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  Is it just me or is this weeks CLAM more "cultish" than usual?

  by NikL in

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  maybe 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 in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  watchtower 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 in

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  2. friends

  didn'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 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  what 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 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  with 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 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i`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.
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  What was it like being a JW in the 1960's and 1970's

  by UnshackleTheChains in

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  2. experiences

  this is obviously a question for the older generation.

  i'm really curious what it was like to be a witness in the 60's and 70's?.

  was the society as strict as it is today?.

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  Is it true you could disassociate yourself prior 1981 with no restrictions? And how did you treat people who choose to leave?
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  Circuit Overseer's Idiotic Comment

  by FedUpJW in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  at last night's clam the circuit overseer made this comment, "we elders sometimes have to act as judges in the congregation.

  but we (the elders) are imperfect, and so cannot know everything about judicial matters.

  that is why we (the elders) have the biblical rule that there must be at least two witnesses to wrongdoing.

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  Steel

  It's up to secular authorities to decide if there is enough evidence to proceed with charges in circumstances like child molestation or rape.

  There is no decision or judicial committee to decide if there is enough evidence to proceed. If a victim or potential victim says something, the matter is to be taken to the police immediately.

  Good god. Delusional idiots
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  Next weeks Watchtower. ' Who is leading God's people today'

  by UnshackleTheChains in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  next weeks watchtower.

  'who is leading god's people today' is quite incredible.

  i am so looking forward to blondie's comments on this one.

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  Steel

  How many people here were awoken by the constant bragging of the organization. For people who claim to the most humble people on earth, they sure like to blow there own horn.
  
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  the archangel, an archangel

  by AmyWatson916 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i'm reading a book called "what to do when they knock" that goes over the jw book "what does the bible really teach?".

  it points out that the "bible really teach" book, on page 218, makes a bit of a point about there being only one archangel.

  it says michael is "the archangel" and emphasizes that "the" means only one.

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  Steel

  I remember watching Stephen Kings It as a kid and it just scared the hell out of me, but the ending was just stupid. I thought it was like the writers went on strike or they forgot to pay them, so they walked.

  The watchtower explanation of how Jesus is Michael to me is like the writers just gave up. Let's turn him into Michael so we can go home.

  The really stupid part is later in when I started to learn about old testament christogy and why certain verses are quoted in the new testament or what new testament writers believed, it became hell a stupid. It really became the issue that convinced me no jw should teach the bible to anyone.