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  My First "Publication Free" Study...

  by HeyThere in

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  was not so publication free.

  do witnesses not know how to talk about the bible without a wt pub to guide them?.

  fist, she tried to get me to start once again in the bible teach book as if i had never said i didnt want to study from the pubs, so i reminded her.

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  sarahsmile: i have been studying with her about 6 months now. my husband is a born in dub...he was inactive when we married. just got back into it this past year, so i started stidying, became an unbaptized publisher, and then woke up. prior to waking up i thought it was christian woth a few unusual doctrines...i didnt know how cultish they were. now i do and i am trying to wake up my husband...and in the process see what i can umcover in these studoes.

  my husband so far is not only rejecting all i have saod but is digging deeper into the wt. it is sad. so i am trying to learn the method to dealing with them i guess. i dont know.

  oh, she did tell me i was letting unfounded negatibe apostate info squeeze out my relationship with jehovah...so i went and collected all of the old wt pubs going back to the.20's that i purchased.and assured her that my research is quite balanced. she was stumped. i told her i would just like her to help me see wher in the bible all the doctrines and changes i question are...but i did warn her i was not going to be an easy study.
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  Local JW Booth - Are You STRESSED?

  by talesin in

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  so, yesterday i approached the local jw booth that is a few blocks from my house.

  they are set up on the sidewalk, at the edge of a downtown park.

  the display was merely rows of a magazine, with the headline *are you stressed?*.

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  well done. perhaps that simple approach will make her think...
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  My First "Publication Free" Study...

  by HeyThere in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  was not so publication free.

  do witnesses not know how to talk about the bible without a wt pub to guide them?.

  fist, she tried to get me to start once again in the bible teach book as if i had never said i didnt want to study from the pubs, so i reminded her.

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  and by following most of her statements with " i just know this is the truth" and "as your relationship for jehov grows so will your umderstanding...dont let this keep you from Gof!"

  i reminded her that i feel ok with my relationship with god. i simply trying to understand the biblical basis for the wt teachings and i am finding that i understamd things a bit differently. i reminded her my qiestions are about more than blood...1914, all other failed doomsday prophesies that began in the 1700s, shunning, discourage free thinking, holidays l, the fds,.selective bible use, etc. she said we will focus on blood and asked me to read from reasoning again. she was frazzled, asked if i still wanted to stidy and kept pushing to use bible teach. hmmm. no. so it will be interesting to see if she again tries to dove right in to bible teach again or reasoning...or the actual bible....hmmmm
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  My First "Publication Free" Study...

  by HeyThere in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  was not so publication free.

  do witnesses not know how to talk about the bible without a wt pub to guide them?.

  fist, she tried to get me to start once again in the bible teach book as if i had never said i didnt want to study from the pubs, so i reminded her.

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  Was not so publication free. do witnesses not know how to talk about the bible without a wt pub to guide them?

  Fist, she tried to get me to start once again in the bible teach book as if i had never said i didnt want to study from the pubs, so i reminded her. she grabbed her reasoning book then and saod we would use that "for the verses" but immediately asked me to start reading from it.

  The topic of the day was blood. i actually became glad she pulled the reasoning book in as it helped me support my points...who would have known!!!

  she kept saying the bible tells us to abstain from blood in all forms. i explained that my understanding is that it was specifically referencing eating blood...and even says so in the reasoning book. i then broke down blood fractions and said based on that theory if the blood was broken downn i could take all fractions at once wothout violating thwir understanding, they said i could not do that, i asked for a reference in the bible....nothing. then the sister told me that the blood is the person, amd by getting their blood we get their addictions. in the end she said she would have to do further research and get back to me. there is allot more but i am on my phone and hate long posts from it.
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  Hilarious email exchange...

  by snare&racket in

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  http://www.27bslash6.com/easter.html.

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  made me laugh out loud..... .

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  love.it...so funny!
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  CONGREGATION FLEECING RESULTS?

  by The Searcher in

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  how much did your congregation and its bank account get taken for?

  share your horror story!.

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  so did anyone else notice the article in the wt about keeping your obligations? yep, i am sure that was strategically timed.
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  Prescott Arizona

  by ducatijoe in

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  i was an elder in prescott for many years... anyone now out from there?

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  welcome to.the boards. lots of.imteresting info here
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  Survey---who is inactive, disfellowshipped/disassociated or active?

  by minimus in

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  i am inactive for about 10 years now..

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  I am an unbaptized publisher...will not be getting baptized. i guess I could call myself an unbelieving spouse. i only do fs with my husbamd occationally amd sometimes the sister i study with. i am trying to give my husband ttatt...
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  Why didn't Jehovah destroy the polygamists just as he did the Sodomites?

  by I_love_Jeff in

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  according to jehovah's witnesses, both gays and polygamists are fornicators, why spear one and not the other?.

  "in old age jacob admitted that his lifeincluding his domestic affairshad been distressing.

  (genesis 47:9) doubtless, life had been distressing for leah and rachel as well.

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  lol, jeff, lol

  reading the bible as a child freaked me out....

  as an adult? hard to take seriously. already into ex. amd how many people has jah killed or, as written in the nnwt, "exterminate" them...it is jist bizzarre. and the dub take on some of this stuff....i...see..crazy.....people....
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  The List, by "Prominent Bethelite"

  by morloc in

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  i occasionally pop through here to catch up on the latest, but this time i'm going to pop my own post on here.. some of you internet oldsters may even remember this.

  my first experience on the internet regarding discussions about jehovah's witnesses and the watchtower took place on a now-obscure usenet group, before i eventually stumbled across hourglass2.. during those days, there was a poster who went by the name "prominent bethelite," an otherwise anonymous individual whom i remember most for an extensive, exhaustive compilation of date-oriented remarks, predictions, and expectations by the watchtower organization down through the decades of its history.. it became known as "the list" and it's definitely lengthy... but a fascination look at the abundance of errant statements made through the watchtower's history.. if you're curious, it's been available for a long time on hourglass2's site, and can be seen using the link provided below.. the list, compiled by prominent bethelite (1999).

  that's about it for this stop through here.

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