message from designer stubble to the former jwr members.
first of all i am glad to see that many of you have found your way to this great forum, facilitated by simon.
i am sure that after the dust of the jwr shutdown has settled, you will find this to be a good new home.. i would like to apologize for the sudden closure of jwr.
All organizations need exit strategies for key members and the organization itself, especially ones that wish to support fragile people in hellish curcumstances.
As Moxie, the founder of JWR, handed off to Rifter, perhaps Rifter should do (should have done?) something similar.
message from designer stubble to the former jwr members.
first of all i am glad to see that many of you have found your way to this great forum, facilitated by simon.
i am sure that after the dust of the jwr shutdown has settled, you will find this to be a good new home.. i would like to apologize for the sudden closure of jwr.
One of the first things I thought when I got wind of the plug being pulled:
"Oh shit! Fugue's posts!"
i just tried to go to the site and there is a goodbye message.
i was a member there since 2010. i was really surprised.
i had just started posting there again after being away for a while.
I'm feeling betrayed right now. Not that I have been, but that's how I feel.
This will be discussed on JW Escape's next podcast.
We will also be dicussing the xxJW thing.
read the news here.
the jehovah's witnesses lost their appeal to the supreme court of russia.
bethel to be liquidated.. i bet the gb saw this coming ... here comes the persecution complex paranoia.
If you are a group that discourages voting, military service, and other forms of civic service, you should at least have your tax exemption revoked, or banned.
one sentence answers only.. here's mine:.
jws exist because people want an escape from the modern world and are willing to give up intellectual freedom to get it..
childhood indoctrination into supernatural belief opens the door for all kinds of bullshit.
international version 1 cor 5:11. but now i am writing to you that you must not associate with anyone who claims to be a brother or sister but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or slanderer, a drunkard or swindler.
do not even eat with such people.. if shunning is wrong.
.how does one explain this scripture?.
If the fairy tale book hints at shunning for any reason, and the fairy tale believers take it too far, the fault is the book for not being clear enough, in exact detail, what it is implying.
How about an entire book of the Bible on shunning, how to do it and not do it. Instead we get Song of Solomon, or Job, or some other ignorable tripe.
i'm thinking of printing a tract with some simple but thought-provoking questions for people to use when jw's come to their doors.
questions from christians.
bible-believing christians appreciate the moral values of jehovah’s witnesses in their communities but have several questions that somehow seem to escape us when we are caught unexpectedly at our doors.
If you are Christian and feel the need to set a JW straight, start of with some common footing by establishing what all you agree on:
After that you can start splitting hairs about how drinking fake human blood ought to be done.
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the commercial video, as well as the cool 360° vr views are available on the home page of.
https://www.watchtowerbrooklynrealestate.com.
this is the actuall txt.
i have included spelling mistakes and everything.. relative = brother x passed away this morning just thought i would let you no.
joe = man everyone is dying.
"mind our own business"
Which when translated means: stop looking around outside our bubble, that could lead to thinking
I can sense the uber dub, no exaggeration there
also he never chastised the jews for not identifying themselves as jehovah`s witnesses following isaiah`s statement at ch.43 :10-12 , so many years before hand.. and he had ample opportunity to do so on numerous occasions .. jesus himself never used the divine name /jehovah or any other equivalent , in any of his sayings attributed to him by his contemporaries .. sure he acknowledged god as his father and that he did his fathers will , but he never acknowledged him by a personal name such as jehovah or anything like it.. and lets not forget acts 11:26 it was first in antioch that followers of jesus by divine providence were to be called christians , not jehovah`s witnesses,.
smiddy.
YHWH is used nearly seven thousand times in the OT.
The NT comes along and Yahweh's name is dropped like a dirty shirt. Not only does this make no sense theologically, it gets worse, the transition to not using Yahweh's name is never discussed in scripture.
Could the bible be a just a collection of discordant religious texts?
