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  Seeing convention post on Instagram

  by Addison0998 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i find it funny that our watchtower today was about encouragement, which was absolutly mind numbing during the meeting the way they conduct the watchtower in my hall and beat a dead horse trying to milk points out, (everyone was half asleep and the conductor had to repeat questions to the audience multiple times lol).

  but anyways, i’m seeing some post witnesses are making about the convention saying things like, i really need to get my act together and we need to make adjustments.

  wow!

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  Ah man...that sounds so painful.

  Good luck buddy! Keep your dignity and calmness...
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  The "Whole World" was flooded??

  by stuckinarut2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  so, jehovah's witnesses and many other biblical literalists think that the "whole world" was flooded during noahs day.. they take the "accounts" in genesis literally.

  so that means that areas as far away as australia, russia, argentina, greenland, antarctica were all visited by noah and his family to gather animals and preach before it happened right??

  they then took everything back to the middle east to board the ark...uh huh.... yet, the same expression in the bible for the "whole world" is also used in the account about the "worldwide famine" in josephs day!

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  So, Jehovah's Witnesses and many other biblical literalists think that the "Whole World" was flooded during Noahs day.

  They take the "accounts" in Genesis literally. So that means that areas as far away as Australia, Russia, Argentina, Greenland, Antarctica were all visited by Noah and his family to gather animals and preach before it happened right?? They then took everything back to the middle east to board the ark...Uh huh...

  Yet, the same expression in the bible for the "whole world" is also used in the account about the "worldwide famine" in Josephs day! Apparently people came from "the WHOLE world to get grain during the 7 year famine! So Does that mean that the Australian Aboriginals, the American Indians, the Arctic Eskimos and African desert dwellers all travelled to ask the Egyptians for food??

  So does that give a different perspective on the Genesis expression of "The Whole World"?

  What about the expression in the Gospels too then that say "The good news was preached in the "Entire Earth"?

  Any thoughts?
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  Special Seating at the Convention

  by mann377 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  has anyone noticed at the convention that there is special reserved seating?

  the convention that i attended (to keep peace in the family) had seating in the suites of the arena.

  all arenas, stadiums etc.

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  YUP!

  Great thread.

  Those "special areas" certainly exist. I often got to sit there if I was assigned some sort of duty like attendants, or accounts etc...also when I was in Bethel. (most bethelites got to sit in the special Bethel Lounge)

  It is real "status" thing. Those that sit there, then get to invite their selected family or friends to sit there.

  There is NO DOUBT that this prestige spot goes to the heads of many JWs who sit there....
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  baptism photo

  by stan livedeath in

  1. social
  2. humour

  i found this photo on a facebook group--just had to grab and share.......look at the name sign in the background!.

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  Great thread!

  hahaha
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  Are we losing our way a bit at JWN?

  by nicolaou in

  1. forum
  2. suggestions

  firstly, i want to be crystal clear how grateful i am for jwn.

  it's been my place of support for over seventeen years and it's the first online space i direct anyone to if they are taking steps out of the cult.

  i am not bashing jwn - i love this place and appreciate the hard work and expense simon puts in to keep it going.

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  I appreciate the opening post.

  It does indeed seem that there is a distinct change in the type of topics posted.

  So, maybe we can do something about it. I used to post a lot of thoughts and topics as they came to mind. But I have backed off over the last few months, as I grew as a person I suppose.

  Why dont we all start to post some more biblical, or JW based doctrinal observations again? If a thought comes to mind, please share it. You never know if it sparks anothers person's interest and ideas.

  I guess it is up to us to change the atmosphere here if we want to.

  Perhaps revive older threads we liked in order to get the ball rolling?
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  I'm a best man to a fader and his family who are JWs are attending

  by usualusername1 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i'm a best man to a fader like myself and just now i have found out that 1/3 of guests are jws.

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  would love some ideas on things to say in the speech to not cause offense to them.. thx in advance.. paul.

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  Good comments Wake Me! Yes, you are spot on.

  I apologise for my earlier post on this thread.
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  Things to do when im at the new 2018 convention

  by Akid48 in

  1. forum
  2. suggestions

  well, its that time where i have to go to the boring convention.

  so, i wanted to know if anyone had any good ideas on how too pass the time (i cant just try and listen i fall will asleep and i cant let that happen).. (only got a few weeks before i have to go its going too kill me but i got too do it).

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  Cos and sin! Hahahahahahah. . Nice one Wake Me!! I'm quite divided by your maths puns to be honest- but I guess they are a fraction of what you could have added here on the thread....
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  Ectopic pregnancy

  by Whynot in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  ectopic pregnancies, when detected, are usually treated by surgically removing them.

  i always understood that this procedure was ok for jehovah's witnesses.

  but the subject came up during pioneer school.

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  stuckinarut2

  Just to re-iterate: That Circuit Overseer is a stupid idiot!
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  Whack-a-postate

  by Fay Dehr in

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  it seems that i played this game and suffered a hit.....

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  If the Society / GB dedicated as much effort to the child abuse issue as they did to tracking down those who expose their videos, the Australian Royal Commission would never have been needed!

  Glad to see they have their priorities right!

  Sick cultists...
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  Things to do when im at the new 2018 convention

  by Akid48 in

  1. forum
  2. suggestions

  well, its that time where i have to go to the boring convention.

  so, i wanted to know if anyone had any good ideas on how too pass the time (i cant just try and listen i fall will asleep and i cant let that happen).. (only got a few weeks before i have to go its going too kill me but i got too do it).

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  Play a game of "spot the other Awake JW"....