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  Active JWs celebrating birthdays

  by neat blue dog in

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  i remember hearing parents say they're going out to eat for their child's birthday some years ago, and recently i see a lot of active jws wishing each other as well as worldly people on facebook a happy birthday, including emoticons related to partying.

  is this a judicial offence, or have you seen anything similar?.

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  neat blue dog

  When I said "a lot", I wasn't exaggerating, but neither did I mean that JWs were doing it "end masse". What I saw was a number of such happy birthday wishes between active JWs from a couple different areas of the US, and one JW even reached out to a worldly relative wishing them the same.

  As far as it being judicial, I looked it up in the elder's book and apparently it isn't. Under the list of judicial offences, this is all it has to say about holidays:

  "Not all holidays directly involve
  false religion and require judicial action."

  So I guess birthdays are just like Thanksgiving, April Fools Day and some others in that they're discouraged but you can't get disfellowshipped specifically for it. That being said, everyone would be horrified, you wouldn't get any privileges and it might even turn judicial if you flaunt it, thereby falling under the 'brazen conduct' umbrella.
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  Active JWs celebrating birthdays

  by neat blue dog in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i remember hearing parents say they're going out to eat for their child's birthday some years ago, and recently i see a lot of active jws wishing each other as well as worldly people on facebook a happy birthday, including emoticons related to partying.

  is this a judicial offence, or have you seen anything similar?.

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  neat blue dog

  I remember hearing parents say they're going out to eat for their child's birthday some years ago, and recently I see a lot of active JWs wishing each other as well as worldly people on Facebook a happy birthday, including emoticons related to partying. Is this a judicial offence, or have you seen anything similar?
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  Jeehoober says we can clap for reinstated ones!!

  by DATA-DOG in

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  so, i guess an upcoming wt has some new light on clapping!

  evidently, jesus has misinformed the gb/wtbts since the late 90's.

  clapping was disrespectful, because jesus felt that those who were df'd should not be given a pat on the back.

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  neat blue dog

  It was in a questions from readers article.
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  Jeehoober says we can clap for reinstated ones!!

  by DATA-DOG in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so, i guess an upcoming wt has some new light on clapping!

  evidently, jesus has misinformed the gb/wtbts since the late 90's.

  clapping was disrespectful, because jesus felt that those who were df'd should not be given a pat on the back.

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  neat blue dog

  'Are we not thankful for not having an endless list of rules like the Pharisees did?'
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  JW's opinions on bunker video

  by neat blue dog in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the so called bunker video isn't just getting attention here but among jws as well.

  i've heard a fair share of cracks, some half joking half serious about the prospect of the video playing out in real life .

  but something else i've heard is that the video was meant to be figurative, an illustration representing the 'interior rooms' prophecy..

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  neat blue dog

  they are doing a house to house sheerch for those pesky JW and bring them to the police station where they can put them in concentration camps and kill them and torcher some into renouncing Jehovah by pulling out their finger nails unsedatedly or like Malawi Africa tie bricks to their balls and make them walk around the refugee camp and getting a naked JW women and naked brother tying them together to see if they will keep their integrety to Jehovah's requirement for life in his new system.

  
  
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  2016-07-17 Ghana Branch Visit w/David Splane

  by neat blue dog in

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmjya6utcew.

  thanks wifibandit for uploading.

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  neat blue dog

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMjyA6UtcEw

  Thanks wifibandit for uploading
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  Watchtower Nov 2016 - Instructions for Apostates

  by Listener in

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  2. bible

  the november 2016 watchtower is now available and it has more new light but i can't quite figure out what they are saying.

  it relates to when the jws were released from the captivity of babylon the great (false religion).

  i am not attempting to discuss that in this post.

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  neat blue dog

  WOW . . .

  File this under 'are they self aware at all?!', along with the article that says no one should have to choose between family and a religion.
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  Song 151

  by ab.ortega in

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  any idea what could have happened to song 151?

  what logical reason could they have had to skip a number.

  is the number 151 now an evil number accordig to new light?

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  neat blue dog

  I'm gonna go out on a reasonable limb and speculate that it is 'special' and is being saved for the annual meeting. Perhaps it deals directly with new light that will be explained there. Who knows.
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  Apostate Changes?

  by Blind_Of_Lies in

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  long time no chat.

  was there some sort of change recently in the guidelines cult hq lays out on how to handle inactive apostates?

  my parents tried to start a study with me the week after they came back too.

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  neat blue dog

  Maybe they are trying to stealthily get access to your apostate insider information

  That won't do any good without one of our official Apostate® decoder rings.
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  A Question

  by FedUpJW in

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  i would appreciate knowing from someone in the know if the goofy carts and rain covers are given to the congregation by the org.

  or if the congregation has to pay the org for them.

  i am sure i read that somewhere here in my lurking days, but am not finding it at present.. if the congregation is billed for it i intend to use that as a reason for my continued refusal to donate anything from now on.. thanks in advance..

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  neat blue dog

  Thanks darkspilver I missed that. However it says:

  'The congregation MAY be informed that the cost of these carts will be covered by their contributions to the worldwide work. '

  Does that mean they may also be given a required amount if their donations aren't high enough?