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  Worldwide preaching campaign targeting government officials.

  by smiddy3 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  does anybody know what this message will contain ?

  is it designed to provoke a response that will bring persecution on the religion ?

  or is it just going to be some meaningless weak campaign to get the rank and file all excited about it and achieving nothing.. or is it going to suggest to the government officials that this mob could very well be the next jonestown /wacol incident and we need to act now.

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  Thanks Petra the english one would be fine.
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  Worldwide preaching campaign targeting government officials.

  by smiddy3 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  does anybody know what this message will contain ?

  is it designed to provoke a response that will bring persecution on the religion ?

  or is it just going to be some meaningless weak campaign to get the rank and file all excited about it and achieving nothing.. or is it going to suggest to the government officials that this mob could very well be the next jonestown /wacol incident and we need to act now.

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  Does anybody know what this message will contain ? Is it designed to provoke a response that will bring persecution on the religion ? Or is it just going to be some meaningless weak campaign to get the rank and file all excited about it and achieving nothing.

  Or is it going to suggest to the Government Officials that this mob could very well be the next Jonestown /Wacol incident and we need to act now.?
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  Upcoming Neutrality Talk Oct 26, 2020

  by Listener in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  thanks petra and atlantis for providing the latest announcements from the watchtower.. they are telling congregations to replace the 15 minute local needs talk in the midweek meeting of october 26th with a talk on neutrality.

  i am not sure if this is due to there being a usa election on tues 3rd, november or because of their worldwide preaching campaign targeting government officials.

  it does sound like it is due to the usa election due to comments about propaganda and political promises.

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  Doesn`t Romans chapter 13 indicate that Christians / Jehovah`s Witnesses are to be involved and support the ruling governing authorities as this is the arrangement of GOD and those that take a stand against this arrangement are taking a stand against GOD ?
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  UGHHHHH Wife wants to pioneer. Our future together doesn’t look promising

  by goingthruthemotions in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  ughhhhh wife wants to pioneer.

  our future together doesn't look promising .

  i told her she doesn’t know what she is getting into.

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  Cheeessuuusss some of you people must have been in congregations from hell .I was in about 7 different congregations in two seperate states in Australia. In all of those congs most .brothers and sisters were either an employee ,or they were self employed or owned their own business and employed some brothers.

  In my first congregation the PO and his assistant were both fleshly brothers and both were employed as " Life salesman". Other self employed brothers were house painters, Tilers ,Builders ,plasterers,electricians and plumbers An ex missionary and his wife ran a beauty salon that my wife was employed as a beautician.at one stage. Both my sons were employed by brothers at one time or another..I myself had a full time job It was never a problem in Australia in my experience ?

  And it was a great social life that we experienced for many years .Maybe that was why it took 33 years to wake up we were having too much fun and could overlook problems that were beginning to mount up until we could no longer overlook them anymore.

  I truly feel for you people who were living in these shit congregations that sucked the soul out of you .

  As for GTTM`s I`m sorry you are going through this ,obviously she is not going to be challenged by doctrines that not being a big deal for her it seems she is just emotionally attached to the religion and it`s social life and a feel good feeling about it.

  That`s the bubble that needs to be burst .How you do that is up to you ,you know her best .Many people are in the religion purely because of emotions ,feeling good about a new system where they pet pandas and lions all day eating oversize grapes in a house that`s been leftover from some rich dude in this system .

  Totally unrealistic.

  They will be told what to do and what they can`t do by a GB in the new System and it won`t be up to individuals to choose what they can and can`t do .

  Big Brother will dictate with rules and regulations how paradise will be run.
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  Verses deleted and Mangled by the Watchtower

  by AWAKEJWS in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  *col 1:16: nwt: because by mean of him all [other] things were created.

  but the watchtower changed the word ?god?

  *re 1:11 nwt: these words deleted completely.. .

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  I was thinking about what texts of the Bible JW`s changed in the NWT to suit their beliefs when I came across this post ,so I thought I would put it out again as it does give food for thought in my opinion .

  What do you think ?
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  Confession of a German Widow

  by Terry in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  confession of a german widow.

  rosa hoffberger would be late for mass.

  it couldn’t be helped; cold weather set in and her movement was twice as difficult with arthritis.she hadn’t attended mass since the bombing had ended months ago.

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  You learn something everyday on this forum LOL
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  Never Forget 9/11

  by minimus in

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  2. friends

  tomorrow is the anniversary of 9/11/2001.

  i hope we never forget what happened that fateful day and learn from what happened.❤️.

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  Here in Australia its 9/11 today .i had a toast drink to all those that lost there lives on that fateful day in remembrance.

  I hope that those Muslim SOB `s that were looking forward to their 70 Virgins all have the pox .
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  The Re-Opening of the Kingdom Halls

  by LetTheTruthBeKnown in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  it's been six months since the kingdom halls have been closed.

  i believe here in ontario, canada that you are now allowed to have up to 50 people congregate together.. that was the average attendance before they did all the merging of the congregations.

  they should have went back to the original pre-merger congregations.

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  I don`t think donations would be down if the WT went to strictly being televised on-line whatever .

  Look at the successful televangelists like Joyce Mayer ,Jimmy Swaggert , W.W. church Of God and a bunch of others that do quite well raking in the dough worldwide.

  They would rake in many more Millions$$$$$$ by now selling off all or most of their real estate they have.

  They must know and I`m sure their lawyers know they are living on borrowed time with their Armageddon / Great Tribulation predictions .

  Their window for cashing in on there options is closing.
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  Is There a Higher Conscious

  by LetTheTruthBeKnown in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  most of the individuals here from what i have read have gravitated to believing in evolution for various reasons and no longer have a belief in a creator.. the questions begs though, is there a higher conscious in the universe than mankind's.

  i am sure everyone agrees that animals are conscious, but to what extent can they reason?.

  here is the link to dr. rupert sheldrake's - is the sun conscious.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfhsobpja8a.

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  It would not surprise me one bit if there was a higher conscious in the Universe ,but I would definitely rule out any GOD of any religion.Especially the GOD of the Bible.

  As for the worth of Jesus on this subject unlike Moses who was supposed to pen the first five books of the Bible Jesus never wrote down one word of the Bible .? He was supposed to have made all of these wise sayings that would have filled volumes but he never wrote down one word .

  How it could be said that Jesus was the greater Moses is beyond me.

  All we have is imperfect humans who claim Jesus said this and that and did this and that and also performed miracles .Jesus never claimed anything in writing.We just have the words of imperfect men.

  Who may or may not have had an agenda of their own ?
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  Secret witnesses, wiretaps and banned literature

  by Fadeaway1962 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/odr/secret-witnesses-wiretaps-and-banned-literature-how-russian-law-enforcement-prosecutes-jehovahs-witnesses/ .

  shame for those in prison, .

  where were the angels and the holy spirit to protect them like in the past ?

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  Well Jehovah`s Witnesses do predict / gloat / glory in their belief that all Governments of this world will be destroyed at Armageddon and a Theocratic Government will be installed . Right ?

  And in hindsight Governments would look at other doomsday cults that predict the end of the world etc,and wonder if these fanatics would act out like Wacol / Jonestown or some other wacko`s .They don`t know.Who knows what desperation might they do when the end is never coming ,some looneys might just try to bring it on themselves .

  I`m surprised more governments haven`t banned them for continually telling people that God is going to destroy them and their Governments if they don`t become Jehovah`s Witnesses .

  Lets tell it how it is folks , and not pander to the bloody Jehovah`s Witnesses.