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Are You Still 'Politically Neutral'?
by leavingwt in
1. jw
2. friends
are any of you still 'politically neutral' for biblical reasons?

just curious.. .

lwt.
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Calling Young Brothers to Bethel while Kicking Out the Loyal Ones
by Ultimate Reality in
1. jw
2. friends
this week marks the news of two "young" brothers i know being accepted to brooklyn bethel.. this pattern continues to demonstrate the current "human resources" policy of the current gb.

while telling those that have spent the best years of their life, "we need you in the field", they continue to bring in the healthy, unsuspecting young brothers so they can be used up with nothing to show for it late in life.. at last year's d.c. there was an interview with a brother that had been "sent back to the field" some 4 months prior to the convention.

what was so sad, is that the brother was clearly alone, and perhaps scared, in his new assignment in a remote rural area with a congregation of 40. he had been accepted to bethel after high school, never pioneered, and had been at bethel for 30 years!
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***Things You'd Like To Say But Stifle Yourself From Saying***
by minimus in
1. jw
2. friends
due to the fact that my mother and some other relatives and a handful of friends are devout jehovah's witnesses, i sometimes stifle my remarks regarding "the truth".. my mother asked me if i felt bad at all for not attending the memorial this year.

(she still holds hope i might come back).

i simply said that i did not feel bad at all.
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HOW LONG BEFORE JWS STOP GROWING?
by badboy in
1. jw
2. friends
any ideas?.
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why do we call ourselves apostates?
by recovering in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i think that the very act of questioning the teachings of the watchtower society does not make us apostates!!!

does not the bible teach us to examine what it teaches?

that is what the apostle paul says in the bible.
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Dumbest new Watchtower study "Don't worry about health just preach!"
by Witness 007 in
1. watchtower
2. bible
yes three weeks ago my mum wanted to go through the watchtower with me she had just had at the hall, so i read through it.

basic points....don't worry tooo much about your health...don't be pre-occupied with it...don't promote health products to brothers....the "new system" will cure you so go preaching instead.

i told my mum that this was the most pointless study ever.
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The Bible - truth or fiction - according to you?
by Newborn in
1. jw
2. friends
if you say fiction, how to explain all the hundreds of fulfilled prophecies?.

personally, i don't know what i think.... /newborn.
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Book study suggestion for JWs on this forum
by I quit! in
1. jw
2. friends
the wt is doing away with the book study so why not replace it with a bible study.

no additional publication just read the bible and comment on it.

ask the members of your book study group if they would like to participate and invite others.
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God named all the stars....but wants our dustly worship...
by oompa in
1. jw
2. friends
oops...hit enter....but anyway...i just do not understand the concept of worship...i want my kids to love me...but not worship me...and we are just tiny pathetic bags of dirt and water...and it does not seem believable that god would have all this huge struggle of the universe over how us puny short lived humans believe in him or not....billions of galaxies....yt we are the big deal?

?...humans think sooo much of themselves...and out of them....the tiny group of jw's think the most of themselves.....i just don't believe god cares that much about worship.........oompa
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Does life begin at conception?
by Country Girl in
1. jw
2. friends
just curious about this.

there have been a few times in criminal history when a person was charged with killing a woman, and an additional murder charge was added on for killing her fetus if she was pregnant.

seems to be a prosecutor's paradise.