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Sanchy
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Is Jehovah Male Or Female, Manly of Womanly
by frankiespeakin inwhy is jehovah in the bible a male?
why not female since he is a god that is not earthly but from another realm where they don't have sex differences, does he have a penis?
does he have to pee and relieve himself?
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Question: Can't You Just Ignore A Judicial Committee?
by Sorry inone thing i've never understood is judicial committees.
yes, i understand it's held to see if elders should go through with the disfellowshipping process.
but why give them all the power?
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Sanchy
No, she can't just ignore the JC since the elder's book instructs them can go ahead and carry out the proceedings even without the accused present. Once a JC is formed it's almost impossible to get it cancelled, however, here are some options:
-There is a loophole in the elder book that says that if after various attempts they can't reach the person in question to arrange the judicial committee date, they should just leave the matter pending. So one might attempt going into hiding for a few months, not answering any calls, and hoping the elders would just forget. If your cousin has already spoken to the elders, then it's too late for this method.
-If there was only one witness to her alleged smoking, she can deny the accusation and the elder's would not be able to proceed with a JC so long as they don't have 2 witnesses nor a confession.
-If she doesn't want to get DF, she can go into the meeting, put some pepper spray in her eyes, shed a few tears, tell the elders that she's so embarrassed that she "hurt her relationship with Jehovah by smoking", that she only smoked a few of them in a moment of weakness, and that she never ever ever wants to hurt Jehovah again like that. Maybe they'd only privately reprove her in this situation.
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RUSSIA: Many meetings raided and evidence planted
by ZAPPA-ESQUE inraids on jehovah's witness premises now take place more than three times per month.
these raids on doctrinally pacifist* religious communities often involve many heavily armed and camouflaged officials, with the "discovery" of apparently planted banned "extremist" literature.
legal dissolution of communities can follow.. http://www.forum18.org/archive.php?article_id=2228.
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Sanchy
Russia being Russia. JWs there are used to it though, they survived the Soviet era.
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RUSSIA: Many meetings raided and evidence planted
by ZAPPA-ESQUE inraids on jehovah's witness premises now take place more than three times per month.
these raids on doctrinally pacifist* religious communities often involve many heavily armed and camouflaged officials, with the "discovery" of apparently planted banned "extremist" literature.
legal dissolution of communities can follow.. http://www.forum18.org/archive.php?article_id=2228.
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Sanchy
Wouldn't this in effect ban the religion? No matter how you go about defending these laws DJS, they are an attempt by the state against universal human rights, as repeated by various international courts.is to remove all references to the superiority of their religion over all others in their literature and teachings, such as Armageddon
Here's a video of some of Vlad's henchman attempting to plant the now banned Bible Teach book within the kingdom halls:
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Another Outright Lie Published 2/17 WT
by LostGeneration inthis info is from the article "who is leading god's people today" feb 17 study edition.. to help them disseminate bible truth in various languages, zion’s watch tower tract society was legally incorporated in 1884, with brother russell as president.
* he was an outstanding student of the bible, and he fearlessly exposed as false such doctrines as the trinity and the immortality of the soul.
he discerned that christ would return invisibly and that “the appointed times of the nations” would end in 1914.. pretty sickening article overall about how badass the gb is, though this little gem is printed as well, paragraph 12. the governing body is neither inspired nor infallible.
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Sanchy
Sir82: If truth doesn't matter, what does? Sincerity? The WTS has spent over a century bashing other religion, and billions of adherents of those religions, who claim that "sincerity" is enough.
Exactly what i was thinking. If the faithful slave can err, then who's to say the pope or other religious leaders are not the real faithful slave? Wouldn't they have the right to err as well?
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Another Outright Lie Published 2/17 WT
by LostGeneration inthis info is from the article "who is leading god's people today" feb 17 study edition.. to help them disseminate bible truth in various languages, zion’s watch tower tract society was legally incorporated in 1884, with brother russell as president.
* he was an outstanding student of the bible, and he fearlessly exposed as false such doctrines as the trinity and the immortality of the soul.
he discerned that christ would return invisibly and that “the appointed times of the nations” would end in 1914.. pretty sickening article overall about how badass the gb is, though this little gem is printed as well, paragraph 12. the governing body is neither inspired nor infallible.
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Sanchy
Do any of you ever feel like screaming at your screen when you read the nonsense WT prints?
I got that feeling x10 with this article.
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97 Columbia Heights For Sale
by wifibandit inhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdyjb_v4gye.
http://imgur.com/a/yhraf.
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Sanchy
Yes, they are appealing to the very culture and lifestyle that has been criticised for over a century!
..I thought the same thing as I saw the Porsche being driven into the parking lot.
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Jesus, the Great Convincer?
by Simon insupposedly the disciples witnessed jesus' super-power awesomeness first-hand.. so they were all 100% on-board to-the-death martyrs ... right?.
erm .... judas betrayed him.
thomas didn't believe he'd come back.
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Sanchy
Good points Simon.
I myself could never understand how the 500 supposed witnesses from 1 Cor 15:6 that supposedly saw Jesus resurrected could be a reason for us to believe that the resurrection indeed happened. I've not met any of those witnesses, nor have I read their first hand account of the event, so as far as I'm concerned, the bible could say there were a million witnesses, it proves nothing.
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Potential Muslim convert
by StopTheTears inabout a month ago, i purchased arabic/english gospels of john that contain a commentary for muslims.. .
i went to one of my neighbors and spoke to him and gave him one.
fast forward to today, my brakes need done so i took my car to the shop, walking back into my street i saw my friend abdullah outside.. .
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Sanchy
...It's your turn Viv.
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Memorial Attendances This Year
by steve2 inhave attendance figures at this year's memorial been released yet, including number of partakers?
sometimes the kingdom ministry (now called christian life and ministry) provided local figures say for the country.. for two to three years the worldwide figure has hovered around the 19 plus million, with a drop off in attendance last year.. just wondered if there has been any change this year or if the downward trend has continued?
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Sanchy
But I do wonder how long they will continue doing this when the worldwide attendances show opposing trends (general attendance: stagnating and some decline; partakers increased in 2015 by over 1,000 from 2014).
It's true steve2, I was thinking of that myself. As the stats get more and more somber, I'm guessing they'll be less and less inclined to print or make them public.