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  JWs at My Door - and the Answer to a Prayer

  by hemp lover in

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  this happened almost three years ago, but since i always enjoy reading about other people's jw encounters, i thought i'd finally share one of my own.. i lived in an apartment for four years following my disfellowshipping and no one had ever come to my door, not even so much as a shepherding visit.

  (yeah, right.

  ) i had lurked on this board for a while, but was put off by the anger and negativity of some people and so i didn't stay long.

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  melmac

  ...Who cares about dates? WHO CARES ABOUT DATES???? In a religion that was built upon prophecies on 1879, 1914, 1925, etc etc? Suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuure!
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  Books to give away!!!!! Free

  by mouthy in

  1. jw
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  "revelation.

  grand climax at hand" (((yeah right.

  "worldwide security under the prince of peace"(((except it was really under satan.

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  melmac

  Let your kindom come was the second book I read, before I even started "studying". I liked its appendix, because I did not know it was just a collection of bullshit.

  I threw all my books away, but now I regret doing so... some of them were so fulll of BS that they made good research material.
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  Some christian consciences have allowed

  by IP_SEC in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  atrolling we will go atrolling we will go.. another subject of this post could be: the devaluation of christian conscience in jehovah's witnesses.. you ever notice that the wt will sometimes print things that some christians can do with a clean conscience.

  things that in the past were a big no no but now are ok?

  since there are a lot of things i could do with a clean conscience: birthdays; smoke; oral sex; bla bla bla, could i use this reasoning as a defense?

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  If "some christians think it is Ok to...." then it means that those christians have the liberty to express their feelings and be fully accepted as part of the congregation. Which we know is totally false as far as the WT goes.

  I think that those mentions of "some christians" are as fabricated as everything else in "questions from readers". That column has the only purpose of allowing the GB to say whatever they want dubs to do, but in a way that seems casual... as if "some christians" had the right to decide. They don't.

  After I read CoC I started to hate those "questions from readers".
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  Decision to free JW Rapist haunts jurors

  by ValiantBoy in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  friday, february 11, 2005. .

  decision to free felon haunts jurors.

  by ruth teichroeb and jessica blanchard.

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  Well... in Israel sex offenders were stoned to death! How come "the inerrant word of God" has been laid aside, in one of those rare instances when it is absolutely right??
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  Just had two elders stop by

  by Puternut in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i just finished a visit with two elders.

  i had actually contacted the head quarters and wanted to see how fast i can get a response from them.

  i was impressed, from the time of my request to them in my house... two weeks.

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  Puter, that`t the way to go! It seems that you have learned from Raymond Franz: truth shines through his words, because he does not slander the "Society", but just presents facts, and they speak for themselves.

  No one with an honest heart can dismiss his account. Neither will those elders, if they are honest.

  Whatever the outcome, you did your part very well. We are proud of you, for showing that apostates can be very different from what the dubs are led do believe.
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  2004 Numbers are on WT web site it looks like.

  by garybuss in

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  http://www.watchtower.org/statistics/worldwide_report.htm.

  can anyone confirm this is what it looks like?

  i may be delivering old news.

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  So they haven`t included increase/decrease figures... that would be VERY embarrasssing for them!
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  How do you think the society would react if...

  by truth_about_the_truth in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  as an active witness, you won the lottery and offered to contribute a large portion of that to the worldwide work?.

  - take the money and cover up your "wrongdoing"?.

  - take the money and df you?.

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  He'd have to donate ALL of the money, lest he finishes like Ananias and Sapphire:

  Acts 5:1-2 But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession, And kept back part of the price, his wife also being privy to it, and brought a certain part, and laid it at the apostles' feet.
  3 But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land?
  4 But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land? Whiles it remained, was it not thine own? and after it was sold, was it not in thine own power? why hast thou conceived this thing in thine heart? thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God.
  5-6 And Ananias hearing these words fell down, and gave up the ghost: And the young men arose, wound him up, and carried him out, and buried him.
  9-10 And Then SAPPHIRA CAME INTO THE CHURCH Peter Said: the feet of them which have buried thy husband are at the door, and shall carry thee out. Then fell she down straight
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  Keep Your Eyes On The Pies...

  by Englishman in

  1. jw
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  this is fun!.

  go into this site, scroll down and click on: "some day my prince will come".

  http://www.oitc.com/disney/downloads.html listen carefully for a minute or so..... then go into this site, scroll down and click on to song 222: http://www.l-and-a.com.au/comm/addons/midi.html listen carefully for a minute or so.... any comments?.

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  If you take the teachings of Seventh Day Adventists circa 1870 and those of Charles Taze Russell... er... well... never mind!
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  DNA - belief destuction

  by donkey in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the single largest reason to decimate my belief in jw?s and all biblical faith occurred when i discovered some facts about our cells.

  specifically a part of the cell called mitochondria.

  mitochondria are sometimes described as "cellular power plants" because their primary purpose is to manufacture adenosine triphosphate (atp), which is used as a source of energy that the cell uses.. as humans one inherits one?s mitochondria only from one's mother, this finding implies that all living humans have a female line of descent from a woman whom researchers have dubbed mitochondrial eve.

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  There's also the fact that the embryo FIRST develops as a female, and only after hormonal changes becomes a male. It God created woman from man's ribs, it should be the opposite: our embryo would first be male, then, if that was the case, become female...
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  What causes most JW's to lose the ability to reason?

  by XBEHERE in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  take a look at this wt excerpt from another thread that i copied and pasted:.

  *** g93 3/22 why so many false alarms?

  jehovah?s witnesses, in their eagerness for jesus?

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  melmac

  LOL at Gary. I never really noticed how fabricated the "Questions from Readers" are until now that I have finished reading CoC.

  Who, as a JDub, would question anything, anyway?

  Fear is the key!!!