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  New blood card system in March

  by Indoubtbigtime in

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  there is going to be a hole new system of blood cards this march .

  the congregation won’t hold any information as they did before from march it will be all put on the pub.

  i think it’s to do with vaccines and they are worried now they got everyone vaxed and they want to distance themselves from medical responsibilities and say own personal decisions.

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  carla

  I saw in some article (not U.S.) they were trying to set up a 'pure' blood blank, no vax blood supply. Sorry, don't remember where I saw it.

  Just to add to more social harmony, now we will have the vaxxed and the 'pure bloods'. yikes.
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  Five members of Jehovah's Witness congregations across Pennsylvania charged with sexual abuse of children

  by was a new boy in

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  https://www.fox43.com/article/news/crime/sexual-abuse-of-children-jehovahs-witness-pennsylvania/521-1d54cc2e-3ec6-4d20-b67a-fc3c5e8f2580.

  https://www.attorneygeneral.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/2023-02-07-presentment-2_7_23.pdf.

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  carla

  Thank you for posting this.
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  Ex-Jehovah's Witness recounts her disfellowshipping and family estrangement in today's Huffington Post. A poignant read.

  by Balaamsass2 in

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  a thoughtful read in today's huffington post.

  it reminded me of how glad i am that 1st gen and i left the cult together and worked on keeping our closest relationships alive.

  it wasn't easy.

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  carla

  That article was just so sad. I know it is played out often in dubland, such a waste of love.
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  PIMO but to scared to talk about doubts

  by Indoubtbigtime in

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  i am pimo but too scared to talk about my doubts with anyone for fear of being shunned.

  i know many now have doubts that the vaccines are safe and effective this is as good as doubting the gb.

  you can it say anything in doubt about the vaccines because the gb still act like salesmen for big pharmaceuticals .

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  carla

  It is my (non jw ) understanding that even a baptized jw does not have any guarantee of surviving the big A, they only have the 'hope' of surviving if they 'do' enough meaning fs hours, reaching out to become elder, pioneer, etc... even then they may not be 'worthy'.

  https://jwfacts.com/watchtower/salvation-only-for-jehovahs-witnesses.php

  I know my jw thinks that somehow all of us (his entire family, children, spouse, parents, etc...) will make into the 'new system' due to his 'work' and maybe because deep down we are 'good' people but just can't abide by all the jw rules just yet, lol. I guess we may get to ride on his coattails?

  Most of us look at his vision of paradise earth as 'hell'.

  I find this fitting- “I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.”
  ― Galileo Galilei, Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina
  
  
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  The Watchtower—Study Edition  |  November 2022 Let Nothing Separate You From Jehovah

  by RULES & REGULATIONS in

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  study article 47. .

  7 maintain your spiritual routine.

  consider how doing so helped shirley, a sister in papua new guinea, when she faced hardships.

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  carla

  Maybe she went down the street to the local Christian church for a free meal with no strings attached?
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  So where oh where did Judge Rutherford come up with JW theology?

  by Terry in

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  bits of unreported history that may be of casual interest… as to doctrinal origins.

  sykes was one-of-a-kind in the pentecostal movement, but he was considered quite a maverick who went his own way with heretical teachings repugnant to the pentecostal faith.. joshua sykes’ congregation was integrated, unlike pastor russell’s public speeches/sermons where blacks and whites both could attend, but only in separate sections--sykes's members were sitting side by side in the pentecostal church.

  this was considered dangerous and inflammatory at the time.. pentecostal preacher joshua sykes practiced racial and gender "integration" as early as 1908 -- having both african-american and female assistant preachers, staffers, and members.

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  carla

  I wonder what current jw's would think of the Harp book? My jw wouldn't even look at it! I think because he believed I purchased the (original copy) from an apostate. Why that would make a difference I have no idea. It is/was genuine jw book. I think every jw should read it and see where it takes them. It is one of the more insane things I have ever read. That is saying a lot because I have no problem reading things that some might find a bit 'out there'.
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  Sunday January 15 is my 76th birthday. I answer some of your questions.

  by Terry in

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  happy birthday 2 me!!.

  sunday is my 76th birthday and i know that you want to know how it "feels" to have outlived my usefulness, to have lost my natural beauty (being reduced to wrinkles and flab), and constantly walking into a room not knowing why i'm there.

  you also are curious as to how i can continue to find a reason to live since none of my kids think my opinions have any possible value, most of my facebooks friends i wouldn't recognize if i tripped over them on my way into starbucks, and my monthly expenditure on bird treats exceeds u.s. spending on the military.

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  carla

  Wishing you a very happy birthday Terry!
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  It’s started COBE asking all appointed men if they are fully vaccinated

  by Indoubtbigtime in

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  there is a huge problem now in all congregations as the gb stubbornly will not do the u turn on staying fully vaccinated that many hoped they would do.. all congregations around the world the cobe has to ask all ministerial servants and elders if they are fully vaccinated (meaning no more than six months since last shot).

  there is a massive problem now with many many jdubs not getting their latest boosters and not wanting to stay fully vaccinated .

  but more serious than that is how the gb painted themselves into a corner with these vaccine mandates.. most governments did a u turn on the vax mandates but the gb can’t get out of this one so easily .

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  carla

  Blondie, I think they have to show evidence of vax but maybe it is by cong or whoever is in charge of such things? then they can say someone just took it too far and it wasn't due to the gb blah, blah, blah....
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  Serena Williams allegedly baptized this weekend

  by neat blue dog in

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  not sure if this is fake news or not..

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  carla

  Will she change her clothing choices now? I once sent a pic of her to a jw and they accused me of sending them porn! it was a shot of her in a see-through dress.
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  Is The Religion Of Jehovah's Witnesses Biblical?

  by Vanderhoven7 in

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  the answer is a definite no!.

  because every doctrine that is unique to jehovah's witnesses is not in the bible.

  the unique doctrines of jehovah’s witnesses are the ones that only jehovah’s witnesses teach.

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  carla

  Disillusioned, there is a difference between unity and unanimity. The early church was a lively place with much debate, one thought it was bad to eat meat and the other thought it was fine, to each his own for one example. The body of Christ has many parts and different functions to each.