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  New Publication (2014) "God Kingdom Rules" -- When Is It Studied At The Kingdom Hall?

  by Littleleslie in

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  i just wanted to know, when do the jws begin to study the 2014 publication called: "god's kingdom rule" at the local kingdom halls?

  (i heard it was going to be sometime in the month of september of 2016, this month.).

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  Bradford,

  ..."studying" that book woke me up.
  

  What about it woke you up?
  
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  No blood Cards are back??????

  by dugout in

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  at the meeting last night, at the annoucments at end of meeting they said make sure u take your ped card.

  i said to myself what is a ped card?

  blood cards are back.

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  I wonder if one of those can fetch a price on Ebay. You know, like one of their old books?
  
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  Suicide the blood will reach heaven

  by Chook in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  when i joined jws my mother said " you know they don't take blood and their suicide rate is much higher than general public.

  in last three years i have known three young brothers all dead at their own hands, a gun ,a rope , plastic bag over head.

  i knew these guys personally, it's one sad story after another.

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  Chook
  

  I knew another guy that turned the tables because he was indignant at the religious leaders .

  Funny, I never even thought of that when I did it. I was actually told that by one of the anointed (!) who was the only one who would speak to me. And he wasn't even mad at me for doing that to his emblems.
  
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  Suicide the blood will reach heaven

  by Chook in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  when i joined jws my mother said " you know they don't take blood and their suicide rate is much higher than general public.

  in last three years i have known three young brothers all dead at their own hands, a gun ,a rope , plastic bag over head.

  i knew these guys personally, it's one sad story after another.

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  In the 1980s, shortly after my dfing for apostasy, I joined a phone tree (before the internet) and made contact with over a dozen ex-JWs. We commiserated with each other trying to soothe the pain of our experiences. There was this ex-elder from Maine who I talked often with.

  Once, when I called him he said that he wasn't in the mood to talk because he had just gotten home after cleaning up the blood in the house of an adolescent JW who had attempted to commit suicide - by slashing her wrists. I never learned the details or even her name but something broke inside of me and I was determined to do something no matter how symbolic.

  When I went to the Memorial after that I waited until it was over and did my deed. I approached the table where the emblems were and I tipped the table over with plates and glasses going crrrash. I should have said something about why I was doing it but I usually clam up when I hate something or someone. It's unfortunate that I didn't because they thought I was just a crazy apostate unhappy with his spiritual paradise.
  
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  Can you prove that our entire universe and existence is not a computer simulation?

  by EndofMysteries in

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  2. current

  if you were a computer programmer and you were to create a simulated automated world, that would constantly evolve and self run after initial designs.

  first you would have to code the rules, laws, and core elements of this world.

  while this is being coded, the program is not run yet, so none of it exists.

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  Can you prove that our entire universe and existence is not a computer simulation?

  by EndofMysteries in

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  if you were a computer programmer and you were to create a simulated automated world, that would constantly evolve and self run after initial designs.

  first you would have to code the rules, laws, and core elements of this world.

  while this is being coded, the program is not run yet, so none of it exists.

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  Did the flood happen?

  by BlackWolf in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so we were talking about noah for our family worship tonight and it ended with a little debate between me and my parents about how the flood was possible.

  you know, where did the water come from, how did all the animals fit, etc.

  of course it led nowhere and my parents came up with some strange theories like that there was "an expanse of water in the sky" and that's where all the water came from.

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  This book has over 500 pages of fine print in oversized pages on any subject of evolution including rebuttals to the "flood". Well worth the price.
  

  Science and Earth History: The Evolution/Creation Controversy

  
  
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  What Songs Best Fit you when you learned TATT and Afterwards?

  by Wasanelder Once in

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  the work of john lennon best fit my situation.

  first, i found out.

  i found out.

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  The song that goes:

  But as for me

  Determined I shall be

  To walk eternally

  In my integrity

  It's a beautiful song. Too bad that an evil religion is associated with it.
  

  https://youtu.be/Xzi5hWh8On0
  
  
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  My Day Is Over

  by compound complex in

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  my day's long and arduous journey winds down.infinite night gracefully descends and takes me into herwelcomed embrace.. i have no reason to fear the inevitable,that transition into a higher andmore glorious state.

  than allowed me upon thisbeautiful but angst-filledhabitation.. i rejoice in what has beenprepared from early on.i await the call .

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  A sucker is born every minute

  by Sour Grapes in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i was an elder in the 1970's and i was not a big fan of the "stay alive until 75" dogma.

  i was looked down upon by the heavy hitters on the body of elders and in time i changed my mind.

  i knew of the failed prophecy of 1914 being the end of all times which was repeated for the year 1925...yet i came to believe well maybe this time they've got it right.. with every new watchtower, i combed over every word to find support for my change in my belief that the end was coming in fall of 1975. at the district assembly in 1975, everyone clung onto every word in the final talk.

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  Sour Grapes:
  

  Then in September of 1975 I heard the talk from brother Franz where he started to do some back peddlng stating that if Eve was created three months after Adam's creation then that would push Armegeddon into 1976. If Eve was created a year after Adam's creation then the thousand year of rule of Jesus would be a year after Adam's creation. When he stated we don't know when Eve was created, I knew that we have been duped again. I fell for it even though I knew of the WTBTS many failed prophecies.
  

  Actually, the "Adam and Eve gap" as it was known back then predated the year 1975. I remember going to Franz's talk in 1974 and hearing him describe the 'gap' by saying it could be months or years but not decades. The absurd (what isn't?) reason for this was that if Adam were to be left without a wife for decades then he could be tempted into bestiality.

  "Will Jehovah allow Adam to be tempted into bestiality?" said Franz.

  "No brothers and sisters." was his response to his own question.