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  Top 10: Apostate Power Rankings -Who are/were the best apostates?

  by kneehighmiah in

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  i only know a few like franz.

  i rank him #1. then theres that jwsurvey guy and jwfacts guy.

  and the silent lambs lady.

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  Best as in what way?

  most outspoken?

  That would be Danny Haszard and Kent Steinhaug, James Penton.

  Or best at getting the message across without drawing attention or raising flags?

  Not sure.
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  How Many Circuit Overseers And District Overseers Really Believe The Governing Body Is Really The Faithful and Discreet Slave and That The Watchtower Is God's Earthly Organization?

  by frankiespeakin in

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  2. beliefs

  i'm thinking around 20% have serious doubts and 99% have some doubts but keep them from becoming conscious to avoid cognitive dissonance.

  this is becoming increasingly harder to do over the fact that the governing body are showing their true colors and the contridictions are so great..

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  They have to do the bidding of the Governing body or they will be replaced with ones that will.
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  Bullet list of major (recent) changes

  by RN in

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  it is with great interest that i recently read ceders article on the decline of the wts.

  his article along with many of the comments really drives home just how many major changes there have been in a fairly short peroid of time.. somewhere in the recent past i could swear that someone had posted a bullet list of major changes with the corresponding year.

  when i saw this (or something like it) my first thought was that this simple list made it all the more shocking; and since i have searched and cannot find anything like it.. so i dug around and started one of my own, please feel free to add/corrects events.

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  and removing the publisher monthly totals from the KM.
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  Views on women priests.

  by quellycatface in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  having an interesting time at the moment with my faith journey.

  my hubs was confirmed a catholic and his views are no women priests because there weren't any in the bible.

  hence, the absence in rc churches.. my mother is a jw.

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  The problem with women in authority is: Wasn't the only person in congress who voted against entering WWII a woman?

  Jeannette Pickering Rankin - A lifelong pacifist, she was one of fifty members of Congress who voted against entry into World War I in 1917, and the only member of Congress who voted against declaring war on Japan after the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 ""As a woman I can't go to war," she said, "and I refuse to send anyone else."

  Women ain't got the balls to do what it takes.
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  Todays wt study, a query, no oxymoron jokes !!!!!!

  by jonahstourguide in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i wonder, is this a new doctrine and when did "reason and scripture" take place.. .

  page 25 paragraph 10 dec 15 2013 study wt.

  10 the bread that the apostles could see and would soon partake of meant jesus body.

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  The problem with that 1954 W quote is that they drew conclusions from Paul's words.

  Paul wrote in the context to which he intended. He was not writing in a manner to answer our questions.

  And then there is the assumption that Paul actually knew what he was writing about. Just because Paul saw Jesus in a vision and angels acted upon him does not mean that everything that he thought and wrote was correct.

  And the problem with associating the breaking of bread to the not breaking of his bones, is irrelevant. Breaking of bread was to give it to each person.

  And back in the days of the 1954W, they assumed things because it was taught prior; and those things were taught prior, not because it was true, but because it seperated them from other religions.

  Their changing and adopting a new understanding is not bad thing. It is like the supreme court looks at a law and facts in one point of view, then a later supreme court reverses that because it looks at it in a broader sense. Both are right, but the later is more right because it has more information.
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  Active JW's, can you defend "THE TRUTH?"

  by DATA-DOG in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  as of yet, no member of the jehovah's witness faith can defend their unique beliefs.

  when the dust settles, it all comes down to blind faith in men's ever-changing ideas.

  this "unique belief" was not a "true teaching of the bible.

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  I am a fader because I don't see why I would want to defend anything.
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  100 YEARS OF YEAR TEXTS SINCE 1914

  by OwnAccord in

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  2. friends

  email that's being sent around.

  will yet praise thee more and more.- (ps.

  1940 "my heart shall rejoice in the salvation."-(ps.

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  There was 100 years of year text including 1914 and it repeated in 2013.

  1914 was Be courageous and strong" (Joshua 1:9)

  Which is what 2013 was.

  But it is not what 2014 is.

  They got the idea right but the facts wrong.
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  Why are JW REQUIRED to report Field Service Time???

  by JT in

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  2. friends

  if you ever wanted to know why this poster put it best

  repost-------------------------------------.

  in reply to: why do jw keep track of hrs?

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  In years past, pioneers would get discounts. In order to enforce who is pioneers and whether they do what they are supposed to to earn that discount, they required field service reports.
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  Views on women priests.

  by quellycatface in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  having an interesting time at the moment with my faith journey.

  my hubs was confirmed a catholic and his views are no women priests because there weren't any in the bible.

  hence, the absence in rc churches.. my mother is a jw.

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  A priest is someone acting between two parties. A mediator, an agent, etc.

  But in the Bible there was a specific role called priest. They were only men.

  In the Catholic church... who cares about what the Cathoic church does?
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  Jehovahs witnesses dont have the name of GOD right so how can they be his witnesses

  by smiddy in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  the tetragrammaton ,does not appear anywhere in the christian greek scriptures see the new world kingdom interlinear translation.

  the tetragrammaton translated in english is yhwh ( not jhvh) their is no j in hebrew.. the first edition of the book " aid to bible understanding" admits that the proper pronunciation of gods name is not known.. that they have used the name jehovah because it is the more popular name used in christendoms religions.

  and they say christendoms religions are apostates / anti christs /babylon the great , can they have it both ways ?.

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  Did you actually think of that argument yourself or did you copy someone else?

  That has got to be the most trolled argument for trolls.

  Who really cares about what God's name is and who is using it. There are more important things to worry about.

  If it were important, it would have been preserved. But if it is not important than the arguments that JWs have made could not have been made. It is possible that he left it unpreserved as a test for his people interested in the name to find and use.

  Leave it as something that we will never know the truth about until God reveals it.

  And as stated above, no one uses Jesus' given name, so why is it that everyone complains about the use of God's name?

  Be consistant in your complaints.