was looking at the jan 15th watchtower and reading it side by side with the january awake.. jehobar is mentioned probably hundreds of times in the wt (anytime god is referenced), instead in the awake --> god is used instead!!.
the only 2 or 3 times it is used in this awake is when quoting scriptures directly and jehobar is in that scripture!.
they are using cute tactics to sway the nieve
part of the reason is so that people don't know that they are jehovah's witnesses until (or IF) they like what they read... i remember one of my last times in service i was introducing myself as one of jehovah's witnesses and my mother asked me to stop because it gets the householder's back up or something like that...
bethel
i've never posted anything on the net before.
just want to see if it works.
i left the wts in '73 - just couldn't wait those extra two years.
Don't laugh.I bought a second-hand bottle of rum once and you wouldn't believe what the demons made me do.
hehehehahaha even first-hand bottles can cause us to have demonic fun!
theme: what can we learn from jesus' family?
source material: student research
working on point #25: use of an outline- (basically making sure i don't read straight from my notes and my words flow)
haha this is too funny! apostates helping jw's with their talks... doesn't this strike anyone as odd? i do think it's cute and even a compliment to human nature...
bethel
i'll start:.
hey brother smith, how about if we go preach the good news tomorrow morning, hey?
pick you up at 9
prophecy is being fulfilled.
you say you can't wait til the new system so you can ask noah and moses and paul what it was like? well believe me, they are going to be asking US what it was like at the end...
i don't understand how people can't see it's the truth
how come we're having the memorial at a church that belongs to babylon the great?
jesus was a great man.
what exactly aren't you interested in? the bible? our magazines? have you ever read them? they're very interesting!
bethel
today, i had a phone message from the husband of my former study conductor/friend!!
he (they) were calling to see how we were doing.
they were like brother and sister to me.
i like the way you wrote that. loving, yet stern and convinced. hopefully the people who contacted you have taken to heart what you wrote... even if it is a year later.
bethel
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a few of the friends i have spoken to over the years seemed to think that jehovah would never allow man to leave the planet and visit another.. "we have to get this planet right first", they said.. i thought at the time, perhaps the furthest man would be allowed to go would be the moon.. recently, president bush announced a new space initiative for nasa - first the moon by 2017, then mars by 2020-2030.. what are your thoughts?.
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i hate when dubs speculate like that... it always embarrasses them. but they continue to do it.
ummmmmm just a reminder to all of us apostates... the end is soooooooooooooooooooooooo close now.
it's incredible how goddam close we are to the end.
wow the society really is giving appropriate warning and if we don't follow it, it's our own fault.
ummmmmm just a reminder to all of us apostates... THE END IS SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO CLOSE NOW. it's incredible how goddam close we are to the end. wow the society really is giving appropriate warning and if we don't follow it, it's our own fault.
i can't believe how he could come back and anything be different in his mind. of course we're closer to the end... everyday we get closer to something... whatever it is, we're closer to it. time doesn't go backwards for God's sake...
bethel
while talking with my mother about why i gave no thought to my future employment as a young man, i mentioned the 69 awake article that assured young folks that they would not grow old in this system.
she thinks i must have misread it.
i can't locate it now, so can anyone point me to it?.
If you are a young person, you also need to face the fact that you will never grow old in this present system of things
OMFG. wow. apostate for almost three years, and this shit still shocks me... Jesus God...
bethel
hi, i'm not a jw but i wanted to write about the few encounters i've had with people handing out the watchtower.
over here in the uk, it's something of a joke, the dreaded knock on the door and aargh!
it's the jehova's witnesses.
IF YOU'RE BUYING, I'LL HAVE A PINT! i'll even quit my faith for a couple of beers on the house
i had a talk with my father last night about the practice of disfellowshipping.my father is an active jw with privileges in the local hall.he doesn't seem in total agreement with the shunning practice of the wts,and he brought out the example of the prodigal son.we had a good discussion and i'm going to research it some more through the chapter on the misuse of disfellowshipping in the book in search of christian freedom.. anyways,i thought i'd look it up in the reasoning book to see what the wts reasoning on disfellowshipping was.it turns out it's not in the table of contents or in the index.i thought this odd;how would one reason on this with a householder who asks about it?
why is there nothing in the reasoning book on a subject every jw says is scriptural?.
goldminer
because its unreasonable
hahaha ain't it the truth!
i dont think they publicise that fact... it's more of a "once you're in, you get to know the real truth"
bethel
