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  Interview with an Apostate: DeWandelaar

  by DeWandelaar in

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  for yourself and others.. do you think the wts can or should be destroyed, will continue on as-is or grow / change?.

  do i blame them?

  so i blame that on them.

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  Interesting read. I see many similarities between us. Thank you.
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  Could we quantify how many posters their are from different nations ? Would you like to know ?

  by smiddy in

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  maybe its just me , i`m just curious as to how many people on this site are from australia as i am .

  how many from germany , italy , zambia , etc.

  etc.. do two or three "countries " seem to dominate the threads ?

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  Here another dutchie living in Spain.
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  The TRUTH about Jehovah's Wittnesses (from MY 22 YRS. EXPERIENCE) - A MUST READ!

  by gmason972 in

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  2. friends

  i have learned to stay away from all religion and jehovahs wittness doctrine (that includes the watchtower and awake magazines).

  stay away from positions of ministerial servant, pioneer, aux pioneer, elder, and the like.

  once you become a full fledged jehovah wittness you are doomed to be unhappy.

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  Hi gmason972. Our experiences are very similar. I totally agree.
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  Branch Organization Manual! download .....

  by notgoinback in

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  2. beliefs

  as my second post on this forum, i want to share this with you guys!

  this is the official branch organization manual (updated 2003) of jehovah's witnesses:.

  http://jhonlemos.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/branch-organization-watchtower.pdf.

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  @notgoinback Thank you for that Standards Manual (2005). The last part about SPECIAL TERMINOLOGY did have some interesting guidelines about disallowed expressions in the literature:

  Approved Term	Disallowed Term
  blinded, deceived, or comparable expressions	brainwashed
  	friends When refering to the brothers
  Jehovah’s Witnesses	Jehovah’s Christian Witnesses (opposition group)
  one of Jehovah’s Witnesses A comparable form is acceptable	a Jehovah’s Witness
  selected delegate Individuals who have been designated to attend special conventions	approved delegate
  unassigned territory	isolated territory
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  Who came up with the phrase TTATT? When?

  by dazed but not confused in

  1. social
  2. current

  who came up with this term and when?

  is there a specific member that the credit goes to or did it just develop over time?

  was it used in the beginning of this site or is it taken from another site?.

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  I do not doubt in any way that Seraphim23 was the first using the phrase in the environment that he described.

  I did find however the story of Sharon McDaniel Kennedy, apparently written in 1999 (and according to Google's cache indexed at Sep 15, 1999 to be exact), where she said:

  I believe with all my heart that Jehovah is the Hearer of prayers, and that he answered mine with the truth about "the truth". It became very clear, as I would read scriptures, what the real and correct meaning was, rather than what the Society’s interpretation said was the meaning.

  See: http://www.towerwatch.com/Testimonies/sharon_kennedy.htm

  Like Apognophos stated earlier:

  When you think about it, it's a fairly obvious play on words
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  Who came up with the phrase TTATT? When?

  by dazed but not confused in

  1. social
  2. current

  who came up with this term and when?

  is there a specific member that the credit goes to or did it just develop over time?

  was it used in the beginning of this site or is it taken from another site?.

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  About the acronym: Willa, moderator at Paradise Cafe, used the acronym TTATT at june 15th, 2009.

  See http://www.paradisecafediscussions.net/showthread.php?tid=4991&pid=56194#pid56194
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  JW Mission = Find all checker floors in WT publications

  by bytheirworks in

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  2. beliefs

  your mission... should you choose to accept it, will be to find all checker floors in the watchtower publications, especially those involving worship.. .

  if you can upload them here, great.

  i don't know to upload a pic from my computer on this site.

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  From the study Bible:
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  Simon: help please

  by Farkel in

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  2. tech-support

  my last two posts were not parsed with a cr/lf.

  all the sentences ran together with no cr/lfs.

  i'm still using chrome with xp-pro and until today, everything worked perfectly.

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  I saw a text area without RTE, some JS-errors in de console:

  [11:17:22.311] Error: Support for eval(code, scopeObject) has been removed. Use |with (scopeObject) eval(code);| instead. @ http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/content/tiny_mce/tiny_mce_gzip.js:128
  [11:17:22.312] SyntaxError: syntax error @ http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/content/tiny_mce/tiny_mce_gzip.js:130
  [11:17:23.119] ReferenceError: tinyMCE is not defined @ http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/forum/tech-support/259728/1/Simon-help-please:829

  After a CTRL-F5 the RTE is back without JS-errors.
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  Forum maintenance

  by Simon in

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  2. announcements

  i will be doing some maintenance on the forum today so don't be surprised if some pages take a while to load now and again, you get an error or the site doesn't respond at all.. if this happens, please just wait a minute and retry.. many thanks!.

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  The RSS-feed doens't function since yesterday: http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/active.rss
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  History of the WBTS interpretations of the feet of Daniel 2

  by wizzstick in

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  2. beliefs

  been doing some research on this.. back in ctr's day the feet of clay and iron symbolized (i think) the ten kingdoms: http://www.bible.ca/pre-miller-1843-ellen-white.gif.

  by 1958 they believed what they do now, that it's the anglo american dual world power: http://www.a2z.org/wtarchive/docs/1958_your_will_be_done_on_earth.pdf (pdf page 126).. but does anyone know what year the wbts started believing that the feet of clay and iron symbolized the anglo american dual world power?.

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  Some quotes from The kingdom is at hand (1944, pages 179-88), which presented an alternative view:

  Religious clergymen have attempted an interpretation of this dream, making it refer to the rise and fall of the four successive world powers, Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece, and the Roman empire.
  
  The image of the dream represents Satan's organization as a whole, invisible and visible, and including "the god of this world" himself... Satan the Devil is the golden head of the image... Brass (or copper), and silver, and gold, are superior metals, and hence are well used in symbolizing the unseen spiritual parts of Satan's totalitarian organization...
  
  The feet and toes of the image of the king's dream were seen to be of iron mixed with clay, picturing divided power and organization... When the great crisis of Satan's world is reached in the near future, the political iron will sharply divide off from the religious clay. The ten toes of the image picture the complete number or all of the religious-political governments of men at the time of such climax.

  w49 5/15 page 153 and Make sure of all things (1953, pages 101, 104, 235) also refer to the statue as Satan's organization.