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  End of watchtower

  by Hellothere in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  shouldn't gb tell members to abandon organisation?

  surely things are pointing at watchtower being part of babylon the great.

  in with way is watchtower being bless and been shown god's favour this days?

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  Why would an organization that has always promoted false teachings act any different now? It's too good a living at the top for the sort of unambitious, entitled old men enjoying it today to give it up.
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  Knocking on schoolmates doors

  by BettyHumpter in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i left the jw's shortly after i graduated high school.

  but when i was still at home i'd get dragged into door to door every saturday morning without fail unless it was pissing rain.

  i can remember always being anxious to know what territory my group was assigned.

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  I can't recall ever worrying about a classmate opening the door when I was in field service. Maybe that is not too surprising- growing up in a bad area, it was unlikely that parents would allow their kids to get the door when someone knocked unexpectedly. And I have no idea how I would have responded if a classmate had opened the door. But as I recall, we did not get any grief about our religion in school. Most kids just saw it as a kind of weird thing, a curiosity. I never did appreciate how lucky I was.

  As for the pledge of allegiance, I had it kind of easy there as well. We (there was usually one or two other JW kids in my home room) either stood outside while the rest of the class made the pledge, or we could sit at our desks or stand quietly with our hands at our sides. To be honest, it was easier to stand outside than to be surrounded by kids when you were explicitly not doing what they were doing. But again, I don't recall getting any shit over it.
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  Useless Majors

  by Sea Breeze in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i was passing through a very liberal college town recently during rush hour.

  so, i decided to stop for some refreshment at a fine-looking establishment and wait for traffic to die down.

  a young waitress waited on me who probably could have been stevie nicks twin when she was young.

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  TonusOH

  I'm just wondering what it costs to learn that people in what is now the American Southwest once ate corn.
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

  by Newly Enlightened in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  original reddit post (removed).

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  TonusOH

  Athanasius: No doubt his patrons don't consider solicitation for sex to be criminal behavior.

  To be fair, he has lost half (or more) of his Patreon support since this all went down. One of his biggest donors made clear that he was taking his considerable generosity elsewhere precisely because of Evans actions and attitude. I believe at least one other big money donor also took his $50-a-month away. While I believe Evans is still making good money from the ones that remain, he has taken a significant hit thanks to the ones who could not condone (or would not excuse) his behavior.
  
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  Did Jesus have a Y chromosome?

  by Fisherman in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  even in jesus’s day, humans had chromosomes.

  and so did jesus —because he was human.

  so let’s say jesus took a dna test, his mitochondrial dna would go back to eve but interestingly jc also would inherit dna from sinful adam on his mother’s side because his mother mary passed on to jc dna from both adam and eve.

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  Fisherman: Yeah right. All the sworn oaths about him being related to Abraham and Judah and David and Solomon….were lies.

  Well... yeah, aren't they? Mixing a bit of DNA to make him their heir seems like the most technical of technicalities. That lineage was not going to produce a god without the actual intervention of god. So the genealogy was not a scientific or medical record of any kind, it was showing the familial lines that led to the two people who would be allowed to serve as god's parents.
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  Starting September 01, 2022, the Angels will help in the ministry work

  by RULES & REGULATIONS in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  2022 governing body update # 6. what exciting news david splane has for all jehovah's witnesses ( who for the last three years were spared the house-to-house preaching work ) '' that we'll return to the ministry september 01, 2022. just in time for our world wide campaign to start bible studies.

  and, i'm sure the angels are excited too, because it will give them opportunities to help us with our ministry.''.

  not only will the witnesses be rusty in their return to the field ministry, the angels in heaven have been sitting idle while the pandemic stopped the house-to-house ministry.

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  TonusOH

  Relying on the Angels is a bad idea, they're having an absolutely terrible season.
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  Did Jesus have a Y chromosome?

  by Fisherman in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  even in jesus’s day, humans had chromosomes.

  and so did jesus —because he was human.

  so let’s say jesus took a dna test, his mitochondrial dna would go back to eve but interestingly jc also would inherit dna from sinful adam on his mother’s side because his mother mary passed on to jc dna from both adam and eve.

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  Fisherman: Jesus genealogy through Mary is listed in the Bible.

  So is his genealogy through Joseph. I doubt Yahweh was worried that Mary would get a blood test and find out that he wasn't the real father.
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  Did Jesus have a Y chromosome?

  by Fisherman in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  even in jesus’s day, humans had chromosomes.

  and so did jesus —because he was human.

  so let’s say jesus took a dna test, his mitochondrial dna would go back to eve but interestingly jc also would inherit dna from sinful adam on his mother’s side because his mother mary passed on to jc dna from both adam and eve.

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  TonusOH

  The same god who could create people by forming them from clay would have had no issue with inseminating a human female with an offspring made up of completely unique genetic material. Mary was not impregnated in the normal sense, so there is no reason that she would pass along her DNA to Jesus.
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

  by Newly Enlightened in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  original reddit post (removed).

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  TonusOH

  I see he's as aggressive as ever, bullying people while accusing them of bullying him.

  And it appears that his moral barometer is fine with "as long as no one can prove I exploited anyone, I should be good."
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  What's this fixation with Lloyd Evans? 4887 pages?

  by smiddy3 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  what`s wrong with you people lol isn`t it time to button up ?

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  TonusOH

  I think you meant to say "4887 replies."

  But I'm all for seeing if we can get to 4,887 pages.