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  Lets Build THE WORLDS LARGEST CROSS!

  by GetBusyLiving in

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  that ad is really getting to me, lol.

  how many people do you think could be impaled on that thing when its finished?.

  gbl.

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  yaddayadda

  That ad makes me sick. It's really annoying and it's obviously just a money-making scam. Wish the moderators would get rid of it!!!
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  Mormon lady shocked at JW disfellowshipping policy

  by yaddayadda in

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  was talking to a mormon friend about the jw policy of shunning disfellowshipped persons.

  she was pretty shocked to hear that jw totally ignore disfellowshipped ones, not even saying hello, even family members.

  told her that you have to spend months attending their meetings to grovel your way back and the whole time no one talks to you, not a word.

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  yaddayadda

  Was talking to a Mormon friend about the JW policy of shunning disfellowshipped persons. She was pretty shocked to hear that JW totally ignore disfellowshipped ones, not even saying hello, even family members. Told her that you have to spend months attending their meetings to grovel your way back and the whole time no one talks to you, not a word. She said "but that's humiliating!"
  
  I asked her what policy the Mormons have. They said Mormons have both disfellowshipping and excommunicating (can't quite recall what the difference is but the latter is worse as it involves a kind of judicial committee and you are officially removed from the roll of Mormons) but in both cases NO ONE knows except the top dudes in your local church. It is kept confidential from the rest of the flock. It only affects the disfellowshipped or expelled Mormon in that they are not allowed to tithe anymore or get involved in certain activities. But otherwise there is no announcement and you are treated the same as normal. You are never shunned by other mormons unless you request no contact.
  
  And if a Mormon becomes inactive, ie, stops attending their services, the elders in the church visit them ONCE A MONTH until the person is activated again or requests the visits to stop. And others in the church will often do little things to encourage you to come back, eg, leaving kind notes and cakes at your door.
  
  I was pleasantly surprised to learn all this. Funny how a 'false religion' clearly has a much more loving, merciful policy for how it deals with congregation members struggling with sin than JW's. Seems to me that Mormons are fulfilling John 13:35 in this matter much better than JW's are.
  
  Yadda
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  ANNOUNCEMENT: "Special" Awake! for November. Confidential ;-)

  by BFD in

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  2. beliefs

  i was asked to post this by a paranoid jwder.

  i'm an elder and have stated as much on this board.

  call me paranoid, but i'd rather not stick my head up and say "hey bethel monitors, come after this guy!

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  yaddayadda

  These special articles, etc, are really nothing but ordinary, run of the mill stuff with an extra coat of varnish. This is done purely to boost JW morale. Most of them are bored out of their skulls from all the years of monotonous meetings saying the same thing over and over so these pathetic morsels of excitement that the WTS feeds them are about the only excitement they get. Sad.
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  help! need words to a song by kenny rogers

  by the sage in

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  looked on google, ask, and yahoo but can't fine words to a song by kenny rogers.

  thought about this forum.

  maybe someone ot there can help me.

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  yaddayadda

  Please don't block up this bible research board with this kind of junk.
  
  Spaznik why did you help this idiot out.
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  Jamica JW's Spend $1 million Cleaning up Stadium

  by kwr in

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  us$35m trelawny stadium not being maintained.

  jehovah's witnesses forced to spend $1m on clean-up after renting facilitykeril wright, business observer staff reporter.

  wednesday, july 04, 2007. http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/magazines/business/html/20070703t230000-0500_124968_obs_us___m_trelawny_stadium_not_being_maintained.asp.

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  yaddayadda

  This is about the only good those JW's have done for their local community.
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  My act of disobedience at the DC (pathetic, but thrillingly satisfying)

  by CaptainSchmideo in

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  saturday, i am with my son, my sister-in-law, and my 2 1/2 year old nephew, trying to walk out of the arena to return my lunch cooler to the car.

  the exit we use is a "one way only, no re-entry permitted gate.

  ok, i'm fine with that, i just want to leave the building through this corridor, not re-enter the same way.

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  yaddayadda

  LMAO at Open Mind
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  New Aust Census - other Christians growing, JWs falling

  by jwfacts in

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  2. beliefs

  the following figures are from the australian census 2006 as found at http://www.abs.gov.au/websitedbs/d3310114.nsf/home/census (30th june 2007).

  very interesting to see that the number of people admitting to being jehovah's witnesses has fallen over the last 10 years by 3%, whilst baptists have grown by 7% and mormons by 18%.

  looks like jws are not the only ones preaching afterall.. .

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  yaddayadda

  Remember that illustration JW's use at public talks where they describe this system as a sinking ship but it is sinking so slowly that no one in the world can tell it is sinking?
  
  The JW's are the same. They are slowly but surely sinking statistically but it is happening so slowly that the Governing Body have so far been too blind, complacent or stubborn to act.
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  Child sacrifice

  by veen in

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  so everyone always goes on about how terrible baal worshipers were, sacrificing their children to him etc.

  do not parents therefore, of children who die from not accepting blood, carry out a very similar act.

  essentially, they allow their children to die just to please their god, and would be praised for standing firm right to the end, as they stood by and watched their child slowly slip away, knowing that they could save their life at any time.

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  yaddayadda

  It's a very strong accusation to make but it seems disturbingly true.
  
  I'm certain that Jeremiah 7: 31 expresses how Jehovah feels about the JW babies and children who have died as a result of the WTS's fanatical blood policy.
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  When will the JW's annual publisher growth rate finally hit zero?

  by yaddayadda in

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  about 10 years ago i did a simple projection for when the organisation's annual publisher growth rate would hit zero.

  the date i arrived at was 2009. my rough projection was based on the preceding 20 worldwide annual reports.

  obviously my projection was wrong.

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  yaddayadda

  Actually I expect the annual percentage figure will remain steady for the next few years and possibly even go on a bit of an upward curve between now and 2014. However, from 2015 onward I think the figure will rather quickly drop to languish consistently below 1%, until eventually, in about 10-15 years after 2015, it reaches zero/negative.
  
  I know that if I was still a dub I would secretly be looking for the end to come before the 100th anniversary of 1914. Lately many JW's seem to have an especially heightened sense of expectation that the end is so very close now. Most JW's who are now aged about 35 up expected the end to come around 2000 and are thus sure that it can't be too much farther away. It's just human nature to have a time-frame in mind and most middle-aged and older JW's were conditioned to look to a date, explicit or not (1975, 1984).
  
  Steve2, yes, I think they will have no choice but to soon publish a truncated version of the annual worldwide report. It will no longer show the annual % publisher stats increase/decease. I doubt they would drop the worldwide report entirely as it may signal alarm bells for too many JW's who are already demoralised and barely hanging in there in the forlorn hope the end truly is just around the corner.
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  are Jehovah's Witnesses a cult? You decide...

  by under_believer in

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  there are no new thoughts in this post, but i felt like this topic was timely, what with it being convention time again, and with the anti-education rhetoric they've been spouting lately.. .

  there are many definitions and lists of criteria for the concept of "cult.

  " this is only one of them, so your mileage may vary.

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  yaddayadda

  Not another 'JW's are a cult' thread. How many of these have I seen in the last few months? Two dozen?