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  Name Some Stupid Watchtower Rules or Ideas

  by minimus in

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  there's a lot.. one rule that is dumb is that a brother must wear a suit for a sunday public talk that he is giving.

  any other time, the brother could wear a suit coat with a different pair of pants and not be counseled for it.. another dumb idea is that you cannot date a person unless you seriously might marry them.

  if you're on a date, you were supposed to always have a chaperone and holding hands might not be allowed as well as sitting together.. what other dumb rules and ideas can you add?.

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  Can not belong to the YMCA.........

  Can't have an organ transplant.....oh wait, that changed, a couple of times........
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  Examining a Scripture and a Paragraph from the Watchtower Daily--Nov. 2, 2009

  by sd-7 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  today's text: daniel 12:8: "now as for me, i heard, but i could not understand.

  " comments were taken from 1/15/08 watchtower.. november 2, 2009.

  5:30 a.m. greeted us with the daily text.

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  Have found out the quickest way to get the JWs who are 'instructing' my wife in the 'bible' to stop bugging me is to ask for the references, either a list (as it pertains to the trinity brochure) or any old literature that a current article refers to. I get away with it because for the most part that is what I do at my job......check the lower level details!

  If anyone who still has an ounce of critical thinking skills remaining were to look into the references, they would see how the whole organization is now built on a foundation of sand.....
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  Congregation "Bible Study" Comments - Week Commencing 2 November 2009

  by LUKEWARM in

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  2. bible

  *** lv chap.

  12 pp.

  133-143 speak what "is good for building up" ***.

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  Thanks Lulkewarm!!!
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  wife took it pretty well i guess...it's over...

  by oompa in

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  2. friends

  i guess it only took three years, but they were hell in so many ways for both of us...she was not happy and lived in denial as much as possible...i was not happy and lived in a bottle as much as possible and glad that is over for me....but it was one of the saddest things i have ever experienced in my life....as was the visit to my parents before i told her....but yes...she said she kind of expected it...was thinking something was going to happen soon as she noticed i had more and more trouble saying i love you back to her when she said it on the phone at the end of goodbyes...and when i was leaving the house...i had noticed it for over a year and it was killing me..... i told her how sorry i was for changing so much again....and that she still walks on water...and is a great person and so pretty....and that she will be ok because she was happy single before me for many years and had all she needs for that again...her closeness to jehovah and her freinds in the congregation...she is very close to both and will be ok i hope...it was very surreal....very calm...very sad.

  my bitterness and disdain for wt rules came through when talking to my parents and i was very open about how i feel as to their upcoming shunning of me, and how it feels to my son since he was just 17....and how the fear of losing them had kept me trying in my marriage for the past few years...dad was firm in his position of future action....mom said they will still always love me...and will still talk to me until i get dfd.....oh how this hurts.....dad said there is a name for people who only live for themselves and deny god but could not think of what it was....i told him i was not living just for myself...that i am a good person and there are values from him and the bible i hope i always have....i cry so hard as i type this and tell you just so you can know how painful this is....i told him i so loved the rule of treating others how you want to be treated and have always done that...even allowing myself to be wronged on so many occasions to keep peace....... he said that was a good rule....i agreed and said it was a big one too....and that while i could do it...treat him the way i would like to be treated...he would not be able to!.......left as i became emotional...big hug from mom, but i just barely put an arm on dad............oompa.

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  So sorry to hear that oompa......wish there was more I could do for you...it is not an easy postion to be in at all.
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  Brilliant Talk Yesterday

  by Violet in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  just thought i would share this.........a brother who used to be a mercenary before he came into the truth gave the talk at the hall yesterday and he said that the bible was like jehovah's cv.....it told us everything about him.....so we can really know him.. he also said with all the governments and all the rules and regulations in the world, and nothing working at the moment, we should appreciate that jehovah only has 2 laws.............love him above all other things, and love our neighbours..........if only the whole world obeyed those 2 laws there would be peace without the need for armageddon................so its all down to humans why things are going wrong.. if we abandoned the planet tomorrow the earth would repair itself and there would be peace and harmony in nature.......... man has really messed up.. thank goodness we have had the chance to know jehivah and have a hope for the future!!.

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  So where in those two laws is die because you can not take a blood transfusion......flip flops on organ transplants.............etc
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  Defections, court fights test Scientology - AP

  by Gayle in

  1. social
  2. current

  http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/aleqm5isbebxxyed3dqsnye_ripvcekxtad9bmsphg0.

  wouldn't it be wonderful to see something like this about jws some day?!.

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  My wife saw an article on the Scientology stuff going on and said that that religion is gone, there is trouble with it all all religion will soon be gone....now why is it when another faith has problems there are comments like that, but when the JWs have a problem it is all chalked up to persecution pointing to them as the true faith.......just wondering?
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  Blondie's Comments You Will Not Hear at the 11-01-09 WT Study (ATTITUDE)

  by blondie in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  comments you will not hear at the 11-01-09 wt study (september 15, 2009, pages 7-11)(christ's attitude).

  review comments will be in red or headed by comments.

  wt material from today's wt will be in black.

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  Thanks again Blondie, always wonderful to see what my wife has been reading and get a perspective on what they talked about. Your efforts are so very appreciated, hope you are feeling better.....thoughts are with you!
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  I told my wife I will start pioneering next month ...

  by Albert Einstein in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  ... if she will prove me from the bible accuracy of 1914. and i stressed i really mean it.. we had one of the usual evening discussions and this was the result.. she said she is not ready for this and must do some preparation and aditional study (which is funny for somebody raised up in a hard-core jw family, baptized over 25 years, who spent over a decade in regular pioneering, reads wt for hours every week and have brought several people into jw cult...).

  but ok, she pulled out several publications and is doing her preparation now and tonight we will have the discussion.. to motivate her i told her:.

  1) if you will be succesfull i will go to preach to everybody in our street about 1914/607 during my pioneering.

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  I am sure your good lady will be able to prove it to you, just like the different Elders and Dubs I have asked to prove the special choosing by Jesus of the FDS in 1919.

  I asked an elder from my wife's congo this question and he has not called me or spoken to me since.....I must be labeled.....not sure.
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  Don't Know How To Tell Your Parents? Here's a Video...

  by Tuesday in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  hey everyone!.

  sorry i haven't been on a whole lot lately, i've been extremely busy with a bunch of goings on in my life.

  i made a set of videos due to receiving a pm on youtube asking me specifically how i left the jehovah's witnesses.

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  Tuesday,

  You do such a wonderful job of laying out the facts in a non-aggresive/non-threatening manner......thanks!
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  New Understanding of "This Generation"

  by snowbird in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  am i dreaming this, or is the wt teaching "the generation that will not pass away" to be those who knew some of the anointed of 1914?.

  are they crazy?

  (not a rhetorical question).. sylvia.

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  The WT society and Jehovah's Witnesses basically try to change the real definitions of words to accomodate their false predictions. And why do they do this ? Because they want to control their followers. Even by deception. They don't care if they lie or not- they just want control. Peace out, Mr. Flipper

  The need to do this to cover their a## when they make a false prophecy.....