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Basic Doctrines
by mystified ini have not read the other posts yet.
i'm assuming, before reading, that this an anti-jehovah's witness site.
i would just like to make a couple of points, and would be interested in responses to them.
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So how are JW's doing in 2006?
by SickofLies inok, so i had to go to the meeting last sunday and i was bored out of my mind, but i put this together while i was there and it is based on the latest figures for 2005, i though some here would find it interesting.. .
in the 2006 year book the following figures are reported: (note these are for 2005).
branches of jw's: 112. number of lands reporting: 235. total congregations: 98,268. world wide memorial attendance: 16,383,333. memorial partakers worldwide: 8,524. avg.
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Spectre
Obviously this is a sign of Satan's increasing pressure that he is puting on Jehovah's one true organization. If only Jehovah was strong enough to fight Satan.
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Don't get the phone... it's Satan!
by Virgochik inmy mom always warned her new studies that satan would take notice right away that they were studying the truth.
she would give examples, so they would recognize the devil's activities for what they were.
sure enough, the phone rang during a study just as mom asked the lady to read a scripture.
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Spectre
I remember stuff like that. Which just made me remember a story of how someone went to a door and it was a some palm reader or something. She was absolutely furious at the witnesses because the demons told her that they were too busy to do any parlor tricks anymore for her because "the time of the end was here" and the demons needed to do whatever was needed to break up witness families.
I heard this over 20 years ago when I was about 16 or so. It's really incredible that this was fairly "normal" and unquestioned everyday event.
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Create a Convention name!
by Nosferatu in.
how about the "godly oatmeal" convention.
....or how about the "divine chocolate cake" assembly?
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Spectre
Kool-Aid!!! Here, have some!!!
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Did the elders contact you 1 year after being DF'd?
by JH in.
elders are supposed to meet everyone once a year, either df'd ones or inactive, just to try to bring them back.. in my case, they usually try right before the memorial.
how about you?.
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Spectre
The elders know where I am but I think they are afraid to come into my demon infested store. All these Dungeons & Dragons game books work wonders as a JW repellant.
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How to reply to the inevitable invitation to Memorial this year...
by nsrn ini'm anticipating a series of visitis from the witnesses to invite me to memorial.
every year i get a few with the preprinted invitation, a couple slightly old magazines, and big smiles.
these are people who i grew up with, who were kind to me, who honestly think my fade out will cost my eternal soul at the big a. these are the same people who pick up my elderly parents for meetings, bring them food when they are sick, and change their rusted out water heater for them in the dead of winter.
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Spectre
I've found that if you are non-committal means that they will be back. I went to the memorial about 5 years ago and was freaked out by all the goofy ritual. I now tell them that.
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Blood - why bother over kids?
by hamsterbait inevery time a jw child is rushed into hospital, precious hours are wasted over claim and counterclaim of the blood issue.
why do dub parents waste precious hours or minutes refusing blood for their kid, when they know a court order will take the issue out of their hands anyway????.
i just saw the film untergang, where himmler's wife said she did not want her children to live in a non nazi world.. surely to god this is not what is now going on in dub minds now the predictions are so patently lies???.
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Spectre
Gotta try and be like Abraham and all. Here was a guy who "saw" miracles happen so therefore would have more of a substantial reason for his faith. While we today don't see any miracles but witnesses are still expected to put their kids up on the alter.
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What are your most hated JW words and phrases?
by Low-Key Lysmith inmine are, in no particular order:.
"the friends".
"glean".
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Spectre
"The Truth."
"Experience."
And there was a watchtower study back in the early 90's that talked about Jesus as "The Great Potentate." I was like "Potentate?" Lets go straight to the stupid word thesaurus why don't we.
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I am hurt, my wife had a miscarriage and still my family didn't contact me
by jwfacts intwo weeks ago my wife had a miscarriage at 11 weeks.
it is very sad as it was to be my first child and my wife is already 39. what hurt the most though is that none of my immediate family contacted me.
i was d/f in january and did not expect to hear regularly from my parents and sister.
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Spectre
Sorry to here that.
When I was df'ed I knew the rules, I was a single guy so I had very minimal contact with my family. But if anything had happened on that scale, even though I wouldn't have expected it, my mom probably would have been there or at least said something. I look back on so many things now though and am stunned at the level of in which this religion strips away basic human emotion.
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Time to start living again
by lola28 intime to start living again.
i have come to realize that for the last two years i have put my life on hold, i have not been living i have just been floating just existing but not living, not really living.
it is time for me to change this.
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Spectre
Nice one lola!
Follow your bliss. ~Joseph Campbell
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