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Rattigan350
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How do Jehovah's Witnesses get away with lying about the scripture?
by Capitanul inthey can edit their own versions to conform to their doctrines but what's stopping people to hand flyers or glue posters with the actual quotes in contradiction to their statements?.
examples:.
https://www.jw.org/en/bible-teachings/questions/what-is-the-holy-spirit/ - http://archive.is/778ch .
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Our congregation will be deleted
by Rattigan350 inlast night was the co's visit.
prior to his part, an elder had a part on following theocratic direction.
it was about our congregation being deleted (there are 2 sharing this hall) and the people and territory being divided up to the 4 other surrounding ones.. they say it is not about numbers but about making best use of resources.
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DOC: "Are BOTH congregations that use your Hall being dispersed to other Congs and thus your Hall may be sold?"
A few weeks ago they just replaced the carpeting. And the Hall is not in a good area for a business to use it.
As for the other congregation, they have their meeting tonight and they don't know. But everything will go back to it was back in 2011 before they created this congregation.
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Our congregation will be deleted
by Rattigan350 inlast night was the co's visit.
prior to his part, an elder had a part on following theocratic direction.
it was about our congregation being deleted (there are 2 sharing this hall) and the people and territory being divided up to the 4 other surrounding ones.. they say it is not about numbers but about making best use of resources.
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Last night was the CO's visit. Prior to his part, an elder had a part on following theocratic direction. It was about our congregation being deleted (there are 2 sharing this hall) and the people and territory being divided up to the 4 other surrounding ones.
They say it is not about numbers but about making best use of resources. They put this spin on how it is beneficial with more people, more elders, etc. The only thing that would benefit would be less utility bills on the Hall. The good thing is that it will be easier to be invisible and fall through the cracks and not be missed.
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Do You Think Disfellowshipping Is The Worst Thing About Jehovah’s Witnesses?
by minimus inthe longer i’m out the more i feel that disfellowshipping is cruel.
i understand the organization tells parents to not even accept emails or texts from their disfellowshipped children.
while i was a witness they tried to discourage families from association but there was some leeway if it was considered necessary business to interact.
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No, it is not bad at all. Because you can choose to remedy that. It is up to you to get reinstated and the shunning will stop.
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The Farm
by Rattigan350 indoes anyone watch the cw show riverdale?.
do you see similarities between the current season's arc about "the farm" and jehovah's witnesses?
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Does anyone watch the CW show Riverdale?
Do you see similarities between the current season's arc about "The Farm" and Jehovah's witnesses?
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His Rose colored glasses are back on
by HappyBlessedFree inso my husband who was not attending meetings for the last four months, went to the special talk, the memorial and the meeting today.
he said he feels jehovah’s spirit is back and that they are all being so kind.. i am just sick to my stomach.
he just refuses to see anything as a problem.
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Rattigan350
" He just refuses to see anything as a problem."
what is the problem?
The NGO thing is not a problem.
The problem is that religion is useless. It is just people focusing on God as a crutch to their problems and God is doing nothing to help.
The problem is the religion is too focused on the religion. The elders can not be marriage counselors because if the problem is because the religion then they focus on the person's spirituality and not the religion.
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Does Anyone Remember Mr. Coffee
by new boy inthe apostate that hung around bethel back in the early 1970's.. i talk about "the frog" and "lady margret" in my book but knew nothing about "mr. coffee".
any help please.
new boy.
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Rattigan350
I remember him when I did temp work there in 1987. He yelled out at the women. Things like You have too much makeup and look like Tammy Faye Baker.
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Bottlegate Revisited
by ZindagiNaMilegiDobaara inhilarious,enjoy.found on reddit.
this should set the mood for the weekend !.
zing.
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But who is it and what does it have to do with here?
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How Do You Think The USA Should Allow Illegal Immigrants To Freely Flow Into The Country?
by minimus inmany people have said there is no emergency at the border for people illegally coming into the country and furthermore we have an obligation to help these people in a humanitarian way come through.
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do you think we can just keep on taking in all of these people?
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If they are coming into the USA, it is for a reason. That reason is that economics here are better than there.
The solution is to fix things there so there would be no advantage coming here.
I think that the USA should enter agreements with Mexico and the other Western hemisphere countries or take them by force and make them states so they would be in the USA and resources would be combined and those problems won't exist.
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Do old time present day active JW`s genuinely believe in overlapping generations ?
by smiddy3 infor the life of me i can not come to terms with old timers in the "truth" who could swallow this interpretation of scripture about an overlapping generation .. when jesus spoke about "this generation" .
are their any real bible students among younger ones any more ?.
here are 3 bible scriptures that confirm a generation is approximately 40- 50 years long give or take a few years .. 1. matt:1 :17 abraham born 2016-18 bc jesus born 2 bc approx.
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Sea Breeze said: "JW's start with a belief paradigm. This is their worldview, their lens by which they interpret all data they experience:
1. They alone have the truth
2. Their experts have it all figured out
3. Jesus already returned invisibly
4. The church age (Gentile Times) has already ended; and with that so has the offer for immortality by faith alone. Now, everyone has to work for it by accepting the framework worked out by the F&DS asks."I say you are wrong.
1. JWs say they have the truth because there is only one truth from the beginning. From Gen 1:1 to the Israelites and the Law and the temple, there was one truth. Jesus nullified the Law and the temple, but there was still one truth. Then for centuries the truth got contaminated and diluted. But JWs had the intent of seeking that truth of Jesus. No one else has tried or done that.
2. As to 'their experts'. If it weren't for the case of building and supporting a religion, the ones involved have always focused on God, not the people.
3. Jesus has not returned invisibly. He has taken the throne in heaven invisible to human eyes in 1914. The throne of David became heavenly.
4. The Gentile times is not the church age. That is the time period from when the rulership on the throne of God was not occupied by a sovereign ruler in the line of David. From 607 when King Jehoiakim was made a vassel until Jesus became king in 1914. So many people in and out of the organization don't understand that.