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  I've got the weirdest boner right now

  by ThomasCovenant in

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  2. humour

  don't worry, nothing rude, lol.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3a1nprfujs&feature=related .

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  Don't worry, nothing rude, lol.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3A1nprfuJs&feature=related
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  Snippets from 2011 Body of Elders Letters

  by ThomasCovenant in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  thanks to atlantis and anony mous.

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/bible/216315/1/download-while-you-can .

  may 28th 2011 letter re recent devastating storms.. .

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  Thanks to Atlantis and Anony Mous

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/bible/216315/1/Download-While-You-Can

  May 28th 2011 Letter re Recent devastating storms.

  ''During these last days, we can expect an increase in natural disasters, yet we are certain
  of Jehovah's care. We can be assured that "the peace of God" will remain upon these brothers
  and sisters in the months ahead''.
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  Download While You Can!

  by Atlantis in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  credit goes to anony mous=http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/members/private/215963/1/ready-to-leak-wikileaks-style=anony mous wrote:=hi,=i have a cache of documents that are direct from the branch.

  they include letters, forms, videos, booklets, instructions on how to handle everything in kingdom hall locally and rbc's financially and otherwise.=includes the branch's instructions on how to write the local incorporations so that all assets go to watchtower inc. and in case that corporation doesn't exist anymore or is no longer tax free, to the governing body (that's what it says!).

  i have them for all states but only going to include ny (since that's where they are located).

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  ThomasCovenant

  Thank you
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  Dead Sea Scrolls Now Available Online

  by ThomasCovenant in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  for those with an interest.

  http://dss.collections.imj.org.il/ .

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  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-15063895
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  Dead Sea Scrolls Now Available Online

  by ThomasCovenant in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  for those with an interest.

  http://dss.collections.imj.org.il/ .

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  ThomasCovenant

  For those with an interest

  http://dss.collections.imj.org.il/
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  Today's Watchtower Lesson Really Bothered Me...

  by dontplaceliterature in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i was a hair away from telling my wife i never wanted to go to the kingdom hall again after today's watchtower.

  the conductor mentioned something along the lines of..."if you think having to shun your disfellowshipped children is bad...you should read up on the israelites.

  when one of their children was disobedient to the law, they had to take the before the judges so that they could be stoned to death...and guess who's job it was throw the first stone?".

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  "If you think having to shun your disfellowshipped children is bad...you should read up on the Israelites. When one of their children was disobedient to the law, they had to take the before the Judges so that they could be stoned to death...and guess who's job it was throw the first stone?"

  And yet he is correct, as I see it. This is the sort of comment I wanted to make at the hall to try and wake up the sleepers.

  Maybe he was trying to do the same.

  When some brothers would comment sympathetically about some fatal accident/disaster I wished I had said ''if you think that's bad brothers, wait till Armageddon. It'll be a bloodbath.''
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  Need help to reason with a JW regarding Jesus TRUE Congregation!

  by TimothyT in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  please be patient with me on this thread.

  im going to try to explain all of this to a jw sister who believes salvation is only within the organisation.

  if you have any thoughts and suggestions id most appreciate it.. as i was growing up as a jw, i refused to believe straight from the beginning that you had to be a jw to be saved.

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  The Watchtower 1st March 1953 page 143 paragraph 12 says

  ''Ask yourself now, Did Christ Jesus, who set our example and told us to follow his example to gain life, join any church organization in his day? No, God does not require us to do that; but he requires us to worship him, to preach the good news of the Kingdom, to be Christians, to follow the example Jesus set, living in unalterable devotion to Jehovah God; to praise God and respect his supremacy, to resist all efforts to turn us from decency and to endure in faith. We have the Bible to show us the right way. Certainly it is not necessary for a person to become a member of a church to gain everlasting life''
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  I really want to go JW but..

  by fortbethel in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i've studied with like 30 diff denominations.

  i really feel jw is best for me.

  i think it's the 144,000 part & the once a year get together when they pass around the sacrament that bothers me most.

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  ThomasCovenant

  Hello Fortbethel,

  Thanks for joining.

  The Witnesses magazine The Watchtower 1st March 1953 page 143 paragraph 12 says

  ''Ask yourself now, Did Christ Jesus, who set our example and told us to follow his example to gain life, join any church organization in his day? No, God does not require us to do that; but he requires us to worship him, to preach the good news of the Kingdom, to be Christians, to follow the example Jesus set, living in unalterable devotion to Jehovah God; to praise God and respect his supremacy, to resist all efforts to turn us from decency and to endure in faith. We have the Bible to show us the right way. Certainly it is not necessary for a person to become a member of a church to gain everlasting life''
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  who does the society consider as apostates?

  by booby in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  from their literature as source.

  i did some searching and was surprised that i couldn't find them referring to those who simply quit and/or speak their doubts as such..

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  ThomasCovenant

  Watchtower 15th March '75 page 167

  What is an "apostasy"? Is it a mere careless falling away or dropping off from Christian faith and practice? No. The word "apostasy" has a much stronger flavor. The Greek word used is defined as "a standing off from," "a departing," "a withdrawing
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  who does the society consider as apostates?

  by booby in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  from their literature as source.

  i did some searching and was surprised that i couldn't find them referring to those who simply quit and/or speak their doubts as such..

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  Watchtower 1st Oct '93 page 19

  Apostasy is, in reality, a rebellion against Jehovah. Some apostates profess to know and serve God, but they reject teachings or requirements set out in his Word. Others claim to believe the Bible, but they reject Jehovah's organization and actively try to hinder its work. When they deliberately choose such badness after knowing what is right, when the bad becomes so ingrained that it is an inseparable part of their makeup, then a Christian must hate (in the Biblical sense of the word) those who have inseparably attached themselves to the badness. True Christians share Jehovah's feelings toward such apostates; they are not curious about apostate ideas. On the contrary, they "feel a loathing" toward those who have made themselves God's enemies, but they leave it to Jehovah to execute vengeance