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  A Call To Deal With Apostates

  by AlanF in

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  from the july 1, 2003 watchtower article "righteous requirements":.

  .. the kingdom of god is the highest government anyone can serve.

  how does jehovah issue the call to his people?

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  JW Stumper Questions!!!

  by Brutus in

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  if the organization did not actually prophesy the end in 1925 and 1975, then how come so many witnesses left the faith immediately afterwards?

  ("they lost roughly three-quarters of the movement between 1925 and 1928, then suffered huge losses after 1975, when the end didn't come as they had implied over and over again," said jim penton, an ex-witness who writes entries on jehovah's witnesses for the encyclopedia americana.

  if the watchtower organization rejects others calling them "inspired" yet the watchtower organization does call themselves "god's spirit-directed prophet" what is the difference?

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  Suggestions, please re ``placing'' free COCs

  by Room 215 in

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  a friend and i have come across a quantity of crisis of conscience in like-new condition, both english and italian editions.

  we're in a quandary as to how to make best use of them.

  we were thinking of donating them to the libraries or to perhaps cut a deal wth a local christian book store.

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  Questions for JWs

  by larc in

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  dear jw,.

  i have some questions.

  as i understand it, if armageddon came tomorrow, those that never heard the truth, in such places as india or china would either live through armageddon or die and be resurrected.

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  1975 Reaction

  by MadApostate in

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  this past weekend, one of the few remaining jw relatives who will still discuss jw stuff with me told me about his recently attending a home bible study being conducted by an elder.

  evidently, the study had been told or had picked up some info about the 1975 fiasco.

  the elder totally denied that the society had stated or even led people to believe that armageddon would occur in 1975, and he naturally blamed some individual jws for misinterpreting the society's materials.

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  Ritzville Bound

  by silentlambs in

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  i leave tonight to head for ritzville.

  there have been so many kind thoughts and notes sent which i am going to pass on to erica when i get there.

  we even had a person from germany send $80 for flowers.

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  for those who "grew up in the borg"

  by zev in

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  at this late, middle stage of my life, i've started wondering, now that i know what i know, about the things in my life that i "lived" with.

  having been raised all my life in the "borg" i have known nothing else.

  when questions began forming years ago, it started me thinking.

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  WHY does God fail to...

  by Martini in

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  ...attain unanimous support from his creation of free moral agents?

  from the majority at least.. apparently according to the wt interpretation of god's own book...a prominent spirit creature who made himself satan became unsatisfied and left god.later untold numbers would join the devil.. now the only solution for the future of these 'rebels' would be for god to destroy them.. then the very first human creatures apparently also felt unsatisfied and withdrew from god.they got destroyed.. later god had to confuse the language of all humans because they were unanimously opposed to god.

  those people too are history.. then god had an ark built because all flesh had left god's way except for a handful of people.. evidently god was not expecting any great number to actually join noah, otherwise god would have had noah build several arks!

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  Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes

  by Simon in

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  (the david bowie song in case you're wondering).

  there seems to be a lot of talk and speculation about the changes that are coming at the next district conventions.

  there have certainly been quite a few articles and talks (esp.

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  Forum plans and policy

  by Simon in

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  in case anyone is wondering about our registration policy:.

  i don't intend to turn people away who want to register and post or make ultra-strict registration procedures because i honestly don't think that they work.

  if i were to ask for names of congregations or presiding overseers then i have no real way of checking if they are correct.

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