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Satan , Israelite`s /Jews view ./ Satan Christendom`s views .
by smiddy3 inover the years i have come across different writings that suggest a total difference in how the chosen people of israel and the jewish religion of today with the "old testament" viewed "satan" and how the many of christendoms religions including the jehovah`s witnesses view satan in the bible .. they seem to be at odds with each other ?.
does the christian greek scriptures " new testament" contradict the hebrew scriptures of the "old testament " about who or what satan is ?.
the israelite`s /jews were gods chosen people for 4,000 years wouldn`t /shouldn`t they know better about satan than the christian religion that usurped the jewish religion ?.
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baptism photo
by stan livedeath ini found this photo on a facebook group--just had to grab and share.......look at the name sign in the background!.
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Do older faders fear better than younger faders
by joe134cd ini read and replied to a post today about weather there were any benefits in been a jw.
as much as i now dislike the religion, i had to agree that there was an up side, due to their strong stance on alcohol, gambling, smoking, and sexual practice.
we would all agree that these can be terrible vices that can get out of control.. i was at one point a true believer, who believed in these rules, and to a point have benefited from abstaining from these practices.
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Relative rates of mental illness
by Doug Mason ina report produced 50 years ago by a psychiatrist at a west australian mental health facility ("asylum"l reported that the mental illness rate among jws was 3 times the norm of society.
other similar studies at the time concluded the rate was much higher.. i wrote to the psychiatrist at the time, asking whether the wts attracted people who were already susceptible to mental illness or if the situation was created after the person became a jw.
he responded that they did not know.. being myopically focused on the wts at the time, but more importantly belonging to an alternative eschatological apocalyptic body at the time, i did not think more broadly.. i think that today i would like to know:.
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Appointments
by asp59 inwhat happened to letters from governing body about cleaning up congregation from does that receive privilege but we're not working on fruits of spirit?
they send out one then some year after another.
thought they assigned cos to do the cleaning work.
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Watch Tower History
by vienne inwe've posted updated and new research on our history blog.
http://truthhistory.blogspot.com/2018/06/temporary-post.html.
this is rough draft material for a chapter in vol.
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Life seemed so simple when we ...
by eyeuse2badub inis it me or do you share my thoughts about life seeming so simple when were--------------kids and when we were----------------die-hard jw’s?.
as a kid we trusted our parents explicitly.
their word was truth and we believed everything they said.
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traditional English words and phrases.
by stan livedeath insomething i found on facebook..... a bit of interesting history reading .... enjoy ...they used to use urine to tan animal skins, so families used to all pee in a pot & then once a day it was taken & sold to the tannery.......if you had to do this to survive you were "piss poor".
but worse than that were the really poor folk who couldn't even afford to buy a pot......they "didn't have a pot to piss in" & were the lowest of the low.
the next time you are washing your hands and complain because the water temperature isn't just how you like it, think about how things used to be.
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Will The Governing Body's Shunning Policy Backfire On Them Eventually?
by Brokeback Watchtower inwe all can agree that the disfellowshipping arrangement benefits the wt corporation by keeping the indoctrinated in servitude, make members afraid to doubt the corporation's teachings and explanations because they can be disfellowshipped for saying anything negative about the corporation or it's ceos or not agreeing with some new light.. but what about negative effects caused by the harsh use of disfellowshipping to the corporation, what could they be?
it's a two edged sword..
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Found my old PO on facebook
by blownaway ini found my old when i mean old po it was when i was in the congregation he was po of in 1989 and earlier from the 70s.
i posted is this the insert name here, that was po of my old congregation?
how does it feel to have lived so long and now you are dying and the end still is not on the horizon?