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  Awake magazine 1980 -Movie "The Exorcist" caused demonic possessions and murders!

  by Witness 007 in

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  awake 12/8 p.11 "since the release of the movie the excorsist some years ago many reports are on file of the adverse effects on those who saw it...mareen was an atheist who went to see it saying it was the most terrifying thing i had ever seen.

  i was shaking all over.

  during the coming weeks i was frightened to go to bed.

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  And in the late 70s conservative religious ministers would teach that Satan put backwards messages in records and that KISS stood for Knights in Satan's Service.
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  Back to the Meetings. It's Offical!

  by pistolpete in

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  yep, the vacation is over, it's time to go to work------for free!

  😭😢😓😰😡.

  https://www.jw.org/en/news/jw/.

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  But who can afford to go. This is the time to keep the Zoom meetings. Remember that in 2008 they eliminated the book study from the gas crunch then. One fewer meeting to drive to. Now with the sold off Kingdom halls and the greater distance many have to travel they will be hurting.
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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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  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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  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