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  The most successful teaching of Jehovah's Witnesses and an amazing new book on the divine name

  by slimboyfat in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  jehovah's witnesses have had to revise their chronology and various doctrinal interpretations due to events and scholarly corrections.

  but the one teaching where they have been consistently ahead of the curve is the importance of jehovah's name.. .

  i'm going to run through a (necessarily selective) timeline of jw events and scholarly publications that demonstrate the phenomenal success of this teaching in the last days.

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  ThomasCovenant

  SBF

  Given the level of 'intellect' that you 'appear' to show,I don't believe for one minute that you actually believe that JW's are reviled for 'copying' early Christians.

  Would you not agree that they are reviled for other reasons.
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  The most successful teaching of Jehovah's Witnesses and an amazing new book on the divine name

  by slimboyfat in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  jehovah's witnesses have had to revise their chronology and various doctrinal interpretations due to events and scholarly corrections.

  but the one teaching where they have been consistently ahead of the curve is the importance of jehovah's name.. .

  i'm going to run through a (necessarily selective) timeline of jw events and scholarly publications that demonstrate the phenomenal success of this teaching in the last days.

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  ThomasCovenant

  All very interesting.

  However, I suppose it may all come down to the Witness elder's interrogation question when they're deciding whether to disfellowship you.

  Do you, SlimBoyFat, believe that Sam, Geoff, Mark, Gerrit, Anthony, Mark and Dave are God's/Yahweh's/Jehovah's

  sole appointed channel of communication on this planet?

  If you do, then it doesn't really matter what God's 'name' is. Surely. Salvation will only come for you by being part of the religious organization which those men lead.

  Standing at the pearly gates saying

  SBF---'But Big J, I was a champion for your real name. Why aren't I going into Paradise?'

  Yahweh/Jehovah------------''Because I was only using one organization. To receive everlasting life in the earthly Paradise you had to identify that organization and serve me as part of it. The rest was bollocks. I just wanted obedience.''
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  10 years on.....

  by snare&racket in

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  2. friends

  i was a window cleaner, i was at the time unemployed, homeless.

  i had no education to be proud of (high school one a two b's rest c's) i was a jehovahs witness.

  i had been a pioneer.

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  ThomasCovenant

  One of the best posts I've read in a long time. Thanks
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  "Apostate" brother gives talk in Kingdom Hall and gets removed

  by StoneWall in

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  this guy has to have the most courage of anyone i've ever seen or balls the size of basketballs.he actually gives a good talk and has tidbits scattered about throughout his public talk with hints,suggestions,innuendos of the wt organization.i never want to go in another kingdom hall again in my life but would have made an exception just to be in this audience.

  lolnotice what's going on in the audience when they realize somethings up.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqqt0y1peuu.

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  ThomasCovenant

  ''Terrifying control'

  ''lives hijacked by an organization''

  Thanks for posting
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  DISTURBING! Italian TV Reporter Violently Attcked On Live TV While Reporting On African Migrants

  by kpop in

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  2. friends

  my god!

  i hope she is ok!

  what have you leftists done to italy?!

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  ThomasCovenant

  'You leftists'?

  Oh dear.
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  Animals, Blood, Food, and JW Beliefs

  by dubstepped in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i'm just thinking aloud here.

  i watched a show yesterday and they were talking about how the largest mammals of the sea (whales) fed on such small creatures (plankton) rather than eating some other large creatures.

  anyway, it got me thinking about how as jws we thought that in paradise animals would all be herbivores, that they would no longer eat other animals.

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  ThomasCovenant

  Just remember that up until the year 2370 BC ( just under four and a half thousand years ago) all animal life was, and always had been, herbivorous.

  It was only after the Flood that Big J recreated the whole damn ecosystem to allow for meat eating.
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  Are people free to leaving the Witnesses, and shunning.

  by ThomasCovenant in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  is it true, as bro jackson testified to the australian royal commission, that people can leave the religion freely?.

  in my own case, yes.

  i just stopped going and was never announced as ''no longer one of jw's''.

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  ThomasCovenant

  Is it true, as Bro Jackson testified to the Australian Royal Commission, that people can leave the religion freely?

  In my own case, yes. I just stopped going and was never announced as ''no longer one of JW's''. End of.

  As regards shunning.

  Yes, I shun Jehovahs' Witnesses in general as I want nothing to do with them. I would go out of my way to avoid them.
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  My Introduction - An ex-elder's story of waking up later in life.

  by doubtfull1799 in

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  2. experiences

  background:.

  my parents got the “truth” while i was in primary school.

  i was baptised at 14. i loved school and was extremely studious.

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  ThomasCovenant

  Thanks for posting.

  Contrary to what you may think, I think your experience is very common with others on this site.

  I wouldn't bother disassociating; just stop all participation in the religion.
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  Only a few days ago I was entirely lost and without hope the rug was pulled out from under me

  by elderess in

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  2. friends

  only a few days ago i was walking around the house in a mindless wander thinking if i needed to seek professional help.

  then i got the courage to seek the comfort of complete strangers on the internet and found a world of support here on this website.

  thank you simon and whoever else has made this website possible.

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  ThomasCovenant

  Thank you for telling and best wishes to you both.
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  BBC Radio 4. 14th February 2016. ''Sunday'' program with article on Witnesses and child abuse.

  by ThomasCovenant in

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  2. child-abuse

  the sunday programme investigates allegations that the jehovah's witness ordered the destruction of documents that could be used during the independent inquiry into child sexual abuse.

  was this in contravention of section 21 of the inquiries act 2005 which is punishable by imprisonment?.

  http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0709v34.

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  ThomasCovenant

  The Sunday programme investigates allegations that the Jehovah's Witness ordered the destruction of documents that could be used during the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse. Was this in contravention of Section 21 of the Inquiries Act 2005 which is punishable by imprisonment?
  

  
  
  

  http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0709v34