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  Series of articles about the March 15, 2015 Watchtower on AD1914.com

  by Gilgamesh in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  over the next 5 weeks, we should have 5 or 6 articles/posts that will provide more commentary on the march 15, 2015 watchtower.

  important doctrinal changes in march 15th, 2015 watchtower (study edition) explained wp.me/p4cpzs-xo .

  http://ad1914.com/2014/04/20/new-important-doctrinal-changes-in-march-15th-watchtower-study-edition-explained-clarified/.

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  Goodbye JWD/JWN (my last post)

  by slimboyfat in

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  2. friends

  after some considerable thought i have decided that i will no longer post on this forum because i want to return to jehovah.

  thank you for all the kindness and many interesting discussions over the years.

  i wish you all well in the future and the decisions you make.

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  What if someone from Slim's congo was on to him and he decided to do something about it ?

  I reckon this post was made to appease and shake off those on his tail.

  Like a few other posters before me , on this thread, I think Slim is here in "parousia" and being ever so cautious, just in case...

  Anyhow, sorry Slim, if you are offended by my conjecture. It's only because the spirit did reveal to me that , somehow, you have retained an eye on this thread !
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  What were the calculations used to arrive at the 1874 date of Christ's return?

  by Zoos in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  we all know the calculations used by the wt to arrive at 1914. fall of babylon in 607 (false year), gentile times, no zero year, ta-da, 1914.. what did they use before that?

  i know it wasn't russell who came up with it - he just adopted it.

  i'm just curious what they had to explain away when they made the transition.. .

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  @ VANDERHOVEN7: The entire religion is based on speculation.

  I disagree with that view. Please, this is no time to be kind to those wolves ! It might well have been the case when Russell started out...probably the only 'honest-hearted' leader the organisation ever had. But upon his death, Ruddy Judge only saw a business venture or cash cow that needed to be kept up at any cost, of which fabrication, lies, deceit and coersion of members would become the way forward.

  Subsequent leaders or GB members who may have believed at some point that the organisation had been divinely appointed were simply too astonished to find, on getting to the very top, that the leadership didn't have the divine connection that previous leaders had claimed !

  What a farce, they soon find out! But they are not going to walk away from an organisation that had sucked so much out them. Now, it's their opportunity to take back, with interest, all they had ever given to the organisation - unlike many others who had given their all and had been left by the wayside to face a miserable end.

  So, they simply carry on promoting old lies and fabricating new ones to sustain the old. It is this line of thought which has led me to conclude that any serving member of the GB knows TTATT but, hey, show must go on ! It's a bit like that adventure in the Wizard Of Oz.
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  Brother Knorr's Cadillac and other secret perks

  by tim hooper in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  back when i was a wee lad, my dad told me that the brothers in brooklyn had voted to purchase a cadillac motor car for the sole use of the then president, nathan h knorr.

  he'd got this information from the london bethel, him being a chum of the then branch overseer, pryce hughes and his pal ron drage.

  religious leaders of non-profit sects are supposed to take a vow of poverty!.

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  Sweet smoke ! This is marked !! Thanks, Hooper !!!
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  After Years of Silence My Father Reaches Out to Me

  by truth_b_known in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  brief history:.

  i was a born in.

  my parents were uber-dubs, but never worshipped the organization.

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  2014 AGM - Splane and Pyramids

  by berrygerry in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  just read a comment on a site that said:.

  "at the annual general meeting this year at stanley halls it is on tv.jw.org david splane said the pyramid of giza the bible students believed in for calculating time periods were from pagans".

  wasted 2 hours watching the am on jw tv.. splane indeed says this, and that br.

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  Anyone with a link to Splane's speech, please ? I saw it somewhere, previously, and should have saved it !
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  So, are you thinking of coming back?

  by kairos in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  that's a crazy question.. they really mean, "do you regret your decesion to leave".. ---.

  it's just an ice breaker to become nosy into one's personal life.. ---.

  btw, last time i was asked this, no, everytime i'm asked this i reply with: "i'm never coming back".. they seem to hear that.. .

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  Don't be silly ! If there's anything that Charles Russel was ever right about, it is his assertion that you don't need an organisation to be able to worship God !
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  Are Jehovah's Witnesses Psycopaths?

  by stuckinarut2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i have been thinking that jws display an organizationally officially promoted form of thinking that makes them psycopaths!.

  what i mean is, any person who enjoyed reading and leaning about past gruesome deaths, or who justified such things as being normal or acceptable would be deemed to be dangerous to society...a psychopath.

  (by this i am refferring to the content of the bible of course).

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  As a 'successful' fader, I can look back now and see from a more objective point that the organisation is a horrible mix of wolves and lambs - pshycopaths / sociopaths and drones. And, yes, it takes a psychopath to run an organisation with a set-up like the WTS's. Therefore, only psychopaths and sociopaths will ever make it beyond the level of C.O, as I see it.
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  JW's hit with another lawsuit alleging child sexual abuse

  by yalbmert99 in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  http://www.christianpost.com/news/jehovahs-witnesses-hit-with-another-lawsuit-alleging-child-sexual-abuse-organization-has-paid-over-13-million-in-damages-130490/.

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  scoobydont

  Sorry, people, I just have to come back to this. Still at work but can't afford to miss this thread.

  Interesting topic and contributions.

  Thanks everyone here !
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  Watchtower Society Over JWs Fielding Techno-propaganda In Germany And U.S.

  by Bryan in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  watchtower society over jws fielding techno-propaganda in germany and u.s. former jehovah's witness stephan wolf is sending material out of germany that i have just begun receiving and researching.

  for example i found a link off of a link that indicates the watchtower society appears to be trying to improve its public image as more christian (and less of a cult) there by putting individual jws up to airing a public radio program about christ http://www.radio-nachgefragt.de/ which is based out of the town of bochum.

  previously http://www.standfirm.de/ was formed supposedly by private citizens without watchtower society direction to air the idea that the watchtower society had led jws in germany into heroic resistance against the nazi dictatorship even though the reality is that though there were heroic jws who did what they could and sometimes died as martyrs, wts branch head erik frost actually sold germanys jws out to the nazis.

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