Pete Zahut

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  Witnessing Work to Stop?

  by Sea Breeze in

  1. watchtower
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  my 87 year old dad called me for the first time in 16 years the other day .... just to chat.

  i was floored to say the least since he didn't even bother to call me when my mom died several years ago.

  he called again today to inquire how i felt about jehovah's witnesses.

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  Pete Zahut

  Meetings and the door to door activities have been curtailed because of COVID-19 and nothing more.How would it look to have a Carload of JWs riding around in cars with masks on and showing up at peoples doors disregarding the quarantine and offending those who are worried about catching the disease?

  If your father wanted to add a little drama just to scare you back into the meetings and count time on you, so be it . No level headed Jehovah’s Witness that I know of is claiming anything because deep down they know the whole thing is a hoax and they don’t want to eat their words once again . They know by their own standards they’d never make it themselves if the big A came now.
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  Why couldn't I stop laughing?

  by Vanderhoven7 in

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  help me understand why i could not stop laughing watching this apparently serious video?.

  https://youtu.be/xluj6cpznw4.

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  Pete Zahut

  Help me understand why I could not stop laughing watching this apparently serious video?

  My wife and I both chuckled in a few spots even though he wasn't meaning to be funny. He has a humorous way of expressing himself at times.
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  Breaking: Beards in The Watchtower

  by neat blue dog in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the latest issue of the watchtower shows a man with a beard praying.. .

  i fully expected to see him 'progress' to clean-shaven in the following pictures, but instead he is still bearded when 'applying bible principles'.. .

  i then realized that he was already featured on the cover itself.. .

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  Pete Zahut

  Whole beards aren't officially sanctioned by the Governing Body however the wearing of beard fractions is left up to ones bible trained conscience.
  
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  2020 Convention streamed

  by Rattigan350 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  2020 convention of jehovah’s witnesses.

  we warmly invite you to watch this year’s three-day convention presented by jehovah’s witnesses.

  as a result of the novel coronavirus (covid-19) pandemic, this year’s convention program is being presented online at jw.org.

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  Pete Zahut

  What about the single people? The only thing good about the assemblies was seeing your friends and meeting girls from other places. It’s going to be more and more difficult for JWs to “ marry in the lord” when they can’t meet anyone in person anymore .
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  I had a somewhat paranormal experience 2 days ago, but I think science is just light years behind on this.....

  by Bad_Wolf in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  for the record i'm agnostic, never seen any direct evidence of spirits, afterlife, etc.

  i've been visiting my mother during this corona ordeal.

  a year ago i had a dream i was much older and talking to somebody about how my mom died this year but it was avoidable.

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  Pete Zahut

  Sometimes things that typically happen randomly, happen in an orderly way. When you deal out a hand when playing cards, your odds of dealing the same hand twice is 1 in 8.06581752 x 1067.

  That being the case, each hand that is dealt, no matter what cards you get, is kind of a miracle in itself because the odds of them coming out the way they did, is so random. If you were to get an Ace of spades as well as a 2, 3,4,5,6 and 7 of spades. That would be a case of random things that happened in an orderly way rather than a miracle.

  I often have feelings of Deja vu' but I realize it has more to do with my tendency to get time sequences mixd up. It's hard to explain but sometimes I see something happen in real time but my mind races ahead and starts looking backwards and begins remembering what I just saw, as if it happened before.

  
  
  
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  How have Jehovah`s Witnesses ever gotten away with being a Tax Exempt Religion ?

  by smiddy3 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i can never get my head around this one ?

  don`t the powers that be ever really investigate religions that claim exemption from paying taxes because they claim they are a not for profit religion ?.

  you would have to be a brain dead imbecile not to see that the religion known as the" watchtower bible and tract society" otherwise known as "jehovah`s witnesses" are nothing more than a religious publishing house that have made x amount of $$$$$ over the years since their inception in the late 1800`s to this day.

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  How have JW's ever gotten away with being a tax exempt religion?

  And, if Governments are backed by Satan, why are they so helpful in regard to JW's in regard to the paying of taxes and i coming to their defense if their freedoms are encroached upon, even when JW's pride themselves as not being part of the religious world, say awful things about the government and other religions and barely qualify (if at all) as a charity organization?
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  Looking for suggestions, I'm being called on by a JW

  by Tameria2001 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  just before the pandemic affected my area, a couple of jws came to my door.

  this was the first time i didn't tell them to hit the road but instead had a pleasant conversation with them.

  i never revealed that i am a former jw, nor do i ever want the jws in my area to know that i was ever one.

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  Pete Zahut

  
  

  You could say “I know...it certainly is good news Isn’t it? The best part is that because of Jesus sacrifice, there’s no reason I shouldn’t be part of it too... just as I am! Looks like it’s a way off yet though, since instead of turning on religion as predicted, Donald Trump declared churches to be “essential services”? Im sure that includes yours too!
  
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  A quote from Mysterious Stranger by Mark Twain

  by dubstepped in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  my wife was reading this book and telling me how much she enjoyed it and looked up the quote below to share it with me.

  i quite enjoyed it, so i'm sharing it with you, for what it's worth:strange, indeed, that you should not have suspected that your universe and its contents were only dreams, visions, fiction!

  strange, because they are so frankly and hysterically insane—like all dreams: a god who could make good children as easily as bad, yet preferred to make bad ones; who could have made every one of them happy, yet never made a single happy one; who made them prize their bitter life, yet stingily cut it short; who gave his angels eternal happiness unearned, yet required his other children to earn it; who gave his angels painless lives, yet cursed his other children with biting miseries and maladies of mind and body; who mouths justice and invented hell—mouths mercy and invented hell—mouths golden rules, and forgiveness multiplied by seventy times seven, and invented hell; who mouths morals to other people and has none himself; who frowns upon crimes, yet commits them all; who created man without invitation, then tries to shuffle the responsibility for man's acts upon man, instead of honorably placing it where it belongs, upon himself; and finally, with altogether divine obtuseness, invites a poor, abused slave to worship him.

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  who gave his angels eternal happiness unearned, yet required his other children to earn it; who gave his angels painless lives, yet cursed his other children with biting miseries and maladies of mind and body;

  It occurred to me as I read the words above that if there really are such things as angels, we don't know what their history is/was and what their "kind" went through before humans were "created". We assume a lot about them simply because the Bible doesn't give us much detail about angels. Maybe God had just as many problems with them in their beginning as he did with humans. Apart from our own history according to the Bible, we don't know what his track records in terms of success with his creations. Look at Satan (if he exists) and what he and his demons were capable of doing even thought they were right there in "heaven" with God. Why do we assume that all is well with heavenly creatures and that we are the only ones in the universe with problems?
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  Trump declares houses of worship essential service

  by Vanderhoven7 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  what do you think about this?.

  https://abcn.ws/3bqn4tt.

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  Pete Zahut

  Anyway....back to the topic. Trumps Declares Houses of Worship Essential Service

  I thought according to JW's, the Government would be turning on Religions in the last days. In this case, it is calling it "essential and encouraging religion services to resume. Of course we know it is election time so I'm sure Mr. T is wanting the churchgoers on his side come voting time.
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  How have Jehovah`s Witnesses ever gotten away with being a Tax Exempt Religion ?

  by smiddy3 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i can never get my head around this one ?

  don`t the powers that be ever really investigate religions that claim exemption from paying taxes because they claim they are a not for profit religion ?.

  you would have to be a brain dead imbecile not to see that the religion known as the" watchtower bible and tract society" otherwise known as "jehovah`s witnesses" are nothing more than a religious publishing house that have made x amount of $$$$$ over the years since their inception in the late 1800`s to this day.

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  3 hours ago
  You pay taxes if your activity is business related. JWs are mostly giving away litterature and videos

  That's why a number of years ago they went to the "contribution or donation" method when JW"s get the literature at the Hall. They said this was a loving simplification to make things easier for the brothers but in reality it was because the Feds found out they were selling the literature to the publishers in the Kingdom Hall without collecting the required sales tax. They aren't giving anything away in fact I believe they found that they wound up collecting more money this way because the "brothers" ended up shelling out more when they donated than they would have if they had paid directly. Thus evidence of Jehovah's approval of the new arrangement.