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  2025 Convention Theme leak

  by ukpimo in

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  according to the next boe letter to be read at next week's midweek meetings in the united states,.

  the theme of the convention for next year is.

  pure worship.

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  blondie

  Yes, since the WTS is not perfect, and their teachings have had to be clarified and adjusted many times...
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  The boy who has cried wolf - for nearly 140 years!

  by BoogerMan in

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  "when will this hope be fulfilled?

  the bible foretold events that would signal that god’s kingdom is about to begin its rule over the earth.

  present world conditions match what the bible foretold.

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  blondie

  I was re-reading this and this statement is from a comic from years ago, I have met the enemy, and he is us. Appeared in the newspaper Earth Day 1970.
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  How the JWs Handle a Member Visiting Another Church: What Is Your Experience?

  by LauraLynn in

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  i grew up a jw but my parents were not regularly attending services at a kh.

  they used to, and were thoroughly indoctrinated though.

  as is the jws habit of visiting non-attenders, 2 sisters came to my mom and dad's door one day to inquire of our well-being.

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  blondie

  LHG, I went to several convention is Europe, trips sponsored the WTS and the WTS arranged visits to the cathedrals and Vatican City in Rome, for an extra fee of course.
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  What would happen to a JW for celebrating Christmas?

  by Vanderhoven7 in

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  mark jones writes:.

  if they were spied upon and it was reported to the elders they’d be “invited” to a judicial committee whereupon they’d be cross examined in a locked backroom by three men acting as judge and jury to decide if they are guilty.. .

  if the elders decide that they are guilty, they’ll then decide if the person is sorry.

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  blondie

  Yes, LHG, having a non-jw husband especially, provides many ways out of not celebrating. Husband is still considered the "head" of his family and can celebrate the holidays at home I grew up with a non-jw father and that was the case in our family. But my father, like many men, did little in a practical way to celebrate Xmas. But we did drop in on his non-jw family and get gifts from them and eat their good and enjoy the tree. Weird!
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  Questions about WT illustrations

  by Beck_Melbourne in

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  2. friends

  when i was a kid....i used to look at the wt illustrations of paradise conditions and would day dream about life in the new system....i later used this same technique (shame on me) to brain wash bible students.

  however...as i grew up lol (apparently!

  ) the illustrations changed....and became more modern.

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  blondie

  3rdgen, great catch!
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  Watchtowers billion$

  by lastmanstanding in

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  serena williams was baptised as a jehovah's witness last year.

  photo: pa. .

  john mulligan.

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  blondie

  I saw that this morning and thought someone got their wires crossed. Thanks for this clarifying info.
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  2025 Convention Theme leak

  by ukpimo in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  according to the next boe letter to be read at next week's midweek meetings in the united states,.

  the theme of the convention for next year is.

  pure worship.

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  blondie

  1951 Clean

  Worship in my source https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php/?story_fbid=1169056609946425&id=241479099370852
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  2025 Convention Theme leak

  by ukpimo in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  according to the next boe letter to be read at next week's midweek meetings in the united states,.

  the theme of the convention for next year is.

  pure worship.

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  blondie

  https://jwfacts.com/watchtower/1919-derived.php The 2018 publication Pure Worship of Jehovah - Restored at Last! devotes a section to providing "evidence" that "God's people" were chosen in 1919.
  
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  The org's "new lights" - corrupting Proverbs 4:18

  by BoogerMan in

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  2. beliefs

  proverbs 4:18 says, "but the path of the righteous....grows brighter and brighter until full daylight.".

  the bible "light" doesn't get brighter - it never changes - it's a person's direction & course of life which gets brighter.. w11 9/15 p. 14 par.

  15 - "when spiritual light on some matter gets brighter, do you try to understand the underlying scriptural reasons for the adjustment?

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  Rattigan350, probably because so many were deceived by this, the WTS using this to excuse their mistaken predictions. And still are being deceived and some POMIs are still believing the WTS crap.
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  Are you glad you got the Covid Vaccine? Did it help?

  by liam in

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  2. current

  i didn’t get the covid vaccine, but i admit, i was scared as shit i made the wrong decision because there was so much confusion out there.

  practically all my family and most of my friends took the vaccine because everyone was depending on those in charge to speak the truth.

  now a lot of them are sick, and they can't figure out why.

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  I might mention that even back then people were suspicious of vaccines too, but it was bad and I remember people in the 50's seeing children dying or "crippled" by polio. Very few families were untouched. But there were requirements in place to get them that because of their experiences were willing to get and were grateful they were there. The WTS was anti-vax until 1952 when a Questions From Readers was printed. But the belief that the WTS forbid getting a vaccination still persisted until covid when the WTS saw the problem that could arise if they continued their ban and came out more clearly to jws that they should get the vaccination.

  "Questions From Readers

  ● Is vaccination a violation of God’s law forbidding the taking of blood into the system?—G. C., North Carolina.

  The matter of vaccination is one for the individual that has to face it to decide for himself. Each individual has to take the consequences for whatever position and action he takes toward a case of compulsory vaccination, doing so according to his own conscience and his appreciation of what is for good health and the interests of advancing God’s work. And our Society cannot afford to be drawn into the affair legally or take the responsibility for the way the case turns out.

  After consideration of the matter, it does not appear to us to be in violation of the everlasting covenant made with Noah, as set down in Genesis 9:4, nor contrary to God’s related commandment at Leviticus 17:10-14. Most certainly it cannot reasonably or Scripturally be argued and proved that, by being vaccinated, the inoculated person is either eating or drinking blood and consuming it as food or receiving a blood transfusion. Vaccination does not bear any relationship to or any likeness to the intermarriage of angelic “sons of God” with the daughters of men, as described in Genesis 6:1-4. Neither can it be put in the same class as described at Leviticus 18:23, 24, which forbids the mingling of humans with animals. It has nothing to do with sex relations...."