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  Flat earth vs round earth

  by Jrjw in

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  my brother has been talking about the earth being flat and some big conspiracy going on to make people beieve otherwise.

  what are people's thoughts on this?.

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  ThomasCovenant

  Is your brother breathing valuable air from the planet's (round or flat) atmosphere?

  If so, do me a favour.
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  Difficulty fading out

  by Emily1987 in

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  2. friends

  this is my first post on here so i apologize that it is like an essay!.

  my husband and i are currently 'fading out' of the truth.

  we stopped preaching in may 2016 and limited meeting attendance in january 2017 and stopped completely in june 2017. my main reason for this was my whole life i have been doing things to please others, even getting baptized to please my mum.

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  The brutality of having been in a cult and then wanting to leave it ,

  is that if you intend to contInue on the road of 'leaving the truth' then in years to come all the friends 'in the truth' that you now have will no longer be your friends in the future.

  So you may as well stop wasting any more time worrying about them and start living a new life.
  
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  why won't legal department simply release all the secret pedophile files?

  by poopie in

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  what do you think there hiding?.

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  @ThomasCovenant - Do you personally have the opinion that Jehovah's Witnesses handle child sexual abuse allegations in a way that protects children to the best of human abilities? If not, where do you think they fall short? If you do, please highlight the ways in which they best serve children in these cases through their policies.

  Thank you for asking me that question.

  1) In my opinion as a layman, no I don't think they do.

  2) I suppose I think they fall short by not reporting to the authorities

  3) I don't.

  That was quite easy.
  
  
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  My thoughts on Church shootings..

  by DATA-DOG in

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  2. beliefs

  disclaimer: i do not approve or condone any acts of violence that result in the deaths of innocent persons.. alright.. let me just say that i have no idea what motivated the latest mass shooting, nor do i condone those actions.

  i am, however, beginning to understand why some individuals may feel that violence is their only choice, although i do not approve of that choice.. when i read topics on this forum that concern religion and legalism, topics that drone on and on, getting nowhere, i feel extremely frustrated.

  yes, religions are given certain freedoms, but many are obviously going beyond the spirit that motivated the separation of church and state.

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  If I woke up tomorrow and everyone who believed in god had 'disappeared', and every vestige of religion had also 'disappeared', would I think the world had become a better place overnight?

  After the initial shock and sadness, eventually I think I would.
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  Watchtower Society Embarrassments.

  by Vinny in

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  " {ga jul 14 1926 644} .

  " {ga jul 24 1929 702} .

  " {awak jun 22 1982 25}?

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  ThomasCovenant

  Don't know whether Vinny is still around here but thanks for the original posting.

  And interesting reading his disassociation letter.

  http://exjehovahswitnessforum.yuku.com/topic/922/t/Letter-of-disassociation.html
  
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  Things I Cant Stand Since Leaving Watchtower

  by pale.emperor in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  what a breath a fresh air to be free of watchtower.

  now i can finally rant about the things i put up with that i'd never put up with now.. in no particular order:.

  little kids in suits.

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  ''By the time she was finished there was not a single word that wasn't covered in fluorescent ink.''

  
  I remember I went through a brief phase of after my Dad nagging me to ''pre study' the Watchtower 'study',

  underlining every single word of the whole 'study' article. Just to prove a point.

  I very rarely answered at the meetings, certainly not the latter years,

  but I so wanted to put my hand up and then read out the whole paragraph in answer to the question, just after the Watchtower reader had just read it.
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  ''This good news of the Kingdom will be preached in all the inhabited earth FULL STOP''- Matthew 24:14. JW ORG

  by ThomasCovenant in

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  2. bible

  hi.

  only just noticed on the jw borg home page that matt 24:14 is quoted with a full stop instead of a comma after the word earth then the closing quotation marks.. isn't that incorrect?.

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  ThomasCovenant

  Regardless of the omission of punctuation in early manuscripts

  shouldn't the JW Borg have it as

  ''This good news of the Kingdom will be preached in all the earth''. (Period/full stop after the quote)

  as opposed to

  ''This good news of the Kingdom will be preached in all the earth.'' (Implying that is a full sentence being quoted)

  Missed the earlier thread.
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  ''This good news of the Kingdom will be preached in all the inhabited earth FULL STOP''- Matthew 24:14. JW ORG

  by ThomasCovenant in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  hi.

  only just noticed on the jw borg home page that matt 24:14 is quoted with a full stop instead of a comma after the word earth then the closing quotation marks.. isn't that incorrect?.

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  Hi

  Only just noticed on the JW Borg home page that Matt 24:14 is quoted with a full stop instead of a comma after the word earth then the closing quotation marks.

  Isn't that incorrect?
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  BEAT that Child!

  by Farkel in

  1. jw
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  this is sort of a continuation of threads on dubs and how they are conditioned to discipline their children.

  someone questioned whether the society actually encouraged dubs to whup their children.

  i only had enough time to dig up a few salient quotes from the wt magazine.

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  What did Bro Jackson say about corporal punishment to the ARC?
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  A day for a lunar or solar etc year

  by stillajwexelder in

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  2. beliefs

  about 10 years ago there was a brilliant piece by a legend on this board - may have been farkel.

  it was where he showed how ludicrous it was to flit between solar days lunar months a solar day for a 360 day year but those years are 365 to come up with 1914. i have tried searching but struggled.

  does anyone remember it and if so can you point to it with a link please?

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  ThomasCovenant

  I'm looking for the Farkel thread on it. Try this link https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/76183/best-farkel