John Aquila

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  Closing Prayer at RC...youth baptism

  by freemindfade in

  1. watchtower
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  so while 99% of the closing prayer i did not hear, what i did was the elder say "we need to encourage our young ones to get baptised.

  we can't let the world take anymore of them away" .

  i found this very strange and looked up in disbelief.

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  "we need to encourage our young ones to get baptised.

  
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  After twenty years of marriage…

  by John Aquila in

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  2. scandals

  i just got a call from a friend who informed me that a brother whom i've known for a while and is an elder, just found out last night that his wife of 20+ years declared she was gay, and left him..

  i still need to confirm but my friend is very reliable and was close friends with the family.

  heres the thing, she spent 20+ years with this man, has children with him and now decides she wants to follow her heart.

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  JWdaughter 10 hours ago

  It would be upsetting for a marriage partner to leave after 20 years no matter why or with whom. It would be sad, probably for her, too. No one puts in that much time without regrets, unless they are literally in jail. WTBTS notwithstanding, she was not just a JW, but a wife and mom. It wasn't an easy choice.

  
  

  I was thinking the same thing JWD. What if after some time she realizes she is not gay, then what? What if she did it to hurt the man because he was always busy doing elder stuff? Then what? I really have no answers I just think we live in a F****** crazy world.
  
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  W 15 july - members of others religions not destroyed???

  by paradisebeauty in

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  please tell me what do you understand from this quote that is taken from w july 2015, the article your deliverance is close paragraph 5.. i understand that not all members of other religions will be destroyed at armageddon.

  i talked to a jw.

  he says he understands differently: they will not be destroyed when the babylon the great will be destroyed but they will be destroyed in armageddon.

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  In JW doctrine, that is an event which is entirely separate from Armageddon, and which precedes it by a matter of days, weeks, months, or even years

  Overlapping Babylon destruction generations. It could be 800 years to 4000 years from the time Babylon is destroyed to the time Armageddon arrives!

  Keep on the Watch!
  
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  The Governing Body was Appointed in 1971, NOT 1919

  by FusionTheism in

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  2. bible

  statements from the watchtower publications show that the scriptural governing body did not exist until 1971!.

  watchtower, 01/15/01, pages 28-31:.

  these questions were answered at the annual meeting held on october 1, 1971. on that occasion, one of the speakers pointed out that the governing body of the faithful and discreet slave preceded the watch tower bible and tract society of pennsylvania by hundreds of years.

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  I'd love to see exactly how Jesus is supposed to appoint the gb members. Does an albino rook fly in through the open window and on to the governing body's meeting table

  
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  After twenty years of marriage…

  by John Aquila in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  i just got a call from a friend who informed me that a brother whom i've known for a while and is an elder, just found out last night that his wife of 20+ years declared she was gay, and left him..

  i still need to confirm but my friend is very reliable and was close friends with the family.

  heres the thing, she spent 20+ years with this man, has children with him and now decides she wants to follow her heart.

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  Morpheus 24 minutes ago

  I wouldnt be upset. Hell i pray for it everyday.....

  
  

  LOL!!

  
  

  

  steve2 10 minutes ago

  Good points joe. Cheating is cheating and realizing one's spouse may not have been interested in the first place would be so hard to bear.

  
  

  Totally agree.
  

  
  
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  After twenty years of marriage…

  by John Aquila in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  i just got a call from a friend who informed me that a brother whom i've known for a while and is an elder, just found out last night that his wife of 20+ years declared she was gay, and left him..

  i still need to confirm but my friend is very reliable and was close friends with the family.

  heres the thing, she spent 20+ years with this man, has children with him and now decides she wants to follow her heart.

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  My friend just called me (not the husband) and he is real upset. Not because of what happened, but because there are a ton of single sisters at the house with cookies and cakes and meals. And they all are dressed up to the hilt. He said they look like a bunch of vultures circling in for a kill.
  
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  Preach, preach, preach....feel guilty...preach some more

  by Tornintwo in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  since starting to wake up, i can't help notice how so many talks emphasise preaching, increasing your hours, pioneering etc...with a hefty load of guilt on the side.. i always noticed the guilt, but now i'm noticing how talks that seem to start out on another issue always seem to come back to hours!

  visit talk seemed to start out about persecution, trusting in jehovah etc...but the main thrust in the end was, 'do more hours, pioneer, don't get an education or pursue a career, don't get distracted, hooray for the pioneers!

  if you dont do more hours you will be 'the sort that shrink back to destruction'.

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  so you watchtower cynics/realists out there, what is the real reason?

  Converts = $$$$$

  If one convert donates $1 a week X 52 weeks in a year that's $52 a year

  8 million members X $52 = $416,000,000 a year (almost 1/2 a billion)
  
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  After twenty years of marriage…

  by John Aquila in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  i just got a call from a friend who informed me that a brother whom i've known for a while and is an elder, just found out last night that his wife of 20+ years declared she was gay, and left him..

  i still need to confirm but my friend is very reliable and was close friends with the family.

  heres the thing, she spent 20+ years with this man, has children with him and now decides she wants to follow her heart.

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  I just got a call from a friend who informed me that a brother whom I've known for a while and is an elder, just found out last night that his wife of 20+ years declared she was gay, and left him.

  I still need to confirm but my friend is very reliable and was close friends with the family.

  Here’s the thing, she spent 20+ years with this man, has children with him and now decides she wants to follow her heart.

  If she would have come clean to begin with, he wouldn’t have wasted the best part of his life only to start over in his late 40s early 50s.

  Would you be upset if this happened to you?
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  Unconvincing Evidence in September Watchtower

  by bemused in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i was looking at the september 2015 issue of the watchtower, which, unlike the simplified and study editions, appears to be aimed at non-jws.

  a couple of articles caught my eye that quote biblical sources which are somewhat less than convincing to a non-believer.. firstly 'what do jehovah's witnesses believe?

  ' says that the core belief is that 'all scripture is inspired of god and beneficial'.

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  Firstly 'What do Jehovah's Witnesses Believe?' says that the core belief is that 'all scripture is inspired of God

  So why do they admit in another magazine the complete opposite??

  *** w96 4/15 p. 19 Why True Worship Receives God’s Blessing ***

  Bible translations themselves are not inspired by God. Translations, by their very nature, may reflect variations of the understanding of the original tongues in which the Bible was recorded.

  Including the New World Translation!!!!
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  Paul said NOT to be "Harsh" in Shunning

  by FusionTheism in

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  2. bible

  the apostle paul warned the corinthians not to be too harsh in their shunning of a man who was guilty of sexual immortality / adultery:.

  2 co 2:5-11: now if anyone has caused sadness, he has saddened, not me, but all of you to an extentnot to be too harsh in what i say.

  this rebuke given by the majority is sufficient for such a man; now you should instead kindly forgive and comfort him, so that he may not be overwhelmed by excessive sadness.

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  This was Paul's idea.

  I wonder where he got the idea?

  (Acts 8:3) . . .Saul, though, began to deal outrageously with the congregation. Invading one house after another and, dragging out both men and women, he would turn them over to prison.