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  why dont more elders leave?

  by Crazyguy in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  you would think that what they are exposed to more would wake up and leave, why not?

  thoughts..

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  I was 36 when I started posting here. This weekend I celebrated my 50th birthday!

  by nicolaou in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  and i mean celebrated!

  it was a cracking barbecue party for around 40 good friends and neighbours as well as my 'never jw' cousins and one of my brothers and his family.. .

  drank a bit too much, embarrassed my kids with some 'dad dancing' and laughed until 2 in the morning.

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  Keeping it simple.

  by gingerbread in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  as the convention season is upon many of us, i recall my first assembly that we attended during the very beginning of our questioning if this religion that we were raised in was 'right'.

  by really listening to the talks and observing the behavior of the other attendees, we came away that weekend with real focus on uncovering the realities of being one of jehovah's witnesses.. i had, for many years, issues with some basic organizational practices and customs : turning in a time slip, counting hours, re-hashing material over and over, dress and grooming rules, congregational politics/favoritism/discrimination, the 'judicial committee', etc.. at the same time we were researching the history of the watchtower and it's core beliefs : what were the origins of the belief in a paradise earth, the faithful and discreet slave, and (most importantly) the watchtower's chronology/dating that leads to the 1914 conclusion.. to all who are in the beginning of this process, i recommend you keep it simple.

  take one topic or issue at a time and prove to yourself that the watchtower's stance is biblical.

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  A shaved Head

  by HowTheBibleWasCreated in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  my wife complained along time that i let my hair grow to long (i don't belive in this anyway) but to make peach i asked her to buzz my hair 4 months ago.... shorter... shorter... let me shave the rest.. it' been shaved since then and i like the yul brynner look.. i feel like pharoah...j.k. at the kh few have questioned... i mean im hardly breaking 1 corinthians lol.

  as for wordly styles this style is almost what a certian governing body member has.... and they know it... they hate sanderson!.

  now i have since experiance the sun on my head in summer...feels good... my wife liking it now.... .

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  shepherding call

  by DesirousOfChange in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  you don't say why you are inactive.. if you can control your tongue and not blurt out anything you have learned about ttatt, then perhaps no harm in agreeing to a visit if you feel the need to be polite and cooperative.

  no doubt, they will inquire as to why you are inactive.. don't you know it's the truth(tm)?.

  don't you know the end(tm) is close?.

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  The OT is not all blood and guts, there is some humor.

  by jam in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  1) god sneezes,ex.

  2)god drinks wine ..judges 9:13.

  3)a man named dodo... judges 10:1 .

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  Harry Pothead

  by Strangelove in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  my apologies, but there actually is no refference to marijuana in this post.

  i just needed an attention grabbing title to get at least one person to answer the question i am to...ask.

  i left the orginization only a few months ago.

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  How We Come Across On The Board

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  most people here have never met you.

  we converse, discuss, argue, laugh, agree, question, share our lives..... quite often, you kind of get to know what a person is like.

  some people, we tend to gravitate to and others, we shy away from.. how do you think you come across to other people?

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  Public Speaker Cries During His Talk

  by James Jackson in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  his talk was about reaching out for the real life.. he is in his mid seventies, then begins to rant on about staying loyal to the organization because many of us have lost loved ones in death and if we want to see them again we must remain in the organization.

  he says he wants to see his father again, then the tears begin to flow right there on the stage.... then an elderly sister during the watchtower study admits to regetting leaving her daughter behind to seek a better life in the u.s, and she is crying.... these 2 meetings was just plain weird..

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  If Jealousy is a sin, why is God a jealous God?

  by jam in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  i'm sure someone will explain the difference between a. sinful jealousy and a holy jealousy..

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