"Apostates capitalize on errors or seeming mistakes made by brothers who take the lead. Our safety lies in avoiding apostate propaganda as though it were poison, which in fact it is."
"Evidently" so.
Pete Zahut
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Those darned apostates
by berrygerry injuly 15, 1992 wt.
"apostates capitalize on errors or seeming mistakes made by brothers who take the lead.
our safety lies in avoiding apostate propaganda as though it were poison, which in fact it is.".
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The Last Cup [please add an ending]
by compound complex ingood morning, fellow posters and friends:.
please use your imagination to complete this little tale.
several endings came to me while drinking my morning cup of coffee on the patio.. thanks.. cc.
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Pete Zahut
You dear reader you may wonder why someone such as myself is living in this drought prone part of the world. Without going into great detail, detail that I fear would reveal much about my own character, I will simply tell you this and say no more.
When my Grandfather left the old country and ventured his way to this unknown land, it wasn't because he was poor or starving or lacking in any way as was so often the case with immigrants in his day. It was really quite the opposite in fact. The leaving of his ancestral home and all he had coming to him as the eldest son, was precipitated by a great uproar of voices, the slamming of doors and the sound of hooves on a rain soaked earth as he galloped off into the night on horseback.
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Those darned apostates
by berrygerry injuly 15, 1992 wt.
"apostates capitalize on errors or seeming mistakes made by brothers who take the lead.
our safety lies in avoiding apostate propaganda as though it were poison, which in fact it is.".
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Pete Zahut
"Apostates capitalize on errors or seeming mistakes made by brothers who take the lead. Our safety lies in avoiding apostate propaganda as though it were poison, which in fact it is."
We were trained by the best in the business. The Watchtower and Awake magazines have "capitalized"on the "errors and seeming mistakes" of every religion on the planet and shamed them publicly for it for decades.
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Why do I suddenly want to start reading JW literature and going to Kingdom Halls?
by yogosans14 inis good calling me back or am i just letting my emotions get the best of me?also i really want to be closer to my jw family.
btw i was never baptized and i consider myself a born again christian i go to a baptist church and wath televangelist and i have expirenced gods presence like never before but sometimes i get fearful and think "what if jws are right and i'm wrong" than i'm screwed!but if there wrong and i'm right it doesn't look to good for them.. i would prefer if nobody posted "god isn't real" type comments.
i truly believe he is real but i respect why some are atheists..
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Pete Zahut
What is the fate of the millions of people who lived before Jehovah's Witnesses even existed, say from 1898 on back ? Will their reading of the Bible on their own and developing a personal relationship with God and his Son without the Watchtower Society's influence be enough to save them from everlasting cutting off? If God has good things in store for mankind, why wouldn't you be part of it? Why would you receive the same everlasting punishment as Adolf Hitler just because you don't agree with or understand the ever changing doctrines of Jehovah's Witnesses, especially since you are obviously seeking him out ? Surely he (if he exists) must see how confusing it all is to us.
If anything, he may be angry with JW's for turning people (like me) away from him and ruining their interest in having anything to do with religion or the Bible ever again.
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Drugs and Alcohol Ruin Your Life
by campaign of hate inthis point was raised in another thread vaguely, and wanted to try and expand on it.. the wt has said (and rightly so in my opinion) "that excessive use of drugs and alcohol can ruin your life".
in my eyes this is a fact.. this is where it starts to get a little suspicious, as they also say (or subtly hint at) "that if you leave the wt you will becoming addicted to drugs and alcohol and will ruin your life".. its almost like a self fulfilling prophecy.
as there are a lot who leave the borg and they do start drinking heavy or smoking, or taking drugs...or whatever.. the wt capitalizes on the fact that people want more freedom, and they subtly ingrain the thought that.
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Pete Zahut
I'm sure if this is true about former JW"s being prone to drug and alcohol abuse, it's due to the fact that they are suffering from a case of "arrested development"
"Born in's" or those who have been "in" a long time, have been using their religion as a means to cope with the realities of life. They often have developed little or no coping skills and turn to the most readily available means to ease the anxiety of being "out there without a net" once their support system is no longer in place.
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1st time in 30 years no one Baptized at our Assembly
by James Jack inat our assembly in alabama, no one got baptized, even though we added 3 congregations to our side in the circuit.
just looked at my wife and said wow.. yet ironically, the regular pioneer ranks have increased 45% in the last 5 years!.
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Somebody should have called this Woman !
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what is the best line to say to a JW handing you an invite to the memorial
by nonjwspouse ini have some ideas, but want more to choose from..
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Pete Zahut
If the wine symbolizes Jesus' blood and you abstain from partaking of it, would it make a difference if they served wine fragments?
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Hasta la Vista,.. I'm outta here
by insidetheKH inthe time has come to leave this forum.
this is my last post.
mission completed.
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Epic Discussion ( Confrontation ) with JW Cart People about WT Child Abuse
by flipper inso i had about had enough of reading jw's excuses online about wt child abuse and the candace conti nightline abc video about her case.
this is a really deep burning topic to me as i'm sure it is to many of you.
so today the gloves came off.
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Pete Zahut
It would be great to have the abc news video shown in the post above, downloaded onto a portable video device and play it for those who are manning the literature carts.
You could just walk up and ask if they saw this video on the news and wondered what they thought of it. If they say it's just apostate propaganda, you could ask them if they believe what the news says when they report Catholic Church for the same offense. You could pull out an old JW magazine with an anti Catholic cover article on it and ask them why they believe this kind of thing and speak harshly about it only when it's about someone else's religion?
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Disfellowshipped for Tattoos??
by Lynnie inare getting tattoos a disfellowshipping offense?
i know several jw's that have them but i always thought they were totally taboo.
what do you guys know about this?
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Pete Zahut
I do know JW's who've recently gotten them but I think tattoo's are generally frowned upon and you are viewed as "immature" if you get one. Tattooing "No Blood Transfusion" on your arm is probably acceptable.
I knew a guy who was a biker when he started studying. Before he got baptized he had a bikini tattooed onto the naked lady on his forearm to make it look more acceptable. His wife had a small Butterfly done on her backside when she was young and slim but she had put on a a bit of weight and during her baptism the Butterfly looked more like a Condor.