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  Children or no Children?

  by Sirona in

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  the jws used to always have discussions about whether to have children "in this system of things".. i used to always think it was pathetic to avoid having kids because of the so-called impending armageddon.. however.

  despite the fact that i've always wanted kids, right now i'm not so sure.

  just look at the things happening in the world.

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  Cygnus

  No kids for me. a) I'm too selfish. b) I see how older age has ravished my dad and I wouldn't ever want to have my kids see me like that and feel so sad like I do, or worse, deal with my death
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  A Comparison Of Translations

  by Honesty in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  decide for yourself how accurate the new world translation is:.

  *** rbi8 exodus 6:2-3 ***.

  2 and god went on to speak to moses and to say to him: ai am jehovah.

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  Cygnus

  Dan, why is it sick? Do you know why "other" is in the NWT? Do other religions that teach as do JWs that the comma belongs after "today" in Luke ('cause it definitely could be put there) make you equally as sick?
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  how much money did you give the borg???

  by kid-A in

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  just curious....because i left before being baptized, my parents handled all the donations and i never gave them a penny.

  how many posters on this board actually gave large or not so large sums of money to the jws, either directly, or as 'gifts' to pioneers, cos, etc??

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  Cygnus

  I very rarely contributed at the Kingdom Hall. I always stuck $20.00 in the box at assemblies or conventions. Way back in the day I always spent too much on food tickets at conventions and would always end up with leftover useless small green pieces of paper.
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  A Comparison Of Translations

  by Honesty in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  decide for yourself how accurate the new world translation is:.

  *** rbi8 exodus 6:2-3 ***.

  2 and god went on to speak to moses and to say to him: ai am jehovah.

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  Cygnus

  Well, some (read: mostly evangelicals) call the different renderings in the NWT "changes." JW/NWT apologists will say they are restorations to the original meanings and best ways to translate difficult passages. For instance, IMO they make a good case for what anti-NWTers call the "insertion" of the word "other" in Colossians 1. Best get yourself a big brown NWT reference Bible, as I can't reproduce all the Appendices here. There are a few decent pro-NWT websites out there too that deal with the criticisms against the translation, such as http://www.bibletranslation.co.sr/ . Rolf Furuli's book on bias in translation of the Bible is an interesting read (but I sold my copy on ebay).
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  **MUST READ** AlanF's email to Knocking.org

  by sf in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  this is a must-read that, hopefully, will stay an "active topic" for all seekers and lurkers, by bumping it to the top as often as possible.

  alan wrote it in randys {dogpatch} thread regarding knocking.org documentary and in reply to the email mr. engardio sent to barbara anderson.

  however, it is so vital a read that it indeed needs its own thread:.

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  Cygnus

  Ok Ok in the interest of fairness, I was the ghost-writer of that letter and am allowing Alan to receive the credit.
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  CARD FOR CRUMPET

  by MerryMagdalene in

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  tijkmo is going to try to get crumpet's mailing address so we can send her a get well card from all of us.... so who wants their name signed onto it???

  sign up here

  (edited to add my own name...oops

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  Cygnus

  Add me too, please!
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  Jehovah's Witnesses have abandoned the idea that an Egyptian pyramid has

  by jaffacake in

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  one of many favourite quotes from the watchtower's own official history (1995)

  proclaimers *** jv chap.

  14 p. 200 they are no part of the world ***.

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  Cygnus

  For some insane reason, that quote makes me giggly, especially if I say "abandoned" in my head over and over and over and over and over...........................................
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  Just Got Home From the Hospital

  by Undecided in

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  all went well with my operation.

  very little pain and i can pee now.

  i have to take it easy for two weeks or a little longer.

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  Cygnus

  Way to go, Ken. I'm really happy for you. :)
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  JWs are not a cult................

  by vitty in

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  ...............or so i thought.

  when you were an active jw, how did you feel when ppl accused you of being a cult !!!!!!!!!

  and do you think its a cult now your out ?

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  Cygnus

  The standard answers..... no one human leader, no technical "brainwashing," etc.

  I say JWs are a high-control group with mind-control techniques. When I get emotional, I can refer to it as a cult and feel justified.
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  When Did You Realize That You REALLY Were Going To Die?

  by minimus in

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  and not live forever on paradise earth?

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  Cygnus

  Well, doesn't this thread prove that apostates have nothing better to offer than the Witness' Biblical Hope For Mankind (c)?

  For me it was probably 6 or 7 years ago. The only time I really have faced my mortality was in the OR just before they put me to sleep for my heart operation. I said to the surgeon, just please make sure I wake up. "Had I did snuff it, I would not be here to tell the story I've told, oh my brothers."