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  How Accurate Is JWN In Your Opinion?

  by minimus in

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  2. friends

  would you say this board gives accurate information, overall?

  if someone started reading the comments here, do you think they would find this discussion board as accurate?.

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  Jgnat, why does your husband have to fake it? Just wondering...
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  A few bad apples hey?

  by sparrowdown in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  a witness couple just called on me.

  they know i have'nt been to the hall for a few months but have no idea that i am "off reservation" in more ways than one.. they called by to tell me they that due to the "unloving spirit" in our.

  congregation they will be going to another hall from now on.. the husband has been having ongoing "issues" with the cobe for some time ( iow,he hates his guts).. they feel that if they move to another cong where the people are nicer everything will be ok. (yeah, right).

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  I have done this myself, but not to the extent of changing congs. Left a field service group which had rigid & overbearing elders for one which had a much more pleasant atmosphere
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  Could this happen to the Society and how?

  by Giordano in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  disgusted by waves of scandal, irelands catholics are boycotting mass and .

  turning their backs on the church.

  http://theweek.com/article/index/263824/everything-you-need-to-know-about-irelands-disaffected-catholics.

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  Great news! The Catholic Church deserves it... anyway, don't think this would happen to the Society, unless they come up with some new stupid prediction which fails...
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  "It's not religious..." Wait... What???

  by dynamiterose77 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  my friend, mike works as a massage therapist, and there is a woman at the shop that is super-jw-woman and is constantly hounding him with things.. today, he's messaging me and he tells me that she was trying to push a brochure or something on him.

  he said he'd really rather not read a religious pamphlet.. so... she says, "it's not religious... it's from god.".

  isn't that kinda what religious means?

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  Some pubs in my cong used to tell the householder: "We are not here to change your religion". Which was absolute bull**** as we were indeed there to change their religion! Anyway, it was brought to their attention and this phrase is no longer used
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  jw.org getting out of hand

  by Gorbatchov in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  it seems the watchtower staff have made a runaway train with the introduction of the mark jw.org.. the combination of using a gadget driven platform and the fact that the common jw is low educated and easely influenced.

  by new occurrings in their religion makes the situation getting out of hand.. proof: gb members wearing jw.org buttons during their speech, gifts with jw.org are given away, umbrellas with the jw.org are available.

  jw.org is more important then god, his son and the gospel.. it's the gadget and the jw.org mark that counts.. i am so happy my grandparents are not confronted with these idiots.. it's a runaway train heading to the end of the track.. gorby .

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  They have to rebrand as many people have a negative connotation towards the title "Jehovah's Witnesses" =P
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  "I'm better than you.."

  by startingover13 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i've reached out and contacted a few of my past friends.

  some are still cool as ice, while others have taken on a "i'm better than you" type of attitude.

  the first question is usually about becoming a servant, pioneering, or some other facet of service.

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  Acts 18: 3 - Paul had a job as a tentmaker

  Mark 6: 3 - Jesus took on his father's trade as a carpenter

  Leeching off your parents is NOT a Biblical option!
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  Catching up after putting life on hold while a JW.....

  by EndofMysteries in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  it's only been a couple of years since i fully woke up to ttatt.

  although it's....almost never too late to turn your life around, definitely the older you are, the harder it will be.

  i had put marriage, school, traveling, and 'worldly goals' aside because the end was 'just around the corner' and those things shouldn't be pursued.

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  Marriage shouldn't be pursued?? Wow.. you really were taking things to an extreme...

  "Let them marry" - 1 Cor 7: 36
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  What was your out of control, sobbing moment with this stupid religion?

  by ctrwtf in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i have often laughed at public outpourings of emotion.

  just google mike schmidt"s retirement speech in which he loses it and blithers on about his career.

  completely douche chilling.. but to be honest, i had a moment recently when i literally balled my eyes out.

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  Wild Thing,

  "The bible drama was about how when Moses went into the mountains, they built a god out of gold and Aaron disobeyed Moses, so the Earth opened up and swallowed Aaron"

  Okayyy... that's not how I remembered it.....
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  * Breaking news * - JW elder (Mark Sewell) found guilty of rape and sexual assaults

  by Stealth in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  i hope they lock this guy up for a very long time!.

  http://www.barryanddistrictnews.co.uk/news/latestnews/11306548.church_elder_found_guilty_of_rape_and_sexual_assaults/?ref=var_0.

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  It took ALMOST 30 YEARS for justice to be served???!!!
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  Did You Ever Stumble Anyone?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i don't think i ever did but i would have been honored to do so..

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  I am 99.99% sure that I have not stumbled anyone. It was the other way around!