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  Undue influence - other areas in life

  by DavidG in

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  after gradually waking up to ttatt im finding myself with this question:.

  since it is so easy to be indoctrinated with jw beliefs, are there other areas in my life where i'm also under influance of other false beliefs?

  from the culture i've grown up with, school etc?.

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  are there other areas in my life where I'm also under influance of other false beliefs?

  I think that is just part of life. Our life span is so limited that what we believe is the result of the knowledge available. People used to believe for thousands of years that the Sun revolved around the Earth. Millions died believing that. Then more information became available and we found out different.

  I think we are all under undue influence in some way or another until we find out we are. Then we're not!
  
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  How many of you think.......

  by punkofnice in

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  ..that the governing body are only in it for money and power?.

  how many of you think the gb are all/some are sincere?.

  okay, i know this has been asked before but i can't find the thread and there are newbies here.....and i like the sound of my own voice.

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  punkofnice

  JohnAquila - I hate to say this, but I wonder if the GB prefer children!

  
  

  You might be right.

  
  

  On the other hand, I believe they know what they teach is false, but at the same time they think they have the truth. It's mental gymnastics.

  
  

  It's what I use to do when I was in the borg.

  
  

  I would say to myself, "This can't be right, but we have the truth"

  
  

  Its a strange phenomenon
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  The Reason Why Jehovah's Witnesses Will Never Prosper Is The Children

  by minimus in

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  i believe that the religion will remain stagnant due to their achilles heel, the kids, the children, that next generation.. most of them really don't wa t to be in the religion.

  the parents may have tried everything within their power to make the kids love jehovah but we all know you can't force someone to love you and you can't make a grown person stay in a relationship or situation if they really don't want to be there..

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  Most of them really don't wa t to be in the religion. The parents may have tried everything within their power to make the kids love Jehovah but we all know you can't force someone

  
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  God Unrighteous

  by berrygerry in

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  for decades, i slaved for wts, mentally, emotionally, financially, familially, socially, educationally.. at times, when i was the only one caring for the maintenance needs of the local kh, and being discouraged at the "sacrifices" being contributed to the borg, my spouse would say: "jehovah sees what you are doing.".

  and yet, later, my spouse turned on me, turning instead to "jehovah's elders" and totally threw me under the bus.. paul, allegedly, said in hebrews: "for god is not unrighteous so as to forget your work and the love you showed for his name.".

  i feel nothing of the sort.. does anyone feel similarly?.

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  "For God is not unrighteous so as to forget your work and the love you showed for his name."

  Sounds familiar;

  Oh! You better watch out,
  You better not cry,
  You better not pout,
  I'm telling you why:
  Santa Claus is coming to town!

  He's making a list,
  Checking it twice,
  Gonna find out who's naughty or nice.
  Santa Claus is coming to town!
  
  He sees you when you're sleeping,
  He knows when you're awake.
  He knows if you've been bad or good,
  So be good for goodness sake!

  
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  JESUS COMING

  by disillusioned 2 in

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  i'm confused.

  reading the day's text for yesterday, they talk about jesus coming and that it is a future time after the great tribulation.

  i thought they have always said he came in 1914 and earlier at other times (russell).. .

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  He did come, but not to America to inspect his corporation.

  
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  How many of you think.......

  by punkofnice in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  ..that the governing body are only in it for money and power?.

  how many of you think the gb are all/some are sincere?.

  okay, i know this has been asked before but i can't find the thread and there are newbies here.....and i like the sound of my own voice.

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  .that the Governing body are only in it for money and power?

  You forgot one thing--------Women!
  
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  It's weird what happen to your mind when you leave the Borg

  by James Mixon in

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  a visit to my ophthalmologist yesterday.

  he told me i have 22-20 vision, so .

  i ask if i have 20-20 vision why do i need glasses to read the news paper.. he laugh and told me most people need glasses after they reach 45 years of age,.

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  James Mixon: Eve thought she was talking to a snake

  
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  It's weird what happen to your mind when you leave the Borg

  by James Mixon in

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  a visit to my ophthalmologist yesterday.

  he told me i have 22-20 vision, so .

  i ask if i have 20-20 vision why do i need glasses to read the news paper.. he laugh and told me most people need glasses after they reach 45 years of age,.

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  Did they have spectacles in Noah day?I

  I guess that explains that little indiscretion. Noah thought it was his wife. Surprise!
  

  (Genesis 9:24, 25) . . .Finally Noah awoke from his wine and got to know what his youngest son had done to him.
  
  
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  How EARLY CHURCH divisions destroyed HISTORY

  by TerryWalstrom in

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  can history really be destroyed?.

  would otherwise moral authorities participate in such destruction?.

  can we believe there is accuracy in historical documents pertaining to the early christian church?.

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  Eusebius was frustrated that Papias interpreted things literally, and accused him of “misunderstanding the apostolic accounts, not perceiving that the things said by them were spoken mystically in figurative language.”

  So in other words it’s like me coming home from work and saying, “I'm so hungry I could eat a cow”

  Of course I can’t eat a cow, but Papias would have taken it literally.

  I wonder what else was taken literally or misunderstood by some of those writers of the Gospels?

  Quote By Jesus after He hits his thumb with a hammer; “Well I’ll be a Son of a gun”

  Same quote by Jesus written by a writer; “I am the Son of God”
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  So I overheard a discussion that my son and wife were having about creation yesterday

  by My Name is of No Consequence in

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  so i am getting ready for bed yesterday night and i overhear my teenage son and wife talking about how the evidence of creation far outweighs the evidence of evolution.

  i heard my son say that evolution has so many holes and how could something happen from nothing.

  i wanted to open the door and ask them both how the creator happened from nothing just to see what they would say..

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  John, the WTS calls it "micro-evolution" to distinguish it from "macro-evolution". But of course they will not (and cannot!) explain where the boundary would be then between these two.

  Thanks Nelim!