deaconbluez
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"Jehovah's Witnesses" Wikipedia Article...
by deaconbluez in...now has an accurate description on the first line:.
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Consider this in relation to the child molestation issue...
by deaconbluez inone of the big faults that is credited to the watchtower is that if a person comes forward and says that they were molested, the elders require an eyewitness to the event.
obviously molesters don't do it where they can be seen, so the victim doesn't get justice.. .
but if the elders took action immediately on anyone accused of molestation, then false accusations with no evidence to support them could be made, forcing innocent people to be disciplined for something they didn't do.. your thoughts?.
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Check out the comments from the JW's for this video...
by deaconbluez inbarf alert.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4ul2mmhux4.
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Grant Suiter - Former Governing Body Member - Military Burial?
by deaconbluez ini don't know if it's the same man, but the watchtower's grant suiter died around 1980 as well:.
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&gsln=suiter&gsfn=grant&gsbyrel=all&gsdyrel=all&gsob=n&grid=1232133&.
can anybody shed some light?.
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This blew my mind...
by deaconbluez ini was thinking about how messed up being one of jehovah's witnesses makes you, and then i realized why.
i was a witness until i was 25, so about 3 or 4 years ago.
that means until i was 25 years old, all i read was apostate literature.
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"End of the Gentile Times" Meaning Was Changed...
by deaconbluez ina good point that captives of a concept by don cameron makes is that during russell's time, the "end of the gentile times" which would take place in 1914 was to signify the complete end of world government's rule.
after that came and went, in order to not have to admit that they were falsely prophecying, they changed the teaching to mean that it was the end of their "uninterrupted rule".
therefore, they had to conclude that in 1914 an invisible jesus christ who was invisibly present as he was being invisibly enthroned to begin his invisible rule rom the invisible heavens.. .
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Most Witnesses Don't Know the "Current Truth" on Matthew 5:5!
by deaconbluez inmatthew 5:5: "happy are the mild-tempered ones, since they will inherit the earth.".
if you ask most witnesses what this verse means, they will say that it means those who are meek/mild/humble will be given the earth as a reward to live forever on.
i was surprised to find out that this is not the official watchtower teaching of that verse.
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Reasoning Point When Dealing With Witness Relatives...
by deaconbluez inone of the common copouts used by witnesses when they are confronted with the real truth about the watchtower is this:.
"oh you've just been talking to apostates and disfellowshipped ones, or you've been reading their literature.
they can't be trusted.".
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587/607 Question...
by deaconbluez inif the exile wasn't to be 70 years, how is jeremiah 29:10 explained by pro-587 folks?.
10 "for this is what jehovah has said, in accord with the fulfilling of seventy years at babylon i shall turn my attention to you people, and i will establish toward you my good word in bringing you back to this place.. .
also, if it truly was a 70-year period of servitude, and not exile, when was this 70 years served by other nations?.
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Ex-JWs Who Are Now Christian...
by deaconbluez indo you find that you've had to re-establish your familiarity with scriptures in other versions of the bible based on the translation errors in the nwt?
if so, which texts?