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  As a JW did you ever have a personal relationship with God?

  by Evanescence in

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  as a jehovah's witness did you ever have a personal relationship with god?.

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  I did. In spite of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society.
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  Are Liberal Arts Degree worth it?

  by truthseeker in

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  an excellent article, which also refutes the idea that people only go to college to get rich and make money.. http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/departments/elearning/?article=liberalartsare liberal arts degrees worth anything?by jim pollock.

  for everyone who says that a liberal arts degree doesn't prepare you for anything, you'll find someone else who claims that it prepares you for everything.

  well, both, to some extent.the one thing that's pretty much certain is that right out of the gate, a liberal arts grad will tend to pull a smaller starting salary than his or her friends who majored in business or a technical field.

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  My college education is one of the things I most regret: the time and money foolishly wasted obtaining my liberal arts B. A. cannot be recovered. The entire experience remains a source of bitterness to this day.

  No, I don't wish to elaborate...
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  Evil Slave

  by loosie in

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  ok this maybe a jw urban legend.

  but does anyone remember jw's talking about an eveil slave class?.

  my mom told me that there is an actualy evil slave class just like there is a faithful and discreet slave class.. she also told me that the evil slave class lives in florida.. has anyone else heard this, or had my mom been drinking when she told me this?.

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  It is alleged that I am a member of the "Evil Slave Class". I don't live in Florida.
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  United in worship of the Only True God... my mom says don't read it!

  by in a new york bethel minute in

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  she found the united book, open as if i was saving a spot from where i had last finished reading.

  she found it and said, "bethel, don't read this we have an updated version!

  " i said, "why do they need to update it?

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  They also removed the chapter on the Mosaic Law. Perhaps they came to realize that JW's just might begin to notice that "Watchtower-Worship" is the "fourth branch of Judaism"(?).
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  Watchtower lying by omission

  by Cygnus in

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  check this out:.

  *** w84 12/1 pp.

  13-14 happy are those found watching!

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  They were emphatically NOT "happy...to have been found watching!" They were, in fact, distressed to find that their prophecies were proven false. As you say, even if we were to consider true the Society's current claims regarding 1914, the fact remains that the Bible Students held NO such view IN 1914. Indeed, most Associated Bible Students currently believe the "parousia" occurred in 1874, and that Jesus was enthroned in the Heavens in 1878. Those Bible Students who abandoned Russell's teachings but remained with the Watch Tower Society did not come to believe that Jesus was enthroned in the Heavens in 1914 UNTIL 1925 (WT article: "Birth of the Nation"), and continued to believe that his invisible "Parousia" dated from 1874 UNTIL 1929 (WT publication "Prophecy").

  Hmmm.... It is also interesting that the Society made the claim in the "Greatest Man" book that only Jesus' true disciples saw him return in 1914. If we were to allow that statement to stand, it would PROVE that the Bible Students (and their break-away sect, the JW's) were NOT Jesus' true followers.
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  Skirting the issue

  by Virgogirl in

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  what argument is put forth that women must only wear dresses or skirts to the meetings or in service and are not permitted to wear slacks?

  where does it say it's wrong for sisters to wear pants, and how are they convincing women in 2005 to buy into this?

  i remember many bitterly cold chicago mornings with frozen legs running to doors and back to the warm car as quickly as possible, wearing a skirt which was ridiculous and inappropriate to the weather conditions.

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  Yes, they do!!!!!
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  This is not a brighter light it's a lie

  by PoppyR in

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  ok... i just found this and i know it's been posted before, but i had to comment!!

  i have tried to justify some of the changes, but this one can only be a lie.

  it's a direct quote apparently from something somebody said.. so he either said 'within fifteen years' or he said 'soon'.. it is not possible it's just become clearer what he said, or they misheard him the first time.

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  It is a correct quote both times: note where they put the quotation marks. It is misleading, though.

  However, the person quoted was incorrect.
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  Baptisum question change?

  by twolips in

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  thank you in advance.

  i cant get search to work.. i need the change in wording for the questions.

  the year this happened too.

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  I was baptized pre-1985. When the change in the vow questions came in 1985, I could not believe my ears; for years previous, the WTS had declared that it was improper and unchristian to baptise into an organisation -- that was something false religious groups did! A heavy weight crushed my heart that day....
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  What happened on October 31, 1916?

  by blondie in

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  while on a lecture tour of the midwestern and southern parts of the us, 89 years ago, charles taze russell died on a train in pampa,texas, at the age of 64 (picture of him in 1916 below).. .

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  It should be noted that the "Studies in the Scriptures" volumes on the website are the post-1914 versions thereof, in which some of the faulty chronology was edited out. However, the Watchtower of its day was honest enough to note that the changes had been made. These changes were recorded in the 01. March 1915 Watch Tower, reprint page 5649 (shortly after "contents").
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  How many Jehovah's witnesses are there now?

  by Stan Conroy in

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  i've been asked that question, and since i've been out of it for years (and away from this forum for some time) i have no idea.

  can someone give me the latest figures?

  stan

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  bennyk

  Well, it would be nice to think that 110 000 are leaving each year (would make a nice support system "outside" the Org, thereby greasing the skids for increased voluntary downsizing), but we ought not forget that people also leave in a box: the average death rate would thin the Witness ranks approx. 0.9% every year...