I'd give it about 7/10.
I'm a generous marker in everything in my life.
I guess the thing that makes it better is the pictures in it. Really good pictures that makes you understand the situation better. I hate looking at those old WTS publications! The pictures were awful! I know it's the techonology back then.... but. Eeeeewwww... But I don't want to knock the era too much. Great era! If you weren't a JW!
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Insight To The Scriptures....how can I get a copy?
by anewme inof all the literature i left behind that day i moved from my elder husband's home i now wish i'd taken the insight books.
more than once i have desired to peer again into the many bible subjects discussed in length there.
having been away for 3-4 years now, how can i obtain a set?
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Insight To The Scriptures....how can I get a copy?
by anewme inof all the literature i left behind that day i moved from my elder husband's home i now wish i'd taken the insight books.
more than once i have desired to peer again into the many bible subjects discussed in length there.
having been away for 3-4 years now, how can i obtain a set?
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@VM44,
Yeah. My mum says that too. I don't know why they have it in 2 volumes? Why couldn't they just stick to one volume? It couldn't be because it's too heavy on the spine because look at the Reference Bible!
I don't want to overly criticize, but I think the Insight on the Scriptures is a bit stale at times. Sometimes it can be quite good, other times it lags on a bit. And you might look at certain topic and it may "miss the point" and you don't get an answer on a certain topic.
No offence to Raymond though! He was one of the main authours! So it couldn't be all that bad if he did it! I am fan of Raymond. -
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What's the most DANGEROUS thing you ever did?
by JH in.
anybody ever bungee jump or do anything quite dangerous?.
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garybuss Re: What's the most DANGEROUS thing you ever did? Aug 5, 2005 I once drove a car with a no blood card in my wallet. LOLLOL! Thanks for the good joke Gary!
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Hello coffee_black, This is the message you sent to the Watchtower Society back in 1968! I did this with your permission. So here it goes:
Grateful to Be One of Jehovah’s WitnessesRECENTLY the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society received the following letter. It speaks for itself.
"Dear Brothers,
"I just wanted to write to tell you how happy I am to be one of Jehovah’s witnesses. I am so grateful to my parents for teaching me about the truth. I am fifteen years old and I attend high school. Sometimes it doesn’t seem easy to maintain integrity at my age, because it is natural to want to be accepted by others. But I am so satisfied when I see the contrast between this system of things and Jehovah’s witnesses. And it makes me feel glad that I have stayed away from the bad influences of this system of things.
"Sometimes during a study hall at school I look at the other students. They, for the most part, seem to have a far-off look on their faces. You can see in them that they are desperate and uncertain about the future.
"Yesterday in a speaking class we were assigned to try to convince the class of something. One boy spoke of the war in Vietnam. Three friends of his had recently been killed there. He was so bitter about it. He said, ‘If someone doesn’t do something about the condition this world is in, who knows what might happen?’ All the students fear the future because they have no hope. I thought to myself how grateful I can be to be one of Jehovah’s witnesses. On Monday it will be my turn to give a speech. I’m going to prove to them that God is alive. I don’t know what their reaction will be. I’m going to tell them about the hope the Bible offers. But do they want it?
"Some time ago a girl came up to me and asked me if I believed in God. I told her Yes and started to explain why. She said ‘OK! OK! All I wanted to know is if you believe in him or not.’ I later found out that she was taking a survey.
"Another time I got into a discussion about evolution with a girl in my class. She believed in it strongly, and nothing I said to her really sunk in. It did make her think, though, and I’m glad of that.
"I’ve come to believe that they don’t want to believe in God. Religion in any form is a mockery to them. One girl said to me, ‘My boyfriend is Catholic, I’m Protestant, but we’re both atheists.’
"Half of the students here are drug addicts. Almost all of them are alcoholics. I think I’m the only person in school who doesn’t smoke. This is a residential town too.
"This system of things is searching for something. They don’t know what it is, and they can’t find it. They are dissatisfied with the conditions of the world, but they don’t know how to improve it.
"Seeing the corruption in the world, I am proud and grateful to be able to say that I’m not part of it, and that I am one of Jehovah’s witnesses."
Jesus plainly said that his followers would be "no part of the world," that they would stand out as separate and distinct from it because of living by godly principles. (John 15:19) They are a people with a purpose in life; their hope is firmly rooted in God’s promise of a righteous new system of things. (2 Pet. 3:11-13) Is that true of you?
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New MSN search
by seattleniceguy innow, anyone who knows me knows that i am a major fan of google.
google is great, google is changing the world, yadda yadda yadda.. but for once, i really have to give it up for the boys at microsoft.
their new search engine has some very cool features.. go to http://search.msn.com.
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A JW refutation of birthday celebrations
by TheListener ini found this while surfing the web.
it's from a website called touchstoneforum.
it's definitely a pro-jw website.
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New MSN search
by seattleniceguy innow, anyone who knows me knows that i am a major fan of google.
google is great, google is changing the world, yadda yadda yadda.. but for once, i really have to give it up for the boys at microsoft.
their new search engine has some very cool features.. go to http://search.msn.com.
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@seattleniceguy, Google does all these things, but MSN has perfected it. I tried the tan and simple arithmetic, and google does that too. But if you ask the population of Japan you have to go directly in a web page, but if you ask the population of America it will tell you straight away!
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Elsewhere, why always so nice in your posts?
by FlyingHighNow in.
else, you are always one of the more polite people on jwd.
just thought i'd point that out.
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FlyingHighNow--, Else, you are always one of the more polite people on JWD. Just thought I'd point that out. You're genteel, okay maybe a bit naughty at times, but very sweet and mannerly.
I think someone should ask me that same question!
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long years of brainwashing finally come to an end.....
by girl_interrupted inhi everyone, i'm new here......basically, i found this website a couple of weeks ago when i was in dire need of some like-minded souls who had felt screwed up about the jw's.
from about the age of four/five, my parents and i were involved in the organisation, and all three of us are stil messed up because of it.....we are no longer involved in it, but it took quite a few years before my parents found the strength to leave.
to begin with, i was quite a zealous jw, was baptised at twelve and disfellowshipped at fourteen, because as i got older i began to grow ''weak in the truth'' as people so kindly described me!
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long years of brainwashing finally come to an end.....
by girl_interrupted inhi everyone, i'm new here......basically, i found this website a couple of weeks ago when i was in dire need of some like-minded souls who had felt screwed up about the jw's.
from about the age of four/five, my parents and i were involved in the organisation, and all three of us are stil messed up because of it.....we are no longer involved in it, but it took quite a few years before my parents found the strength to leave.
to begin with, i was quite a zealous jw, was baptised at twelve and disfellowshipped at fourteen, because as i got older i began to grow ''weak in the truth'' as people so kindly described me!
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rebel8 -- Welcome, girl_interrupted. Be aware there are some JW apologists on this forum mixed in with ex-JWs. That will explain some of the comments you'll be reading. I don't want to mention any names
defdEveryone is welcome on this forum and it does bring a diversity of ideas.Well. I hope I am not mistaken for I believe in fair bit of their doctrines but not all of them! I could not be a JW because they are as cold as liquid nitrogen (as one guy put it on this forum once!) The most important thing is love and they simply can't agape love!