Topics Started by Balaamsass2

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Memorial attendance
by Balaamsass2 in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
curious.

what was your local memorial attendance like tonight?
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Why worship a God that does not help!
by Witness 007 in
1. watchtower
2. bible
so god let 10 million people die in world war 2 but was too busy to help....what kind of diety does this!

if i was god i would have done something .
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Can someone remind me the reason's you could be disfellowshipped?
by SydBarrett in
1. jw
2. friends
the only reasons i can remember are smoking, sexual immorality and of course, apostasy.

there must be others but having been out since 1990, i'm drawing a blank.

i was thinking perhaps serious criminal offenses that result in prison, but then i remembered a brother in my congregation in the 1980's who went to prison.
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What is really Babylon the great?
by Halcon in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
for believers of god and christ, it seems that it should be obvious that babylon the great of revelation should be all religions and spiritual practices associated with the one true enemy of christ...the devil, satan, the snake etc.

essentially any group or individual practicing and promoting witchcraft, sorcery, devil worshipping etc.

all things practiced in ancient babylon (the nation presumably used as the model for the one in revelation).. or is this too simple of an explanation?.
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Our (JW) genetic mutation
by Jalisco in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
the spiritual dna of our faith was "protestant" for over 100 years, until 1985, after which it changed to a catholic sense.

for example, for decades we were presented with the example of the bereans who "were more noble-minded than those of thessalonica" because they went to see in the scriptures if what paul preached to them was really like that.

and then a second to the bereans?
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Narcissist challenges culture ingrained with the concept of “saving face” to perform humiliating retreat
by slimboyfat in
1. social
2. current
oh yeah, this is going to end well.

hold on to your seats, folks, we’re on the front row of history for, as the chinese might say, “interesting times”.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8rgkkl7v8lo.
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Special Talk just prior to the Memorial
by Acluetofindtheuser in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
is the sunday special talk prior to the memorial just an introduction of a new outline for the sunday public talks?.

is it an attempt to get the faders back to the meetings?

they present in a way like some new light is going to be presented at the special talk..
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Inviting People to Meetings
by HereIam60 in
1. jw
2. experiences
the current memorial invitation campaign got me thinking about the few times over the years that someone i invited to a meeting actually came: .

1) once when i was "new", i invited a friend to a sunday meeting.

neither of us drove, so the brother conducting my study picked us up.
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What "message" does the J.W Org. have to offer that will attract new members ?
by Phizzy in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
the message they have been pushing for 150 years or so is "the end is near !"..

in the educated, civilised world, people think " yea ?

maybe because of economic meltdown exacerbated by climate change, but not from some intervention by a non-existent god".. "would you like a free bible study ?
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WT JUNE 2025 MODESTLY accept what YOU do not know
by blondie in
1. jw
2. friends
pp.

14-19 just some quote and a few comments from me, very, very repetitious.

the gb seems to think that the rank and file came up the years 1914, 1925, 1975, generation (70-80 years from 1914=1994), overlapping generations.