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  2016 SPECIAL TALK---ARE YOU ON THE ROAD TO EVERLASTING LIFE?

  by suavojr in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  are you on the road to everlasting life?.

  note to the speaker: help bible students and interested ones to understand why and how to make further spiritual progress..

  emphasize the many sources of help available, and warmly encourage them to act without delay.

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  besty

  its difficult running an end-times cult without an end-time - sheesh.
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  Thought I was stronger!

  by Peony in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  just come home from a weight loss class early.

  it's 6 months since i da'd and two and a half years since i've been to a meeting.

  there was a witness there (unless she has left, i wouldn't know) we made eye contact!

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  besty

  hi peony - the envelope icon is on the very top navigation bar of the website on the rigth hand side, beside the search box, your username and avatar....yes/no?
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  Thought I was stronger!

  by Peony in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  just come home from a weight loss class early.

  it's 6 months since i da'd and two and a half years since i've been to a meeting.

  there was a witness there (unless she has left, i wouldn't know) we made eye contact!

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  besty

  peony - check your personal messages - beside your username top right you should see an envelope icon - click that :-)
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  ex-jw-uk

  by bigmac in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i'm quite new to this site, & have realised some members have a union jack symbol under their avatar.

  i don't.. could we have a "show of hands" from any uk members?

  i've already found several by reading older posts..

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  besty

  SE London here...
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  UK TV--next monday 24th aug---channel 5-----9 pm--escaping the witnesses

  by stan livedeath in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  just see it advertised on tv--with photo of our friend from south wales

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  besty

  http://www.channel5.com/shows/inside-scientology-and-escaping-the-witnesses
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  August Awake on DNA... A (probably somewhat informal) proof of incorrect logic

  by cognisonance in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i sometimes look at articles still to see what my parents are learning and how that frames their view of me (former member, atheist, computational evolutionary researcher).. anyway for the proof using propositional logic:.

  p = information.

  q = attributed to intelligence and not mindless processes..

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  besty

  "As is often the case, when scientists explain one mystery, they open a door to another."

  This sentence prepares the reader for the insertion of "god must have done it" into the newly created mystery gap.

  It also smacks of an argument from ignorance - ie we can't (won't) explain this 'mystery' therefore god.

  With a slight hint of poisoning the well and a complete disrespect for the scientific method with the 'as is often the case' insult at the start.

  What a piece of work these writers are...
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  August Awake on DNA... A (probably somewhat informal) proof of incorrect logic

  by cognisonance in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i sometimes look at articles still to see what my parents are learning and how that frames their view of me (former member, atheist, computational evolutionary researcher).. anyway for the proof using propositional logic:.

  p = information.

  q = attributed to intelligence and not mindless processes..

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  besty

  what did the awake actually say that was problematic for you? can you provide a quote pls.
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  News Which UK J.W.'s Won't Get in their Kigdom Ministry!

  by The Searcher in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  a source tells me the following: .

  for shropshire uk by the name of anthony manning has been removed and judicially reproved.

  portishead congregation in north somerset is being merged or disbanded on sept 1st 2015 due to "aging elders, poor attendance, decrepit kingdom hall and landslip" - of course the suspicion is wt just wants to sell the hall off.

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  besty

  was the public reproof announced all over the circuit? (officially I mean, clearly it was gossiped all over the circuit and beyond...)
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  Today's WT glancing at the opposite sex is flirting and therefore immortality

  by purrpurr in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  in today's wt study it makes the point that just glancing at the opposite sex is flirting and can lead to sex!.

  so are jw's now to wear blinkers?.

  also jw's are told to go and confess to the elders if they have any immoral thoughts?!!.

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  besty

  it would be great if you were able to paste a quote from the WT if making a point so we can see exactly what was written.
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  Western Decline is a Reality - 2015 Memorial Attendance

  by berrygerry in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  as has been observed in western congos, the decline is real.. usa is 12.475 % less -2015 vs 2014.

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  besty

  2010 -> 2015 memorial attendance figures = +2.9% over the complete 5 year period or a CAGR (compound annual growth rate) of 0.57%

  assumed US population* compound annual growth rate over the same period is 0.9%

  The Jehovahs Witness religion is in decline if it can't even keep pace with population growth,

  *https://www.census.gov/prod/cen2010/briefs/c2010br-01.pdf