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  What would you consider to be 'Victory over the Watchtower'?

  by nicolaou in

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  i'm not talking about a victory which might include welcome reforms on blood policy, shunning or the handling of abuse allegations.

  what i want to know is what we would consider to be the victory.. it is unlikey in the extreme that the various corporations of the watchtower empire will ever be closed down so, realistically what can we hope for in the long term?

  say 30 - 50 years?.

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  I consider victory over the Watchtower as being completely independent of any and all people remotely involved with the WT.

  Victory over the JW's would't be it's total disbanding. Major cults don't disband in that manner. It's usually a very slow process. The cult will collapse on it's own like the Millerites or undergo a serious Glastnost like the RLDS. From how everything is shaping up for them, they're clearly not going to survive as they are.

  Rather, our being here is a part of victory over the WT, the fact that we're free of their psychological control and how they have one less educated person to control. In a way, we're leading to the WT's eventual dissolving or Glastnost.
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  New Light-----1986----The International Year Of Peace Fulfilled???

  by minimus in

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  they're saying the prophecy is possibly fulfilled of "peace and security and then sudden destruction" in the year 1986 when world leaders dubbed that year as the "year of peace".

  the feb.1st watchtower mentions that just as a pregnant woman over 9 months gradually has signs of a baby's growth in the womb, so too, we may have a fulfillment of bible prophecy without knowing it fully beforehand until the effects and results become obvious.

  my mother read excerpts of the wt.

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  I think the WT put more into the "Year of Peace" than the UN. The UN knew that 1986 wasn't going to be devoid of war, like any other sane person, and any other sane person would just see the "Year of Peace" as just a trite phrase put on by the UN to encourage peace for the future. Anybody that can't see that is devoid of intelligence.
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  Anybody See The January 22, 2004 Awake?

  by ColdRedRain in

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  today, when i came home from the hospital, i saw the back of the 2004 awake and something struck my fancy.

  it appears that it has pictures of the holy name in hebrew engraved in pyramids.

  i opened up the magazine and it was filled with even more of those pictures, and a picture of a weird looking face on page 11.

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  Today, when I came home from the hospital, I saw the back of the 2004 Awake and something struck my fancy. It appears that it has pictures of the holy name in Hebrew engraved in pyramids. I opened up the magazine and it was filled with even more of those pictures, and a picture of a weird looking face on page 11.
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  A lie is a lie, but how would GOD deal it?

  by U.2.K. Tha Greate$t in

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  we all know that(those who pay attention anyway, the others who dont are foolish) christmas cometh from a pagan celebration of a "false god", and it still to this day is ignorant.

  the fact is that nobody knows when jesus was born, and nobody wont know till after the end into the beginning.

  and the fact that the mothers and fathers of this world swears that they "love their children" but also lies to them about santa, people believe in fiction more then they do reality, reality is god and his wonderful creation.

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  You know, I think it's time that the dubbies should change their stance on college education.........................
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  How important is the Devil to God?

  by Narkissos in

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  a few days ago, on the thread about ?a new view of the trinity?, rubadub voiced his disappointment as to the lack of any really new view, such as a fourth member who could turn it into a quadrinity or replace any of the members of the trinity in case of emergency.

  at the moment i just laughed, but later on i thought the devil could be a very good candidate.

  just think: under the influence of persian dualism, shortly after yhwh, the god of ancient israel, became god in the absolute sense (say in the 6th century bc, with second isaiah), satan (from a common hebrew noun meaning ?opposer?

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  Je sais où pour aller por mon leçons françaises!
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  Get on the 2004 Birthday Calendar

  by nicolaou in

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  this is the current 2003 birthday calendar, just leave your details here if you'd like to be included in next years.

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  Has there been New Light regarding Apostates?

  by Athanasius in

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  yesterday my girlfriend and i were walking to our car in a shopping mall parking lot when an elder and his wife drove up.

  instead of running us down with his automobile, he stopped and let us cross.

  he and his wife even smiled at us.

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  I take offence to that comment! I'm a apostate heathen BLACK trash bastard !

  Me too!
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  My Brother Died Today

  by Blueblades in

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  i consider all who post here as my family.we have all been hurt in some way.my brother died today.. blueblades,who has six sisters left.mom,dad,one sister and two brothers died.i'm the only man in the family now.

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  Hey, sorry for the late post, but I just wanted to give you my sympathies.
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  If your still-JW parent died...

  by starfish422 in

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  would you attend the funeral/memorial service?

  assuming that it would be held in a kh; or even if it wasn't.. this is something that's been on my mind lately; honestly, i'm not sure why.

  my parents are both still relatively young; 60 and 61. my dad has been diagnosed with skin cancer but both are otherwise healthy.. i really don't know whether i would; particularly for my father.

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  I just have one warning to people if they do go to their JW parent's funeral. Expect to be "preached" to and you better have some damn good answers that make them think.

  I had to go through that a month and a half ago, and boy, did I make alot of people think.

  And yes, I do agree with 3rdson. You should attend no matter what. I had half a mind on skipping the funeral so I could dodge the barrage of "Are you apostate"'s and "You know, you're not going to get a ressurection for what you said"'s (Makes me laugh every time I hear it.) Turns out, I was making the biggest mistake of my life, so I rushed to the kingdumb hall and when the elder buisnessman gave the eulogy marketing pitch about his hope in a ressurection how he got suckered into a family-splitting cult, I just walked away.
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  What was the first "Bad" CD/Record/Tape you ever bought?

  by ColdRedRain in

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  i was looking on the thread on music when i just thought to ask that question.

  for me, it was gwar's violence has arrived.

  i remember loving that band so much when i first heard of them to the point where i downloaded everything they had, from album mp3's to rare bootlegs.

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  >And I am the proud owner of "Magic Carpet Ride" and "Born to be Wild", which had the distinction of being specifically named at a Circuit Assembly by the CO as questionable songs. Of course, this was in 1993, so that spiritual food was about 20 years too late, but hey! Showed what a close ear to pop culture the old farts have...

  LOL, I know what you're talking about. Even today, they still print articles warning about the "New Morality" that has permeated our society. Until I was 21, I didn't know that the term "New Morality" was from the 1920's!