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What does the Bible REALLY teach?
by Separation of Powers in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
really: "in actual fact, as opposed to what is said or imagined to be true or possible".

that is the definition..... now, if this book, as others posters have mentioned, is going to be updated to reflect "new doctrinal changes" then the book should be rejected on its lack of merit.

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Saturday morning field service is a joke
by hoser in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i havent been going door to door saturday mornings for since i can't remember when.

i have been putting in regular reports to the congregation but the last time i actually went on a door was probably six months ago or so and it has been at least 2 years since i did a saturday morning.

9:30 we showed up to the group arrangement, we waited outside because we were not sure that it was the right place.
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Sipping our drinks at the track..part 2.". I didnt tell them anything," she said
by MissFit in
1. jw
2. experiences
...as we were enjoying our weekly sunday "no meetings margaritas.. my friend and i have been meeting for lunch and margaritas ( okay mostly margaritas, we throw lunch in so we dont feel like alcoholics lol ??).

instead of going to meetings.. ( we discovered we could have lunch*margaritas* without the meeting first.).

my jw lady friend still goes out "in service" and stays in touch with her "service buddies" who also know me.. so she was telling me that they asked about me and mentioned that they would like to stop by to see me.
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Why Do Religions Lack A Sense Of Irony?
by metatron in
1. jw
2. friends
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/iranians-behind-tehran-version-of-happy-sentenced-to-six-months-in-prison-and-91-lashes-9741014.html.

good grief.

the more fanatical the religion, the more it seems to lack a sense of self reflective irony.. .
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What Happened to the Religion I Left in 1995?
by JoshJeffries in
1. jw
2. friends
josh here, new to the board.

glad to know this site is here.. i would not be writing this if it were not 2014. i was a ministerial servant and regular pioneer who left the jehovahs witnesses back in 1995/96, around that time.

i left suddenly, didnt fade away, just left when something clicked one day in my head during the morning shower and made me realize this religion wasnt true.
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"I don't care if it's teachings are false, I'd never leave because it's the best way of life"
by 4thgen in
1. jw
2. friends
have you ever heard that statement?

i have heard it many times and i just don't know what to do with it.

they are chosing a to live a lie because they like the lifestyle.
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Fudging the Numbers: Is the WTBTS in decline?
by Coded Logic in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
it's no secret that the wtbts has a cash flow problem.

over the past three years they have closed 20 of their 116 branches.

they have sold off most of their properties in and around ny (including some kingdom halls), drastically reduced the # of printed pages for the watchtower and awake magazines, reduced the printing of books and other materials, increased the number of single page tract campagnes, installed cc machines at their assembly halls, and are now seizing of controll of property assets from local kingdom halls using renovation projects.
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JW.ORG signs to be put on all Kingdom Halls! New directive.
by stuckinarut2 in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
so i have been told that all kingdom halls are to have a large jw.org sign placed prominently out the front..... can anyone confirm this?.
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Who left or got stumbled over the 1995 generation thing?
by Julia Orwell in
1. jw
2. experiences
or the 2000's generation thing?.

how did you feel?

how did it help you wake up?