Why do they need Jesus at all if they believe their own death absolves them from sin?
Posts by carla
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JWs kinda admit to not being Christian
by NikL induring the book study which is basically a book all about the history of "gods organization" ©.
a paragraph that hit me like a ton of the proverbial bricks was this.... 9 first, jehovah’s servants came to have the proper view of the importance of god’s name.
faithful early bible students viewed the ransom arrangement as the bible’s main teaching.
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carla
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You know it's time to give up the JW religion when your route call tells you to
by jambon1 inlasting 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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carla
I agree with that lady wholeheartedly! Glad you were able to leave.
I can see in my own jw when the rags or meetings are more doom & gloom than usual just by his behavior and outlook on life. I can also tell when he has been with someone different in the car group (?) or however that works. His personality changes with the mags & who has been spending time with. Guess it is true for all of us to some degree but non jw's can be nuts all by themselves without the aid of cultish doctrines, rules & regulations and looking forward to bad news and horrific world events.
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Jehovah's Witnesses Crime Against Grammar
by Simon inso this is really starting to grate on me the more i think about it because it's just wrong grammatically.. one of my friends always refers to me used to being "a jehovah witness" which used to grate whenever she said it but now it seems more correct.. think about it this way: bruce springsteen has fans.
they are fans of bruce springsteen or, bruce springsteen's fans.
but each of them isn't a bruce springsteen's fan.
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carla
I think the problem is that jw's do indeed see themselves as witness of jehovah, they see it as a calling or give great meaning to being one of the few who are 'privileged' to supposedly give witness about or to God. They say the phrase 'I am one of...." with much reverence and all seriousness. The few times I have heard a jw say the phrase you would think by just saying the phrase to a non jw it will somehow shower down blessings on them or something.
To the rest of the world? you are 'a jehovah's witness' just like someone is 'a Baptist', 'a Catholic' and so on. I shall refrain from what people really call them and leave that to the comedians!
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If you read the bible w/out instruction, what would you think?
by TTWSYF inanyone reading [or did read] the bible without someone else telling you what it meant?.
would you be leaning towards the jws or baptists or lutherans or what?.
just asking.
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carla
I don't think anybody in the world could come to the same conclusions as jw's by reading the Bible itself without jw litter-ature.
I would find it very hard to believe that anybody ever became a jw by reading a Bible.
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Something funny about Armageddon
by evilApostate inyears ago, when i was still a publisher, i had a very interesting conversation with a lady in the field service.
we were talking about punishment for sin and so on.
she believed in hellfire.
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carla
" I remember telling her that "the wages of sin is death." Therefore, when one dies, he pays for all his sins and hence can recieve a ressurection."---- if that is the case, then jw's have no need whatsoever for Jesus. It explains much.
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Thanksgiving??
by HereIgo inwith thanksgiving around the corner, i thought it would be interesting to hear how you, your family or other jw's you knew handled/celebrated thanksgiving.
it seems to me that most jw's view it as harmless and unofficially celebrate it the day before or the day after the actual holiday.
growing up, my mother would host a dinner the day after thanksgiving and used the excuse " well the traditional food for the dinner is discounted at this time, might as well have a dinner".
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carla
I have heard of jw's who refuse to wear red the entire month of Dec just in case someone might think they were celebrating Christmas, why then is it ok to eat a turkey at the end of Nov? News flash to jw's- if you make an entire Thanksgiving meal and eat it any time around Thanksgiving the rest of us think you are in fact celebrating Thanksgiving. Just because it is the day before or after is ridiculous. Many non jw families have to adjust the date as well to accommodate relatives schedules.
I think there was a story here about someone who had just joined the jw's and told their family they could not go to family Thanksgiving (broke grandma's heart) instead the elder invited the newbie to his house on that day. What did this newbie jw find there? Turkey dinner with all the fixings with the elder's friends and family. Instead of having the same meal with their own family they went and had the exact same holiday with an arrogant elder and his family and friends! But it wasn't really Thanksgiving was it?
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Bethel Warwick Address?
by TheWonderofYou inwhat is the correct address of bethel warwick.
is this the house no.
1 of gods kingdom drive?
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carla
Why is it so far out in the boonies? Are they building a compound similar to the Scientologists? nobody gets in or out without their knowledge?
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2016 death of my father who told me don't come back if your a Witness...still hurts my soul! Warning you all!!
by Witness 007 ini last spoke to my father in march 1990. we finished a "quick build" kingdom hall and i had a 17 year old spiritual awakening and decided to drop high school to pioneer full time.
(yes i was a dumb ass) he was not happy since my parents were divorced he was catholic.
we had a arguement and he said stay in school get a degree...and dont come back if your a witness!!
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carla
I'm sorry for your loss, wishing you peace.
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Trick or Treat, tells you where my head is at
by carla ini always have a nice bowl of candy ready for trick or treat, we don't get many so you usually have a short conversation with the parents.
so a mom & 3 kids come and the two boys were dressed in suit and ties!
i am laughing because my first thought was they were dressed as jw's!
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carla
Trick or treat is usually on the weekend closest to the actual date. Most people (and bars) had their parties this past weekend. Our town also does a big Halloween parade and the kids can take part if they want and afterwards they trick or treat at the local business establishments and surrounding neighborhoods or go to their own subdivision, etc.. I'm in the mid-west.
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Trick or Treat, tells you where my head is at
by carla ini always have a nice bowl of candy ready for trick or treat, we don't get many so you usually have a short conversation with the parents.
so a mom & 3 kids come and the two boys were dressed in suit and ties!
i am laughing because my first thought was they were dressed as jw's!
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carla
I always have a nice bowl of candy ready for trick or treat, we don't get many so you usually have a short conversation with the parents. So a mom & 3 kids come and the two boys were dressed in suit and ties! I am laughing because my first thought was they were dressed as jw's! Instead of asking if they were dressed up as cult members I ask, "g-men?" Mom says she wasn't sure, maybe men in black. I giggled all the way back to the living room handing my jw some more Halloween candy.
This damn cult invades my thoughts far too often.