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How to Become a Jehovah's Witness
envoy ^ | July/August 1997 | Kenneth Guindon

Posted on 07/12/2009 7:18:47 AM PDT by GonzoII

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 Who is like unto God?........ Lk:10:18:
 And he said to them: I saw Satan like lightning falling from heaven.
1 posted on 07/12/2009 7:18:47 AM PDT by GonzoII
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To: GonzoII

Here try some slack.......

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2 posted on 07/12/2009 7:30:41 AM PDT by ninonitti
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To: GonzoII
Wikipedia: Jehovah's Witnesses believe their allegiance belongs to God's Kingdom, which is viewed as an actual government. Thus they refrain from saluting the flag of any country or singing nationalistic songs.[3] [4] They believe that these acts are tantamount to worship. The political neutrality of Jehovah's Witnesses is also expressed by their refusal to participate in military service – even when it is compulsory – and by their detachment from secular politics.

In other words, they refuse to fight evil forces at a national level.

3 posted on 07/12/2009 7:30:43 AM PDT by Loud Mime (Hatred has found its host organism in liberals)
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To: ninonitti
J.R. "Bob" Dobbs, Slacker that he is, has never knocked on my door with a copy of The Principia Discordia in hand.

Although back in the day he once tried to sell me a vacuum.

Fnord.

4 posted on 07/12/2009 7:40:26 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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To: GonzoII

This happened in my family in 1972. My mother was never the same again after she left my dad, and the three of us for the witnesses.

It was devastating and the reprcussions are still felt today. I was 16 at the time.

In 2003, my mother bled to death during a procedure and the doctors had to stand by and watch her die.


5 posted on 07/12/2009 7:41:11 AM PDT by waxer1 ( "The Bible is the rock on which our republic rests." -Andrew Jackson)
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I had a JW aunt who died from hemorrhoids.


6 posted on 07/12/2009 7:47:48 AM PDT by Moonman62 (The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
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To: GonzoII

I just tell em I’m Jewish when they come to the door.


7 posted on 07/12/2009 7:51:33 AM PDT by Dallas59 ("You know the one with the big ears? He might be yours, but he ain't my president.")
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To: Moonman62
Wow! There is a website somewhere that has posts and pictures of witnesses that have died unnecessarily from things like that.

I can't remember the name of it though. I know somewhere in the title it is called a memorial wall.

8 posted on 07/12/2009 7:56:05 AM PDT by waxer1 ( "The Bible is the rock on which our republic rests." -Andrew Jackson)
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To: waxer1

My sympathies on the whole post. No doubt, painful.


9 posted on 07/12/2009 7:56:17 AM PDT by GonzoII ("That they may be one...Father")
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My father turned away from us over 20 years ago, although it was for a different cult. I just can’t wrap my mind around it, even now. He has since remarried and has children around my children’s ages, it is the pain that never ceases. However God uses everything in our lives to draw us to Him. He used this experience to reveal Jesus to me.

I am sorry about your mother.


10 posted on 07/12/2009 8:05:06 AM PDT by ThisLittleLightofMine
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To: Mr. Mojo

I view JWs as pinks spammers


11 posted on 07/12/2009 8:06:09 AM PDT by ninonitti
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To: GonzoII

Another of the Great American Cults,
which also include Scientology and Mormonism.


12 posted on 07/12/2009 8:15:25 AM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion
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To: GonzoII

I once tried to quote some scripture to one of them, and then he produced his own “Bible”, and lo and behold, there are lots of little subtle changes to scripture made in theirs. Here’s an example. To support their belief that the soul does not immediately go to heaven, they changed a comma in the following passage from Christ on the cross:

“Verily I say unto you, today thou shalt be with me in paradise.”

The JW change it to read:

“Verily I say unto you today, thou shalt be with me in paradise.”

I’m courteous to them, but tell them to get lost in a very nice way. If they don’t leave, I set the dogs on them.


13 posted on 07/12/2009 8:17:52 AM PDT by Ikemeister
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

You forgot Pascalism, where people attach themselves to a religion because of perceived spiritual gain.

and

Egoism, where you claim other religions are cults and yours is not.


15 posted on 07/12/2009 8:24:40 AM PDT by Loud Mime (Hatred has found its host organism in liberals)
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To: GonzoII

“Candygram”


16 posted on 07/12/2009 8:26:18 AM PDT by rabidralph (http://www.sarahpac.com http://www.thealaskafundtrust.com/)
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To: GonzoII

Anyone who claims to have an exclusive right to heaven, can go to hell, as far as I’m concerned.


17 posted on 07/12/2009 9:09:24 AM PDT by baltodog (R.I.P. Balto: 2001(?) - 2005)
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To: Ikemeister

Since there is no comma in the Greek no one can “change” it to anything. Where the comma is placed is the opinion of the translators.


18 posted on 07/12/2009 9:26:48 AM PDT by count-your-change (You don't have be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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What ?
19 posted on 07/12/2009 3:12:12 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
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To: Loud Mime

“Egoism, where you claim other religions are cults and yours is not.

My faith is Christian, which is well documented
historically and theologically. Deviation from
orthodoxy that denies fundamental truths of
the Christian Church is heresy. Add in the mind
and social control and you get a cult.

For example: Scientology, JWs and Mormonism.

Which of the cults do you belong to?

best,
ampu


20 posted on 07/12/2009 5:32:22 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion
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