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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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  ann...oh you are so right that is exactly how it went down!

  i actually compared it to transplants and other such procedures....i reminded her that all medical procedures have a risk associated with them. i will focus on the vaccines and such next time...where in the bible does it break down fractions? she will be stumped.

  she is planning to continue this blood discussion next week. i may just ask about menstruation. us ladies aremt exactly pouring it out in the dirt....why would jehovah make us bleed so much? just want to hear her response to that...
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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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  galaxie.....thank you. i hope he wakes up. its not looking good and is quite frustrating. heis acting brain washed. his dub upbringing is clear. i will keep trying.
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  Voluntary Donations - Not Really Mentioned Anymore?

  by baldeagle in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  my active jw wife has gone to all meetings, assemblies, memorials, and service groups by herself after i faded off the radar about 5 years ago.

  i asked her this past saturday as she prepared to join another sister from the kh for the service group regarding, voluntary donations.

  i inquired if publishers still mention this to the householder when placing literature.

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  i jave seen donation requests demonstrated by sisters in the hall i attend several times in the past year....i also asked my husband if we were supposed to ask for donations and he said yes and was upset when i said i was not comfortable doing that...
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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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  oh blondie...how insane that all sounds. i did read they used to liken organ transplants to cannibalism and vaccines to the devil...to know my husband is so blind to this stuff amd has put everything into the religion now is just so hard to take. this stuff is nutz.
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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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  bluesbro...omg i know!!! i seriously almost fell out of my seat when she said that...she must have seen the wtf look on my face because she said she will bring me proof. i told her i would like that. so weshall see what she has next time for this proof
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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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  ding yes!!!! that is also what she kept saying: the light gets brighter!! other religions hide when they are wrong but jws admit it! i told jer they kinda had to with the whole end of world not coming several times. i alsoemtioned organ transplants and vaccines...she said the whole imperfect man line, so i asked her if they were wrong about organs amd vaccines, how do we know that as imperfect men they are npt wrong about other things like blood?
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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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  neon...i didnt think of it that way...the bible as a dictionary...so true! she was really struggling by not using the bible teach book. she is going to comtinually try to get me to go back to ot...
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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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  ann...ya it makes no sense and the fact that she couldnt support in bible alone and that the reasoning book even said eating did not help...she kept repeating herself.

  so, thanks to jwfacts, i went over the list of acceptable.blood fractions woth her. she agreed with them. i then asked her if she was aware that if someone took each allowed fraction it would equal whole blood? she said that you cant take it all at once? i asked for her referemce and where it was in the bible, it was during this part of the convo that she said the stuff about blood giving the recipient the addictions of the person the blood came from.

  just a bizarre response...and then followed with how i would come to understand jehovah hates blood by prayer and study....
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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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  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...