Posts by villagegirl

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A one sentence reply that could jolt a JW
by HBH in
1. jw
2. friends
my mind was wandering last night, and i though of this as a reply to a jw.. "oh, your the people who believe 8 men in brooklyn, ny are directing the world's only true religion.".

the sentence is a fact that they can't deny, but clearly shows delusion.

any other one sentence "stingers"?.
villagegirl

The "faithful and discreet slave" doctrine itself seems

to be the most unquestioned doctrine. Even ex-wittnesses

have trouble with it. It is about taking care of one another

in all ways, like many other passages where Jesus tells them

things like if they feed a starving person they are feeding Him

personally, or if they clothe or house a stranger. The Watchtower

has taken all such scriptures of community responsibility and turned

them into applying only to serving the Governing Body, and not

to general charity works, even though the early Christians in the

first century, distibuted actual food and clothing to widows and orphans,

the Governing Body of Jehovah's Wittnesses makes all this "symbolic"

and tells JW's they only owe money and time to the "organization"

This makes them just like the Pharisees and their teachings to that

instructed Jews of Jesus day to take what they owed their mother and

father and give it to the Temple.
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I have never understood how they know Jesus returned. What is the evidence they use?
by Faithful Witness in
1. watchtower
2. bible
i just finished reading the articles that tell us that the last 100 years of turmoil are supposed to be proof that jesus is on the throne.

i have always been confused about this, especially when i compare it to what the bible says about his return.

matthew 24:27 says, "for just as the lightning comes out of eastern parts and shines over to western parts, so the presence of the son of man will be.".
villagegirl

The Plan of the Ages a Seven Day Adventist chart used

by Charles Taze Russell in his book: The Divine Plan of the Ages

( available on Amazon ) 19th century Adventists

all rejected "organized religion" had tent meetings,

rejected orthodox doctrines like Hell-Fire and the Trinity and Holidays,

Russel attended their meetings, and simply borrowed their theology

and added his own fascination with Egyptology and Pyramids,

leading him to make calculations from measured distances in the

Great Pryamid at Gaza and adopt dates from the religious wizards

of his time. He is buried under a Pyramid with an eye of Isis on it

and His books have the Wings of Isis on the front covers,

anyone whjo was a witness in the 1950's and 40's has

seen or owns these books. Today you would identify this as

the Occult, the basis of the Watchtower Society rests in the occult.
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"Building 1.5 Million Square Feet in 4 Years will NOT Happen Without Jehovah's Spirit"
by Yan Bibiyan in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
a quote from the latest jw video pimping the warwick project.

link below, quote @7:30 mark.. http://www.jw.org/en/jehovahs-witnesses/activities/construction/video-world-headquarters-jehovahs-witnesses-history-warwick/.

i call bullshit!.
villagegirl

And its all for what ? To print more mind numbingly boring books ?

all of which will be "old light" in 5 years ? Thats a lot of toxic chemicals

to print, and a lot of forests to cut down for the paper. 100 years of this

and they are .01 percent of the world population ? someone do the math.
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OK - I've had it - My letter to the KH
by LisaRose in
1. jw
2. friends
the whole time i lived in colorado, i had the dubs come by once and leave a tract.

but since moving to california, they are at my door so often i asked them to put me on the "do not call" list.

this did not stop them, in fact i have asked four times, plus once i called the kingdom hall and left a message, they still come, the last time this past saturday.
villagegirl

Also - you never know when you might be the spark that

lights the fire that frees another wittness, who knows who will

open the letter and actually read it, it may be this person will

see something that will produce a small window in his mind

and through it he will see he is imprisoned and in darkness.

You never know what starts the chains to fall away.

What tips the stone that starts the avalanche ?
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JWs and pessimism
by elisaporquien in
1. jw
2. experiences
there are people who are pessimistic, optimistic, cynical or whatever.

i've noticed that ever since my sister became a jw she's become very pessimistic about life now (present time).

i love and care about her but her pessimism sometimes brings me down (emotionally).
villagegirl

Gloom and Doom, they hope for the worst, they get excited

when others fail and the economy takes a nose dive or wars start,

they miss the overall forward and positive and upward motion of

events and the fundamental goodness and kindness in mankind.

Its the isolating ideas they have about "worldly people"

There is no real connections in the congregation because of artificial

judgements and no real deep connections to their community at large

because of fear and the "US" and "THEM" mentality of being "separate"

Certain scriptures have been twisted to create a dependence on the

"organization" and fear of being lost without it. They think they are

"protected" and don't fully understand why their lives are so empty feeling.
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Watchtower Legal Team Makes Threats
by Brother Mike in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i don't want to alarm anybody but the i have heard that the watchtower legal team has made threat to have various websites shut down for leaking important documents out to the public and to its various members of the christian congregation.

has anyone else heard this?

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villagegirl

Suing, for freedom of speech ?

Isn't the whole purpose they exist to "publish" ???

All they do is "publish" "publish" and aren't their members

supposed to be "publishers" ?? So if they write it

it should be published.

Are they embarrassed by their own words?

I would be, but they think they are the sole channel,

channelling God, spreading the good news, dripping golden words,

so we are just helping them along to spread and publish and reach

people with whatever they write down, how is this a problem ?
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No more by us!
by Atlantis in
1. watchtower
2. bible
no more boes or kingdom ministries will be posted by us on this board.

there is a very important reason why!

beware of anyone encouraging you to post any boes on this board.
villagegirl

At what point in time did it become dangerous or against the

law to practice freedom of speech in America ?

Are you trying to say the Wt society has hackers who steal

confidential information from this site ? Like my personal email ?
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Help! My 14 year old has a cyber stalker and won't take it serious
by CADSkin in
1. social
2. family
so my 14 year old daughter recently has been duped into sending a facebook friend a video of her house and random crap by someone pretending to be a 17 year old in the uk.

this set off major warning bells in my wife and i so we started to investigate.

although all very innocent she was obviously being played by a cyber stalker.
villagegirl

This person could be in contact with someone in your area

who breaks into houses. Get serious with this child, I mean

take charge and tell her she is putting her whole family at risk.

Tell her some real life horror stories, she is one of those teenagers

who are "fearless" and those are the types who get lured away

and killed. Get serious get a policeman to talk to her if necessary,

where is her father in all this ? Oh, I see, you ARE her father ??

WAKE UP dude. Check the statistics on missing children.
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So you want to leave the Jehovah's Witnesses?
by Watchtower-Free in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynxo8nj-jpo.

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from roguepixel100 on youtube.
villagegirl

Very entertaining and good advice spoiled only by

some Borsheims pop- up window covering half of it

that will not close - Simon can this pop-up be fixed ?

removed? made to close somehow ? Or wait its an Ad Choices

window and changes ads, but refuses to close. OMG its scary
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Do we need to alert newbies to the search engine on topics , so we dont needlesly rehash topics already covered in depth.?
by smiddy in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i must admit i was slow to wake up to the search button to find out about a subject which may have been thrashed to death years ago.only to try to revitalise it in my ignorance.

this is not a fault with newbies .bear with me .i am not computer literate .but is it possible or even plausible that newbies are given a basic instruction on how to find information using the search function ?

surely it could save a lot of needless repetition.just saying.. smiddy.
villagegirl

You may need to hire full time programmers that

are "wired in" to develop this site. Too bad the urban legend

of the Evil Slave is a myth or we could ask him to donate millions.