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    AuthenticJWinsider reacted to Witness in Truth by Tie Bros   
    Interesting.  
    "Immoral choices" include spiritual immorality, the transgressing of God's decrees.   God has set a standard for us to follow, but the WT has completely ignored them, on the most blatant level.
    "But a prophet who presumes to speak in my name anything I have not commanded, or a prophet who speaks in the name of other gods, is to be put to death.”
    21 You may say to yourselves, “How can we know when a message has not been spoken by the Lord?” 22 If what a prophet proclaims in the name of the Lord does not take place or come true, that is a message the Lord has not spoken. That prophet has spoken presumptuously, so do not be alarmed."  Deut 18:20-22
    I listened to some of the speeches by the GB members given during the Annual Convention last year.  G. Jackson had the most amazing, the most ignorant excuse to give, regarding Wt's failed dates.  It did get him some laughs as he attempted to make his audience "more comfortable" with the organization's spiritually immoral choices; their "behavior":
    This is his basic comment:
    This year is a special year that marks 100 years of the appointment of the faithful and discreet slave.  That slave, when we look back over the 100 years has remained awake spiritually speaking and alert.  There were times we they got excited about a certain year or time and the end didn’t come at that time.  Just imagine if you had a watch dog and that dog barks in the middle night, and you get up and there’s nothing there.  Do you shoot the dog?  It only proves that the dog is doing what you want it to do.  So in a similar way, in enthusiasm we have said things that may have disappointed others.  The faithful slave keeps us alert.  When that day comes, when Jesus brings destruction on this wicked system of things...where do you want to be?
     
    I certainly am glad I will not be siding with an organization whose leadership fails consistently to meet God's standards.  
    "Who is wise? Let them realize these things. Who is discerning? Let them understand. The ways of the Lord are right; the righteous walk in them, but the rebellious stumble in them."  Hos 14:9
     
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    AuthenticJWinsider reacted to JJJ-AUSTRALIA in Truth by Tie Bros   
    The problem with this illustration is that the thermostat is calibrated by watchtower and tells whatever temperature the watchtower wants to tell. The other problem we have seen during the last 10 years the watchtower will tell one temperature to the public another temperature to the JWs and changes the records of previous temperature.
    The question you will have to ask, do i keep getting my temperature reading from that thermostat or do i change it?
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    AuthenticJWinsider reacted to Patiently waiting for Truth in Truth by Tie Bros   
    Oh this is so funny, because the GB and JW org and Watchtower Soc have been adjusting the Bible interpretations to suit themselves since the very beginning of the Bible Students and CCJW. 
    Armageddon was supposed to happen so many different times it's laughable. The last one was 1975, but oh dear it didn't happen.
    Then there is the adjusting ideas on the Blood issues. 
    Then the adjusting ideas of This Generation. 
    Also the adjusting of 'not all the remnant of anointed are the F&DS', but now it's only those 8 men in America. 
    The only good thing in your little comedy show is where it says "We need to look in the bible", because God's word tells us not to put our trust in 'man'
     
    Psalm 146:3-5 King James Version (KJV)
    3 Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.
    So no point in putting your trust in a GB or JW Org that have proved themselves false to the TRUTH. 
    Quote The Bible should not be adjusted to make people feel more comfortable with their behavior.
    Tell that to your GB and Writing dept. 
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    AuthenticJWinsider reacted to Patiently waiting for Truth in More Russian Jehovah’s Witnesses get asylum in Norway   
    @James Thomas Rook Jr.  You have a great, and realistic, sense of humour. 
    However, the 1st century Christians were persecuted but i don't remember reading about them running off to foreign lands to hide. 
    The scripture at Acts 5 v 29 comes to mind. 
     In answer Peter and the other apostles said: “We must obey God as ruler rather than men.
    So, a question arises. Should these 'brothers and sisters' now run off and hide, or should they suffer the persecution ?  
    It's a bit like what John Butler said about the GB when relating it to people that were destroyed by God in bible times. It is so easy to read about God killing people, such as at 2 Kings 19 v 35
    New International Version
    That night the angel of the LORD went out and put to death a hundred and eighty-five thousand in the Assyrian camp. When the people got up the next morning--there were all the dead bodies!
    And we can read about how God killed the Egyptian Army, and about the Flood of Noah's day.
    BUT when it comes to NOW, it is a totally different matter. This is where TRUE FAITH comes alive. The faith in the resurrection. But true faith can only result from TRUTH, and unfortunately JW Org does not have TRUTH. 
    As for me I would not suffer persecution for the sake of JW Org. It seems that many in Russia feel the same way. 
     
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    AuthenticJWinsider reacted to James Thomas Rook Jr. in More Russian Jehovah’s Witnesses get asylum in Norway   
    Here I am, 1:30 in the morning, waiting for a long distance phone call from the planet Remulac on the "Big Phone", eating raw eggs and drinking six paxks of beer .. and  I had the strangest recollection.....
    Jesus, Mary and his Stepdad Joseph ran off to Egypt to hide for a couple of years, while Roman bad guys were killing babies in Israel.
    Remember the convention theme "Follow Jesus"?
    .... exit ... stage left!
    Don't let the camel bite ya in the butt!
    Denile is not just a river in Egypt!
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    AuthenticJWinsider reacted to Srecko Sostar in JW Russia:Three Jehovah’s Witnesses convicted in Russia amid crackdown   
    What benefit WTJWorg try to accomplish with giving criticism on one political system especially in moment when WT Corporation is under ban? Did JWorg not understand consequences and seriousness of this words, and how such statement will sound, when one US Corporation going to compare two political systems that was part of one Nation in USSR and Russia history? Are WTJWorg representative who gave this statement is a historian who giving picture of position of religion in USSR communist state and Russia now, on some Convention of historians?  Do WTJWorg try to say how history of political system in North America is better than this in Asia?
    How such standpoint can be in harmony with JW preaching how all and every political system is under devil control and it is not good? WTJWorg working under US State political system and Laws. Do WT have aspiration or wish and hope that this political system and laws to be implemented in Russia too? 
    What is a purpose when one of elders in JW congregation going outside of his primarily responsibility: to be shepherd of Jesus' flock, and not from a flock of  Russian president ?
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    AuthenticJWinsider reacted to Srecko Sostar in JW Russia:Three Jehovah’s Witnesses convicted in Russia amid crackdown   
    This is clearly... POLITICAL statement.
    JWorg Headquarter took political position with this public statement. This is not wise and this is not example, role model of how to be Neutral Christian group.
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    AuthenticJWinsider reacted to Isabella in JW Russia:Three Jehovah’s Witnesses convicted in Russia amid crackdown   
    A Russian court has convicted three followers of the Jehovah’s Witnesses of participating in a religion banned for extremism. They were given suspended sentences of up to 2 1/2 years.
    “Russian authorities today are following in the footsteps of their Soviet predecessors”, said a spokesman for the Jehovah’s Witnesses world headquarters in Warwick, New York.
    The country has convicted 24 members since 2017, when it banned the denomination. Russia is known for its laws intended to crack down on opposition activists and religious minorities.
    In November, Russia angered the West with by announcing a law that allows the Kremlin to label journalists and ordinary people as foreign agents if they collaborate with foreign media organisations and receive financial or other material support from them.
    Last week, one of Russia’s elite universities, announced it is considering banning its students and staff from performing political speech.
    https://www.neweurope.eu/article/three-jehovahs-witnesses-convicted-in-russia-amid-crackdown/
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