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The Simpsons and Back to the Future 2 are better at making predictions than the watchtower corporation.
by hoser ini'll leave this open for you guys to fill in the blanks.
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"Spiritual Israel" created in 1919 - not in 33C.E.
by The Searcher inthanks to the "inspired expressions" of the fds/gb of jehovah's witnesses, not only are 99% of j.w.
's excluded from the new covenant, but apparently none of the first century christians are part of the "israel of god" - aka "spiritual israel.".
w14 11/15 p. 26 par.
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Any stats on retention rates in mixed homes?
by Steel ini have a wife that i would say is a social witness.
i have never once had a meaningful discussion about the bible or even seen her read the damn thing.
she puts up a pretty facade of being a good witness but isn’t really a religious person.
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Anybody listen to Country/Western/Indie music?
by Coded Logic inanybody have some good suggestions?
not really sure what to call it.
it's kind of like country music - but i personally call it "western" music because it's - well - not country music.
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One good thing about covid.
by Overrated insince covid and the lock down.
no jw's spreading their crap on saturday.
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So we started at a new hall
by Steel inwhen i say we, i just mean my wife.
we moved to a community of maybe 20000. this hall claims to have 160 publishers but i have my doubts.. the most shocking part is there isn't a single child in the hall.
we just moved from a hall with at least 12 kids under 10. watching the people shuffle out this morning made me think it was some dying denominational church.
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The two powers in heaven
by Steel inlately i have been watching a video series by a bible scholar named michael heiser explaining the idea of there being a plurality to god in the old testament.
the seen god and the unseen god and reading the bible though first century jewish eyes.
of course being a somewhat of an unbeliever i checked out some bart erham videos on the subject and he basically says what this christian scholar said.. basically christ is thought to be the manifestion of god that was seen and dealt with in the old testament.
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WTS unholy alliance
by Steel insorry this is copy and paste but still i very interesting read imho.
often, civil libertarians, and even occasionally christian conservatives, praise the watchtower society and jehovah's witnesses for what those ignoramuses erroneously characterize as the cult's decades-long fight to expand religious and other civil rights/liberties in american society.
(erroneous because jws could care less about expanding rights/liberties for anyone but themselves.
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The name of god explained
by Steel inhttps://youtu.be/1smqa78fy3y.
we all have our own journeys out of the wts and each person has a different trigger point.
if you watch this video from about the 22 min to 32 min , its something a person cant unseen.. i know the average jw doesnt care about the bible but for the odd one that is sincere, this might be a great seed to plant..
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The Ubers and Israel
by Steel inover the last year in the two congregations i am somewhat involved with, several of the most uber elders have taken trips to israel.
did some wizard have a vision and all the jws are on a mission to turn all the jews into jehovah witnesses or are they just on vacation ?
of course i could just ask someone but that would require me attend and talk to them.