OutsiderLookingIn
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You should not even exist!
by stuckinarut2 ina thought struck me...... the very generation (no pun intended) of people who the society is focussing so much attention on, that is the children, should not even be here!
(think caleb and sofia etc).
their parents, who are probably aged between 20 - 40 are the very generation too that should not be here if the societies strict guidance from the 70's and 80's was followed by their parents...ie to not have kids "because the end is soooooo close!".
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"Bible Teach" book study--is it real?
by AmyWatson916 injw's want to begin a study through their new "what does the bible really teach?
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should a non-jw study with them just to point out the contradictions and muddled thinking in the book?
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Indoctrination or insistence on being right?
by OutsiderLookingIn innobody likes to be wrong.
so after being taught that they have "the truth" for so long, is it that jws just don't want to admit that they are wrong so they'll keep going in the same direction rather than reversing course?
this is different from indoctrination when you truly believe what you're saying.
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Just in time for Memorial season...
by OutsiderLookingIn inthis is short and quick but maybe it's a seed to plant in the 10 days until the memorial.
i have talked to jws who tell me their reason for not eating the bread and drinking the cup is because that was only a new covenant with his disciples (and in their wonky extension, the 144,000).
but i just thought of a few things.
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"I hope Disfellowshipped ones do not attend the Memorial"
by AFRIKANMAN ind---head comment ...by someone called jay witness on that forum-.
what a smug bunch of pharisees they breed !
"""it makes me feel odd to invite tons of worldly people who are obviously fornicators and idolaters and then not be able to even show a little love such as a "hello" to a disfellowshipped brother or sister.
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How to Tell When Someone Is Evangelizing to You Versus Trying to Be a Genuine Friend
by jacobm ini've had this question on my mind for the last two years.
first off, i'm still a follower of jesus.
second, i don't go to church but rather a topical skype bible study with some fellow ex-jws.
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help me understand: i can't find where in the new testament it states the partakes go to heaven
by goingthruthemotions inso i am trying to gather some data so i could present to my wife.
i keep showing her john 6 where it states you need to partake of the bread and wine to be resurrected and in union with jesus and have everlasting life.. but, where in the bible does it say if you partake your going to heaven?
is this a wtbs twisting of scripture to fit there doctrine?.
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Interesting Prince quote from current Entertainment Weekly (yes, another Prince thread)
by OutsiderLookingIn inthis weekend, i was reading my cousin's hard copy of the entertainment weekly prince tribute (may 6, 2016 issue) and came across a very interesting quote.
ew journalist leah greenblatt, who conducted the last major magazine interview with prince in august 2015, recounted him saying: "religion is beautiful as long as you don't become a fanatic and start shutting other people out, other ideas.
prince may have still been a jw, but it sounds like he had a very open-minded approach to it.
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👑 He Who Is Least In The Kingdom of Heaven....
by Cold Steel injesus said that of all those born of women, none were greater than john the baptist.
nevertheless, he added, he who is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.
universally nearly all scholars have taken this to mean that because jesus had taken upon himself the sins of the world, he had the last claim upon the kingdom of heaven.
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You can defeat lies with truth. But you can only suppress truth with censorship.
by Island Man inwatchtower bans jws from visiting apostate sites and reading apostate literature.
banning is the tool of the weak and the cowardly, those lacking the courage and/or strength to defeat the enemy face to face.
we ban - quarantine - infected ebola patients from the rest of the population because it's a strong disease and we lack a cure for it.