Pete Zahut

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  "Just around the corner." The dumbest song that I have ever heard..

  by DATA-DOG in

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  i'm at my quasi-thanksgiving dinner with relatives.

  i hear a haunting sound from another room.

  "is that a children's song?

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  Pete Zahut

  Are they trying to wake people up??? It seems to me that rather than it being an abstract notion, this video forces the JW viewer to visualize their beliefs about paradise and in doing so, forces them to realize how far fetched it all seems. Not to mention the old folks who've heard "just around the corner" since they were babies and are now facing the reality that never dying could very well be a false hope.
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  You know it's time to give up the JW religion when your route call tells you to

  by jambon1 in

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  lasting memory of the latter period of time in the organisation:.

  i had a route call with the magazines whom i'd called on for a number of years.

  eventually when i become a parent i became consumed with negativity, doubt (blood issue) & depression.

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  Pete Zahut

  That elderly woman recognized this from the beginning and probably continued taking the magazines out of pity for you and your situation.

  I came to the conclusion after a lifetime of being a JW. that going to the meetings was like going to a funeral 3 times a week. Even the decor of the Kingdom Hall was funeral parloresque. Constant reminders of imperfection, death, sin, Armageddon, pointing out the bad in the world coupled with their feeble Biblical reasonings....it eventually became too much.
  
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  Wills - A disgruntled father making a final point

  by Listener in

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  2. entertainment

  an unusual and amusing will was contested in an australian court a few years ago.the deceased man separated from his wife in 1959 and shortly after the wife was baptized as a jw.

  in the following years their four children also got baptized.

  apparently this enraged the deceased for the remainder of his life, who was himself a catholic.his will included two conditions that his four children were required to fulfill before they would qualify to receive their share of the inheritance.

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  Pete Zahut

  Who needs an inheritance anyway?? At least the 4 kids will be able to relate their experience on stage at the next District Convention....they'll be local JW heroes. (for a few minutes)
  
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  My mom contacted me last night...

  by HereIgo in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  as i have revealed in other threads my mother and i havent talked in over 2 years.

  she has been keeping her distance, therefore staying loyal to jehovah.

  she found me on facebook.

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  Pete Zahut

  "It is clear how you feel. All of your questions could be answered if you put Jehovah to the test, but I cant convince you, you have to allow it, we will talk soon."

  Tell her it's not about you (Herelgo) putting Jehovah to the test. Rather it's about you (Herelgo) having tested your own faith as the bible instructs us to do and about how you found that your faith and your beliefs were based on false information and or the lack of information. Thus far, no one, including herself (your own Mother and faithful follower), has been able to answer those basic questions, yet she is willing to shun her own son and her own grandchildren based on a religion she doesn't fully understand.
  
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  Official Increase in the Number of Jehovah's Witnesses You Shouldn't Trust

  by David_Jay in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  reports are coming from witnesses that, once again, the number of memorial partakers has risen considerably this past year, 2016. while confirmation is still to come on the exact numbers, the current explanations given for this increase surely causes a dilemma.. imagine the roman catholic church publishing each year the number of members who it felt were mistaken about what they believed in, that this same number of members was likely suffering from problems such as pride or even mental disorders or something along this line.

  this number, by the way, was in the thousands too and growing annually.

  what would you conclude, therefore about the catholic church and its admission?.

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  Pete Zahut

  Eventually (if they haven't already) will say that the number (144,000) isn't a literal number so it doesn't matter how many have partaken over the years.
  
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  History of JW.org domain

  by Gorbatchov in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  it's nice to know that the wts bought the domainname jw.org from the jewish woman assosiation.. g.. .

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  Pete Zahut

  Oubliette, did you read darkspilver's post above? The "Jewish Women" theory doesn't seem to hold water.
  

  yeah...it seems like a Jewish Womens Organizaiton would be named JW.Oy.Vey
  
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  When you stop & think about it ,why would Gods chosen people in the Old testament need an army ?

  by smiddy in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  as the op states why would israel /jewish nation need to have an army at all ?

  if they were the chosen people as the bible states under a theocracy , why would the men of israel need an army .?

  to protect them ?.

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  Pete Zahut

  Why would Jehovah need an army?

  It's a good question but I have a feeling the JW's would answer this by saying "It was a witness to the surrounding nations for them to see the Israelites being victorious over armies that were much larger than theirs." They love anything that has to do with their image....where they're the martyrs or underdogs who have something to proving to the big bad outsiders.
  

  I'd say it would be just as much of a "Witness" to onlookers, when they realized that anyone who challenged the Israelites, wound up being slaughtered by a band of Angels before they even got close to camp.

  I don't recall anything being said about the casualties that the Israelites suffered in any of their battles. It always appeared that no one died or was even injured.
  
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  JW.org Caption Competition

  by pale.emperor in

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  2. humour

  your challenge, if you choose to accept it, is to go onto jw.org.

  take one of their pics from any publication and add your own speech bubbles or caption.. here's mine.

  picture taken from the watchtower feb 2017.. .

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  Is Satan really the bad guy in story of creation?

  by evilApostate in

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  2. beliefs

  i wanted to take an objective look at satan in the story of creation.

  this is not meant to offend those of you who are still christians.

  i'm agnostic btw.

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  Pete Zahut

  1) Who *was* supposed to eat the fruit from the tree of life and from the tree of the knowledge of good and bad?

  We were always told that eventually Adam and Eve would be allowed to eat of the tree of life.

  Anyway, it none of this matter because the whole thing is made up.
  
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  Is Satan really the bad guy in story of creation?

  by evilApostate in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i wanted to take an objective look at satan in the story of creation.

  this is not meant to offend those of you who are still christians.

  i'm agnostic btw.

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  Pete Zahut

  So he drove the man out, and he posted at the east of the garden of Eʹden the cherubs and the flaming blade of a sword that was turning continuously to guard the way to the tree of life.

  Since steel hadn't been invented yet, what was the sword made of?