Topics Started by A Paduan

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The Watchtowers exsistance "proves" the Bible is true
by drew sagan in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
people validate their own reilgious experiences in a variety of differant ways.

for example, many in the power of prayer and see all of their life events as tied directly to the will of god.

others believe that they have been witnessed or experienced miracles of healing and revelation.. jehovah's witnesses are unique in that they typically ignore traditional means of verification, seeing them as superstitious, overly emotional, and self absorbed.
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Why is it so - is it a social virus - or a stop-gap for a certain need ?
by A Paduan in
1. watchtower
2. bible
the org advertises, recruits, controls and damages it's own hosts in a mission of self-replication - utilising bent speech and lies to exist in the lives of others - having no life of it's own, but rather, a design to use others, without a self-awareness - what is that?.
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Why make fools of them?
by hamsterbait in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i want to know why god spent the first seventy years of the wtbts directing it by his spirit, to print reams of trash that was constantly having to be updated and changed, why they insulted everybody elses beliefs and mocked proven science such as vaccinations and promoted quackery.. why did the spirit direct producing a translation of the bible with wilful additions to support obvious doctrinal bias, and such travesties as "do you now please step up into my chariot" instead of "please climb aboard my chariot now" than pass this off as modern english.

(other exx of ridiculous verbal contortions welcome).

all these things inevitably destroyed any credibility they might have gained by presenting a more reasonable face.. and now the public is to die because they don't want the litterature of a cult that has made a fool of itself and its god for over a hundred and thirty years!!.
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Why do JW's act as if other's personal beliefs are not to be respected?
by wha happened? in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i would have hit them
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The mind balks at accepting it's measure
by A Paduan in
1. jw
2. friends
an interesting saying i heard the other day .

that the mind balks at accepting knowledge of great and irrevocable loss, though it be true.

it had me ponder how / why people make themselves stay as jws, and why "apostates" are such "bad association".
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The New Order
by WTWizard in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
there is so much talk among the witlesses about the "new" order.

they can't wait until it comes up, and they talk about how much they need it.

they think it is going to come about via god's eliminating wickedness, and that they will be happy there.. however, that is all a blatant lie.
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The Narrow Road
by zack in
1. watchtower
2. bible
the wts claims that the narrow road christ spoke of was the "one true" religion that many would forsake in exchange for all the "false" religions which are.

are "permissive" and teach "god dishonring lies.".

i always accepted this as a dub.. do any of you think it is possible that the "narrow" road is in fact the abandoning of all man made religious systems and the taking on for one self.
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Looking for a scripture...
by Tuesday in
1. watchtower
2. bible
any help would be fantastic.

the scripture is one that is lik luke 21:8 saying beware of those saying the end is near.

however i'm fairly sure it's in one of the books of timothy.
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Jw teaching on poison ?
by A Paduan in
1. watchtower
2. bible
continuing on from the "not what christians do " thread.... does anyone know the jw teaching on drinking 'a drop of poison' from some other religion ?.

yet it is said....... if they drink any deadly thing, it will not hurt them.
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Oh crap,....reading What does the Bible Really Teach? can't stomach it
by *jeremiah* in
1. watchtower
2. bible
so my mom gave my sister in law the "what does the bible really teach?

" filth and i'm trying to read it.

my sil (never a jw) wants me to help her in some kind of reply to my mom.