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  Return door to door

  by Hellothere in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  any news about how it's going with the return too door 2 door preaching?

  are the jws excited about it?

  are they facing any opposition to it by householders?

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  truth_b_known

  The iron chariots that defeated Jehovah in Judges 1:19 have been replaced with a piece of plastic and a microprocessor.

  
  
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  Jehovah's Witnesses - Where is Your Money Going?

  by Sea Breeze in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  after discouraging and in many instances prohibiting jw's from getting an education, like in computer graphics, film-making and design, the wt is employing these kinds of professionals and throwing vast sums of money at their new film-making adventures doubtless from all the properties they confiscated, sold that the local members paid for.

  kim and mikey talk about this primarily starting at 13:15https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqafxmsjirk&ab_channel=kimmikey .

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  truth_b_known

  I think the Watchtower needs a giant sign the reads "W-A-T-C-H-T-O-W-E-R" in the hills behind the studio. Kind of like this one.

  
  
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  “The United Socialist States of America?”

  by Fisherman in

  1. social
  2. current

  when i was growing up, some people were on welfare but the vast majority were working people that paid their own rent, doctor’s bills, medicine, food, etc.

  —and saved money.

  so, a working person did not need financial help from the government if they didn’t have vices.

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  In addition it seems the government is doing this in an attempt to prop up our consumer based society which is an unsustainable model. It is an exercise in keeping the zombie walking. That is to say, the consumer based societies of the world are like an animated, rotting corpse.

  I think the elite are alright with this because if the bottom falls out our fiat currency will be totally worthless. Then everyone one will be equally destitute.
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  Our J.W friends still have issues with beards 2022??Why?

  by Witness 007 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  our witness friend who during covid grew his beard has been hassled by elders who asked him "why" he chose to have facial growth.

  he for real, had to give an answer why.

  this is pharasees total rubbish.

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  Rutherford hated beards. He said "No beards." Since Watchtower math is "obedience = everlasting life" they did not question. Any attempt to answer the question outside of this is just an ignorant Witness trying to sound pious.
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  The position of Christ in the Godhead

  by JW Answers in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  what is your views on christ?.

  do you hold to the view that christ and the father are the same person?

  do you hold to the view that jesus is a lesser god than the father?.

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  truth_b_known

  The thoughts conveyed in this video align with my thoughts on who the historical Jesus was.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2DbsuzTt6g
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  Is the governing body of Jehovah's Witnesses REALLY the "faithful and discreet slave" of Matt. 24:45-47?

  by Roger Kirkpatrick in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  thesis: when someone who is given a responsibility mistakes that responsibility for authority, bullying is very likely to occur.. jesus spoke an illustration recorded at matthew 24: 45-51 which well illustrates this thesis.. jesus asked, “who really is the faithful and discreet slave whom his master appointed over all his domestics, to give them their food at the proper time?

  happy is that slave if his master on arriving finds him doing so.

  truly i say to you, he will appoint him over all his belongings.

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  What I could never understand about the wording of that parable is that the faithful and wicked slave are one in the same. - Nowwhat?

  Yes! This! Nowwhat for the win!

  First, it is a parable. Second, in this parable there isn't a separate evil slave from the faithful slave. Third, there is no mention or even insinuation in this parable that there is a class of people who comprise said slave.
  
  
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  Upbringing

  by punkofnice in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i was brought up as a born-in(tm) here in the uk.

  it wasn't until i was 50 that the scales fell from my eyes, i woke up, got da'd from the cult and my wife was advised to leave me by the elders whom i had served with on the boe.

  one of which i know wanted to schtupf her.

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  truth_b_known

  PunkofNice:

  I know I do. It was worse in the past. I do take solace in the fact that more Witnesses are quitting. I had Witness friends in high school who are now our age. Their kids all stopped being Witnesses right out of high school.

  I have a close friend who got our long before I did. He is uber resentful. He wants to file lawsuit against the Watchtower for all his time that was spent in the door-to-door ministry as a child.

  I think it is natural. It is more of a matter of how much it is interfering with your ability to enjoy life now. Some time it does require some sort of resolution.

  I haven't explained anything to my own father. I just made it clear in recent history that I will never be one of Jehovah's Witnesses again.
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  HM Queen Elizabeth is dead.

  by stan livedeath in

  1. social
  2. current

  long live the king..

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  I found it amazing that Queen Elizabeth II welcomed in the past 15 Prime Ministers of the UK.
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  Breaking news. Masks

  by road to nowhere in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  updated.

  october 1 no more strongly encouraged.

  just regular now?.

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  Jehovah was with the Watchtower, and they took possession of the mountainous region, but they could not drive out the inhabitants of the plain, because they had war chariots with iron COVID-19. - Judges 1:19 NWT
  
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  Replacing God?

  by punkofnice in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  we seem to be if a more secular society here in the west, these days.

  i'm speaking from the uk.. with the lack of belief in god/s, i'm wondering if all the seeming (note: i said seeming!

  ), deification of people like greta thunberg, george floyd and celebs amongst others, if people who have no real belief system, are filling the gap left by god with people?.

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  truth_b_known

  Humans are simian, apes. We are a social species. It is vital to our survival.

  Religion has a use and still does. Like so many things that start off with a good and noble purpose, religion was twisted for selfish reasons. Religion was changed to be used as a means to control and exploits the social nature of humans.

  Humans generally want to belong to a group. Religion played a huge part in this. Where do people usually find friends and future marriage mates? Work and their place of worship.

  PunkofNice, I think you are on to something for sure. It also seems like, at least here in the U.S., that politics and government have become the new religion. Just like with religion, it is a form of tribalism.