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What was YOUR wake-up call before you left the JW´s organization?
by Mr Fool in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
what was your wake-up call(s) before you left the jw s organization?

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Is there an Almighty Dog ?
by Phizzy in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i am not dyslexic, though it is in the family, and i am kinda referring to the joke about the agnostic dyslexic wondering if there really is a dog.. my question is sincere though.

there are kind of "top" dogs, some are bigger than others, some are stronger, and yet really they are all dogs, and there is not really an almighty dog, a canine supreme being.. so, there may be other beings in the physical universe, superior or inferior to us, or just differnt, who knows.. but let us assume there is a "spirit world" not part of the physical universe, and it is peopled by "beings".. is it philosophically necessary that there be a supreme being ?.
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Isn`t it ludicrous women can be king/queen preists in heaven and rule with jesus in heaven,yet be silent and submissive to males in the congrgations ?
by smiddy in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
is this just another example of the bible being inconsistent/contradictory ?

or is it screwed up wt.theology.. what`s your thoughts.

smiddy.
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607 BC vs 587 BC: Archaeoastronomy for Everyone
by Londo111 in
1. watchtower
2. bible
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amobor6pdbo.

even though this is an appendix to the main series, i thought id share this.

likely, it is not the most riveting video, but im hoping it can empower those interested in starting research into astronomical diaries like vat 4956. some might think its too complicated, but i believe such research is within everyones reach.
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interesting Rumour
by Slidin Fast in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i heard a rumour today to the effect that there is a new gb member in his late twenties/early thirties.

i stress that this is unsubtantiated and requires confirmation or quashing.. can anyone confirm or definately deny it?.
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Why does an Omni... God need Jesus and the 144,000 co-rulers?
by jwfacts in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
at the thread about jaracz steve2 made the following interesting comment.

by now, ted should be finding his heavenly posting a routinized bore: 4 years and still counting.

he will have chaffed at the notion that all decisions are made by jehovah god who consults no one and who brooks no questioning or independent thinking.
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Not just false teaching--but worse: plagiarized false teaching from the GB
by Terry in
1. jw
2. friends
as october 22, 1844 slowly faded into october 23 a great weeping swept the countryside as 50,000 true believers in the accuracy of william miller's.

prediction (of christ's return to earth) faced the stark reality of total soul-crushingly great disappointment.. .

how had they come to this bizarre conclusion and what would they now face by way of recrimination and disconfirmation?.
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Did you feel pushed into pioneering?
by Xanthippe in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
so i have been replying to letters from a jw friend who suddenly started writing to me after i've been out for nearly 25 years.. i have mentioned things like the poverty that pioneering causes from my own experience, worrying about having enough money to buy food.. i also said that the scrimping would have been worth it if we had been saving to buy a home or go on lovely holidays.. instead we ended up with nothing materially and we were living in a tiny rented flat when we left.. when i think of all the places i wanted to visit with my husband but couldn't because we were pioneering and had no money and now it is too late because my husband has died at the age of 54. we did get to visit some beautiful places but we ran out of time.. what i was trying to say to her was - life's too short.

stop waiting for the new system, get on with your life.

stop exhausting yourself in that religion.
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Leaving the Watchtower religion behind...are we ABLE to reconsider with FREEDOM what may NOT be "true?"
by Terry in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
as we all now know, once you leave the watchtower religion you are exposed to the possibility of education for the first time.. an ex-jw discovers that the theocratic lessons they have learned were not all they were led to believe , i.e.

"accurate knowledge.".

is this story actually true?
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Jehovah's Witnesses or Watchower's Witnesses?
by biometrics in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i've often thought about it.

are these people witnessing jehovah or the watchtower.. in the abscense of solid proof that god is backing the watchtower they are only witnessing a group of men who beleive they have god's backing.. .

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