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  The Great Apocalypse is Coming in July - Here is a Preview

  by DT in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  trailer for the first book of the sparlock of the multiverse trilogy.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouvwf1mncog&feature=youtu.be.

  here is a recording of the prologue:.

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  paradisebeauty

  Have a website about this book?
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  If you were put in charge of the Governing Body tomorrow...

  by FusionTheism in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  if you were somehow magically put in-charge of the governing body tomorrow, by jesus, with the rules being, you could not teach anything that would be considered outright apostasy and you could not teach anything that would be considered to cause doubt about god's existence... (so as not to arouse suspicion).

  what "new light" or "clarified understandings" would you introduce first?.

  and which later on?.

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  paradisebeauty

  I would introduce the following new light:

  - the "organization" is not the only channel of communication with God. God does not have an organisation on Earth, He deals with individuals not with organizations.

  - other christians from other religions will be saved

  - all christians are anointed and can have the help / access to the holly spirit

  - all partake at commemoration

  - there will be a new earth and new heavens

  - do not turn a report on preaching

  - no shunning

  - no judgment for those who want to celebrate a day or not
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  W 15 july - members of others religions not destroyed???

  by paradisebeauty in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  please tell me what do you understand from this quote that is taken from w july 2015, the article your deliverance is close paragraph 5.. i understand that not all members of other religions will be destroyed at armageddon.

  i talked to a jw.

  he says he understands differently: they will not be destroyed when the babylon the great will be destroyed but they will be destroyed in armageddon.

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  paradisebeauty

  Please tell me what do you understand from this quote that is taken from w july 2015, the article your deliverance is close paragraph 5.

  I understand that not all members of other religions will be destroyed at Armageddon.

  I talked to a jw. He says he understands differently: they will not be destroyed when the Babylon the great will be destroyed but they will be destroyed in Armageddon.

  What do you understand?

  Should we conclude, though, that the destruction of the religions of Babylon the Great results in the death of all the former members of those religions? Apparently not. The prophet Zechariah was inspired to write about that time. Speaking of someone who was previously part of false religion, the account states: “He will say, ‘I am no prophet. I am a man cultivating the soil, because a man bought me when I was young.’ And if someone asks him, ‘What are these wounds between your shoulders?’ he will answer, ‘Wounds I received in the house of my friends.’” (Zech. 13:4-6) So, apparently, even some of the clergy will abandon their religious course and deny that they were ever part of those false religions.
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  Disfellowshipping Image

  by naazira in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  this photo can be found in the april 15 , study edition article titled:.

  why disfellowshipping is a loving provision.

  just by looking at this image we can see how quickly the barrier between the congregation and former member is put up, after the announcement that this sister is no longer one of jehovah's witneses.

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  paradisebeauty

  I have not seen happy jw's in my 20 years of knowing them
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  Those who were converts from another faith. When did you realize that you were being lied to?

  by TTWSYF in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  my experiences have included being lied to about what the bible says.

  mind you , i am not referring to scripture twisting, i mean out right lying about what is written.. obviously at least some here didn't realize until it was later.. just wondering what others experienced.. thanks.

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  I was baptised 12 years ago. Over the time I saw many things. Some questions came across my mind but just as a wisper, I never really thought of them, not even in my mind, I do not think I even had the courage to formulate those questions in my mind.

  Lately I felt even more and more that something is wrong or that I do not get something right. - was not sure which was the case.

  I prayed to God to show me what I understand wrongly, where I am wrong.

  And later I came across a quotation from a book: the desire for peace and security worldwide, ch 1 par. 16 which says: Jesus is not the mediator between God and all mankind, Jesus is the mediator between God and the 144 000.

  I started researching this and I discover this is one of their main doctrine. This is why only the annointed are partaking, only them are considered children of God, only them are part of the congregation of God. They consider this understanding a part of the sacred secred revealed to them.

  But this is also a hiden doctrine. They hide it from most JW's. I am sure less of 80% of jw's have no idea of this but this is one of their main doctrine in reality.

  In last month's study article they even say other sheeps are saved by the way they treat the annointed ones and by the things they do for them. So, their salvation is by deeds not divine grace.

  This doctrine is against everything that the Bible says on God, Crist or true christianity. This is such a distortion of christianity. I wish jw's could understand this.

  As I study more I discover more and more doctrines who are not supported by the Bible and more and more things that prove there is no way God would have chosen this org. As His "only" channel of comunication on earth.

  They do not give spiritual food, but poisen!.

  I am upset with myself for not researching into other sources all this years and just taking as good and valid all they said...
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  Convention Tomorrow...

  by freemindfade in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  kill me.... it's hard to put into words just how badly i do no want to sit through this 3 days of bull $hit.

  i will appreciate any and all words of condolence, humorous, serious, or otherwise.

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  paradisebeauty

  Losten to some podcasts:

  http://www.stfpodcast.com/File/july2006_newperspectiveon_manifestations.mp3
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  Watchtower now Proudly Promoting the DIVINE Jesus

  by FusionTheism in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  the revised nwt has a footnote on john 1:1 showing that "a god" means "divine.".

  also, their other publications are now much more boldly referring to jesus as divine:.

  jesus--the way, the life, the truth (2015), page 306-307:.

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  I swear you have to be a freakin retard to be a JW sometimes.

  Clambake, since my awakening I am thinking this religion is for spiritual lazy people.

  If you do a little research by yourself you see so many misunderstandings in their doctrine.

  I never thought of myself as spiritually lazy but if I would have researched a little and not take as valid everything they said I would have never got baptised.
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  The monthly broadcast as an opportunity to wake up

  by paradisebeauty in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i was thinking that maybe the monthly broadcasts are a occasion for some jw's to wake up.

  before those broadcasts they probably imagined that the gobgoverning y members are some very special peopleand that you see in their behavior and words that they are "chosen".

  but now all jw's can see them for who they really are: average men, some full of themselves, some ridiculous, some just normal men with nothing special.

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  paradisebeauty

  I was thinking that maybe the monthly broadcasts are a occasion for some jw's to wake up.

  Before those broadcasts they probably imagined that the gobgoverning y members are some very special peopleand that you see in their behavior and words that they are "chosen".

  But now all jw's can see them for who they really are: average men, some full of themselves, some ridiculous, some just normal men with nothing special.

  Maybe some jw's will ask themselves why they should obey these men without question.

  Do you think this is possible ?
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  NOT on JW.org: Huffington Post interview with Director of new movie about Jehovahs' Witnesses and the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society.

  by Balaamsass2 in

  1. social
  2. current

  danielle tumminio become a fan .

  episcopal priest, life coach, and author of 'god and harry potter at yale'.

  email.

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  paradisebeauty

  I like this, and it is true:

  No one has a monopoly on the truth and a healthy discussion about religion needs vagueness -- room to contemplate the wonderment and mystery of the unknowable.
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  Return to Jehovah Photo

  by naazira in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  this picture is in the new publication from this year's convention, titled "return to jehovah".

  part 1the lost one i will search for.

  personally, the animal looks scared of the shepherd.

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  paradisebeauty

  If they really wanted people to return they should stop that stupid rule of shunning ex members!

  That rule is not Biblical.

  They have that rule because they are afraid ex members will tell current members TTATT and will expose them.