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  Spoof the Watchtower Contest?

  by Ding in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  we have seen time and again how the gb comes up with a strange doctrine (such as not celebrating birthdays) by citing something in the bible (the beheading of john the baptist) and then claiming that the "connection" makes their teaching "biblical.".

  this got me thinking about how easy and fun it might be to create any "bible teaching" by this type of specious reasoning.. i thought it might be fun to have a jwn contest to see who can come up with the most watchtower-sounding rationale for a screwy doctrine of their own creation.. in another thread, i wrote a short satire on how the gb could come up with a "biblical reason" for preventing jws from going bowling by noting that 10 is an important bible number and then saying that knocking down 10 pins symbolizes breaking each of the ten commandments.. if i had wanted to expand that nonsense into a watchtower-style article, i would have gone on to explain the importance of the ten commandments and then spend several paragraphs denouncing all the evils of lawlessness, culminating with paul's warning about the "man of lawlessness" in 2 thessalonians 2:3. at the end of this exercise, i would have readers worked into a frenzy about the evils of bowling.. does anyone doubt that if the wts actually did this, jws would immediately stop bowling and start looking down on worldlies who do it?.

  can't you just imagine a watchtower study where jws dutifully answer questions explaining why bowling is so displeasing to god?.

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  Well I have been labeled as an Apostate...

  by serenitynow! in

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  2. friends

  on facebook.

  it turns out i was asking too many thought provoking questions, and a "sister" investigated.

  7 months ago this would have devastated me, now it just makes me laugh!

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  Does the Watchtower contain photo's of the Devil

  by jwfacts in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i have not been able to find any photo's of satan the devil in the watchtower.

  there are photo's of the serpent with eve, satan's hand offering kingdoms to jesus and a shadowy cloaked figure speaking to jesus on the mountain.

  apart from that i cannot locate any of a proper looking devil.

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  Undeserved Kindness - Actually Deserved

  by sabastious in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  my younger brother recently moved in with me.

  for the past 5 years he has done really nothing but abuse substance.

  cocaine, alcohol cigarettes etc.

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  disease equals demons?

  by ssn587 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  got this idea, (yeah i know it don't happen often) while reading another post, but the bible says at acts 10:38 nwt (not with truth translation), "namely, jesus who was from nazareth, how god anointed him with holy-spirit and power, and he went through the land doing good and healing all those oppressed by the devil.".

  here and other places, disease, ie.

  seizures, were in fact possessed by demons, that kind of thinking prevades the watchtower society, in that local elders tell those suffering to pray more, meeting more, d to d more.

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  moral support? :/

  by ana_dote in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i know, i know...it's all part and parcel of the whole fading thing.....but..... i missed a phone call from an unknown number tonight....oddly enough, had this been a few months ago the number would have still been programmed in my phone.

  the number was to the kingdom hall i used to attend over a year ago.

  i have not set foot in it since probably late april, early may, of 2009. but tonight an elder called.

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  Do you smoke anything?

  by asilentone in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i was very disappointed in one of my friends near here.

  he is df'd.

  he started smoking cigs.

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  Did you ever know any JW's/Pioneers who frequented popular nightspots and got drunk?

  by James_Slash in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  it used to make me sick at these hypocrites.. they would be at the meeting the next day or out in field service, obviously still intoxicated from the night before but putting a show on before the congregation.

  i knew a couple of girls who would be regulary doing this over a weekend yet they would be pioneers all week, answering up at the meetings yet would be heading into popular nightspots and coming home at 4am drunk.

  their dad was an elder (surprise, surprise).. i remember telling an elder about this once.

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  Watchtower Ambulance????

  by OnTheWayOut in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i never heard of it nor ever saw such a picture before.

  let's see who can come up with the funniest caption for one of these photos:.

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  What books, songs, artists, movies, etc were banned in your JW home?

  by serenitynow! in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  my mother was very strict about entertainment.

  in school i was doing a project about teen suicide and had checked out some books on suicide and abortion.

  i had alot of explaining to do for that.

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