Justin
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CATHOLIC TO JW..........POPE TO GB..............WHY ??????
by vitty inwhy do so many catholics become jws ?
i know a lot of them were not very strong or practicing catholics but the wt does seem to draw them, especially when they are so critical of them and the pope.
you would think it would put them off.. is it because the are so different or the same???????????.
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TITHING approaches!
by hamsterbait inin the sep 1 witchtower, p25.
there is an illustration (i assume of an anonymous israelite) vowing "i shall without fail give the tenth of 'it' to you" , at the point in the study where we are told that ornary folks gathered outside the temple when incense was being offered up.
(he has already given the tenth of something - "it's" running down the end of that phallic looking thingie.
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The Descent
by daniel-p inwell i just went and saw the movie the descent, finally showing in us movie theatres, albiet with a changed ending.
when i got back home i found the original ending online somewhere and actually i prefer the changed us one.
anyway, this movie is awesome!
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We are a Return Visit for the Mormans
by Bonnie_Clyde inthought i sent this an hour ago, but apparently it didn't go.
for about a year morman elders called on us off and on.
finally clyde called it off.. but recently a new set of elders started coming.
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The wisdom of Edward
by Justin ini've been reading edward gibbon's the history of the decline and fall of the roman empire, and his assessment of the prophet mohammed makes me wonder about some of the religious personages with whom we have to deal.
it possess the question whether or not a religious leader or founder must be categorized as either good or evil, or if there is a gray area on which we cannot be quite precise.
without saying too much, gibbon found it necessary to address the founding of islam because this led to the fall of constantinople and the eastern empire long after the western empire had collapsed.
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Stability to Chaos - A Survival Guide
by LittleToe inthe thread title is a reference to how i hope this thread will evolve, rather than my own pretentious aspirations.. for many of us, perhaps especially if we were raised as jws, the whole world was pretty black and white.
we knew what we were doing, why we were here, where we were going, in the midst of a chaotic world we had a stability that others envied - or so we thought.... for most of us reading this site our eyes have likely at some point been opened to realise that many of our previous strongly-held beliefs were dust.
if we have left the wts or been forcibly ejected then we have also experienced shunning.
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Hi! Any other Latter Day Saints here?
by ElderBarry inhi my name is lisa.
i'm not an elder of course and never have been.
i was a jw for just a few years and then relocated and left it behind.
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cemetaries
by moomanchu inkingdom halls don't have cemetaries like other churches do .
is this another mind game to make the believers think they will never die?
are the witnesses to cheap to have a cemetary, grass cutting maintenance and such?.
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JW's vs United Church of God
by lisavegas420 intwo months ago, i wrote the wbts and requested a 'what does the bible really teach'.
well it hasn't shown up.
but at the same time, i ordered a "what does the bible really teach' from the united church of god.
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Faithful and Discreet Slave- why not mentioned after Jesus death?
by architect induring the service meeting part that dealt with how the organization is govern, i can't help but wonder...looking at the time from jesus death to the death of the apostle john some 60 years +/-, the times of the apostles, the letters of paul and the others, the letters to the 7 congregations- where is the mention of looking to the governing body- look to the faithful and discreet slave?
wouldnt you think jesus in talking to the 7 congregations would have mention that since the counsel he gave meant their salvation?
especially since the wtbs says there has always been a fds thru out time !!!!.