Yes ,but I was blinded by their "light getting brighter as the day draws near" teaching.
smiddy3
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Were You Ever Interested In Early Watchtower History?
by minimus ini also was intrigued by the russellites and the break away sects that formed before and after charles taze russell.
i can only imagine what the bible students were thinking when rutherford became the next watchtower president..
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What Is Truth?
by minimus injust because you believe something as truth, it doesn’t make it truth.
religious leaders may be admired and believed but they could be dead wrong.
politicians can spout out “facts” that support their truth yet once further evidence comes through these facts are questionable.
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The Watchtower / GB says they speak the truth !
The "Truth" ? they can`t handle the "Truth" !
The Bible says God`s word is truth, John 17:17 but all we have is what other people claim GOD said.
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I have a tee shirt idea
by mickbobcat ini have an idea for a jw tee shirt.
jehovah's witnesses redefining words since 1914.
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smiddy3
Jehovah`s Witnesses speak with forked tongue
OR
Jehovah`s Witnesses speak out of both sides of their mouth
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Did you think this was it for the Watchtower-(Covid)- Well-They are coming back with even greater ZEAL!
by pistolpete inso you all probably heard that the awake magazine is back, .
https://www.jw.org/en/library/magazines/?contentlanguagefilter=en&pubfilter=g&yearfilter=.
and one of my jw relatives said they were told by some elders that meetings and field service will resume before the end of the year.. they said this covid virus was a test, like when the romans breached jerusalem and retreated, only to come back later and sack jerusalem.
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JW`s seemingly have an answer for everything.
Major disasters anywhere in the world .Its proof we are living in the last days
World powers rattling swords against each other.... Ditto
An influx of baptism candidates at some convention .Its a sign of Jehovahs blessing on the org.
When its pointed out that the work is slowing down and many are leaving .Its proof we are living in the last days because the Bible says "the love of the greater number will cool off in the last days"
Whats that saying ? "There are none so blind as those who refuse to see"
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Vaccine Deaths
by Sea Breeze init is reported that in the usa, 30 people are dying per day after receiving the corona vaccine.
anyone else hear about this?
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smiddy3
"in 1976, the U.S. government vaccinated 45 million people with a vaccine for the swine flu. Fifty-three people reportedly died after getting that shot. The U.S. government immediately halted the vaccination program. Authorities decided it was too risky, it wasn’t worth it."
That sounds a bit sus to me.
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2021-June-Announcements And Reminders!
by Atlantis indonations to support theocratic activities.
2021-june-s-147-announcements and reminders.
zipped folder.
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smiddy3
Zachias ,in WT land its not lying when you deceive Satans old world system of things its called Theocratic Warfare .
JW`s conveniently overlook Rom.13: 1-7 ,the superiour authorities are Jehovah Gods arrangement and to go against that arrangement is to take a stand against the arrangement of Jehovah god.
And they will be punished accordingly.
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Party tunes
by jhine inas usual there's a lot of serious shizzle being discussed on here .
i can only cope with so much serious , so here's something that's really not .
as some of you know l am getting married soon and organising the evening bash .
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smiddy3
Congatulations Jan how about stayin alive by the Bee Gee`s ,and all the best for the future.
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What did Jesus Teach the "Kingdom of Heaven/God" is?
by truth_b_known inthe books of matthew, mark, luke, john, and the beginning of acts are filled with what the authors purport are statements of jesus.
jesus is quoted as making several statements about "the kingdom of heaven" or "the kingdom of god".
those statements are often given as parables that start with a phrase something like "the kingdom of heaven is like...".
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Where in the bible does it speak of "Jehovah`s Kingdom" ? that is to be preached in all the inhabited earth ?
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smiddy3
As a 14 year old non JW , left school got a job in a leathergoods business ,did a 5 year apprenticeship ,became converted at 20 years old ,left the job after 12 years and went to work for KODAK in a laboratory. Then got a job interstate with an oil co.for 6 years ,left got another job with another photographic Co,for another 5 years ,and finally got a job with another oil Co,in a laboratory and stayed for 28 years ,until I retired in 2007 @ 68 years old. And i have been retired since then.
There was a couple more jobs before the last one of about a year in each.
One being a very memorable one was with the Australian Reptile Park in Gosford NSW.
Fortunately for me and my wife staying in the last job I had for 28 years left me with enough money to buy my own home.Being a JW was the reason I moved around so much and took so many jobs because the end could come any time soon ,but as i got to about 40 years of age I thought maybe I should be looking at a bit more security until it does come just in case.
I had noted that the GB were not without blame for the 1975 fiasco blaming it solely on the expectations of the R&F.
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God vs ET`s ,why is one more probable than the other ?
by smiddy3 inbillions of people around the world beleive in a god of some sort or other who exerts some power or influence to some degree or other in lifes affairs .. i don`t think there would be anywhere near that figure that would entertain the possability of extra terrestial life elsewhere in the universe.. and i find that curious .. the ancients didn`t know that their were other humans on other continents on this planet until they ventured out and found them .. we live somewhere in the milky way galaxy with millions of suns and planets that orbit them.. our galaxy is only one of trillions if not zillions of galaxys in the known universe.. look at the diversity of life on just this one planet earth ,what possabilitys could exist elsewhere ?
on alien worastronomers can use the hubble space telescope to view galaxies near the edge of the observable universe (the region of space from which light has had a chance to reach us within the last 13.77 billion years).
by examining a very tiny portion of the sky, counting up the number of visible galaxies in the universe in that specific region, and then multiplying that number to account for all the regions of the sky, astronomers estimate the number of galaxies in the universe.
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I am not questioning here whether or not UFO`s or UAP exists but whether or not in all probability life in one form or another could exist elsewhere in the universe .
Maybe my use of the term ET`s confused people. ET`s doesnt necessarily mean they are a higher intelligence visitors from outer space ,it just means their could be life on other planets somewhere in the universe, from the most basic life form to whatever ?
I hope you can appreciate the difference .
I`m not talking about Aliens visiting planet Earth.