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Confronting Our Parents. Part 1
by jakes induring winter school holidays here in south africa,my wife and i decided to travel down to our hometown.
to confront our parents about the jw issue.we felt we needed to clear the air and let them know what our .
standpoint regarding the jws are,and why we will not be raising their grandchildren in the org.. once and for all we needed to get this behind us.we needed to tell them about my book and felt it would.
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Rugby World Cup
by jakes inalright!
looking at the performances over the weekend,my bet is on a south africa - new zealand final.. naturally, my winner is south africa.
i really think they can do it this year.. what are your thoughts?.
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MY BOOK RELEASE!!!
by jakes inwell folks.my book is now released.. book release.
new book information.
losing the faith.
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For Centuries...
by jakes infor centuries man has been pre-occupied with predicting the end of the world.throughout history their have been so-called visionaries and prophets that have claimed to have been given divine authority to predict the end.calculating precisely when the world will end has preoccupied a long line of forecasters.from sibyl who predicted the return of nero as the antichrist in 195,to william miller who in the nineteenth century predicted the end to come in 1843. the list of projected ends generated by these doomsdayers is impressive.amongst them the dates 195,500,948,1000,1260,1420,1588,1666,1763,1785,1819,1843,1866,1903,1914 and 1975 rank tops.
these dates have been fervently anticipated and then bitterly mourned.. .
the jehovah's witnesses is one sect that has preached and has been most obsessed with end time prophecy.the witnesses original mathematical groundwork was laid down by charles taze russell.
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Wife finally sees truth about "the truth"
by jakes inwell it has finally happened.my wife is not going back to the meetings again.as you would probably read in my previous posts, i have written a book about my experience in the watchtower organisation which is on the verge of being published.she still tried to cling to what little belief she had in the borg and did not want to read my manuscript.we discussed many of the issues and concerns i had about the watchtower but most of the times it ended in a heated argument.. i was quite surprised when she approached me about two weeks ago and asked to read my manuscript.after reading it she handed it back to me and said she fully supports me in publishing this book.her eyes have been opened to the deception and lies.i think she and a friend had a bad experience calling on one of her so-called jw friends.furthermore, she did not attend this past weekends circuit assembly..
hooray!!!.
all i have to do now is to introduce her to all you wonderful people here on jwd.. jakes.
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JWs - Weaklings who despise power?
by jakes injws are not much inclined towards spirituality.their beliefs should be classed under the heading dogma.however,from the outside looking in,their distinguishing feature is not their dogma but their intense hatred of the world.for more than a century they have done nothing but groan upon it and have done very little for the plight of mankind in general.their leadership continues to exhort their followers to 'put on the complete suit of armour'.soon christ with his heavenly legions will destroy the governments,clergy,higher learning institutions and the churches.. hate seems to be foremost in their passion to see this world end.. do you think that jws are weaklings who despise the powerful because they lust after power themselves?
( matthew's 'faithfull and discreet slave' seems to be very much exalted in the jws ).
jakes .
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Network Business vs Watchtower Business
by jakes init just occured to me that the watchtower is run similar to a pyramid networking type business.what i am talking about is the type of business where members are recruited to distribute or sell the company's exclusive products only available from members, and not from normal retail chain stores.. in most of these network type business schemes the members stand to make at least a bit of money.however, in the watchtower's case, the members(r&f, congregations) do not.
the watchtower takes all the spoils.. would you say it is a fair comparison?.
jakes.
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Frederick Franz's Words
by jakes inaddressing a large audience in 1976,president franz asked, ' do you know why nothing happened in 1975?
it was because you expected something to happen.'.
i would have stood up walked right out if i was present.. jakes.
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Good Read.Living At The End Of The World.
by jakes inhas anybody read this book by marina benjamin-living at the end of the world?.
it uncovers the characters and beliefs of a world overshadowed by end time prophecies and millenial visions.in it she takes a look at the tragedies of waco,heaven's gate and other suicide cults.the mormons and jws are also analysed very accurately.i think it is a very good book to get jws to read as it is not written by an "apostate".. .
jakes.