Ties, in a prison? Great way to HANG yourself!
Posts by jw07
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18New JW.org video on "helping" prisoners
by cedars inhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-vjlssg3xi.
you can't help but feel sympathy for these guys.
some of the things they did will have been horrendous, but they are paying their dues to society through their incarceration.. what they don't deserve is to become mentally imprisoned to a damaging cult.. .
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jw07
The Watchtower Bible and Tract Society is in an all-out war against education. From convention and assembly parts, to Watchtower study articles every other week, to the current Jeremiah book, additional learning is being demonized without scriptural evidence.
A few months ago we had a Zone Overseer’s (I hate that term) talk in which he said that we definitely don’t need more than a high school education. We could stop after that and Jehovah would provide the highest education in its place: a Celestial Education (sounds allot like the philosophy of LDS church member Michelle Stone, who has been touting that term).
Sorry, I pressed ctrl+s and saved without completing (it's a habit of mine while typing)
In my country this lunacy has caused very subtle, but stinging divisions among witnesses. “X and Y are bad association because they are attending college, you know the kinds of people that hang out there, right?” The uber-zealous tend to think the worst of college attendees and hardly fail to make it know. “You’re in college? So when do you go to service, have you ever pioneered?”
Despite the paper thin logic many of the next generation of Witnesses (16-20) seem to be gobbling up the rhetoric, the majority of them barely scraping through school to rush off to pioneer fresh out of high school. They love to boast and throw the term Celestial Education around as well. “I’m forgoing college to gain a Celestial Education.”
They will know in a couple of years that no amount of Celestial Education will put food on the table, or will be recognized by any sane employer.
What’s happening in your of the world regarding how those just leaving high school are responding to Watchtower propaganda on education?
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jw07
Why do you say that?
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jw07
If there is irrefutable evidence of other intelligent life discovered, the Watchtower's explanation could probably be summarized as: "Satan is trying to distract God's servants from the issue of universal sovereignty by making it APPEAR that there is life elsewhere." Or perhaps they will even spin it as 'Satan creating life elsewhere'.
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We're Jehovah's Witnesses. We speak out in fearlessness.........
by punkofnice inthen why aren't the gb personally going out and spearheading the preaching in places like china for instance and muslim countries?.
no money in it?.
they are afraid of getting killed?.
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jw07
@Vidiot: I think there would be a fairly large Exodus during the power vacuum / power struggle, coupled with the illusion of invulnerability being shattered. This coming from lurkers and those waking up looking for hard and fast proof that it's just a corporation. However, the die hard remnant would be even more fanatical and support whatever form of leadership which rears its head from Headquarters.
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We're Jehovah's Witnesses. We speak out in fearlessness.........
by punkofnice inthen why aren't the gb personally going out and spearheading the preaching in places like china for instance and muslim countries?.
no money in it?.
they are afraid of getting killed?.
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jw07
Why don't they denounce ISLAM and it's leaders the way they do the Catholic Church? That would show real brass BALLS.
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Disasters and Emergencies at your command
by Terry in.
all the disasters and emergencies in the whole world at any time of the day or night.. very handy for great tribulation cultists!.
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/index2.php.
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jw07
Dammit! Looks like a chance of Armageddon with a chance of rain today!
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Special Conmemorative 100th Anniversary Bible to be released next year!
by Calebs Airplane inas many of you know, the watchtower corporation has recently slowed bible production significantly over the past year... i'm sure there are several reasons for this.
money being the main one.
but i suspect that they are also anticipating a significant exodus worldwide after the 100th anniversary of jesus' kingdom with "the end" being no where in sight.
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jw07
They will replace every mention of 'Jehovah' with 'The Governing Body'
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Why does god kill children?
by Comatose ini was thinking about all the accounts in the bible that indicate god kills children as a punishment or teaching experience.
1. kills all of egypts firstborn sons, who were innocent kids who did nothing to him or his people, who had no control over the decisions pharoah made.
how many times have you read that account or thought about it without realizing the devastating pain dealt to all those parents, and remembered those were innocent kids?.
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jw07
I can murder, rape, plunder, maim, vandalize if I have an imaginary friend to blame all of my actions on can I not?
An imaginary being told me to do all of these things, he is very powerful and intelligent...but you just can't see him, or can't see him and live, according to a book He 'wrote' about Him, written by humans who don't make mistakes...oh wait...they do.
Being an all powerful being He could have thought the most accurate literature about himself into existence, but wait, he didn't, he 'inspired' scores of random men (gender bias much) over the course of thousands of years and instructed them to write it! That's what the men who wrote his book for him said so surely it must be from God Himself!
If I hear voices telling me to spread disease into a population, drop a bomb on a building because your all powerful imaginary friend and instructions from him are different, or strap a bomb to my chest and detonate on a bus to murder...I mean kill...I mean...stop my enemies, and attribute my psychotic break to MY all powerful imaginary friend I am right in doing so am I not?
He told me to do all of these things for the greater good, and so I do them...
but wait, other people say my actions are wrong and attribute them to a powerful imaginary enemywho only exists for now because my good all powerful imaginary friend allows him to be in order to prove him wrong!
There is no God, there is no devil, neither exist, at least not according to descriptions of them by man.
We all make choices and often seek to find a scape goat because it is hard to live with wrong choices. Or have good events happen to us, which we are not smart or aware enough to understand (and are afraid to admit it).
Why not attribute it all to imaginary beings the same way that the Greeks had Gods for most forces of nature?
Maybe 100 years from now there will be major belief in a single dual personality God. A God who creates only so he can later destroy to improve, thus justifying all tragedy.People would stillmurder, rape, plunder, maim, vandalize to fullfil one train of objectives for that imaginary being: to help him create or destroy.
It has always been the same story and will continue to be for the foreseeable future.
The all powerful imaginary friend and enemy saga!