I have come to the conclusion that baby-sitting the ss children while they were putting babies in ovens isn't quite as noble as the watchtards like to think it is.
I am so sick of hearing about the brave witnesses if WW2. Collaborating cowards.
Posts by Steel
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11CLAM Video - re Erich Frost (Apr 17-23 2017)
by Nicholaus Kopernicus ini normally don't bother going to the midweek jw meetings much.
however, upon reading in the april 2017 meeting workbook that there was to be a video about erich frost (former do for saxony & nazi prisoner in sachsenhausen concentration camp) i wanted to attend as i had read about this brother in history texts by detlef garbe and hans hesse.
i had also visited auschwitz several times and noted that the museum had a display / exhibition about jehovah's witnesses.
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Fake publisher card
by floridaborn inso i've been a lurked on this site for about 15 years, thank goodness for dial up internet.... anyway my fade has been working off and on for that long but my whole family is still in including my kid.
at this point i have started dating a worldly person.
he is wiling to put onthe facade of being a witness so i don't have to lose my family.
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Steel
How old are you?
There is a point where it is really none of their business. So what, you get marked. All it means is you can't hang with a bunch of phonies.
One meeting a month. Come late, leave early.
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The Ultimate Conversion
by Etude inone thing that surprised me shortly after joining this site was the number of individuals who, after experiencing the deception of being a jw and the hypocrisy of the “truth”, switched to being catholic or “born-again” evangelists.
it seemed to me like jumping from the hot pan into the fire.. i don’t want to piss anyone off for his or her choices.
i feel everyone is free to believe what they may.
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Steel
I sometimes feel like Charlie Brown listening to his teacher listening to this constant variation of the same idea.
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10 Years Japan losses 5,400 Publishers and 638 Kingdom Halls! Why?
by Witness 007 injapan had a handful of witnesses after ww 2....this number skyrocketed to 222,912 by 1998!
then something happened.
publisher figures didn't stop, they dropped by thousands over the next decade!.
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Steel
To be fair Japan actually has a shrinking population. Everything is in decline.
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Is it just me or is this weeks CLAM more "cultish" than usual?
by NikL inmaybe it was my mood, but last night the meeting seemed really over the top cultish.. mainly the latter portion that just focused on presentation videos which always seem creepy to me anyway.. then the local needs was pre-empted by a video all about ldc which seemed completely pointless.
(on a side note my wife knew a couple of different people in it).
the congregation "bible" study which dealt with the ever changing cover of the watchtower magazine.
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Steel
It's deliberately mocking the rank and file with a friendly reminder the new testament isn't written for them.
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The weekly Watchtower LIE
by biblexaminer inwatchtower magazine feb. 2017 study ed.
page 25 paragraph 8. studied at all kingdom halls worldwide in the last week of april 2017. https://www.jw.org/en/publications/magazines/watchtower-study-february-2017/who-is-leading-gods-people-today/.
8 in the late 19th century, charles taze russell … zion’s watch tower tract society … with brother russell as president.
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Steel
Sorry
New to all of this but didn't CTR teach the world would end in 1914?
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Family of Jehovah's Witness mum who bled to death after son's birth win £870k compensation
by NikL indidn't see this anywhere else.. sorry if this was posted before.. http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/787824/cannabis-found-growing-church-salem-chapel-wales-weed-police.
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Steel
Although your link is wrong and hilarious I did Google the story and it was correct.
Ambulance chasers. Sueing the hospital because they didn't have alternative treatments available.
Slimey
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JW martyr on trial - what is happening in Kazakhstan?
by OrphanCrow inwhat is happening in kazakhstan?
that country that occupies a space between russia and china?.
kazakhstan is a landlocked country in central asia that shares borders with russia, china, kyrgyzstan, uzbekistan, and turkmenistan, and also adjoins a large part of the caspian sea.. kazakhstan is 70% muslim.
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Steel
Christians have always operated under restrictions in some of the shady ex communist, communist and Muslim parts of the world.
The sad part is other churches have figured out how not only survive but thrive. Doing ex reach work, feeding Programs, house churches etc.
I have little sympathy for people who feel the need to be annoying telemarketers with a very pompous and annoying message.
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What is your understanding of the terms "Ransom" and "Redeem"?
by Doug Mason inwith respect to christ being the "redeemer" and of having "paid the ransom", i would like to know:.
(1) what is your technical understanding of each term?.
(2) what is the watchtower's understanding of each term?.
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Steel
I just love how they dance around this issue and never really teach what the society believes.
Jesus died for seven men in new York and though your works and obedience to this men you will be saved.
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Does the Average R&F JW understand what grace is in Christianity ?
by smiddy ini`m showing my ignorance here , not being an active member of any church before joining jw`s as a 19 yr old ,whenever i was ever confronted with the question of "grace" i was always at a loss to give an effective answer from a jw point of view.. was it just me ?
or did anybody else have a similar experience ?.
(ps , i dont think i ever heard the expression " grace" in a religious sense in all my 33 years in the borg.studying the wt.).
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Steel
When I first attended the kingdom hall I was quite surprised about how much they discussed the old testament. It's was always some obscure story about some guy with an messed up name didn't bow to some pagan God and how it's more important to hand out magazines no one wants even if it means we should go jail.
It took a few years to realize they basically avoided the doctrines of grace and Fruitage of the spirit and becoming the new person in Christ.
It's like they don't really get what Christianity is.