I tend to agree Mary.
isaacaustin
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Jehovahs Witness Spouses
by Spade in.
i seriously doubt there's anyone with a spouse that's a jehovah's witness here.
but if so, how do you absorb all the hateful rhetoric disseminated here without spitting it back in your spouses face?.
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As Far as JW's and Thanksgiving go...
by OnTheWayOut init's one of the most confusing holidays to jw's.
it doesn't specify who to give thanks to, it's a u.s. holiday that is semi-patriotic and semi-religious but not necessarily either one.. i suppose jw's should go out of their way to avoid giving thanks this thursday so jehovah doesn't get pissed at them for being so slightly normal worldly and maybe accidentally smite them if armageddon starts this thursday..
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isaacaustin
Exactly, wouldn't want to step on his toes!
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I'M BACKKKKKK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
by highdose inhey everyone!.
did you miss me?
i moved house and had to wait 4 weeks for the internet to be connected:(.
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isaacaustin
Highdose, although we never really talked, I was wondering about you 2 days ago and how you were doing. :) Glad you are back (here that is- not back to the org! LOL)
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Jehovahs Witness Spouses
by Spade in.
i seriously doubt there's anyone with a spouse that's a jehovah's witness here.
but if so, how do you absorb all the hateful rhetoric disseminated here without spitting it back in your spouses face?.
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isaacaustin
Spade and I had a previous dialog from which he/she also made ridiculously unsubstantiated comments, to which I answered and he had no reply.
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Jehovahs Witness Spouses
by Spade in.
i seriously doubt there's anyone with a spouse that's a jehovah's witness here.
but if so, how do you absorb all the hateful rhetoric disseminated here without spitting it back in your spouses face?.
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isaacaustin
or is pretending not to...
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Jehovahs Witness Spouses
by Spade in.
i seriously doubt there's anyone with a spouse that's a jehovah's witness here.
but if so, how do you absorb all the hateful rhetoric disseminated here without spitting it back in your spouses face?.
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isaacaustin
MLE, LOL the good ol days. They re-create themselves in different ways, but always use the same tactics.
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Jehovahs Witness Spouses
by Spade in.
i seriously doubt there's anyone with a spouse that's a jehovah's witness here.
but if so, how do you absorb all the hateful rhetoric disseminated here without spitting it back in your spouses face?.
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isaacaustin
I have to say I doubt his story of being someone never associated with the JWs, and his wife being a Witness..and thinking 'he' is simply here to stir people up. Here was his supposed exit from this forum due to all the 'hate' here:
http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/beliefs/199643/1/This-information-source-not-for-me
Well, I'm outta here. I initially started researching Jehovah's Witnesses because my wife has been studying with them so I can't digest anymore of the religious hate I'm reading here. I was shown this by someone here and told I needed to protect my wife:
http://www.sixscreensofthewatchtower.com/whoweare.html
As our Bible reading and research intensified, the ever-changing doctrines of the Watchtower Society began to "raise red flags" with us because some of their doctrines could not be reconciled with the Bible. Such as the elder arrangements, no independent thinking, the cross, their definition of "Christendom", education and employment. The major doctrinal changes regarding the 1914 generation, blood, and disfellowshipping could only be found through Watchtower dogma, not the Bible.
After discussing these and other concerns with a member of the Governing Body on a personal invitation to Brooklyn headquarters, it became more apparent that the Watchtower organization is nothing more than a business masquerading as a religion. Through spending a full day at Bethel, as well as having numerous phone conversations with this member of the Governing Body, it was easy to see the control that the Watchtower organization has over its members. The glue that holds the organization together wasn't godly or spiritual, becoming transparently obvious that the Watchtower Society's key to locking in members is the undeniable form of mind control. Our exit from the Watchtower organization began around the year 2000, and we had to carefully consider our exit strategy. Having five children, two of whom are still active Jehovah's Witnesses, we had to consider all the repercussions of leaving.
One of our daughters is married to a ministerial servant and is regularly pioneering by putting in 70 hours a month of time in field service. The other is also married to a Jehovah's Witness and they have one son (our grandson who we have not seen for many years). Rick's mother and several of his other relatives are also Jehovah's Witnesses. With many close family members involved with the organization, our departure from the Watchtower had to be carefully considered. As a result of leaving, of course, we have been shunned by all our Witness relatives and two of our children.
Due to our grave concern for our children, their mates, our grandson, and all other relatives and friends who are still loyal to the Watchtower organization, we have carefully and painstakingly put together the Six Screens of the Watchtower. Along with the website, we will continue to develop exposure seminars entitled "Six Screens of the Watchtower" attempting to help ex-Witnesses as well as active Witnesses see the real "truth" behind the Watchtower organization.
See our ministry website at www.upperroomministriesnewengland.com
Upper Room Ministries smacks of a religious hate group. This stuff won't alter anyone's thinking. For starters, I don't believe in a higher power, so whatever adverse consequences a person experiences as a result of blind faith in intangible, invisible beings isn't resolved by exchanging one religious ideology for another or being born again into another religion and engaging in illterate religious psyche warfare. All I could find in the book being studied with my spouse is some doctrinal differences from the way they interpret religious text.
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Jehovahs Witness Spouses
by Spade in.
i seriously doubt there's anyone with a spouse that's a jehovah's witness here.
but if so, how do you absorb all the hateful rhetoric disseminated here without spitting it back in your spouses face?.
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isaacaustin
Fokyc, I could not think of a better way to say it. Wonder if he also goes to Jewish discussion boards and posts that he highly doubts that there is anyone on the board who ever had any relatives who were victims of the Holocaust?
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Jehovahs Witness Spouses
by Spade in.
i seriously doubt there's anyone with a spouse that's a jehovah's witness here.
but if so, how do you absorb all the hateful rhetoric disseminated here without spitting it back in your spouses face?.
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isaacaustin
Spade said:
I seriously doubt there's anyone with a spouse that's a Jehovah's Witness here. But if so, how do you absorb all the hateful rhetoric disseminated here without spitting it back in your spouses face?
My reply: Are you braindead? My spouse is a born-in and active JW. I have not seen hateful rhetoric here...I have seen some justifiable anger..and lots of factual info about the cult I was raised in. It would be considered hateful rhetoric only by those whose minds are captivated by the cult, known as Jehovah's Witnesses.
Do you intentionally say stupid things or do they just fall out of your head by mistake?
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Generation Teaching - Everyone is speechless?
by Red Piller inmaybe the effect of this change is bigger than realized?
in 1995, it was discussed (positively) by everybody, during the week we studied the wt.
one elder stepped down and was looked down upon.
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isaacaustin
@djeggnog wrote:
My reply:
The WT takes a prophecy of Nebuchadnezzar's insanity for 7 times and makes an unawarranted future application- of an account that specifically says occured to Neb. They then jump to an unrelated text of a day for a year...and apply this to the time of the handing of the turban from Zedekiah to the rightful king. A whole lot of mental gymnastics, leaps of logic and misapplications of unrelated texts. Egg in your face!
Also, there's nothing pretentious about the year 1914. Jehovah's Witnesses arrive at that date by adding the number of years represented by the "seven times" (Daniel 4:25), when the expression of God's kingdom here on earth when God's rulership was being represented here by those kings that were said to sit on Jehovah's throne went on hiatus here on the earth, to the year 607 BC. IOW, those "seven times," or 7 x 360 days amount to adding 2,520 prophetic years to 607 BC, or 1914 AD. You do not need and I do not ask you to take my word for any of this. Do the math yourself!