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  Image: Great Tribulation

  by OrphanCrow in

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  the org's fear theme has really been emphasized recently- the bunker video and now the convention video with jws being pursued by guys with assault rifles.

  this image comes from the watchtower july 2017 questions from readers: would it be fitting for a christian to keep a firearm, such as a handgun or a rifle, for protection against other humans?.

  the caption for the image is this: during the great tribulation, christians will rely on jehovah and not try to defend themselves.

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  I'm always surprised when they show "brothers" with bulked out arms. Isn't it "worldly" to concentrate on getting a great bod at the gym? Spending hours on your body instead of out in service? or studying or praying etc.
  
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  Help: Anyone identify Gary Breaux's ring?

  by Fay Dehr in

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  can anyone identify this ring?

  (ideally, a link to a page on the internet with photo and description).

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  "Nothing is particularly wrong with the above mentioned ring"

  I suspect they published that because they had Good Old Boys rings already made.
  
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  They are only human

  by nugget in

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  visited my mum today.

  she i a jw and usually refuses to talk about issues around the jw organisation however today i had an opportunity to debate with her.. we were discussing the elders and that sometimes they made mistakes.

  her response was "they are human and humans make mistakes.

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  Romans 13:13 For rulers are not a cause of fear for good behavior, but for evil. Do you want to have no fear of authority? Do what is good and you will have praise from the same; 14 for it is a minister of God to you for good. But if you do what is evil, be afraid; for it does not bear the sword for nothing; for it is a minister of God, an avenger who brings wrath on the one who practices evil.

  The bible itself says that a Christian is liable to the authorities if they do evil/crime.
  
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  Jesus with an iPad. Really?

  by punkofnice in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  at a local meeting, one of the elders said that if jesus were on the earth today 'you can be sure' he would be preaching by showing videos on a tablet.. i kid you not.. i wonder what videos he'd be playing?.

  obviously this was the elder's own pet theory.

  wasn't it?.

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  jwleaks - Evidently Moses was the first servant of God to own a tablet, or two, which were capable of downloading data from the cloud.

  I so love that comment.
  
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  Born ins: did you have "near life experiences"?

  by truthseeker in

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  i recently watched the 90s movie fight club for the first time and heard the phrase "near life experience.".

  for me, a different definition of this phrase would be someone who grew up in the truth and led a very secluded and restricted life (like me) but on rare occasions actually experienced something that was considered quite normal by most people.. growing up in "the troof" was depressing.

  it was characterized by long periods of loneliness.

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  days of future passed

  My worldly dad would take us camping for about a week in the summer. Nature, streams, hiking and roasting marshmallows. Then it was back to the fearful meetings.

  I also got to spend 2 weeks at my worldly grandma's house. I helped plant her garden. I was so thrilled to be asked to make her coffee in the morning. I loved my grandma so I put in 2 scoops instead of the one she had told me to put in. As I watched her sip the coffee, once and then twice, she slowly asked if I had put more in? I said yes, and she just silently nodded her head and said "maybe tomorrow, you could put just one in" Lol, I knew nothing about coffee.

  At her house, I felt like I was a valued person. Just a normal loved human. It was the only real love I had growing up.
  
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  JWs at the Movies

  by Wake Me Up Before You Jo-Ho in

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  so i was watching some of the dramas screened at the be courageous convention, and one caught my eye.. it's the scene where a group of jw teens are watching something deemed as "sinful" at the movie theaters.

  there were only sound effects, so i decided to fill in the blanks.. https://vimeo.com/275184883.

  bottom line: machine guns = bad.

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  Haha, that was good.

  You could do that video that had all the dead loves ones come back. Just have the Sixth Sense meme "I see dead people"
  
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  Peace security

  by asp59 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  never have understood why sudden destruction most come after announcement of peace and security.

  is not peace and security a good thing?

  can someone give a logical answer to it..

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  days of future passed

  The WT has gotten people to rely on them for what is supposed to happen in the last days. They don't even follow the correct sequence found in Daniel's book. They can't. Russell started out on the wrong foot and the rest of those following his religion have to do the same.

  That being said, the WT's explanation of the Peace and Security cry is something like this - The world thinks it has solved the problem only God can fix. So their cry of Peace and Security is likened to the tower of Babels boast of "nothing can stop us now, we don't need God" Which is false according to WT.

  It's past my bedtime so I won't swear to everything being 100% correct.
  
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  Why Do People Oppose Jehovah's Witnesses?

  by BlackSpirit in

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  2. scandals

  jesus christ, the son of the most high god, jehovah has this to say: "if the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you.

  if you were part of the world, the world would be fond of what is its own.

  now because you are no part of the world, but i have chosen you out of the world, for this reason the world hates you.

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  If the Governing Body is no part of the World, why did they sign up with the UN?

  When I was growing up, you couldn't even use the swimming pool at the YWCA because that would be sharing in a worldly religion. Even if they were "just using it for the library card ( )- which it was more than that - that would still make them friends with the world. And they are supposed to be living up to a higher standard.
  
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  Overlapping Transactions

  by Wake Me Up Before You Jo-Ho in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  this afternoon, i had a vision.

  one of the past, present and future.. .

  over the past two decades, i recall one distinct, universal phrase being uttered by older jehovah's witnesses on many different occasions:.

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  My mom apologized to me one day out of the blue. "Sorry" she said. I said what for? "You've grown old"

  Even tho she recognized that what the WT said about children my age not graduating school, having to get a job or growing old had failed, it didn't change her thinking about the religion. She's in her eighties and having to contemplate death now. She won't change because she would have to face the non existence of paradise and the end of her life long dream.
  
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  Australians deadlest animals just for our American friends

  by MightyV8 in

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  australians deadlest animals.

  https://youtu.be/mrrao_vg_k4.

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  Most everything that moves in Australia will get you. Surprising they didn't have the Jumping Jack Ants

  

  I watched a program that showing a mechanical roving camera going to take a look at the ants. As soon as one saw the camera, it started leaping in great jumps to attack it. It can cause shock and death. Little stinkers. That's why I decided if I had the chance, I would go to New Zealand. Just blood sucking things there.