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  My daughter's wedding dilemma

  by RULES & REGULATIONS in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  my daughter will be getting married this coming august.

  she and her future husband are not jehovah's witnesses.

  they will have a non-religious wedding ceremony.

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  Nugget I see I just beat you to the point about money being as much a deciding factor as the high moral ground.
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  My daughter's wedding dilemma

  by RULES & REGULATIONS in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  my daughter will be getting married this coming august.

  she and her future husband are not jehovah's witnesses.

  they will have a non-religious wedding ceremony.

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  jwfacts

  Since the JWs have the inhumane stance, they should be the ones that miss out on the reception, but it depends how important they are to your daughter. Maybe you could arrange a separate room for their food. Or tell them since the cousin will be there and that feel uncomfortable can attend after the food has finished.
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  My daughter's wedding dilemma

  by RULES & REGULATIONS in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  my daughter will be getting married this coming august.

  she and her future husband are not jehovah's witnesses.

  they will have a non-religious wedding ceremony.

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  jwfacts

  To be practical, if you invite the cousin and JWs you need to let the JWs know. It would be better for them to decline the reception, than walk out and leave a huge and unnecessary catering bill.
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  QFR August 15, 2014 - Resurrection and Marriage

  by wisdomfrombelow in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  the article addressed luke 20:34-36 and now they finally admit jesus could have been referring to the heavenly resurrection.

  they said "put simply, the answer is that we cannot say" which is surprising because they have something to say about everything.

  perhaps all the old people who are waiting the new world as widow and widowers want to know if they have a chance to be reunited with their dead loved one.

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  The confusion is very JW centric, because of their belief in an earthly resurrection. The Bible never mentions an earthly resurrection, but the Watchtower tries to apply this Scripture to its earthly resurrection doctrine, when there is little doubt that it is referring to those in heaven. They have still left it up in the air, due to Jesus' reference to Abraham, and the Watchtower belief that Abraham will be resurrected onto earth.
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  How Many Had Chronic fatigue syndrome?

  by OnTheWayOut in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  chronic fatigue syndrome refers to severe, continued tiredness that is not relieved by rest and is not directly caused by other medical conditions.. did you have many congregation members, particularly pioneers, that said they had " chronic fatigue syndrome" ?.

  that's their "get-out-of-jail-free card.

  " they were free to cancel anything at anytime and it was their legitimate reason for not doing anything that didn't involve field recruiting.

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  Many JW's that I knew. Jack Porter had it for a number of years, though I think he was fine by the time he was appointed to the Australia branch committee. There was another sister in the same congregation of Bradbury that also had it. My cousin-in-law claims to have it. He diagnosed it shortly after joining the religion, almost 20 years ago, and still claims to have it.

  CFS seemed to replace Candida as the JW disease, which was popular amongst JWs in the 70's and 80's. Depression seems to be taking over from CFS now.

  I was never sure with most as to whether it was made up as an excuse, or if it was real with them and exacerbated by the religion.
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  WITNESSES FEAR THE TRUTH - WIKIPEDIA

  by The Searcher in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  every time i submit the following update to wikipeda - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/kingdom_hall#funding - some poor deluded individual/s keeps deleting.. i wonder who it could be?????????.

  "as of may 2014, the funding of kingdom hall construction around the world has changed, as per the instructions of the governing body's letter to all congregations, downloadable from this link - http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/bible/279067/1/2014-03-29-boe-confidentials-pdf-adjustment-to-financing-kingdom-hall-and-assembly-hall-construction-worldwide.

  the previous form of funding was facilitated by entirely by voluntary donations.

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  Oubliette - wow, I am surprised to learn you used to post on Wikipedia whilst an elder. Interesting observation about being woken up moreso by the apologists. I used to post once I left, but found having comments repeatedly removed, and whitewashed, by JWs got to me and I decided to stop.
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  Gotta love the internet!!

  by ILoveTTATT in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  gotta love the internet... you can find out the watchtower deception in minutes.

  this is an awesome example of cherrypicking:.

  *** w79 2/15 p. 13 insight on the news ***.

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  Great find.
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  Who negotiates a lower price when buying a new vehicle?

  by hoser in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i don't.

  whatever the sticker says on the side of the window is the price i pay.

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  There is always room built into the price for negotiation. When I buy new cars I buy the demo model, as it usually has all the high mark up inclusions, and is several thousand off the new price with just a few thousand kms on it.
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  I had a funny feeling he was a Witness... and now I need help.

  by noontide in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  im in a bit of a bind and im not quite sure what (if anything) i can do about it.

  i was recently hired as a business consultant for a rather large company.

  the company that hired me mentioned that they are concerned about a certain department and the way its being run, as this department affects every other department in the company.

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  Do not raise the question of religion at all, as that is illegal discrimination. Whilst that may be the underlying cause of the problems, it is irrelevant to the company. They need you to identify the specific problems, not why he has them. Does he have poor communication skills or procrastinate, leading to missed deadlines. Then set KPI's around those that can be used to help him improve, or else are the basis to manage him out of the organisation. There are personality profiling tools that can be used that specifically show how well a team works together, and identify areas that individuals need to improve on.
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  This week's Bible reading

  by JustVisting in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  this week's reading included exodus 25:2 where moses was to collect contibutions from those whose heart incites him to.

  i commented on this verse and quoted from the watchtower 1879 where it says, "we will not beg or solicite funds...when jehovah fails to provide the necessary funds it will be time to suspend publication.

  " mind you, this was the same meeting where the letter was read about the new donation "arrangement" was read.. comments anyone?.

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  Great comment to make. I wonder if it will have an affect on how much people determine to donate to the new arrangement.