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  Watchtower Study: How Strong Will Your Faith Be?

  by RULES & REGULATIONS in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  the watchtower—study edition | november 2021. study article 47. how strong will your faith be?.

  16 note the example of geydi, a sister from guatemala.

  her husband, edi, was murdered as they were returning home from a congregation meeting.

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  LongHairGal

  ROAD TO NOWHERE:

  I am sorry about those you mention with ‘relative poverty imposed by beliefs’. I’m glad I NEVER followed these ‘beliefs’ or teachings!

  Definitely the churches of Christendom give more support..The JW religion gives nothing to anybody!!!
  

  Any ‘help’ a person would get would be because somebody takes up a collection…They would even have the balls to go up to people criticized as ‘bad association’ because of having a career or full time job and ask them!!..Yes, they’d be cornered by some chump with an envelope. This is why I’m GLAD I’m no longer there!

  Hopefully, this widowed sister in this fictional JW fantasy situation had a husband who provided well. Otherwise, she’s going to have to get a J.O.B.

  Maybe if she’s lucky she won’t be shunned by certain married women in the congregation (as is the custom) who will now see her as a threat as a youngish attractive woman.
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  Watchtower Study: How Strong Will Your Faith Be?

  by RULES & REGULATIONS in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  the watchtower—study edition | november 2021. study article 47. how strong will your faith be?.

  16 note the example of geydi, a sister from guatemala.

  her husband, edi, was murdered as they were returning home from a congregation meeting.

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  LongHairGal

  BOBCAT:

  Regarding JWs commenting on staged photos of fiction as if they were real:..

  It is the the same annoying stupidity that I saw years ago at the book study when people would comment about a drawing in the book as though it were an actual photograph taken in the First century!

  Do these fools actually listen to themselves?? There were no cameras or video recorders back then. It’s as though Witnesses have tricked their brains. They want to believe some ‘magic’ occurred and what they are seeing is genuine and not modern artwork dreamed up by some brown nose at bethel.
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  Watchtower Study: How Strong Will Your Faith Be?

  by RULES & REGULATIONS in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  the watchtower—study edition | november 2021. study article 47. how strong will your faith be?.

  16 note the example of geydi, a sister from guatemala.

  her husband, edi, was murdered as they were returning home from a congregation meeting.

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  LongHairGal

  RULES & REGULATIONS:

  This type of thinking is what causes JWs to become heartless and stifles human feelings. It’s this type of heartlessness which can make it easier to shun their flesh and blood family members.

  The religion doesn’t want people to grieve or be absent from the indoctrination sessions. They are afraid if this person stays away and gets comfort from neighbors or other non-Witnesses, they might not want the religion anymore. That would be their greatest fear: another one lost.
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  SANG BLOOD

  by Marcial in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  courts of denmark all lands supreme court news and judicial summaries blood transfusion to a member of jehovah's witnesses was legal.

  01 feb 2022. .

  supreme court.

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  LongHairGal

  MARCIAL:

  Yes, I saw on Reddit that Denmark will not honor the ‘No Blood’ cards.

  Maybe they are afraid that in some cases those forgotten cards carried in a wallet may not really reflect what a person’s current beliefs are!
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  Suit, shirt and tie

  by JoenB75 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i always hated suit, shirt and tie and wondered why men of all walks of life should be forced to wear these uncomfortable clothes and spend the money on them.

  it should be remembered some of the worst people wear them, like creepy joe, putin, dirty corrupt frauds in business, law etc.

  and of course al capone.

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  LongHairGal

  Just my opinion on men’s clothing: I always thought ties were awful and I can understand why some men hate them.

  I like the look of those untucked shirts on men.

  I also like the look of the un-suit type of suit. It’s more casual but looks put-together. As for those tight pants: I don’t know how flattering they are - especially if the guy has skinny legs..Maybe just a little looser without being baggy.
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  Why is it when one person attack you on a forum thread eveyone likes to pile on?

  by mickbobcat in

  1. social
  2. current

  i have noticed this on many many forums.

  so i don't have this forum in mind for this topic.

  so you may have noticed this also, but many times on threads once someone does an attack or a negative comment about someone, or the way they write or anything else on the thread, everyone else seems to just pile on by reaction not thought.

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  LongHairGal

  RULES & REGULATIONS:

  Wow, that response was uncalled for! Can somebody say ‘arrogant’?

  There have been posters that have passed through here over the years. Some see themselves as intellectuals who are tolerating everybody else who they perceive as beneath them educationally or mentally.

  Usually at some point they move along. I doubt if anybody really misses them.
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  Why is it when one person attack you on a forum thread eveyone likes to pile on?

  by mickbobcat in

  1. social
  2. current

  i have noticed this on many many forums.

  so i don't have this forum in mind for this topic.

  so you may have noticed this also, but many times on threads once someone does an attack or a negative comment about someone, or the way they write or anything else on the thread, everyone else seems to just pile on by reaction not thought.

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  LongHairGal

  RULES & REGULATIONS:

  I have seen these kinds of senseless insults on public forums and always wondered what type of mentality was behind it.

  It’s like throwing something at somebody you don’t know who never did anything to you. I’m almost certain it has to be from persons of low intelligence because it makes no sense otherwise!
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  Correct usage referring to the organization?

  by Vanderhoven7 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  which sentences are technically correct.

  1 the watchtower keeps changing its doctrines.. 2. the watch tower keeps changing its doctrines.. 3. the watchtower society keeps changing its doctrines.. 4. watchtower keeps changing its doctrines.. 5. watch tower keeps changing its doctrines.. 6. the society keeps changing its doctrines.. 7. the watchtower organization keeps changing its doctrines.. 8. the watch tower organization keeps changing its doctrines..

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  LongHairGal

  VANDERHOVEN7:

  How about: “The ‘religion’ keeps changing its doctrines.” 🤣.

  Even when I was ‘in’ I couldn’t keep up with how the JW religion wanted to be referred to. I vaguely remember when they dropped the term ‘society’ because I heard an older lady mention it. Maybe I was absent but were changes like this supposed to be announced at a meeting? I don’t seem to remember.

  I almost got the sense at the time that people were embarrassed to talk about it. I guess changes in branding don’t make people feel confident.

  I’m Out so long I suppose I have no interest what this charade calls itself.
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  Coercion at its worst: religious mandated shunning

  by Yomama in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  by patrick haeck any comments on article?.

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  LongHairGal

  HOPELESS1:

  Thanks! Did you see the decision made by Norway against the JW religion?

  It’s a step in the right direction and hopefully it will alert the world about the religion’s shunning practices among other things they hide from the public! Maybe people here with relatives stuck in the religion might see a little relief in the shunning?? One can always hope.

  Thankfully, I have no family there and this religion can ‘shove it’. May the phony facade they present to the unsuspecting public be stripped away. The world deserves to know what really happens inside this religion once somebody is in. 👍🏻
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  What is your IQ? Does it Matter?

  by Sea Breeze in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i had an aunt that had rheumatic fever as a child and only had an iq the high 70's.

  but, absolutely no one was able to bs her on an emotional level.

  she had an uncanny ability to see through people's bs.

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  LongHairGal

  I don’t think it matters. I was told when I was small that I had a high IQ. Never got a number though. I also believe it might change (maybe for the worse) over time. 🤣

  It is interesting about all the infamous people with high IQs who did very bad things. In the long run, I don’t think it means anything in a person’s life.