This should also apply to medical issues and higher education because generally people would not discuss medical issues with other or even educational things.
Also, Witness women shouldn't have adult toys either. No need for that stuff.
Rattigan350
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Oral and Anal Sex flip flop? March 2025 Announcements and Reminders
by ukpimo injust in.
a jaw dropping announcements and reminders for elders this month.
how can you serve as an elder and believe this organization is spirit directed after reading this letter?.
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Don't you just love LITERATURE truths?
by BoogerMan inas jw's we swallowed such concoctions for years - without a single scripture provided as proof!.
w71 12/15 p. 759 - "apparently, the apostle peter was the chairman of the governing body on the festival day of pentecost of 33 c.e., and the disciple james, the half brother of jesus christ, was the chairman at a later date, according to the account in acts of apostles.
from this, and from what historical evidence there is available, the chairmanship of the governing body rotated.".
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Rattigan350
The apostles and older men there were not acting as a governing body. They were not seeking or making new rules or laws.
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144,000 + 1 kings
by moomanchu ini wonder why so many kings are needed for the millennial reign?
the almighty governing body says 24,000,000,000 people combined from those resurrected and the survivors of the big 'a' could make it into paradise.
that gives you 1 king for every 166,665 persons.
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If there are 24 billion people to be resurrected and there are 365,000 days in 1000 year reign, that means that 65,753 people will be resurrected each day. Jesus spreads the work and delegates that to the 144,000 to assist.
And Blonde, why does it matter what Rutherford taught?
I like to not look at who taught want and stick to the realities.
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What will happen to the Watchtower Religion now that Trump has Withdrawn from certain aspects of the United Nations.
by liam inso trump has signed an executive order to withdraw from the united nations human rights council, a refugee organization, some others parts as well and calls for a review of american involvement in funding of the united nations.
he said the united nations has not been living to its potential and they need to get their act together or just dissolve the organization completely.
he said america will continue to be a part of the un but it's tiring that the united states is the country that funds most of the monies and that can't continue.
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What is a Watchtower Religion?
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How Do JWs Understand Salvation & What Is Needed to Obtain It?
by LauraLynn infrom my experience within the jw organization, i understood that salvation meant a person accepted the teachings of the wbts without question as the "faithful and discrete slave," thereby placing their trust in them, not jesus christ.
salvation consisted of being found "righteous" by jehovah and resurrected to everlasting life in an earthly paradise.
to obtain this salvation, one needed to obey the organization's teachings, remain a faithful jw, and lead a moral life.
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Mainstream teaching?
Is that supposed to be better?
Mainstream just means that it is popular which means that it is not right.
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UNBELIEVABLE! Actual chat conversation with an active pioneer JW.
by deaconbluez ini don't think so lol.
lol.
lol.
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Are we supposed to read that and care?
That's as dumb as those youtube videos about how someone stumped one of Jehovah's Witnesses as if one person brings everything down. Do better.
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Beliefs clarified - A big fat WTF for 2025
by ukpimo injehovah’s witnesses have an official page for clarified beliefs they encourage elders, ministerial servants, regular pioneers, as well as all the rest of the elite, to keep up to date with:.
https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/1200277174.
2025 has a curious clarification:.
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"The Bible does not provide details as to what sexual practices between a husband and a wife should be considered clean or unclean."
Why does it matter what the Bible provides as for details?
The reason that they always refer to the Bible is that they need an authority to look to. But yet it's not necessary.
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Rekindled Light — The Narrative Structure of the Hexaemeron (Genesis 1:1–31)
by Mebaqqer2 ini used to comment here many years ago when i had an interest in biblical research in relation to jehovah’s witnesses.
these days my biblical research is little concerned with jehovah’s witnesses.
i feel my time is better spent researching the diachronistic development of the biblical text and ascertaining what the biblical writers and editors intended in the times in which they lived.. i have recently placed a summary diagram for a paper that i have written with original research entitled the narrative structure of the hexaemeron on academia.edu.
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You all are wrong about this.
There were no 6 or 8 days of creation.
Moses was given visions of the creation process over 6 of his days. So those 6 days were 24 hours long but each day covered millions of years during those visions. God does not have mornings and evenings or days, but Moses did. It was all written from his perspective.
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How Do JWs Understand Salvation & What Is Needed to Obtain It?
by LauraLynn infrom my experience within the jw organization, i understood that salvation meant a person accepted the teachings of the wbts without question as the "faithful and discrete slave," thereby placing their trust in them, not jesus christ.
salvation consisted of being found "righteous" by jehovah and resurrected to everlasting life in an earthly paradise.
to obtain this salvation, one needed to obey the organization's teachings, remain a faithful jw, and lead a moral life.
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There is no salvation.
People have been dying for millenia
Salvation will come with the resurrection.
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Luke 23:43 the NWT
by Ade inluke 23:43 - and jesus said to him, "positively i say to you, today you will be with me in paradise.
nwt places comma here , giving a totally different meaning to the verse.
now the average jw uses this to back their doctrine and it seems in itself virtually impossible to reason with them on it.
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The word 'today' is meaningless regardless of where the comma is.
One must not follow words but understand the mechanics of the process.
The thief could not have gone to heaven that day or at all. Here are the reasons why not:
1 Cor 15:22,23 says:"and each in his proper order, a first-fruit Christ, afterwards those who are the Christ's, in his presence"
No one could go to heaven before Jesus, as he was the Firstfruits. He died on Friday Nisan 14, and was dead until his resurrection on Sunday Nisan 16. He did not ascend until 40 days later. So that guy was not in heaven that day, because Jesus wasn't.
John 14:2 "In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also."
Jesus ascended to prepare a place for them in heaven, so no one could go before that.
Also John 3:5 says "Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God."
Baptism of the spirit did not start until Pentecost, 50 days after Jesus was resurrected. That guy didn't get the spirit and is not in heaven.
He is dead and waiting for Jesus to resurrect him to the earth as Rev 20:13 says.