Good points. It seems that all efforts to reform the Watchtower have resulted in the Society's counter-reformation damage control. And yet the "apostates" are hitting the target so often, the Watchtower is flinching from time to time. Unfortunately, not enough. But perhaps another battle will be won soon in this religious war.
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Reformers repeat mistake....
by mizpah ini'm reading a fascinating book, god's best seller, by brian moynahan.
in it he documents how a few men like wycliff and tyndale risked their lives to make the bible available to the common people.
the catholic church violently opposed these efforts and persecuted all who were involved in the translating, publishing and distributing the scriptures.
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Wedding Present: The Family Happiness book
by Nosferatu inmy mother told me that after i get married, she's going to give me the "family happiness" book.
i've never read the thing, but i know it's a wts publication that often gets given or mailed out to newlyweds who aren't in the troof.
what's your opinion of this "fine christian publication"?
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How do these guys manage to write so much about a subject about which they are completely clueless?
You said a mouthful, Mac. This single sentence posed as a question sums up the whole Watchtower Publishing Empire.
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Isaiah's Prophecy and it's fulfillment in 1919 (yeah right).
by integ ini have been reading the isaiah book part 2, the book the witnesses are studying right now at the book study.
in this book they everything has a modern day fulfillment...with them.
just as in the revelation book, where the 7 trumpet blasts are referred to as being bible student conventions in the 1920's.
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In any case, there will be great joy in dubville when this abomination of a book is finished at the bookstudy. I can't remember how many local "friends" have made negative comments about this book and its unfortunate predecessor. All of which I heartily agree with.
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Wedding Present: The Family Happiness book
by Nosferatu inmy mother told me that after i get married, she's going to give me the "family happiness" book.
i've never read the thing, but i know it's a wts publication that often gets given or mailed out to newlyweds who aren't in the troof.
what's your opinion of this "fine christian publication"?
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Getting this Watchtower publication for a wedding present is like a waitress getting a Watchtower as a tip. How else are we supposed to clear out our stock of those trusty old "horses?"
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Special Assembly Day report 2003/2004
by truthseeker in2003/2004 special assembly day report.
theme: serving jehovah with a complete heart.
brief note: no new light this year, but a couple of new changes i have not seen before.
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Exactly Rocketman. Makes you wonder when and where is the "payoff?" Never felt good either way, doing too much or too little, so settled for as little as would get me by.
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soulless souls
by zen nudist inmany years ago --around 1984-6-- my youngest brother asked me why i would waste my time persuing a religion which only promised that a copy of me would inhabit paradise if i died now.. at the time the full impact of his question escaped me... .
years later in a spiritual time of crisis that question reared its head and bit me hard... it suddenly made sense.. jws teach that the soul is you, all of you, alive or dead.
there is no immortal soul for the jw, only an impersonal spirit which animates the body and like electricity is cut off and symbolically returns to god who gave it.
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For some more insight into this problem, you may enjoy reading physicist Frank J. Tipler's book, The Physics of Immortality.
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My parents worst JW saying !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
by run dont walk inwell, i might have went a little too far this time, but when someone pushes me, i push back, that's just the way i am.. my parents worst saying, and was probaly one of the reasons that i left jw land was ..................."the worst person at the kingdom hall is better than the best person in the world.".
if i had a dollar for everytime i heard that growing up.. so, i asked my mom if she still felt that way, she said sort of (very carefully), i said so the jw child molesters are still better then people in the world, is that how you really feel ?
she started to cry, before it was the media just making up stories, now i think she is realizing that "some" of these stories are true.. she asked me why i hate the jw's so much.. i said i don't hate the jw's, i hate the organization and the lies.
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How about this one:
"You are going to make it into the New System if I have to whip you all the way there!"
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"Would You Like To Read The AWAKE Magazine?"----Today's "Preacher"
by minimus inyesterday, i took the opportunity to read a couple of newspapers outside on a beautiful day.
when i sat down on the city bench, an older black woman subtly asked me,"would you like to read the awake magazine?
" i said "no thankyou" and started to read my papers.
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Those "horses" have to have a place to go to...
*** w79 7/15 17 Preaching in a Lawless World ***
Powerful instrumentalities these "horses" have been for helping with the proclamation of Jehovah's judgments! How well they compare to the millions upon millions of Bibles, books and magazines that the 'locust' band has distributed during these years in their house-to-house activity! (See "Then Is Finished the Mystery of God," chap. 17. -
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Who really belives that there is a Satan
by Singing Man inis there any real evidence that there is a satan and a bunch of nasty demons?
it seems to be implanted on into our hard drives of our minds through the bible and religions litature.. it seems to me if the bible told us the moon was made of swiss cheese and religious litature said pigs could fly most humans would agree at once.
one mans opinion.
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Spudinator
I do.