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Question for JWs still on the "inside":
by Hellrider in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
just a question: if you are still jws (for any reason, many just can`t leave because their entire families are wrapped around it, etc), but don`t believe in it, and lead a "double life", how do you cope with going door to door?

i just can`t imagine how it must feel like to go out there and try to tell people at the doors or in the streets things you know are just bs!

how do you deal with that?
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Can you celebrate your 100th birthday when you are a JW?
by blondie in
1. jw
2. friends
as a devout jehovah's witness, mrs. merle is prohibited from celebrating her birthday.

but a week from tomorrow, relatives and friends will flock to the camoset village country living mobile home park in johnstown to attend a super bowl party that just happens to feature ice cream and cake.. "that's why we're calling it a super bowl party," explained her son bob merle, 73, who lives just five trailers down the road.

"we don't celebrate birthdays, but we have to celebrate 100 years," said mrs. mechem, 78.
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When was the last time a witness knocked at your door as a friend, not FS?
by JH in
1. jw
2. friends
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although i've been bapized back in 1988, and never was disfellowshipped, the last time a jw came over here as a friend, was about 15 years ago.

oh, and i'm not shunned..... the only witnesses who knocked on my door in the last 15 years, were elders, in "uniform" in the field service.. now, imagine if i was really shunned......
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Help!!
by mamabear in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i have been df'd for 10 years and decided today that i want to be undisfellowshiped.

i don't want to be reinsted, obviously.

i am meeting with the elders on sunday..
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Question about baptism
by Shazard in
1. jw
2. experiences
hey people!

i have read that baptism in jw is something very different than in christianity.

so question... is jw baptism somewhat legally binding.
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What was the strangest or nicest experience you had at a door?
by Sheepish in
1. jw
2. experiences
i remember one lady who was so nice to us, she invited us into her foyer/porch area outside her front door where she had a huge owl that had come to hang out.

it was amazing to be so close to it, and we forgot all about the magazine offer!
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Re: The "United In Worship" and "Worship The True God" books...
by sf in
1. watchtower
2. medical
in a search i am doing on some related issues to the tort essay, i came across something i am hoping others may be able to either confirm and/ or shed 'light' on.. i am only going to paste the text:.

the "united in worship" book was studied before baptizm...it had a very harsh chapter on not taking blood even if you have to die...the new version has deleted that whole chapter!!!

the book "worship the true god" 2002 is the same except for this.
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607BCE or 587/586BCE explained
by truth about the last days in
1. watchtower
2. bible
hello all to all my brothers of the faith.

i have some information in relation to the dates 607bce and 587/586bce, with the simple explanation of the 70years exile.

the wt still sticks with the 607bce due to the fact that the governing bodys explains that the jews returned back at about 537bce, assuming that they were finished with their bondage.
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Marriage - Why bother?
by Spectrum in
1. social
2. relationships
yet another friend's marriage has broken down(5th), this one i did not predict at all.

it came as a shock to me.

they got married after 10 years of living together so it's not like they didn't know each other.
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WTS Letter to Congregations re. HLC
by doinmypart in
1. watchtower
2. medical
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the christian congregation of jw sent a letter to all congregations regarding hospital liaison committees.

this letter will be read the week of january 30, 2006. i can email a pdf of the letter to someone willing to post it here.