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  Should a Christian celebrate Christmas?

  by Samsie in

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  hello, i'm new here and have woken up to the real truth concerning the org.

  i'm sort of fading away at the moment.... i need help with something, i used to as a child celebrate christmas and have always had amazing memories of it (my husband hasn't as he was born into the org) but i gave it up when i learnt the "truth".

  my interest was only in pleasing god and still is.

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  I think it is a mischaracterization to say that the holiday of Christmas has pagan roots.

  Yes, the winter solstice was celebrated by several cultures that eventually converted to Christianity. Those celebrations would include customs such as using conifer trees to decorate, etc. Yes, this was all done in the religious practice that involves gods with YHWH not being one of them.

  However, it is actually a stretch to go: Yule = Christmas = Pagan Holiday = God hates it.

  If you saw someone named Steve at a restaurant sitting a table with his closest family and friends in which they were all celebrating Steve would that mean you would be angered if your family and friends organized a dinner party to honor you? Same restaurant. Same table. Same food. Only everyone is having a good time while honoring you. Would you exclaim, "No! This is wrong! This is a dinner party with roots in Steve's dinner party?"

  I will say that the holiday Christmas with its practices, imagery, and traditions are found no where in the Bible. If I were a Christian I would be a Catholic and this would not concern me. Catholics do not subscribe to the Protestant/Reformationist Lutheran concept of Sola Scripture (Scriptures Alone). Christmas was adopted by the Catholic Church as a religious holiday. The Catholic Church has a rich tradition of considering and accepting extra-Biblical writings. So, it makes sense.
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  Is WT Influencing Dubs To Check On Other Dubs' Activities Via ZOOM And Otherwise?

  by HiddlesWife in

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  the reason for my question is because one pimo has noticed that there are some pimis--particularly spimis--who have remarked that they "are not going to contact nor associate with the friends who are delinquent on zoom and/or at in-person kh meetings, conventions, and assemblies".

  i've noticed this as well: a few ppimis and pimqs who were very close to me and my exdub family members are hearing from them less and less lately than before last year's rc and this year's rc.

  so, is the above a thing nowadays?

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  I remember that certain JWs went out of their way to find new ways to try and seem more spiritual ("superior") to others. These JWs were always finding fault with something and making their discovery known. Part of this was intentionally avoiding fellow JWs would were low/no meeting attenders.

  Then, it seems every so often the Watchtower would encourage JWs to reach out to such ones to encourage them to return.

  It has happened before and will continue to happen.
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  Military Service Confusion

  by Sea Breeze in

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  can someone please call these three guys and tell them that the first gentile christian was an active duty roman military officer named cornelius.

  these guys have been locked up for 25 years!.

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  I don't see the Watchtower living by the barter system. If you use government fiat currency you are taking an active part in the commercial part of "the world" (Greek "Kosmos" - "system of things). You can't have it both ways. In or out. Unless, what the Watchtower preaches isn't what Jesus teaches...
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  Rosemont Cemetery II

  by RolRod in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  okay, so here's a follow-up to my post a while back regarding the society tearing down the pyramid monument.

  they cleared the area and this is what they did.

  notice ... nothing about the watchtower connected to it, just slabs of cheap concrete..

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  The Internet - sometimes truth is protected from a Watchtower RetCon.
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  Rosemont Cemetery II

  by RolRod in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  okay, so here's a follow-up to my post a while back regarding the society tearing down the pyramid monument.

  they cleared the area and this is what they did.

  notice ... nothing about the watchtower connected to it, just slabs of cheap concrete..

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  Military Service Confusion

  by Sea Breeze in

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  2. beliefs

  can someone please call these three guys and tell them that the first gentile christian was an active duty roman military officer named cornelius.

  these guys have been locked up for 25 years!.

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  Remember when Jesus was asked by soldiers what they needed to do? Jesus told them be be content with their military rations. That was it.
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  Happy 4th

  by GabeAthouse in

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  Wow!

  That escalated quickly.

  
  
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  Did the ransom sacrifice even work?

  by Sharpie in

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  shower thought entered my mind the other day... jesus christ.

  as per doctrine.

  is still alive in heaven right now correct?

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  I would like to point out that even though Paul wrote that "through one man, Adam, sin entered the world" the statement is a half-truth. "Sin" entered the world after Adam and Eve disobeyed God. The punishment handed down from Judge YHWY to the guilty parties was -

  • You no longer have a perfect body.
  • That means you will get sick, grow old, and die.
  • Your sentence is a death sentence to you and to your yet to be conceived children.
  • Do ensure you have children to condemn to death I will give you a sex drive to ensure conception.
  • Once you die you will exist as disembodied energy that will experience pain for eternity.

  After handing down a sentence of death and eternal torture for 2 pieces of stolen fruit to the first couple and an unborn race of sentient beings YHWH wanted to show just what a good guy he is. YHWH sends himself in the form of a man to die sinless. The 2 pieces of stolen fruit were compensated to YHWH by YHWH. In short, YHWH took a $2.00 bill from his right pocket and put it into his left pocket.

  Was the debt paid? No. The proof - we are all still declared imperfect sinners, deserving of death, and eternal damnation. Romans 3:20 even condemns a person who perfectly follows all the law and commandments of YHWH as the law is just there to make us aware of being a sinner.

  The first test was not eating fruit from one tree. The second test is to believe. Believe that there is nothing we can do to earn salvation from a wrathful God. It is pointless to make every attempt to act in a good way, better ourselves, and make amends for our transgressions. Rather, believe in a God who allowed himself to be killed as a man by being nailed to a hunk of wood. That is all that matters. All the harm we have done to ourselves and other will be magicked away.

  Playing the martyr, or “martyr complex,” is when a person has an exaggerated sense of obligation to suffer or sacrifice for others in order to elicit sympathy, love, and admiration. It's also meant to evoke guilt. So playing the martyr is passive-aggressive behavior, and one of the hallmarks of covert narcissism.

  
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  Climate propaganda

  by neat blue dog in

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  2. bible

  gotta love jwdotorg as usual regurgitating the financially/politically motivated (and thoroughly disproved) climate change propaganda:.

  https://www.jw.org/en/library/series/more-topics/ruining-the-earth-bible-meaning-hope/.

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  BLAST FROM THE PAST Three million years ago, Earth’s climate was so warm that the High Arctic supported forests (illustrated) in which camels and other animals roamed.

  https://www.sciencenews.org/article/what-pliocene-epoch-can-teach-us-about-future-warming-earth

  

  Hyenas lived in the Arctic during the last ice age, study reveals

  https://www.earth.com/news/hyenas-arctic-last-ice-age/

  Climate change is obviously real. I couldn't prove to someone that the combustible engine fueled by petroleum is or is not effecting the Earth's climate. It is pollution and therefor needs to cease. I prefer clean air, clear drinking water, and clean soil to grow food.

  Just because the Earth is warming up is no evidence that life is going to end. Just because icecaps are melting does not conclude that we are all doomed. At one time that ice was not there and life flourished there.

  Either way, the Watchtower will no miss an opportunity to quote any non-Watchtower source as an appeal to authority, but ONLY if it echoes their Watchtower beliefs.
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  2 Peter and Jude and 1 Enoch

  by Parallax in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i'm new to the forum and i have a question about what was said in a 16-year-old thread at this forum.

  a poster by the name of leolaia said.... the author of 2 peter did not recognize that jude 6 was an allustion to 1 enoch (just as he did not realize that jude 9 was an allusion to the assumption of moses and thus rephrased it incoherently in 2 peter 2:11), or he may have objected to the enochic reference (just as jude 14-15 was omitted in 2 peter 2).

  in either case, the author overlooked the enochic allusion and instead recognized the passage as an allusion of hesiod and thus embellished the passage from jude with an allusion to hesiod's tartarus.. .

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  truth_b_known

  Reading a menu helps us decide what food to order, but it does not bring nutrients the body needs as does the food.

  A map is a great tool to help plan a journey, but it is not the journey.

  There are many, many interesting things one can discover about the scriptures of Abrahamic faiths. I am still learning new ones. I recently discovered that there is evidence that the book of Jude may be a plagiarized work copying from 2 Peter. 2 Peter itself may have been a fraudulent writing as the Apostle Peter had already been executed before its writing.

  Keep researching, but don't forget to take time to smell the roses.