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Is this talk given by Samuel Herd
by Jay Elle in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i know this particular video has humor added in, but there is an audio with just the talk.

is it really samuel herd?.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fv6bn0rcjzc.
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Is the WTS effectively 'pimping out' sisters?
by Simon in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i can't remember the topic with the discussion about the talk where they suggested that sisters should only consider ministerial servants as potential marriage partners but think about the implications more.. are they trying to use the potential affections of sisters to enourage brothers to do more and work harder?.

isn't this a form of 'pimping out' the sisters by limiting their attention to the people contributing to them?.

it seems to cross a line to me but i guess it's not vastly different to "only marry another jw".. what do you think?.
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New pick-up lines for non Ministerial Servants
by Quarterback in
1. jw
2. friends
here they are straigt from the presses of bethel.

a new publication for those trying to date and get that young sister to pay attention to him.

here are the top 10:.
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WOW gotta check out this Charles Sinutko talk "Is It Proper to have doubts?"
by BU2B in
1. jw
2. friends
so manipulaitve.

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http://www.printcentralandsigns.com/jwtalks/covisits/sinutko%20charles%20-%20is%20it%20proper%20to%20have%20doubts.mp3.
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New awake up on jw.org about suicide
by hoser in
1. watchtower
2. bible
they have printed a series of articles about suicide.

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Rumor: April 3, 2015 start of Great Tribulation?
by Londo111 in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
on another forum, somebody mentioned that there is a growing belief with those high up in watchtower hierarchy that the great tribulation will begin april 3, 2015. evidently, one has to check the skycharts for that date and compare with 33 ceand also compare with the history of jws for past 40, 80, 120 years.

dont ask me to verify the rumor...these things come and go.

im sure lots of people in hq believe all sorts of things.. .
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contemptus saeculi
by C.O.B.E.Beef in
1. jw
2. friends
several months ago we had the visit of our c.o.

and his thursday night talked included rants covering several topics, with an especially long winded diatribe against "higher education".

he is pretty good speaker , and his choice of illustrations seemed to win an emotional response from the audience that ive never seen with regard to that subject.. he began the discussion with how concerned the governing body was with the decision some parents have made to send their kids to college.
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Why So Many Young People Are Leaving The Watchtower
by Jeremy C in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i have been giving a lot of thought to the young people who are leaving the watchtower organization in recent years.

last night, i was reading the thread posted by jwfacts a while back in which he provided some statistics and graphs showing the rapidly declining growth in the watchtower.

one factor that was discussed at length was the high number of young people who do not stay in the organization.
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suicide and wts funeral rules
by diamondiiz in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i just found out that a husband of an old friend committed a suicide and i was wondering if there are any letters to elders or any wts rules concerning funerals for those who committed suicide.

i've looked in the elders book and letters to boe index and didn't find anything.

some posts here say they can have the funeral at the kh and some here said they couldn't hold it there because suicide was involved.
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Dylan Boe - another dead miserable wretch
by Kent in
1. jw
2. friends
victim hung on to faith .

by mike o'brien.

dylan boe held on to his faith until the end.. the 19-year-old was the only one of four young friends who wasn't immediately killed in a two-vehicle crash near melville, saturday.. like preston presiloski, adam anderson and elisha stasiuk, boe was a jehovah's witness.