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  Promise Not to Make Appeals for Money

  by Sea Breeze in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  "when he who says: ‘all the gold and silver of the mountains are mine,’ fails to provide necessary funds, we will understand it to be time to suspend the [watchtower] publication.” consistent with that, there is no begging for money in the literature of jehovah’s witnesses.. what is true of their literature is also true of their meetings.

  there are no emotional appeals for funds in their congregations or at their conventions.

  " - when he who says: ‘all the gold and silver of the mountains are mine,’ fails to provide necessary funds, we will understand it to be time to suspend the publication.” consistent with that, there is no begging for money in the literature of jehovah’s witnesses.. what is true of their literature is also true of their meetings.

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  The last time was in the 2021 Regional Convention videos. It was basically their version of "hit the donate button".
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  Are JWs Enjoying Not Having To Go To Meetings and House To House?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  since this pandemic, especially, are witnesses fine with never having to go to another meeting or assembly again?

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  In all the years I was a Witness I was hard pressed to find Witnesses who actually enjoyed the doo-to-door ministry. I knew some, but it was a small portion.
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  Do the dubs do the songs at the Zoom Meetings?

  by Iamallcool in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  any takers?

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  noun: convention; plural noun: conventions

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  a large meeting or conference, especially of members of a political party or a particular profession.

  "a convention of retail merchants"

  I'm sure the past 2 years have been extolled as "the best convention ever!"
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  Eye-Opener

  by ElderStuckin in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  each eye-opener in my awakening had nothing to do with apostates.

  it was always by looking directly at the so-called spiritual food that helped me awaken.. in 2019 they changed the wording of the second of two baptismal questions which are answered aloud before the audience.

  now i realize that these questions have been adjusted over the years.

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  If the questions changed then the dedication is no longer valid. My baptism therefor is now null and void, thus meaning I no longer subject to disfellowshipping.
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  Love the don't use a gun for self defence by Gary Bro

  by mickbobcat in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i just watched that stupid talk by gary while e bro on not using a gun for self defense but it went deeper.

  i was that you don't defend yourself against violence.

  well ain't that great from an asshat living in a gated and guarded compound.

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  I would imagine if an axe murderer walked onto Bethel property the Watchtower would call the police knowing full well the police may shoot and kill the axe murderer. How does having someone else use deadly force to protect yourself absolve you of being "blood guilty"?

  The Watchtower is rather hypocritical in this aspect.
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  I know you are lying

  by Me.Wonderful in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  did you ever reach a point in field service , you knew you were lying to people ?

  just before the pandemic , i had an encounter with a witness and i didn't let on who i was or my past.

  i just very politely listened to his nonsense.

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  Everything has changed, not just the embarrassing overlapping generation but also the identity of the faithful slave and even the meaning of God’s name.

  What does the Watchtower now say God's name means?
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  What is it with these lard ass GB and gold rings and watches?

  by mickbobcat in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  they wear jewelry like they are some don from the cosa nostra.

  watches and rings like some cheap pimp.

  hey they are cheap pimps.

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  • 15 Do not love either the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him; 16 because everything in the world—the desire of the flesh and the desire of the eyes and the showy display of one’s means of life*—does not originate with the Father, but originates with the world. - John 2:15, 16 NWT

  They seem to be originating with the world.
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  Love the don't use a gun for self defence by Gary Bro

  by mickbobcat in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i just watched that stupid talk by gary while e bro on not using a gun for self defense but it went deeper.

  i was that you don't defend yourself against violence.

  well ain't that great from an asshat living in a gated and guarded compound.

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  More Doublethink from the religion more dynamic than an IP address (i.e. they move the goal posts a lot).

  David, the man who would have the Messiah come from his bloodline, begins his career as Jehovah's appointed ruler over Israel by slaying Goliath with a shepherd's sling. You know, the ancient ancestor of the firearm. David goes on to be King of Israel and is lauded for slaying tens of thousands.

  "But that was righteous warfare ordered by Jehovah!" says the Watchtower.

  Well, either using violence is righteous or it is not. Mistranslating Murder into "kill" doesn't help the cause either.

  I am all for non-violence and non-violent resolution. I also know that some people are just out to hurt others and to let that happen is a greater wrong than using violence to stop them.
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  Is Your Best Good Enough?

  by RULES & REGULATIONS in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  w55 1/15 pp.

  there is a proverb that speaks of four things as never being satisfied, as never saying, “enough.” sometimes jehovah’s witnesses, as they listen to congregation servants discuss field service, may think these servants could have been listed as a fifth class that never says, “enough.” it may seem that they are never satisfied, as they urge better meeting attendance, more home bible studies and increased door-to-door activity.

  to have servants who say “it is enough” before the work is finished would be disastrous to the congregation.

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  The song If I Had a Heart by Fever Ray comes to mind -

  This will never end 'cause I want more
  More, give me more
  Give me more

  This is what caused my wife to wake up. Her best was never good enough for the Watchtower.
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  20 Years Occupying Afghanistan, Nothing Achieved

  by Simon in

  1. social
  2. current

  so the occupation of afghanistan is coming to an end and, as predicted, they achieved absolutely nothing in that 20 years apart from:.

  the death of 2,300+ service personnel and tens of thousands more seriously maimed or injured.. handing $billions or even $trillions of taxpayer dollars to defence contractors (so the military industrial complex wins, even if the military doesn't have a clear victory).. has this lengthy but short-term military occupation really changed anything in the country?

  it doesn't appear so.. i said at the time that the us wouldn't have the staying power to enact real change.

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  The fact is, even if you were to stop bombing us, imprisoning us, torturing us, vilifying us, and usurping our lands, we would continue to hate you because our primary reason for hating you will not cease to exist until you embrace Islam. - the fifteenth edition of its English-language magazine Dabiq in July 2016,

  It would seem that a U.S. victory in Afghanistan would only come through complete genocide. That is not an option. It is also a lesson for those living in the U.S. President Biden recently put down citizens who demand ownership of AR-15 rifles. President Biden said private citizens would need F-15 fighter jets and not AR-15 rifles to defeat the U.S. military. How ironic that Biden was already in Federal office before the Vietnam war ended. A war in which Vietnamese rice farmers defeated the mightiest military on earth, the U.S. military, with AK-47s.

  What's the difference between an AK-47 and an AR-15? An AR-15 will hold true past 100 yards. In short, a civilian organization with small arms who are willing to die for their beliefs will defeat the best equipped army any day of the week if the nuclear option is not on the table.