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  "Confidential" JW.ORG Video Project Leaked

  by Emery in

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  syneidos posted some interesting information on reddit regarding jw.org's latest project for the upcomming 2015 memorial campaign.. for next year's 2015 memorial campaign, jw.org is producing an invitational video featuring jesus.

  the video is still being filmed at the moment and i was told it was super "confidential.

  " my source already saw several scenes from it and said, "it looks and feels like a cinematic movie.

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  Island Man

  Maybe the use of this very Jesus-focused video in the ministry to invite persons to the memorial, is the faith testing announcement to come at the zone visit? It would test the faith of many JWs since they have been trained to be uncomfortable focusing too much on Jesus. LOL.
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  Science is right in its details, but wrong in its direction

  by exWTslave in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  science observes, studies and analyses the basic nature of all the components constituting the part of any experiment, follows the principle of cause and effect, and come out with equipments that would contribute to our comfort and save us lots of time and energyall of which are ultimately aimed at making life on this earth happier, longer and healthier, thus making this world a better place to live.. yet man day-by-day becomes more and more unhappy and discontented, and world is becoming bitter and bitter!

  it means: though science is right in its details, it has gone wrong in its direction.

  it failed to rightly judge and assess the true nature of its prime object (man) for whom it works.

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  I think the biggest mistake of the OP is confusing science with the wisdom and motives of those who develop technology. Science is purely our knowledge and understanding of how our universe works. The goal of science is purely to understand our universe. Science does not claim to be the pancea for all our problems. Science is all about gathering knowledge and understanding. How persons choose to use that knowlege cannot be blamed on science. Saying that science has failed to bring us happiness is as fallacious as saying that Math has failed to bring about world peace.

  It is actually religion that pretends to know the answers for all our problems and despite the plethora of religions world problems continue. In fact, religion has actually been a chief catalyst if not at the root of many of the world's problems. So it is religion that has failed. It has divided our world, fomenting discrimination, superstition and even willful ignorance by fighting against the spread of useful scientific knowledge.

  So stop blaming science for problems that have nothing to do with science but fall within the jurisdiction of morality, public policy, economics and religion. Stop trying to make a scapegoat out of science by your strawmanesque use of the term science.
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  ARE JEHOVAH’S WITNESSES CREATIONISTS OR EVOLUTIONISTS?

  by Viva la Vida in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the answer to this question is not that easy or obvious as you might think.

  if your answer is "creationists" you are wrong, they are evolutionists a rare breed of evolutionists, but evolutionists at last .. at this stage of my argumentation you might think i have lost my mind for stating jehovahs witnesses are evolutionists, but this might be because you are thinking as the wt has taught you to think.

  the wt has presented a distorted view of the theory of evolution.

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  They are linguistic creationists, re-creating the meanings of words to suit their own agenda as their doctrines evolve throughout overlapping generations.
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  Was It Designed? Rabies Purposeful Mode of Transmission.

  by Island Man in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  was it designed?.

  rabies' purposeful mode of transmissionrabies is caused by a number of lyssaviruses that attack the cells of the nervous system disrupting their normal function.

  symptoms include painful spasms in the muscles of the throat and larynx of patients, accompanied by a strong aversion to drinking liquids - hydrophobia.

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  Chris Tann, brave of you to try to address this issue from a creationist standpoint. Without any intention of ridiculing you, here are some points to ponder on:

  1. Is it reaonable to believe that millions of animals worldwide evolved whole systems geared toward predatory behavior in a mere 6000 years?

  2. How do you account for the remains of predatory animals that are older than 6000 years showing that predatory features existed in animals long before the fall of man some 6000 years ago?

  3. If you accept "micro-evolution" why do you reject "macro-evolution"? Is there any scientific basis for making this distinction? Do evolutionary scientists make such distinctions? If "micro-evolution" is true and supported by evidence, how can you be sure that "macro-evolution" isn't?

  It is my view that the whole "micro-evolution is true but macro-evolution isn't" argument is analogous to someone saying "Humans can stand and take individual steps, but they can't walk from one point to another. They can make "micro-movements" but they can't travel from one point to another." LOL.

  By the way, do you believe the earth is older than 6000 years? If you do, what evidence do you know of that proves the earth is older than 6000 years?

  You might want to keep in mind that radio carbon dating is just one of a myriad of different methods used for dating purposes, and when they all converge to give the same period we can be confident that it's true (at the mouth of two or three witnesses, right?)
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  Beard to hall

  by Blackfalcon98 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  about to wear a neatly trimmed goat-tee to the hall.......i'll post my experiences here afterward.. .

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  Has anyone actually read the study wt for sun nov 2nd????!!!

  by stuckinarut2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  o m g...(yes that is a very childish reaction...but i couldn't think of a more appropriate expression!).

  if you haven't yet read it...please do so..... it is so ridiculous!

  so leading, so distorted, and full of "bait and switch" techniques.. "prove you have the truth"..by seeing how neutral witnesses were in war times?

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  Island Man

  From paragraph 10:

  • Millions upon millions of tracts, brochures, and magazines have been distributed in campaigns through- out the world, without charge to the public. The expense has been covered by the voluntary donations of Jehovah’s Witnesses, who have followed Jesus’ in- struction: “You received free, give free.” —Matt. 10:8.

  In that case they only became the true religion in the 1990s, because prior to that they turned a blind eye to Matthew 10:8 and charged the public a fee for the literature.

  It would be nice for Awake ones commenting on that paragraph to "innocently" slip in the point that the literature has been free only since the 1990s.
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  Has anyone actually read the study wt for sun nov 2nd????!!!

  by stuckinarut2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  o m g...(yes that is a very childish reaction...but i couldn't think of a more appropriate expression!).

  if you haven't yet read it...please do so..... it is so ridiculous!

  so leading, so distorted, and full of "bait and switch" techniques.. "prove you have the truth"..by seeing how neutral witnesses were in war times?

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  Island Man

  Here's an article from an awake, still-in, former elder, commenting on the subject:

  http://meletivivlon.com/2014/10/27/wt-study-are-you-convinced-that-you-have-the-truth-why/
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  Has anyone actually read the study wt for sun nov 2nd????!!!

  by stuckinarut2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  o m g...(yes that is a very childish reaction...but i couldn't think of a more appropriate expression!).

  if you haven't yet read it...please do so..... it is so ridiculous!

  so leading, so distorted, and full of "bait and switch" techniques.. "prove you have the truth"..by seeing how neutral witnesses were in war times?

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  How do you spell "hypocrites"?

  W A T C H T O W E R
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  I am JW.ORG

  by LogCon in

  1. social
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  famous quote from wuthering heights revised.. '... i am jw.org!

  it's always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure, any more than i am always a pleasure to myself, but as my own being.

  so don't talk of our separation again: it is impracticable...'.

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  Jesus: "Get these things out of here! Stop making the name of my Father the object of merchandise!"
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  their beliefs and practice's don't tally- tonights book study

  by purrpurr in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  tonights book study in part is about jesus throwing out the merchants and money lenders in the temple... how do they manage to tally that up with asking for funds for all their various projects?

  it seems hardly a meeting goes by without some kind of money plea?

  don't they realise that they are doing the same thing that jesus got so angry about and threw out of the temple?

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  Island Man

  I just asked a question on yahoo answers, on the subject of this week's congregation bible study:

  http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20141031074000AAxTxu0

  Let's see how the JWs respond