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  How do the foreign language Congregations find people to call on?

  by UnshackleTheChains in

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  ok. i had a fascinating conversation with one of my polish colleagues at work.

  she knows i'm a jdub and an activist as have filled her in warts and all about watchtower.. she came up to me today explaining how a couple of polish witnesses came to her door.

  she was curious as to how they knew to call on her door knowing she was polish.

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  Foreign language is followed up the same way as deaf people.

  I wonder if they have new slip now for gay people.
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  2017 Kingdom Hall in Chile with Flag with Meeting

  by ILoveTTATT2 in

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  finally, after 5 years, we have received footage that shows, unmistakably, that there was a flag in the kingdom hall, while a meeting was happening.here is the video:https://youtu.be/uel3otw6gemi will post this year's pictures below.

  this year we had pictures and video of three different kingdom halls with the flag!.

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  Steve2 - yeah, good point, if they use their flag to cover a window they can call it a drape and Jehovah isn't anti-drapes.
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  Help ... maybe

  by vienne in

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  dr. schulz and i are pushing to finished volume two of separate identity by mid-2018.

  to make this book the best it can be we need material that we haven't been able to find.

  1. a tract on spiritism by n. barbour published about 1881 or so.

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  Fair enough vienne, I get that you need to plug your stuff somewhere.
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  How do the foreign language Congregations find people to call on?

  by UnshackleTheChains in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  ok. i had a fascinating conversation with one of my polish colleagues at work.

  she knows i'm a jdub and an activist as have filled her in warts and all about watchtower.. she came up to me today explaining how a couple of polish witnesses came to her door.

  she was curious as to how they knew to call on her door knowing she was polish.

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  Yes what wasanelder said. They fill out a little slip with the address and nationality and it gets passed on to the relavant congregation service overseer who gives the info to some witness to call on that person. All very creepy and stalkerish.
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  What is Nature's most perfect food?

  by compound complex in

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  greetings, gourmands of the forum!.

  i agree with garfield, but mayo comes in a close second.

  slathering my pasta with an inch of best foods real mayonnaise (hellman's, east of the rockies) is close to heaven for me.

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  I loves me taters too. Must be some irish genes in there somewhere
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  Help ... maybe

  by vienne in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  dr. schulz and i are pushing to finished volume two of separate identity by mid-2018.

  to make this book the best it can be we need material that we haven't been able to find.

  1. a tract on spiritism by n. barbour published about 1881 or so.

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  My, such epic heroic music for such a sad little group.

  Just for my information, is your colleage a baptized believing indoctrinated JW by any chance?

  You do realize many here have been hurt and traumatized by this horrible cult with lives stolen, families torn apart, time lost with loved ones forever all because of this horrible cult?
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  Why the verb shun is missing from the JW lexicon

  by cognisonance in

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  so my parents when i confronted them about how unhappy i am at them shunning me, responded by saying: "you keep using the word shunning, we're not shunning you.

  "i am a bit confused how they can say that.

  i'm an ex-jw and an atheist.

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  JWs are wordaphobes truthaphobes and realityaphobes.
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  What is Nature's most perfect food?

  by compound complex in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  greetings, gourmands of the forum!.

  i agree with garfield, but mayo comes in a close second.

  slathering my pasta with an inch of best foods real mayonnaise (hellman's, east of the rockies) is close to heaven for me.

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  I'm not sure if "nature" made mayo but I suppose she made the ingredients for it lol.

  Arugula - I could eat it all day just like a bunny rabbit. With maybe a drizzle of olive oil, salt and pepper and crusty bread for dipping.
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  John 1:3

  by Hi y-all in

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  john 1:3 states in the nwt, "all things came into existence through him, and apart from him (the word, or jesus) not even one thing came into existence.".

  the wt states apart from him one thing came into existence, that is, jesus the first created being.. is there an explanation for this apparent contradiction?.

  thanks!.

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  I always thought the second part was just a reiteration of the first part only conversely.

  Whatever it means if a verse sounds like it could read two ways and one of those ways reads even a wee bit trinity-ish the WT ignores the alternatve interpretation.
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  some thing i said..?

  by zeb in

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  has anyone had this experience.

  that once some contact is made with others here they never write again?

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  I freak out about getting to close with anyone on the internet or giving away too much personal info.

  It's not just an ex-jw thing either I just don't trust the internet.