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  Ok EVERYONE- want to know who is going to be reading this website and others?

  by Newly Enlightened in

  1. watchtower
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  while everyone has been bickering back and forth, i decided to do something positive to move forward.

  as most of you know back in jan our family marked us as apostates and started shunning us.. so i wrote to all of my congress-people and told them what is going on with the jw's.

  i told them how they are breaking up families, teaching the children intolerance, etc.

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  Newly Enlightened

  I tried to make it as large as I could. Ok, try this one:

  
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  Ok EVERYONE- want to know who is going to be reading this website and others?

  by Newly Enlightened in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  while everyone has been bickering back and forth, i decided to do something positive to move forward.

  as most of you know back in jan our family marked us as apostates and started shunning us.. so i wrote to all of my congress-people and told them what is going on with the jw's.

  i told them how they are breaking up families, teaching the children intolerance, etc.

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  Newly Enlightened

  While everyone has been bickering back and forth, I decided to do something positive to move forward. As most of you know back in Jan our family marked us as apostates and started shunning us.

  So I wrote to all of my Congress-people and told them what is going on with the JW's. I told them how they are breaking up families, teaching the children intolerance, etc. I sent copies of the dot to dots with the VIOLENT pictures from the Bible Stories book, etc. Someone from JW struggle wrote a letter to whomever describing how his life had been ruined by WTBT$.

  I don't have any affiliation with any activists websites. I did this on my own and just wanted you all to know why I did this.

  I got this back today and I've gotten 2 more just like it. So while you're all fighting, just remember that Congress is going to be looking at these posts now and I wanted them to see the heartbreaking way how WTBT$ is breaking up families. Just something to think about.

  
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  New Magazine says birthdays will kill you

  by RayPublisher in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  new july 2013 awake says this on page 3:.

  "there is a 14 percent greater probability that a person over 60 years of age will die on his birthday rather than on other days.".

  wow, they have now proven that birthdays are pagan and not fit for christians!.

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  maybe it's the hot young thing jumping out of their cake that does it?
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  What's in a name? - Israel wasn't for Yaweh !

  by snare&racket in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  who the el' is el' ?.

  the original god of israel was el, not yahweh, as is evident in the patriarchal narratives: the name isra-el means el rules, not yahweh rules that would be isra-yahu.

  (bellah, 2011, p. 287).

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  I think I put a few too many El-o's in there.
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  What's in a name? - Israel wasn't for Yaweh !

  by snare&racket in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  who the el' is el' ?.

  the original god of israel was el, not yahweh, as is evident in the patriarchal narratives: the name isra-el means el rules, not yahweh rules that would be isra-yahu.

  (bellah, 2011, p. 287).

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  Maybe we should just call him "El-o Hey You, great spirit in the sky"

  or:

  El o El o

  El o El o I love you, won't you tell me your name

  . El o El o I love you, can I join in your game." [60's Song by the Doors]
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  WTS Suggestion Box (to give back for all the things the WT has done for us)

  by return of parakeet in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  sometimes i think we're too hard on the wts and the dubs.

  a dub's life, after all, is not an easy one: minimal formal education, low-paying jobs, incessant demands on their time for meetings, field service, shunning, regular beatings for their children, etc.. even the wts itself is not immune.

  think of all the hard work the gb must do to keep their "new light" up-to-date without making the old light look like a pack of lies.

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  I will let everyone know. We will post the link when it is posted. Along with a follow up with the CO & BOE on the aftermath.
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  Hello

  by Seraphim23 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  not sure if this is the place to say hello and im new but hello and im new here.

  i was a jw years ago but not for many years now.

  i joined here because i was kicked off the last jw related board i was on.

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  Welcome! Glad to have you here with us.

  I'm not here to judge anyone. My little brother was raised a JW but he realized he was gay. But because he came 'out', the family shunned him. He ended up committing suicide by jumping off of a 14 story building.
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  Signs - Jesus - Has the Scripture Been Misread ?

  by *lost* in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  meletivivlon.com - interesting and enlightening theory on jesus and the signs.. wars, earthquakes, food shortages.. what if jesus meant the very opposite ?

  jesus said - look out that nobody misleads you.

  ( jesus warning us as a safegaurd for us not to be mislead about exactly when the time would come ) .

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  Just a side thought.

  Josephus wrote that at the time of Jerusalem's destruction there were what looked like Soldier's riding in chariots & horses coming from the clouds. And the sun & moon were darkened and could not be seen because of the rising smoke from the destroyed city.
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  Where else to go.I sticking up for the WTS.

  by joe134cd in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  now i am going to do a rear thing here and i am going to stick up for the wts.

  i realise that the wts hasn't got the best of track record, and sure they have made mistakes.

  but if i was to go to another church wouldn't they still have the same issues.

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  There would be no true worship of God in a building or organization. Jesus was teaching the samaritan woman that it was going to be individuals worshipping in spirit & truth. WTBT$ has done a pretty good job of exposing all the other religions of having poison in their beliefs, so when we find that poison int he WTBT$, we lose our anchor. Our security. But Jesus also said tht he came not to bring peace to the earth, but fire and divisions. It's not easy, but we have to go out to sea and rely on God & Jesus to finish our training and show us the real truth.

  [NWT] John 4:

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  Peace be with you

  The woman said to him: “Sir, I perceive you are a prophet. 20 Our forefathers worshiped in this mountain; but YOU people say that in Jerusalem is the place where persons ought to worship.” 21 Jesus said to her: “Believe me, woman, The hour is coming when neither in this mountain nor in Jerusalem will YOU people worship the Father. 22 YOU worship what YOU do not know; we worship what we know, because salvation originates with the Jews. 23 Nevertheless, the hour is coming, and it is now, when the true worshipers will worship the Father with spirit and truth, for, indeed, the Father is looking for suchlike ones to worship him. 24 God is a Spirit, and those worshiping him must worship with spirit and truth.”
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  HELLO, IM NEW HERE

  by juanvazquez88 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  hello my brothers in ttatt.

  my name es juan, im from mexico, im catholic and my wife is a jehovah witness, expelled, of course.. therefore, she still believes in the organization, and she said that they were fine with her expulsion, cause she deserve it, cause our marriage with me.

  any help, or someone with a similar experience will be good for me.

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  Newly Enlightened

  Welcome Juan, glad to have you here with us.

  Bienvenido al foro , nos alegramos de que estés aquí con nosotros.