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  Scriptures that now seem to apply to JWs

  by Magnum in

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  2. beliefs

  in the last year or so, many bible passages that i used to strongly and confidently apply to non-jws, began to seem to apply to jws.

  this change in my thinking was shocking and disturbing.

  i can best describe the feeling by comparing it to the feeling i got in 1981 when i watched the movie dead and buried starring james farentino.. in that movie there are murders committed in a small town by dead people reanimated by a doctor doing experiments.

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  the org like Dr Evil - out of touch

  by Magnum in

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  i keep getting an image of dr. evil in my head whenever i think of jws and their website.

  the more i find out about them and the org promoting it, the more i think of dr. evil when he came out of his 30-year freeze; he was way behind times.

  after being thawed out, he demanded one million dollars from the un like that was a lot of money, and he was laughed at because he was so out of touch.

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  circuit overseer worship

  by Magnum in

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  for over thirty years i observed among jws the phenomenon of co worship/idolatry.

  i, myself, was somewhat guilty of it even though i rather quickly caught on and detected something wrong.. think about the week of the co visit.

  during that week most attention is given to and most thought is about the co. the supposed sovereign of the universe takes a backseat.

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  Do GB members poop?

  by Magnum in

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  do gb members poop?.

  the question arises because of the great similarities i see between jw land and n korea.

  for one thing, the information flow is the same in the two realms; its one way from the top down.

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  Bible's mention of physical beauty- why?

  by Magnum in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  for years, as i've read through the bible, i've wondered why bible writers were concerned about physical beauty (see references below)?

  i realize it's human nature to be interested in beauty, but why did they see fit to record in the so-called "word of god" the fact that some of the people they wrote about were beautiful?

  looks are not supposed to matter according to jw doctrine (and probably the doctrine of many christian-professing sects).

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  one reason for the dumbing down of the org

  by Magnum in

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  2. bible

  a lot of us have said that theres been a dumbing down in jw land.

  its just not like it used to be especially a few decades ago.

  it seems to me that if jw are right and the end of the world is near, the spiritual food should get tastier and more nourishing as time goes on, but it's getting more and more bland and less nourishing.

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  How is the org really run? What goes on behind the scenes?

  by Magnum in

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  how is the org really run?

  what goes on behind the scenes?.

  i just read an older post on this site that was recently bumped (http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/6600/1/don-adams-biography) the post mentioned the adams brothers don, karl, & joel and how influential they are/were at headquarters.

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  the JW 1914/WWI connection doesn't make sense

  by Magnum in

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  jws always touted wwis beginning in 1914 as evidence that the kingdom was born in heaven in that year.

  i was told that since satan was cast out of heaven, he started stirring up trouble on earth - like wwi.

  but theres one problem with that wwi started some months before oct 1914 (the month when the kingdom was supposedly born).. i asked jws about that in the mid 1980s, and i was told that satan started wwi before oct 1914 to divert attention away from the birth of the kingdom.

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  Why are JWs so afraid of apostates?

  by Magnum in

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  why are jws so afraid of apostates?

  their view of apostates seems to be out of the realm of the ordinary, the natural.

  its as if the words of apostates are supernatual or spiritistic as if apostates are some kind of jedi knights who can slightly wave their hands or twitch their eyes and bring one under a spell.

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  Research Guide for Jehovah's Witnesses - 2014 edition

  by Magnum in

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  2. beliefs

  did i miss something?

  admittedly, i haven't been keeping up the way i used to.

  i just saw on jw.org a publication entitled "research guide for jehovah's witnesses".

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