Topics Started by MagicMItchJensen

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Anonymous email arrived in my inbox! Advice needed please...
by Anon_SA1 in
1. jw
2. friends
hey guys!

i am not a jw, never been one, but linked to a born in jw via family.

last week i received an email from an anonymous person.
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Problems with Common Atheist Arguments
by FusionTheism in
1. watchtower
2. bible
the reason i entitled this "problems with common atheist arguments" instead of "the case against atheism" is that many atheists claim that atheism is not a belief system, makes no claims, and has no requirements to follow, so there's no way to argue against atheism itself.

i will go along with this idea, and argue against the most frequently used arguments of atheists instead of atheism itself.disclaimer # 1: this is not an argument against atheism or all atheists.

no, rather this is an argument against the most frequently used claims and arguments made by the atheists i speak to on twitter.
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Why don't people in the US, UK or Euro-Citizens know anything about Jehovah's Witness Pedophile Issues and lawsuits?
by MagicMItchJensen in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i know you all are aware of how little knowledge people have about jehovah's witnesses and topics men like bob bowen and women like barbara anderson tried to raise the level of public awareness that "the jehovah witness coming to your door might be a pedophile or child molester!

" what's gone wrong, has the society outsmarted the media or do people not really care what happens to young children?

if you took a survey trying to ascertain how many people walking through the grocery store, a target or upper class stores nordstroms, your going to be shocked how little people know.. if it's about the catholic church, those numbers shot through the ceiling, is this because there is no problem in the new world watchtower order or their better at damage control?
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Would you warn your neighbors if a child molester lived on your street?
by Stealth in
1. jw
2. friends
just found out that someone who lives 4 doors down was convicted of molesting a 4 year old child twice.

the second time was after he was arrested and released on bond from the first arrest.

having two 4 year old children living in my home, i am concerned.
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Very Offensive Statement Directed To JW Parents-Watchtower 4/15/2015 Page 11 Paragraph 9
by JW GoneBad in
1. watchtower
2. bible
wt is insinuating, worse yet, blaming senior jw parents for there not being more younger brothers reaching out to be ministerial servants and elders.

page 11 paragraph 9 reads as follows: .

"elders in affluent lands may face an added challenge: how to motivate baptized brothers in their 20s or 30s to get involved in congregation activities.
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We are slowly moving away from that kind of preaching work
by oppostate in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
john hoyle--jws go knocking on strangers doors and try to get inside homes to preach.. wt rep--we are slowly moving away from that kind of preaching work, we do more preaching by using literature carts and personal telephone calls.. .

the above quote is from john hoyle's website:http://insidethewatchtower.com/doctrine/phone-calls-to-bethel-jw-org-email-and-contacts/.

it's interesting, isn't it?
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Did Jason B Dunn say the "New World Translation is the most accurate translation there is?" Why make a new Bible than?
by MagicMItchJensen in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
the circuit overseer mentioned something about the nwt being the most accurate translation according to professor jason b dunn, i heard this nonsense before but never really dug deep in to this topic because non of us really had a choice as jws but to accept all their random musing of our uneducated leaders as factual.

1. if the new world translation was the picture perfect translation of all the bibles and we went door to door telling everyone we had the "most honest bible", why did they change it to a paraphrased version?

what success have you had getting jehovah's witnesses to address why they tinkered with the new world translation, it was suppose to be the best translation and now it's turned in to a very loose paraphrased version.
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What's the Watchtower's latest view on "The End" or "The Second Coming of Jesus Christ"? Most act like its not coming!
by MagicMItchJensen in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i posted that article from the miami newspaper, others posted the united kingdom's articles on jws and isis.

what's the official position of the watchtower about the last days, are we in them or are we going to wait another 2,000 years like the jews believe?.

i remember arguing at work with friends that nostradamus end date of 3000 was wrong, are there other past prophets you know of who predicted the world's end past our time?.
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Richard Dawkins espouses Militant Atheism: "Mock them, Ridicule them." Attack Religious People with Insults!
by MagicMItchJensen in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
richard dawkins has said frequently if we don't agree with religious or spiritual people we need to "insult them!

" tell their their out of their "fucking gourds!

" and make sure you really show them how stupid they are for believing in something they can't prove!".
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Miami Herald Article on Witnesses in a Closed World Preaching.
by MagicMItchJensen in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
"we are only trying to get people to read their bible", i wish i knew witnesses who took the bible as serious as they do the publications(still most dubs don't read all jehovah's urgent lifesaving message printed by the slave!

that's very sad if we offer the magazines to people were not reading, that's being a hypocrite, right?

), most can't keep up with the reduced spiritual food the organization has lovingly cut in half so all the witnesses can keep pace with jehovah's chariot!