It never ceases to amaze me how I never really picked up on this verbiage while I was in.
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Unbelievable comment in Jan 1 2007 WT
by penny2 inpage 28, paragraph 11 says in part:.
"it seems that resurrected ones of the 24-elders group may be involved in the communicating of divine truths today.
" (the 24 elders = "anointed christians in their heavenly positions".).
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Will you always see yourself as an "Ex-JW"?
by Gayle ini guess that's how it will always be for me,,i've moved on,,all my family is "out' thankfully,,but i spent too many years there, and i won't ever become a member of a religion,,in jest, you are my "church" i guess.
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It's part of my history, whether I like it, or not. When I participate on JWD, or do some research of sorts on the organization, I am an ex-jw. In my married life, I'm my wife's husband, a non-jw, in fact, my former jw life rarely comes up in discussions with her. At work, a systems engineer. Again, my former jw life is a non issue there, either. But, in a limited sense, I will always be an ex-jw.
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Still beating the flock, sadly.
by Gill ini ran into a jw lady i have known most of my life a couple of weeks ago.. she told me that she had left her non jw abusive husband and that she was still very upset about all that had happened.. the elders had been 'visiting' her.
infact visiting is probably the wrong word and should be replaced with harrassing.. they kept telling her that 'jehovah hates a divorcing!
' she said that they wanted her to go back to her abusive husband as she should not have married a non jw in the first place.
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Yep...shows very nicely where the influence comes from that prompted my oldest son to tell me, "Nothing short of dad being a SERIAL KILLER could justify you divorcing him."
Way to go, Watchtower...woo hoo! You've got the next generation of abusive JW husbands locked in already....
Yep, and it applies to JW wives also. Although in my case it was mental abuse, not physical.
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The Watchtower Official Page of Hypocrisy
by Vinny inthis link is directly from the "official" watchtower website.
it's a short reading.
now, imagine somebody trying to apply this very same advice to their own jehovah's witness faith.
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The WTS is delusional. They don't even realize they are propagandists.
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"Published by Jehovah's Witnesses"
by Nosferatu in"published by jehovah's witnesses".
what the hell is up with this statement?
i've seen it occur a lot since i've been out of the org.
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Terms such as "publisher", "pioneer", etc were Rutherford era terms. His contrarian nature kept him from applying mainstream Christianity's terms, such as "preacher". He also had a very legalistic nature, (as a wannabe lawyer, I'm not sure he ever passed the BAR anywhere), and preferred to use terms that had rather ambigous meanings outside of the jw organization.
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Former JW-Masonic Temple being made into a landmark
by lonelysheep infollow up to previous threads..... http://www.northjersey.com/page.php?qstr=exjpcnk3zjczn2y3dnflzuvfexkzntcmzmdizww3zjd2cwvlruv5etcwnjg3mtimexjpcnk3zjcxn2y3dnflzuvfexkz.
paterson -- the masons built their paterson headquarters to last.
in justifying why the former masonic temple should be considered a local historic landmark, gianfranco archimede, executive director of the paterson historic preservation commission, pointed to the building's mass.
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done4good
I worked on that building back in '93 or so when I did the RBC thing. There was rumor that an electric chair was found in the basement, but that could be just another jw urban legend. My sister went to one of the Paterson congs there, and was also married there in '99. It seems the jws didn't keep it long, but supposedly they sold it for $5 million.
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"Holidays Are Like Unclean Candy In A Gutter"
by minimus inso says the "what does the bible really teach" book.
"like that candy, holidays may seem sweet, but they have been picked up from unclean places.....we need to have a viewpoint like that of the prophet isaiah, who told true worshiper:touch nothing unclean".---------so origins really matter!
---------isn't it funny how the society can pick and choose which pagan origins aren't as bad as another??
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I thought that was the 5 second rule...damn.
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Has anyone found another religion??
by Cass ing'day everyone, i am just curious to k. now if anyone has found another religion, which they believe has gods backing.
if you have i would love to hear about it .
thanks for looking at this post, cassie.
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None for me, thanks. If God exists, he, (she, it), will be my judge, and not any organization. Like Warlock said, I'm done.
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Where would we be now if there was never a concept of God?
by dh inif (for the sake of argument for those who believe in god) there was no god, and no human being who ever lived had ever come up with or even had a concept of god or a higher being.
where do you think we as human beings would be today.
what do you think our history would be like, and our future?
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Have you seen those pathetic little poodles that shake all the time? We would have been like that. Afraid of our own shadows. Surviving.
The concept of something bigger than ourselves that can take care of us, or demand retribution for unsociable conduct, permitted mankind to venture far from his cave and aspire to something greater.
Before you dismiss that thought, consider this: we are where we are because we have been where we have been. It couldn't have been any other way. The results would have been vastly different from what we see around us. Do you genuinely think we could have got to this level of complexity without the intermediary stages?
On the point of Quantum, etc., I agree with Mauzzim.
LT, I like the way you think. That shows a level of insight that really goes beyond the question raised.
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My congo is being DELETED next month!
by MinisterAmos inoh noez how will we survive?!?!.
more details later, but it's a case of a congo that split not growing and the congo it split from losing 50% of its publishers in two years.. i'm tickled pink!.
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Doesn't matter what term they use. It's good news!
People are waking up!
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