Details, please. Not much to go on here. Not sure why you'd choose to spend one of your topics on such non-information.
under_believer
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Big WT article this week!
by 5thGeneration in.
i believe that this weeks coming wt is an indictment of all active jw publishers.. in my opinion, it seems to imply that growth in the organization has been stymied by the lackadaisical attitude in the congregations.. they refer to the "token" service of the jews and how it affected true worship and god's spirit.. will discuss further....
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Anyone remember the Awake on.....Gibbons?
by PopeOfEruke inman i wanted a gibbon so much after reading that article......i musta been about 10 or so....i so wanted to hear the patter of the feet just like the article described it.
thinking back on it now....who the heck would keep a pet gibbon anyway?
and whats the point of a stupid article like that ?
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under_believer
Must have been pre-'70, because I can't find it in the cdrom. They were always writing weird stuff like that, though. Sometime do a wtlib search on "chocolate." It's clear that someone at the Society seriously loves chocolate.
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Local campaign to stop doorstep calling, will it succeed?
by BluesBrother in.
i wonder how the dubs will react if this ever comes in?
article in local free paper..
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under_believer
It would never fly in the States--there is too much caselaw and legal precedent backing Witnesses up. The UK may be a different story, though--can any of our British members speak to that?
At present they respect "No Jehovah's Witnesses" and "No Trespassing" signs--that's really the best way to go. -
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1999 new light on voting?
by under_believer inso it was just brought to my attention that the nov 1, 1999 watchtower, while still strongly discouraging voting, says:.
*** w99 11/1 p. 28 questions from readers ***.
as to whether they will personally vote for someone running in an election, each one of jehovahs witnesses makes a decision based on his bible-trained conscience and an understanding of his responsibility to god and to the state.
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under_believer
So it was just brought to my attention that the Nov 1, 1999 Watchtower, while still strongly discouraging voting, says:
*** w99 11/1 p. 28 Questions From Readers ***
As to whether they will personally vote for someone running in an election, each one of Jehovah’s Witnesses makes a decision based on his Bible-trained conscience and an understanding of his responsibility to God and to the State.
Does this mean that voting is no longer a disfellowshipping offense (and hasn't been since 1999?) Has anybody had any practical experience with any Witnesses they know voting, the elders knowing about it, and them not being punished or sanctioned in any way?
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Message from active JW living in another country
by drew sagan ini just got an email from a friend of mine who lives in another country.
we became friends in high school, he was here on exchange.
we have contacted each other on and off over the past few years and it's allways good to hear from him.
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under_believer
Ah, the ascetic ideal that the Society preaches and which the Governing Body does not practice... Asceticism works for some people, but for Witnesses it is not a personal, reasoned choice. It is a strong suggestion, magnified into a near-command via social pressure, that comes from without. It is imposed.
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Your great deep secret
by greendawn intell us one of your great deep secrets that you are willing, and don't mind, to share with other people.
one of my secrets is that when i was 14 years old (and before becoming a jw) i had sex with a girl my age and also her sister who was one year older than me.
fortunately their mother didn't find out though i think she was suspecting that something fishy was going on.
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under_believer
I was never a good JW. Doubted and disbelieved almost everything in one way or another, from a very early age (like 7) but thought I could still be a JW and "wait on Jehovah" even though I hardly believed anything they said fully.
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Your great deep secret
by greendawn intell us one of your great deep secrets that you are willing, and don't mind, to share with other people.
one of my secrets is that when i was 14 years old (and before becoming a jw) i had sex with a girl my age and also her sister who was one year older than me.
fortunately their mother didn't find out though i think she was suspecting that something fishy was going on.
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under_believer
KW, you oughta take that kid out for a beer.
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Will JW's elders Disfellowship or Disassociate or Reprove a JW for flag-sal
by booker-t ini attend a group activity every week and there is a young jw's woman that attends there with me and everytime we stand up to salute the flag she refuses to stand or say the pledge of allegence.
she told me that if she did the elders would df'd her for idolatry.
i have never heard of jw's getting kicked out for saluting the flag.
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under_believer
People are not DF'ed for anything specific. They are DF'ed for "unrepentant wrongdoing." If this person saluted the flag, the elders found out and told them to stop, and they kept doing it, then they would be DF'ed on account of not being repentant.
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Do you think that most "thin"people have hatred towards "heavy" people?
by booker-t ini know this might sound abit "paranoid" but as i mentioned on other posts before i am a "heavy" person who is losing weight.
so far i have lost 65 pounds and i am still losing through a "strict"diet and exercise.
i was at a restaurant the other day and there were 4 "thin" people sitting at a table across from a "very heavy overweight" man.
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under_believer
Yes. Humans suck.
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Anyone remember the awake on... we are as old as our moms?
by Cabin in the woods inbecause a female is supposedly born with all of her eggs intact that would make us all our mothers age.
let me see... calendar wise i am still 52... if i were my moms age i would be turning 99 this year!
ow!.
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under_believer
Hold on... doesn't that actually mean that all women are actually as old as, what, Eve? ;)