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Escaped the cold

by peacefulpete in

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went to arizona last to see what we could see and get away from winter.

here's some pics..

Did you ever have an “Olaf” moment.

by Slidin Fast in

did your class mates queue up to have sex with you?

it happened to olaf according to today’s wt.

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some girls in his class took this as a challenge and tried to persuade him to have sex with them.

I would imagine the script really looked something like this...

Olaf's parents: Olaf, when was the last time you intentionally brought attention to yourself at school so you could give a Witness to your classmates?

Olaf: I will do it today!

Scene - Olaf is in class with fellow students and teacher. Students and teacher are paying no attention to Olaf as he has intentionally rejected any attempts by fellow students to engage in conversation.

Olaf: I have never had sex and none of you can make me no matter how hard you try!!!

Girl Student: You mean you would turn down sex if it were freely offered to you, Olaf?

Olaf: Get away from me you Jezebel!

Later that day at the home of Olaf.

Scene - Olaf is having dinner with his parents.

Olaf: Mom. Dad. Today I gave a fine Witness. A girl tried to tempt me with an offer of sex, but I let the class know that I am one of Jehovah's Witnesses and I won't commit fornication.

Parents: Well done, Olaf!

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Jehovah's witnesses at polish border. Wtf

by usualusername1 in

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sky news reporting ukrainian refugees coming into poland.

"jws are offering support".

🤦🏿.

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Jehovah's Witnesses in Poland headed to the Ukraine border with supplies to show support - (Colorized, 2022)

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So, which end times prophecy is it?!

by nowwhat? in

when all is quiet on the world scene, the jdubs say see!

they are about to to declare peace and security!

when tensions are high the jdubs point to the pushing of the kon and the kos and say see bible prophecy is being fulfilled!.

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A few years ago we passed a minor accident, (a car that hit a phone pole with minimal damage) and one of the JWs in my car says 'We're in the last days, you're gonna be seeing more accidents like that'. So it doesn't take much, literally anything will do.

This right here! This just how out of synch JWs can be.

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JWs don’t use the apocryphal, yet source them

by Anony Mous in

so a quick little note about a few things that i recently learned.

if you ever had the yellow book of bible stories, there was the story of enoch, also repeated in other watchtower publications, about the angels fathering giants and being a menace on earth.

now if you look at the nicean bible, which is the wtbts selection of the bible, it mentions enoch twice and only has a very brief passage about nephilim and ben elohim.

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A Protestant Bible is a Christian Bible whose translation or revision was produced by Protestants. Such Bibles comprise 39 books of the Old Testament (according to the Hebrew Bible canon, known especially to non-Protestants as the protocanonical books) and 27 books of the New Testament for a total of 66 books.[1] Some Protestants use Bibles which also include 14 additional books in a section known as the Apocrypha (though these are not considered canonical) bringing the total to 80 books.[2][3] This is often contrasted with the 73 books of the Catholic Bible, which includes seven deuterocanonical books as a part of the Old Testament.[4] The division between protocanonical and deuterocanonical books is not accepted by all Protestants who simply view books as being canonical or not and therefore classify books found in the deuterocanon, along with other books, as part of the Apocrypha.[5]
The contents page in the King James Bible, 1769 edition, listing "The Books of the Old Testament", "The Books called Apocrypha", and "The Books of the New Testament".
It was in Luther's Bible of 1534 that the Apocrypha was first published as a separate intertestamental section.[6] To this date, the Apocrypha is "included in the lectionaries of Anglican and Lutheran Churches."[7] The practice of including only the Old and New Testament books within printed bibles was standardized among many English-speaking Protestants following a 1825 decision by the British and Foreign Bible Society.[8] Today, "English Bibles with the Apocrypha are becoming more popular again" and they may be printed as intertestamental books.[9] In contrast, Evangelicals vary among themselves in their attitude to and interest in the Apocrypha but agree in the view that it is non-canonical.[10]

I have often posted on this website that Martin Luther single-handedly brought the downfall of the Christian faith.

"18.This is my solemn attestation to all who hear the prophecies in this book: if anyone adds anything to them, God will add to him every plague mentioned in the book; 19.if anyone cuts anything out of the prophecies in this book, God will cut off his share of the tree of life and of the holy city, which are described in the book." - Rvelation 22:18-19

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Fearmongering news on JW.ORG : Russia Invades Ukraine

by RULES & REGULATIONS in

russia invades ukraine.

in the early morning hours of february 24, 2022, russia began a military invasion of ukraine, despite the efforts of world leaders to avoid war.

how might this military conflict affect the world?

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The television series Hell on Wheels takes place right after the end of the American Civil War (1865). In one episode the main character has this brief exchange with a soldier-

Sentry:
What's the world coming to, sir?
Cullen Bohannan:
The world ain't comin' to nothing, son. Same as it ever was.

There is a book entitled Everything You Know is Wrong. I believe there is a chapter that deals with the issue of the misbelief that things are getting worse. The author shows facts and data that shows just the opposite.

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So, which end times prophecy is it?!

by nowwhat? in

when all is quiet on the world scene, the jdubs say see!

they are about to to declare peace and security!

when tensions are high the jdubs point to the pushing of the kon and the kos and say see bible prophecy is being fulfilled!.

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I believe there is saying that goes like -

"To the man who only has a hammer everything looks like a nail."

That also works out when it goes like -

"To the man who only reads the Watchtower every event looks like Armageddon is near."

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After leaving the JWs

by punkofnice in

how do i view the world after leaving the jws?.

1. most politicians are disgusting filth.

political parties are disgusting filth.

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My world view became rather warped. I was rather nihilistic and self-destructive. My Ego was out of control.

After hitting a wall I began working on myself. I started studying psychology and philosophy. The Ego dissolved and now I am at peace.

I see why people suffer. I understand the suffering of people, both as individuals and in groups. It has definitely turned me off to politics and religion.

I got rid of all my smart devices. I deleted all my social media accounts. Life has become much better for me. I felt at peace for the first time in my life.

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JWs don’t use the apocryphal, yet source them

by Anony Mous in

so a quick little note about a few things that i recently learned.

if you ever had the yellow book of bible stories, there was the story of enoch, also repeated in other watchtower publications, about the angels fathering giants and being a menace on earth.

now if you look at the nicean bible, which is the wtbts selection of the bible, it mentions enoch twice and only has a very brief passage about nephilim and ben elohim.

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Thats an extremely shaky foundation that 30% of the world have put their faith in.

Consider the fact that the entire "Western World" only has 2 degrees of separation at most from the Roman Empire (either directly a part of the empire or a colony of a nation formerly part of the empire). The same Roman Empire that adopted Christianity as the official state religion. It was a convert of die world.

How many cultures' natural course of evolution was interrupted or destroyed because of Rome?

"May he spend one night in Valhalla before the Christ god takes him away." - Old Norse saying to the dead

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JWs don’t use the apocryphal, yet source them

by Anony Mous in

so a quick little note about a few things that i recently learned.

if you ever had the yellow book of bible stories, there was the story of enoch, also repeated in other watchtower publications, about the angels fathering giants and being a menace on earth.

now if you look at the nicean bible, which is the wtbts selection of the bible, it mentions enoch twice and only has a very brief passage about nephilim and ben elohim.

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We know from history that tens of thousands of orthodox Jews, (right in the heart of Jerusalem where their claims could be easily refuted if not true), made the Resurrection their central message, abandoned Saturday as their holy day, and accepted Sunday (the day of the Resurrection) as their new holy day.

Know is a strong word.

Why would people just up and submit to the harshest abuse possible unless for something they knew to be false?

Why would people (i.e. "tens of thousands of orthodox Jews") convert to Christianity, submitting themselves to harsh abuse, for something they knew to be false (i.e. the story of Jesus death and resurrection)?

Before we answer the question we must be aware that the "tens of thousands" of Jewish converts in Jerusalem in the first century CE is a number purported once again by the Bible. Not all scholars accept this number. Some believe the number of converts in the Bible is highly exaggerated.

Some scholars (see: Hopkins, K 1998. Christian number and its implications. Journal of Early Christian Studies 6, 185-226) postulate that the Jewish converts in Jerusalem never abandoned their faith in Judaism, Jewish tradition, Jewish worship, or believed the Torah no longer had to be followed. In addition, scholars also have concluded that the number of Jews in Jerusalem in the first century CE never exceeded approximately 1,000 people.

Rather, there seemed to be 2 churches in the first century CE: the Jews in Jerusalem and the Hellenistic non-Jews whom Paul converted. The Hellenistic Christians quickly abandoned Jewish scripture and practices. This caused conflict between the 2 groups.

What information do we have about the first century CE Roman Empire? The Roman cultural was heavily influenced by its predecessors, the Greeks. Greek religion influenced Roman religion. Both had polytheistic religions with humanized gods (The gods had physical bodies and would often visit humans on Earth). Polytheistic religions tend to be accepting of other religions and gods.

What seems more plausible?

1. There were tens of thousands of Jews in Jerusalem who accepted Jesus as the messiah (the Biblical Jesus did not fulfil all the prophecies of the messiah in the Torah), accepted that Jesus died, was buried, and resurrected himself, rejected the Torah and Jewish religion to worship on Sunday or

2. There were thousands of non-Jewish converts to Paul's ministry who were never Jews, were raised in a culture/religion that freely accepted other religions (even an altar to an unknown god), other gods, gods who frequently took human form to interact with other humans, and were even killed only to be resurrected (see: Asclepius Greek god of Medicine who Zeus feared would make man immortal only to be resurrected to Olympus).

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