faiths.

  here are a few of my findings.. lds: i just couldnt get my head around the mental gymnastics i would have to do to understand their doctrines and theology.

  i attended their services twice.

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  Well that's were I am on a religious note.
  

  Interesting. Any reason why you are exploring only Christian religions?