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  Jehovah’s Witnesses Recognize That People Have the Right to Change Religions, Just Not Their Religion

  by Watchtower-Free in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  by alexandra james.

  http://jwvictims.org/2015/05/17/jehovahs-witnesses-recognize-that-people-have-the-right-to-change-religions-just-not-their-religion/.

  jehovahs witnesses say that people have the right to change religions and that they deserve respect when it comes to that right, but this is not something that they offer to those who leave their religion.

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  skin

  At 5min in this speaker says that one of the reasons a DFed person wants to return, is so they can have association with the Brothers and Sisters again. What? "association with the Brothers and Sisters again". That is completely the wrong reason for returning. The real reason a DFed person should want to return is if they want to rekindle their relationship with Jehovah. NOT because of family and friends, this attitude should be considered a self centered one from the DFed person and not the type of person that Jehovah would want associating with his people.

  This type of reasoning is plan wrong, but then again, every witness lapping this up would be thinking that this is a marvelous provision from Jehovah, and there is nothing wrong with it.
  
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  BIBLE QUESTIONS ANSWERED - Luke 14:28

  by Esse quam videri in

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  2. beliefs

  answer: by governing body of jws no!

  answer: governing body of jws

  answer: governing body of jws

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  Did the Governing Body not tell you that that bible verse doesn't apply to them?
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  Average Age of this Forum?

  by Garrett in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  heyo!.

  i'm quite interested in knowing the average age of those of us who use this forum.

  i made a quick strawpoll that you can find at the following link: http://strawpoll.me/4340636 just pick an age and click "vote" if you wish to participate.. admins: if this breaks any rules, i apologize in advance..

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  skin

  46 - been here 10 years. still in.
  
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  Pew Research Charts and Tables just for JWs

  by dropoffyourkeylee in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  http://www.pewforum.org/religious-landscape-study/religious-tradition/jehovahs-witness/.

  ok this is worth its own thread.

  the pew research folks have made available charts just for us.

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  skin

  Thanks talesin
  
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  Pew Research Charts and Tables just for JWs

  by dropoffyourkeylee in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  http://www.pewforum.org/religious-landscape-study/religious-tradition/jehovahs-witness/.

  ok this is worth its own thread.

  the pew research folks have made available charts just for us.

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  One chart says 5% of witness's live with a partner whom they not married too. how does that work?
  

  Also the sample size on average is only 250 people,
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  If you can't dazzle them with your brilliance, baffle them with your bull $hit

  by hoser in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i was thinking of this when i was sitting at the kingdom hall today.

  one of the paragraphs in the watchtower stated that the type/anti type teachings were too hard for some to understand.

  i could never figure them out never made sense to me.

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  When no one understands what it is they are trying to tell us, the default answer is "It all makes sense now". It all makes sense because I read it with my own eyes in a WT mag.
  
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  Prayer During District Assemblies

  by Tenacious in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  there's something that i've always wondered about yet could never truly understand.

  does anyone know why during district assemblies a prayer is done during the last day after coming back from lunch?.

  i can't quite remember if it's done other days but i believe this is done on the last day.

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  skin

  After more than 20 years of going to assemblies/conventions I hadn't picked up on this one. We got an assembly in a few weeks time, now they are only one day long so will be interesting.
  
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  WHAT IS YOUR "AFTER MEETING RITUAL? "

  by brandnew in

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  2. friends

  me ?

  my after meeting ritual, is getting my suit off, and a beer in my hand....in less than 2 minutes from entering my door.

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  Celebrate that the meeting is over and reflect on how much sleep I got. Freedom for another 3 or so days till the next meeting. Then repeat the above. If I'm able to miss a meeting, well that's even better.
  
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  Another "reaching out" guilt trip this weekend, apparently.

  by OneEyedJoe in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i just got word that the brothers of my congregation is "encouraged to attend a special meeting" this saturday.

  i was told to bring the od book, and the 9/15/14 and 4/15/15 study wts.

  judging by the articles in those, it's going to be another guilt trip to get all us dead-beat kids in our 20s and 30s to "reach out" to be jr. cult leaders.

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  I haven't heard of one being planned in our area. But I've been to them before. "We need more brothers to take the lead". I only show up to these to keep everyone happy.
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  Huge Shift in Doctrine?

  by Lemonp in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i am not sure why more people aren't talking about this?.

  the march 15 study edition of the wt has some major changes!

  - all unbiblical "types and antitypes" are now dropped.

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  skin

  You only need to hear this from stage and see it in the mag for it all to totally make sense.