Posts by Magnum

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They Dont Care!!!

by lambsbottom in

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listen everyone,.

i just turned 30. you know what i see with the jws around my age?

they are simply not hardcore!

Magnum

They are simply not hardcore!... They don't know ANYTHING about Bible prophecy, doctrine, etc

In my area that's true about all JWs - not just the 30ish. The "hardcore" days of deeper, meatier publications, doctrinal debates, deep research, etc. are over. JWdom is more softcore and social now. JWs are popping out babies all over the place, but when I came along, there was strong suggestion that it wasn't the time to have children because the end was imminent.

I'm keeping my bound volumes for the same reason. However, I sure wish I could find a CD with scans or a place to download scans. I know the Watchtower Library CD had the mags, but it doesn't have the photos, illustrations, charts, etc. All those bound volumes sure do take up a lot of space.

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10% Way Through 1000 year reign

by Coded Logic in

not sure if anyones posted on this topic, but it just hit me that if jesus thousand year reign started in 1914 then we are already 10% way though and no "sign of the end" yet.

can the wtbts really hold out much longer?

are we going to have to wait for 3014 for them to admitt they got it wrong?.

Magnum

Splash - JWs say the resurrection of the anointed began in 1918 (3.5 years after 1914). Are you thinking of the inspection of the spiritual temple? That was supposed to have occurred in 1918, too.

***ip-2 chap. 27 pp. 396-397 Jehovah Blesses Pure Worship ***

A Swift and Sudden Restoration

13 Isaiah prophesies: “There is a sound of uproar out of the city, a sound out of the temple! It is the sound of Jehovah repaying what is deserved to his enemies.” (Isaiah 66:6) In the original fulfillment of these words, “the city” is Jerusalem, where Jehovah’s temple is located. The “sound of uproar” implies the tumult of war, which is heard in the city when the invading Babylonian armies assault it in 607 B.C.E. What, though, about the modern-day fulfillment?

14 These words in Isaiah harmonize with two other prophetic utterances, the one recorded at Ezekiel 43:4, 6-9 and the other at Malachi 3:1-5. Both Ezekiel and Malachi foretell a time when Jehovah God comes to his temple. Malachi’s prophecy shows that Jehovah comes to inspect his house of pure worship and to act as a Refiner, rejecting those who misrepresent him. Ezekiel’s vision depicts Jehovah as entering the temple and demanding that all traces of immorality and idolatry be removed. In the modern-day fulfillment of these prophecies, there was an important spiritual development in 1918 in connection with Jehovah’s worship. Jehovah and Jesus evidently made an inspection of all of those claiming to represent pure worship. That inspection led to the final casting off of corrupt Christendom. For Christ’s anointed followers, the inspection meant a brief period of refinement followed by a swift spiritual restoration in 1919.—1 Peter 4:17.

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Hello JWN family!

by crazyhorse in

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hello jwn!

im a 22 yr active jw and i recently realized the truth about the truth.

im from an african country where most people dont think critically and just accept things as they are without questioning.

Magnum

Wow, you seem to be really discerning and insightful for a 22-yr-old. What you described is exactly how it is in the U.S. among JWs, so I understand.

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jw.org madness

by Gorbatchov in

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more and more jw.org special campain pictures made by the r&f flush over the internet.. it's crazy how this jw.org madness becomes a phallus inside the witness world.. observing it from some distance, it is clear: jw.org is the central theme of the current witness beliefs.

every step they make, is for promoting jw.org.

when they speak, they only speak about jw.org.

Magnum

Heartofaboy - I agree. There was a lot more to it than one line. I was there and remember it well.

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10% Way Through 1000 year reign

by Coded Logic in

not sure if anyones posted on this topic, but it just hit me that if jesus thousand year reign started in 1914 then we are already 10% way though and no "sign of the end" yet.

can the wtbts really hold out much longer?

are we going to have to wait for 3014 for them to admitt they got it wrong?.

Magnum

Phizzy: Is the JW/WT concept then that the 144,000 began to be taken to Heaven in 1914, and so Jesus began to reign over them, but not the Earth?

No. JWs say that Jesus has had a kingdom (not the Messianic Kingdom) over the anointed since the first anointing took place in 33 C.E.

***it-2 p. 169 Kingdom of God ***

“The Kingdom of the Son of His Love.” Ten days after Jesus’ ascension to heaven, on Pentecost of 33 C.E., his disciples had evidence that he had been “exalted to the right hand of God” when Jesus poured out holy spirit upon them. (Ac 1:8, 9; 2:1-4, 29-33) The “new covenant” thus became operative toward them, and they became the nucleus of a new “holy nation,” spiritual Israel.—Heb 12:22-24; 1Pe 2:9, 10; Ga 6:16.

Christ was now sitting at his Father’s right hand and was the Head over this congregation. (Eph 5:23; Heb 1:3; Php 2:9-11) The Scriptures show that from Pentecost 33 C.E. onward, a spiritual kingdom was set up over his disciples. When writing to first-century Christians at Colossae, the apostle Paul referred to Jesus Christ as already having a kingdom: “[God] delivered us from the authority of the darkness and transferred us into the kingdom of the Son of his love.”—Col 1:13; compare Ac 17:6, 7.

Christ’s kingdom from Pentecost of 33 C.E. onward has been a spiritual one ruling over spiritual Israel, Christians who have been begotten by God’s spirit to become the spiritual children of God. (Joh 3:3, 5, 6) When such spirit-begotten Christians receive their heavenly reward, they will no longer be earthly subjects of the spiritual kingdom of Christ, but they will be kings with Christ in heaven.—Re 5:9, 10.

Jesus began to rule under The Messianic Kingdom in heaven in 1914, but his rule has been and is in the midst of his enemies. Once those enemies are removed (Armageddon and abyssing of Satan and demons), the 1000-yr reign can begin. The millenium is a time during which the kingdom has complete control over earth without interference from any enemies.

I don't know whether they've changed this in the last year or two, but fairly recently they said that the resurrection of the anointed began in 1918.

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jw.org madness

by Gorbatchov in

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friends

more and more jw.org special campain pictures made by the r&f flush over the internet.. it's crazy how this jw.org madness becomes a phallus inside the witness world.. observing it from some distance, it is clear: jw.org is the central theme of the current witness beliefs.

every step they make, is for promoting jw.org.

when they speak, they only speak about jw.org.

Magnum

It is shocking. I still can't believe it. Just a few years ago, JWs who had internet service were almost viewed suspiciously. Now they're gathered around it the way families gathered around the radio in the pre-TV days.

I now know that JWs have been wrong all along, but at least in the past JWdom seemed more dignified and serious. Now it just seems like a silly, corny, shallow, goody-goody, has-been religion that's trying to be hip and cool and rebrand itself.

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10% Way Through 1000 year reign

by Coded Logic in

not sure if anyones posted on this topic, but it just hit me that if jesus thousand year reign started in 1914 then we are already 10% way though and no "sign of the end" yet.

can the wtbts really hold out much longer?

are we going to have to wait for 3014 for them to admitt they got it wrong?.

Magnum

According to JWs, the Kingdom was instituted in heaven in 1914, but the 1000-yr reign did not begin then. JWs say the 1000-yr begins after Satan is abyssed (after Armageddon).

So again, the 1000-yr reign has not begun according to JWs.

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Bethel writing dept.

by Kojack57 in

i heard that 3 brothers have resigned from the writing department recently.

does anyone have any information about this?.

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Magnum

insidetheKH: its 100% BS from those annointed-jw idiots

Oh, thank you so much, insidetheKH. I'm so glad to have your expert opinion and to benefit from all your knowledge and inside connections. Now I know the answer: it's all BS. I know because insidetheKH says so. But... Oh... wait a minute. Aren't you one of those who swallows all the BS coming from the other anointed JW idiots - the Governing Body?

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