the society will end up saying its a 'figurative paradise' and by being a witness, your in God's new order lol.Yep! New Light!
Tea4Two
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Come One Come All Deliverence is near Get your Convention Program here
by Tea4Two in"deliverance at hand" is the theme for the jehovah's witnesses district convention may 26 to 28 at the resch center.
serving parts of wisconsin, michigan and the upper peninsula, the convention opens the season for district meetings throughout the united states.
nearly 11 million people attended the 2,981 district conventions last year.
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Tea4Two
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Come One Come All Deliverence is near Get your Convention Program here
by Tea4Two in"deliverance at hand" is the theme for the jehovah's witnesses district convention may 26 to 28 at the resch center.
serving parts of wisconsin, michigan and the upper peninsula, the convention opens the season for district meetings throughout the united states.
nearly 11 million people attended the 2,981 district conventions last year.
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Tea4Two
I know....just so much rhetoric...**yawnnnn*
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Does items considered part of the "Occult" still scare you?
by free2beme inif i met you and you saw that i wear a pentagram and often speak about tarot and rune, and mention how i do magick and you saw that i have a wiccan calender on my wall and there are statues around my house of gargoyles, dragons, and other things no good witness would be caught dead with.
would you be okay with this or does your mind still see these items as demons?
i a an adult, i can accept people being judgemental of these items and i do come to expect it, especially with my own personal background in the religion.
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Tea4Two
No, but the imaginations of the human mind is amazing.
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Come One Come All Deliverence is near Get your Convention Program here
by Tea4Two in"deliverance at hand" is the theme for the jehovah's witnesses district convention may 26 to 28 at the resch center.
serving parts of wisconsin, michigan and the upper peninsula, the convention opens the season for district meetings throughout the united states.
nearly 11 million people attended the 2,981 district conventions last year.
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Tea4Two
"Deliverance at Hand" is the theme for the Jehovah's Witnesses district convention May 26 to 28 at the Resch Center.
Serving parts of Wisconsin, Michigan and the Upper Peninsula, the convention opens the season for district meetings throughout the United States. Nearly 11 million people attended the 2,981 district conventions last year.
The local convention begins each day at 9:30 a.m. The topics and events include:
- May 26: "Be Attentive to Jehovah's Promises of Deliverance" and "How Jehovah Delivers 'the Poor One Crying for Help'" in the morning. The keynote address will be "Jehovah's Provisions for Our Everlasting Deliverance." The afternoon session's topics are "Jehovah Tenderly Cares for Older Ones," "Deliverance From Painful Distress" and "The Role of Angels in Rendering Public Service." The four-part symposium "Jehovah-Provider of Escape" precedes the session's final discourse "No Opposing Weapon or Tongue Will Succeed."
- May 27: "Continue in the Ministry Without Letup" opens the morning. Other talks are "Delivered From the Trap of the Birdcatcher" and "Searching Into the Deep Things of God."
The Saturday morning program concludes with a talk followed by baptism in water for those who qualify.
The afternoon sessions are "Keep a Scriptural View of Health Care," "What Spirit Dominates Your Life?" "Maintain a Threefold Cord in Marriage," "Young People, Remember, Now, Your Grand Creator" and "Are You Living with Jehovah's Day in Mind?"
- May 28: The morning symposium is "The Kingdom of the Heavens is Like …" Four talks briefly discuss some of Jesus' parables. The final morning talk will introduce a convention highlight, the full-costume drama based on Chpter 13 of the Bible book of First Kings. The final convention session is "Deliverance by God's Kingdom Is at Hand."
All sessions are open to the public. There are no admission fees and no collections are taken, according to the organizers.
The Jehovah's Witnesses religion is based on first-century Christianity, according to James Senger, city overseer in Green Bay. Participants are serious students of the Bible. Unlike some Christian faiths, they do not recognize the Trinity. Instead, Jehovah is the father, so named because that is the name given as God's personal name in the Bible. Jesus is his firstborn son. The Holy Spirit is not a person; it is God's active force. As in other Christian religions, Jesus is central to their future and their worship.
Stewardship of the land is a vital issue. Members are family-oriented and pro-education. Members do not pledge allegiance to any nation and therefore do not salute the flag. They also don't celebrate most holidays that other Christians observe. The Easter season is very important, but their emphasis is on Good Friday, the day Jesus died. This is because the traditions surrounding Christmas and Easter came into play later than the first century.
Locally, the international organization has close to 1,000 members in Green Bay and De Pere. They are divided into six congregations, one of which is a Spanish-speaking group, at three Kingdom Halls. Their signature ministry is a door-to-door campaign, where they offer free literature published by Watchtower Bible Society.
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Your favourite film of all time?
by Spectrum inmindless fun part (ii) .
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mine is - west side story followed in second place by the very first star wars.
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Tea4Two
My favorite movie changes from year to year....right now I will say it is "Capote"
What an OddBall he was...the actor deserved the best actor award for playing Truman Capote.
Yesterday on encore...a movie was playing called "Strange Invaders" Reminded me so much of the Watchtower GB's.....they came from outerspace and wanted total control over the small town of people.
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How much persecution did you expect to come when you were a JW?
by JH indid you expect, that one day, you would be persecuted for being a jw?.
how bad did you expect it to get?
do jw's today still expect some kind of persecution to come because of their beliefs and actions?
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I could not see any persecution coming in a liberal and tolerent modern western society where freedom of religious belief is guaranteed by the constitution.
Ditto! I felt the same way.
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The Story of Adam & Eve
by LaCatolica ini learned that the story of adam and eve was exactly that, 'a story'.
i remember learning that in my religion class in high school.
i learned that the old testament was filled with tales and that none should be taken literally because these were stories of oral tradition.
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Tea4Two
Hi there James Woods, So tell me about evolution, "Which came first, the Male or the Female"?
At least in the Creation story of the Bible there was an Intelligent being who made the decision to create the Male and Female. Although not every detail is mentioned and it does sound like a Myth the way the creation story is told, I still believe we have a higher power than oursleves.
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The Story of Adam & Eve
by LaCatolica ini learned that the story of adam and eve was exactly that, 'a story'.
i remember learning that in my religion class in high school.
i learned that the old testament was filled with tales and that none should be taken literally because these were stories of oral tradition.
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Tea4Two
Male and Female and evolution? In my estimation there is NO WAY evolution evolved the other sex and from there, we humans procreate. Think about it! If we evolved then we don't need the other sex, going back to the mud buggers.
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Claiming Christianity in an Apostate Organization!
by Dogpatch incourtesy of towerwatcher: claiming christianity in an apostate organization!
webster's dictionary defines the word "apostasy" as, "an abandoning of what one believed in, as a faith, political party, principles etc".
what better way to illustrate the true definition of acts of apostasy, than to list some of the criminal acts that many cults are committing today in the name of christianity.
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Tea4Two
Further investigation into the matter found that many Jehovah's Witnesses who were well and able bodied and in good health, were committing social security fraud, by falsely claiming to be sick, disabled, or old aged! "Auxiliary pioneers", "full-time pioneers", as well as "circuit overseers" had fraudulently filled out applications to gain financial support from CAMIVAC! The letters, "CAMIVAC" stand for, (Church Insurance Fund for old-aged, incapacity, and illness benefits). This social security scheme was detected and listed on page 19 of the Mission report. (See scan of page 19 below).
Damn It! Why can't the WTS pay these people a decent wage. After all they DO work for the society.
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The posts have been great!
by brother ini haven't been on in a while so i've been perusing the threads today and i do have to say the last few have been fantastic.
i find this a great forum to post something learned, something funny, or to just get something off your chest.
we each have our own way of de-brainwashing(if you want to use that term)ourselves but we also share quite a bit in common.
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Tea4Two
A great big welcome to you brother