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  New methods?

  by manda63 in

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  2. beliefs

  hi, had some strange things happen this week that have made me ponder what on earth is going on with the man made organisation.. 1/ while picking up some train tickets i was approached by a young man with an ipad of sorts who engaged me in a chap and then asked to show me a new website i asked what he was trying to sell or promote he assured me that he was selling nothing the website he showed me was jw.org so i quickly said so you are promoting an organisation with a brand name similar to how a christian would promote jesus and the bible he looked confused but then said yes, so i said that i thought that to be quite shamefull, he froze for a bit and didnt comment so i asked is this new symbol a trade mark of some marketting firm to which he said "no we are jehovahs witnesses" no one else was around so not sure of the "we" but anyway i said if god has given us the bible whats with a website that produces snippets out the bible with an opinion on the meaning he avoided the question and asked me what i believed in so i said my religions leeders dont let me discuss belief with anybody so i obey,listen to them and dont question he said "you have been blessed by j with a brain and freedom of thought to look and question" i said ok but i think its strange that you use a name for god thats perhaps made up by man, blindly follow and dont question a group of self appointed men as well as showing signs of idoatory to an organisation that has pushed jesus to one side, at this he suddenly he had to dash off.

  2/ when out shopping i was apprehended by a group of people with a stand giving free literature and promoting the jw.org website so i had had to ask whats with this name change after all these years and are you a similar religion to the catholic church which led to a chat about how the catholic religion is false and how they wickedly have covered up sex abuse!

  i didnt bite on this one but asked if birth control was banned in the jw.org religion a lady stepped forward and explained that it was cruel and not biblical to ban contreception i said i had been shown a bit in the bible that gives rise to this ban and she said they(catholic church) dont understand the bible and use it to control and miss inform people so i replied similar to how your organisation bans blood and birthdays by misinterpreting the bible i went on to say that i believe the organisation to be hypocritical,false , cult like and shamefull how it covers up sex abuse i also got in that the organisation had totally corrupted its self with its un membership and also with the sheer amount of false prophecy over its relatively short history at which the senior man at the table politely told me if i wasnt interested in the literature to be on my way and that hopefully i would mature enough to let jehovah into my heart before it was to late and that he felt sorry for me and the people i obviously associated with.

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  I enjoyed the post. Great info.
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  The 1927-1946 "Messenger" CD by request!

  by Atlantis in

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  2. bible

  from one of the friends here:.

  nevada do you still have those messengers with rutherfords pictures?.

  tx.

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  C.T. Russell mentioned at beginning of this article. LOL (Miracle Wheat)

  by RagingBull in

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  2. scandals

  http://www.vice.com/read/the-black-bernie-madoff-000442-v21n9.

  the org will phase ct out of the picture at some point (completely) i'm sure.. .

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  FYI all... Mike and Kim You Tube

  by ducatijoe in

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  2. friends

  well if any did not know, mike and kim were shut down on you tube.. they are back on under kim mikey.. .

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  I enjoy the videos, too. The time it takes to manage all they do is quite commendable. I have only watched a handful of their videos but to me they seem to be having fun together while sharing the info.
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  New Convention Scared The BeJesus Out Of My Mother

  by minimus in

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  2. friends

  whatever the vids were, she had nightmares and told the elder to not give her videos like that again!.

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  Sir82. ..omg lol me too! Oh those eyebrows! I never thought I would develop a fear of...eyebrows!?!
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  I put the kingdom first! Now look what happened...

  by Julia Orwell in

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  2. entertainment

  i put the kingdom first - by sheree stokell.

  so they dunked me in a pool.

  armageddon would be here soon.

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  This prison I was in

  Clutched me deep into my soul

  Taunted me, controlled me

  Haunted me...owned me

  But now I am free

  Like a flower blossoming

  On a warm spring day

  The breeze opens my mind.

  I see now those prison gates

  They were all in my head

  I trusted, I believed

  But now I know I was misled

  It's so hard to let go

  When you think your losing life

  When you think it's Satan's world out there

  When shunning is your price...

  But oh the wonders of this world

  Precious moments have been lost

  But here now, I am free!

  I no longer see the devil

  Lurking with those "worldly" friends

  To judge others, to fear I no longer feel

  I love all and care instead

  My heart has been opened.

  Beating strong, I am free!

  Okay, that's all I got right now. Draft one - I Am Free

  It's 2am, I apologize for any 2am-isms.
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  Do You Think The Islamic State Will Launch An Attack On US Soil In The Near Future?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i think so.

  they rejoice over celebrating the 9/11 attacks..

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  @designs lol

  Would these be the same ones who so vigorously oppose the government monitoring communications etc? I almost didn't join this convo in this way because people get very...er...emotional. But oh well. There are so many things that go on that the average Joe citizen has no idea occurs. They are working hard out there to stop terrorism, both foreign and domestic.

  All this crap going on...not Obama's fault. Is he a perfect president? Well, is there really such a thing as a perfect president? It is always easy to judge from the peanut gallery, when you don't know what is going on behind the scenes. There are decisions made, resources deployed, avenues taken that we don't know about. And we don't need to know. Why? Because people flip out, cry foul, and more without even understanding all the facts. And Obama isn't the only one making the decisions.

  Earlier in Obama's presidency, there was a crisis, I think it was the oil spill in the gulf. I would listen to the talking heads on my satellite radio during my work commute. In the days after the oil spill, said talking heads (i can't remember who but will try to remember) went on and on about how Obama was weak because he wasn't doing anything to hold them accountable, that he needed to step in a do something, fine them, etc. People were calling in going on and on about it, how Obama wasn't taking action. Well, guess what?!?! News came out the he did take action! He had been working on it to determine what to do. So they got fined, and more. So what do those SAME PEOPLE SAY?!?! Suddenly it turned to them complaining that Obama had no right, Obama shouldn't have gotten involved, the Government has no place in the private sector, etc. Etc.

  WTF?

  I stopped listening to that talk show immediately. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
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  Anyone else notice the new Terms of Use on jw.org?

  by leaving_quietly in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i first noticed it today... slides up at the bottom.

  i wonder why they felt the need to do this?

  this is just silly for a religious website..

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  As others have said, there is the ability to provide review and opinion etc. And cite the source. They are intimidating, but there are limits to what they can actually enforce.
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  What Happened to the Religion I Left in 1995?

  by JoshJeffries in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  josh here, new to the board.

  glad to know this site is here.. i would not be writing this if it were not 2014. i was a ministerial servant and regular pioneer who left the jehovahs witnesses back in 1995/96, around that time.

  i left suddenly, didnt fade away, just left when something clicked one day in my head during the morning shower and made me realize this religion wasnt true.

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  The New NWT also has several chapters removed as well without anyone noticing...crazy stuff!
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  PART TWO of AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE BY A PRACTICING JEHOVAH'S WITNESS

  by Sparks in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  while you are sitting there reading this, there are literally hundreds of thousands of young males and females all over the world [ mostly in america / canada and england] sitting in their grotty little smelly bedrooms or flats, designing computer viruses that they will up-load onto web-sites to cause anonymous innocent peoples computers to malfunction.

  these creeps spend literally weeks,months or even years hoping to make a computer viruses that will get into peoples computer bios to completely destroy their computers.

  they never see the peoples anger, frustration and distress.... the damage can cost each person about 1,000 [ $1,660.74 ] or more to replace a basic new laptop or tower.

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  My goodness this post is so sad. This person is obviously very upset and not thinking clearly...the post was a ramble going all over the place. He is losing his religion, and apparently fighting like heck to hold onto it. He is broken.