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  Taking the Step

  by beardfreedom in

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  first time posting after years of reading, the things i have learned here have gradually helped to open my eyes to the reality of this religion.

  though i have been mentally out for some time, lately i have stopped going to meetings and service.

  the elders are calling and i have been ignoring them, i am trying to get up the courage to finally break free and never go back.

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  Village Idiot

  Welcome beard!
  
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  Why Is YHWH Used Regularly In OT and NEVER in NT?

  by minimus in

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  and if the name jehovah is that important why is it that jesus christ never use that name in a record of scriptures?.

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  The reason is that the name Yahweh was considered so sacred by later day scribes that they never pronounced it, instead pronouncing the word Adonay (Lord) every time they ran into YHWH.

  It is on that basis that the Greek Septuagint translation, from a much later date, simply wrote their word for Lord (Kurios) instead of bothering with the personal name.
  
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  What age were you when you were counted as a publisher?

  by OrphanCrow in

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  the wts has always included minors and adults in the same categories - publisher and baptized.. i am interested in knowing how many minors, approximately, are included in the publisher count.

  and, at what age a person started publishing.

  what age was the youngest publisher reported?.

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  Village Idiot

  Not a born in. Converted at 14; publisher at 14; baptized at 15.

  I still remember my first day in field service. My first rejecting "householder" and the elder I was studying with at my side.
  
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  The Resurrection and Trump

  by Quarterback in

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  well, if trump starts a nuclear war, and no survivors exist.

  then everyone that dies before armaggedon will come back in the resurection in the new system.

  no great crowd to survive the gt.

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  Village Idiot

  Nuclear war will kill plenty but most of the 7 billion people will survive.

  By the way, which came first, the chicken or the egg?
  
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  Your work is not in vain! Thank You!

  by de-opresso-liber in

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  been lurking since early this year.

  there are many of us out there (at least in this area, central u.s.) who are waking up and crossing the line to talk to each other about it.

  in our area, several elders, ministerial servants and pioneers are actively and openly sharing info with each other daily.

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  Village Idiot

  Welcome d-o-l! Thanks for the thanks and the info. I hope the waking up grows until the time that the Watchtower suffers collapse. Also, having a network of fellow underground apostates that you personally know face to face can make the transition out much easier and painless.
  
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  So, how did the 'beard article' go over yesterday at your congregation?

  by neat blue dog in

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  at mine the conductor was somewhat awkward and minimal and there were nervous chuckles from the audience.

  two people, including an elder, gave reasonable comments that it's okay as long as it's not extreme styles, etc.

  but then another one of the elders commented that nothing has changed and they still aren't proper locally.

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  Village Idiot

  Simple response: If there are many people outside of the Witnesses who have beards then there is no reason for the public in general to get "stumbled" - they're used to them..
  
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  Do You Think Trump And His Whole Team Of Advisers Should Drop Acid?

  by Brokeback Watchtower in

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  i mean back in the 60's when lsd was legal they did experiments with the drug to find out it's problem solving ability and the results were amazing.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/psychedelics_in_problem-solving_experiment.

  psychedelic agents in creative problem-solving experiment was a study designed to evaluate whether the use of a psychedelic substance with supportive setting can lead to improvement of performance in solving professional problems.

  the altered performance was measured by subjective reports, questionnaires, the obtained solutions for the professional problems and psychometric data using the purdue creativity, the miller object visualization, and the witkins embedded figures tests.

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  Why do you want Republicans to have more imagination? The only problems they would solve is that of maximizing the number of citizens who support them.
  
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  Is this another Trump backflip?

  by fulltimestudent in

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  we've seen one backflip.

  crooked hillary became a hard-working woman who deserves the nations praise (in his victory speech);.

  now according to a uk newspaper:.

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  Finkelstein,

  Thankfully he doesn't have absolute power over the nation like the dude from North Korea, there is Congress, the Senate and finally the Supreme Court to manage any of his purposed directives and being that many Republicans in both segments of the government don't like him, there will be critical analysis and scrutiny to whatever comes out of the oval office.
  

  Finkelstein, Congress and Senate are under control of Republicans and Trump has stated that he would place the most right wing Supreme Court justices as he promised his voters. That is something the Republican majority would not mind doing.

  Also, the fact that Republican politicians don't like him has been no hindrance to his having won in the first place let alone prevent him from doing as he pleases now that he's won.
  
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  Is this another Trump backflip?

  by fulltimestudent in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  we've seen one backflip.

  crooked hillary became a hard-working woman who deserves the nations praise (in his victory speech);.

  now according to a uk newspaper:.

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  Village Idiot

  Stuckinarut,
  

  However, his ego will probably get the better of him....
  

  Agreed.
  
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  Is this another Trump backflip?

  by fulltimestudent in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  we've seen one backflip.

  crooked hillary became a hard-working woman who deserves the nations praise (in his victory speech);.

  now according to a uk newspaper:.

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  Village Idiot

  Fulltimestudent,

  Is this another Trump backflip?
  

  Trump does back flips, forward flips, headstands and yoga postures.

  WTWizard
  

  They are all the same.

  As I've been saying they are not the same. Hillary as president would have left this nation the same as she got it - the status quo. Trump will bring it down to the Abyss.