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  A little something you have not yet heard.

  by lastmanstanding in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  i hope to make a very interesting post here, and informative.

  i’m quite sure no one here has heard this content.

  i would like to finally make known some heretofore undisclosed details concerning something that has affected probably everyone on this board to some degree.

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  "where he talked about the WT being involved with the UN"

  They were never involved with the UN. Their being an NGO is not what I would call involvement.
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  04-2022 Q from Readers on Divorce

  by Rattigan350 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  any comments on the 04/2022 question from readers on divorce and remarriage.. "if a christian divorces his wife without scriptural grounds and then marries another person, how does the congregation view the previous marriage and the new marriage?".

  why does that even matter how the congregation views anything?

  they should be minding their own business.. if people move to a different area, the congregation wouldn't even know about.. (if a guy remarries a woman with the same first name, she would end up with the same name and no one would know).

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  Fooldnomore. Right. It would not be adultery because what is being adulterated? A marriage that no longer exists?

  I hear of people, like myself, who have been separated from their spouses because we've been taught that divorce is bad. But is that really what marriage is? People living apart and not agreeing. That's not a marriage. So how could getting a divorce and marrying another be an adulterous marriage if the marriage that one was just in was not a "marriage"
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  04-2022 Q from Readers on Divorce

  by Rattigan350 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  any comments on the 04/2022 question from readers on divorce and remarriage.. "if a christian divorces his wife without scriptural grounds and then marries another person, how does the congregation view the previous marriage and the new marriage?".

  why does that even matter how the congregation views anything?

  they should be minding their own business.. if people move to a different area, the congregation wouldn't even know about.. (if a guy remarries a woman with the same first name, she would end up with the same name and no one would know).

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  Any comments on the 04/2022 Question from Readers on Divorce and remarriage.

  "If a Christian divorces his wife without Scriptural grounds and then marries another person, how does the congregation view the previous marriage and the new marriage?"

  Why does that even matter how the congregation views anything? They should be minding their own business.

  If people move to a different area, the congregation wouldn't even know about.

  (If a guy remarries a woman with the same first name, she would end up with the same name and no one would know)

  "In the past, the congregation viewed the new marriage as adulterous as long as the innocent mate was alive, remained unmarried, and was not guilty of sexual immorality"

  That's stupid. The whole concept of adulterous marriage made no sense. The first time they had sex would be considered adultery, but then after that they would be fully married and not adultery after that since the prior marriage would be undone and uninstalled.

  They are more pharisaic than the phrarisees. Jesus was not even making rules. He was talking to people under the law, and showing what the law was really about. The law does not apply anymore so what he said does not apply anymore.

  Do people even know what adultery is? m-w says "adultery is from adulterāre (“to pollute, defile, commit adultery”), a word formed ultimately from the Latin elements ad- “to, near” and alter “other.”" It is more about polluting and defiling the marriage than sex. If the two have been separated, then getting a divorce and then remarried does not pollute or defile that marriage.
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  The Watchtower—Study Edition  |  May 2022

  by RULES & REGULATIONS in

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  2. bible

  the watchtower—study edition | may 2022. study article 19. revelation—what it means for you today.

  15 satan instigated an attack on the anointed brothers who were taking the lead in the kingdom-preaching work.

  prominent ones among them were the figurative “two witnesses” spoken of as being killed.

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  It is an accurate interpretation of those Revelation passages based on the events since Revelation was written and the end times.
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  What's the deal with Cheese and Apple Danishes at conventions.

  by pistolpete in

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  2. beliefs

  this was before my time, but there was this post that had 308 comments testifying that the best thing of being a jehovah witness back in the day was the convention's meals.

  is this true?.

  one quote out of 308;.

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  There were food tickets sold and pioneers got free tickets and each item was a certain number of tickets.

  Then in 1989 when the literature went no cost, the food was on donation basis too.

  Then in 1994, it changed to Bring your own.
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  Anthony Morris wants to help inactive ones return to Jehovah

  by RULES & REGULATIONS in

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  jw broadcasting.

  news and announcements.

  2021 governing body update #10. .

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  What makes them think that being inactive in the field service or not watching or being at meetings means they are away from Jehovah?
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  Gossip

  by Rattigan350 in

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  2. friends

  question for former elders:.

  how much of your time was spent quelling gossip and rumors floating around.

  i'm not talking about csa type stuff, just regular insignficant stuff that people occupied their time over..

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  Question for former elders:

  How much of your time was spent quelling gossip and rumors floating around. I'm not talking about CSA type stuff, just regular insignficant stuff that people occupied their time over.
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  Snakes walked on legs till the Eden curse Watchtower belief till 1974!!

  by Witness 007 in

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  2. bible

  watchtower 1964 page 352 "....before god cursed it the snake had legs that elevated it off the ground.

  god transformed its body so that it ceased to have legs and could move on its belly.".

  book "gods eternal purpose"1974 - "god did not put a curse on the whole serpent family...it had only been victimised by satan...".

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  They weren't snakes. They were called serpents
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  A New LOW for Jehovah's Witnesses

  by Newly Enlightened in

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  https://youtu.be/eufngqq77tu.

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  That's not recruiting. Where do they see recruiting.

  And why get upset over that?
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  How do you find reddit

  by joe134cd in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  just curious but how do the people off this forum find reddit.

  for myself i find reddit to be sadly lacking in the jw world.

  i just don't find the depth there e.g one sentence replies, trying to be funny.

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  As Hothabanero said "It is run by assholes. I joined and got booted in a week. So much for free speech!"

  Yesterday I got an email saying I was given a 7 day ban from posting.

  Oh, and where was the judical committee? They don't have those? They don't even have you face your accuser like the constitution says we have the right.

  Hypocrites.