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  Could you help me with a little Witness history ?

  by ukgirl in

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  2. beliefs

  as part of a student film project that i am completing i will be conducting a telephone interview with an exjw tomorrow.. the person i am interviewing was a witness between the years of the 50's (born in) - late 80's so obviously would have been in their late teens for the prophecies and events of 1975.. as this person is older than i, i am plan to tailor my questions around being a witness in that time period.

  i just wonder if you could point me in the direction of any more date specific events surrounding this time period that i could touch upon in my interview ?.

  much appreciated .

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  I remember, around 1974, going to a talk by then Vice President Frederick Franz at the Inglewood Public Forum in Southern California. The stadium was jam packed all the way to the floor (seating capacity 17500). He set out his long winded calculations of 1975 then came out with the conclusion that the world would end by 1975 or a few months or years thereafter.

  I also remember being in the ministry school meeting one night in 1974 when the Kingdom Ministry was being read. It stated that there were reports of brothers selling their homes in order to spend the short remaining time in the witnessing work and that that was a good thing.
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  Stone Demon in Watchtower Mag (SUBLIMINAL IMAGE)

  by artcritic in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  have a look at this new subliminal image from the mag of .

  spam link removed.

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  Village Idiot

  Good one Slave4_38y! You can see a full body image, not just the face.
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  Rainham residents upset about plans for Jah Jireh care home for Jehovah’s Witnesses

  by Simon in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  (posted for andersonsinfo).

  people are protesting against plans to build a large care home for jehovahs witnesses behind their houses.. homeowners living in the bloors lane area of rainham have lodged objections to proposals by the jah jireh charity, which specialises in spiritual and physical care for followers of the religion.. people living in neighbouring homes say it is too big and its three storeys will dwarf their properties.. .

  what the care home will look like.

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  Village Idiot

  It all depends on how much land is taken up by the nursing home. If it fills up the property with very little green space behind and besides the building then there's an issue. A smaller building might be an acceptable compromise though it may not be cost effective for the property owners.
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  Any ever use a different version of the NWT in the KH

  by Clambake in

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  2. experiences

  i brought a niv to the hall the other day.

  man, i sure got some attention for it.

  someone actually offered to get me a bible.

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  Village Idiot

  I once brought an American Standard Version that was printed by the Watchtower to the meeting. It was bound in the exact same way as the NWT but in brown instead of green. The brother sitting besides me noticed it and he opened it to John !:1 to show that it wasn't a worthy translation.

  Strange how the Watchtower even printed the King James Version, also looking like the NWT but with a dark red (?) cover.
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  POLL: Will You Be Attending The Memorial & If You Are---Why?

  by minimus in

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  2. friends

  i was just invited.

  i thanked my old elder friend and he left.

  (i'm not going).

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  Village Idiot

  Welcome to the forum Taylor. I'm glad you're not going to go to another Memorial.
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  Utah to bring back firing squads

  by cofty in

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  2. current

  are parts of the usa in a different century from europe?.

  why don't they just stone them to death?.

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  Island Man, "The guillotine is probably the most humane method of execution, as gruesome as it seems."

  Saudi Arabia beheads people, Utah should follow their example.

  
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  Yet Another Putdown of Women! – KM March 2015

  by SAHS in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  this weeks service meeting part (week starting march 23, 2015) in the our kingdom ministry under the heading meetings for field service that accomplish.

  their purpose includes a little sub-article entitled when a sister must conduct.

  the direct link is: http://www.jw.org/en/publications/kingdom-ministry/ click the little document download button under the one labeled km15 03-e us and then choose a format (pdf looks best)..

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  They obviously have a severe shortage of brothers to be that desperate.

  It should be acknowledged though that the apostle Paul stated that women should wear veils on their heads during the meetings (! Corinthians 11:3-6) and not speak at all (1Corinthians 14:34-36). That's more severe than what the Witnesses are doing and it makes them look liberal in their application of those scriptures.
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  Those darned apostates

  by berrygerry in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  july 15, 1992 wt.

  "apostates capitalize on errors or seeming mistakes made by brothers who take the lead.

  our safety lies in avoiding apostate propaganda as though it were poison, which in fact it is.".

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  berrygerry: "Our safety lies in avoiding apostate propaganda as though it were poison, which in fact it is."

  Their old literature is poison to them and they avoid it every bit as much as they avoid "apostates."
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  Theocratic Warfare - Is it in writing?

  by cappytan in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i'm just wondering if the theocratic warfare doctrine is anywhere in writing or if it's a word-of-mouth kind of thing where it's mentioned at elder's school, but not put in writing.. anyone?.

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  I remember that it was mentioned in a 1974 or 1975 year book which related the experience of a JW in Nazi Germany. The JW had the Nazi police or Gestapo ask her if she was a Jehovah's Witness and her answer was "I am a Christian". That was referred to in the yearbook as "Theocratic tact".
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  Is there an After Life ?

  by Finkelstein in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  a large segment of the wts doctrines is contained in the proclamation that there will be an extenuating every lasting life.

  on earth for a select majority and a smaller select portion who are going to reside in heaven with god and jesus christ.

  jws are influenced to live their lives that is true and advantageous to live accordingly around that proclaiming assertion.. a purposed theory based from ancient mythological beliefs.. to be noted there are other theological beliefs in the after life from other religious beliefs separate from christianity.

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  Village Idiot

  Nope.

  The concept of an afterlife is intertwined with the belief in a moralistic god who rewards or punishes people based on their behavior during their present life. Without such a god where will our immortal souls go to? It is possible to believe in a god that doesn't immortalize humans and it might even be possible to believe in immortal souls without believing in a god but difficult questions will arise from such beliefs like:

  "Are all animals immortal?"

  "If not then when did human like creatures before Homo Sapiens become immortal and why that species and not another one more primitive than it?"