have a look at this from a 1973 watchtower:" only this organization functions for Jehovahs purpose and to his praise. To it alone God's sacred Word, the Bible, is not a sealed book"..... (July Ist page 402. 1973)
to it alone...says it all.
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Does the GB claim the sole power of scriptural interpretation?
by DATA-DOG inwhat are the best quotes, old and new about this mystical power?
i just had a " come to jesus " talk with my wife.
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Books that changed your life-
by new hope and happiness ini am not much of a reader as i have two many distractions, but i fancy a challenging read, so please list any book that has changed your entire world view on everything.
i remember as a teenager buying at a yard sale, norman vincent peales " the power of positive thinking" and at the time that had a big impact on me.
but i am a little bit more in to " realistic positive thinking" now..
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just finished the day of jehovahs witnesses by rachel walsh.....very enlightening and puts bible/god/history in perspective....well written ...
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Does the GB claim the sole power of scriptural interpretation?
by DATA-DOG inwhat are the best quotes, old and new about this mystical power?
i just had a " come to jesus " talk with my wife.
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The book the day of jehovah witnesses by Rachel Walsh explains how they exert control by exclusivity of information...They alone decide what is and is not truth...quite scary .
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Resinstatement - Holy Spirit Direction is BULL
by rrb2016 inso i am, i guess technically an apostate.
never baptized, family all in and treat me fine since leaving home/wt over 30 years whenever i see them.
discovered the ttat by reading kingdom of the cults and catching an episode of the john ankerberg show when i was 18.. in the past 4 years i have "helped" two people ( a father and son) get reinstated.
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Just had local ministerial servant made an elder.....He told many that he always should have been made an elder for several years before....now he is one....I wonder if the fact that he is very wealthy due to receiving over a million pounds after a road crash some years ago has anything to do with it....useful source of money...
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OMG the Watchtower IS toast!
by kneehighmiah inthe waters are drying up!
a congregation of 110+ publishers will be contributing only $200 a month to the society in the new kingdom hall construction arrangement.
that's less than $2 a publisher!
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Few outsiders come in....my old congregation was almost composed of families in laws and cousins....This almost always resulted in young ones being baptised as soon as possible...usually before they realised what they were involved in...They were then ramrailed into conforming or face losing friends and family if they dared seek life beyond hall doors....very sad.
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What has the WTS EVER "predicted" that has actually come true?
by integ inyou'd think they could point to something right?
obviously we're the one true religion".. i can't fathom how anyone of any intelligence would be willing to join up with this org after doing even rudimentary research.. for years they have taught that it's wrong to seek advanced education or to plan for a "worldly" future by trusting in this system of things and then this past sunday the watchtower article rips on people for not planning for the future in regard to their elderly relatives.
maybe if they hadn't been teaching for 100 yr's that the end was "just around the corner" and telling us we'd better believe that fact...or else, we would have planned better for a future that you said without reservation would not even occur.. what mind blowing prediction can they point to that would convince someone "oh yeah..these guys have it right"...?.
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....tomorrow's date.....The only accurate prediction made by the society/company
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How many have stopped attending at YOUR Kingdumb Hell?
by hamsterbait inon a recent thread about the fleecing of the sheeples, one poster said their congo was down to 85 publishers from 102.. the last hall i attended had 80-odd publishers 20 years ago, now only 30.. how much of a decline at your kh?.
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When I left two years ago 70 of the 80 present were born/bred in. Very very few normal outsiders attended.
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End shunning or lose tax free status
by kneehighmiah inwhich would the watchtower choose if it came down to this in the united states or europe?
losing tax free status would mean losing millions of dollars.
ending shunning means people would leave by the boatloads.
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It stands to reason that many here left via df..as often the ttatt can only be found once one is out and free of control over what ones can and cannot read...
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Congregation rebels!
by A.proclaimer inmy congregation got a reminder today to start donating money.
elder said that after the letter on the new donation arrangement was read, the contributions for that fund went from the average (i believe it was $500 or so) to $0.
after that reminder, cash was put into those boxes.
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Nice one zoos......
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How many have stopped attending at YOUR Kingdumb Hell?
by hamsterbait inon a recent thread about the fleecing of the sheeples, one poster said their congo was down to 85 publishers from 102.. the last hall i attended had 80-odd publishers 20 years ago, now only 30.. how much of a decline at your kh?.
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So what are the real numbers....and how can they be proved? Perhaps growth figures and attendance numbers are being rigged by the organisation....