Gayle

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  JW.ORG Channel on Roku

  by Wild_Thing in

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  2. friends

  on my roku box, i went to the most popular channels and there sits jw.org.

  it has a rating of 5 stars with over 43,000 reviews!

  more than the nbc news channel, and more than the history channel.

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  Gayle

  That's only ½% of their membership's response!! Pretty poor actually!!
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  1958 Convention Program. 8 days from 9am till 9pm. Anyone attend?

  by StopTheTears in

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  2. friends

  how in the world did they justify this torture?

  imagine the children forced to sit in the summer heat at yankee stadium for 12 hours a day.

  for 8 days.

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  Gayle

  I was there at 12 yrs. old, already baptized. We drove to NY from CA, (no a/c then) We stayed on a ship for rooming, a cargo type, with bunk beds. I was the oldest of 4. I know it was hard on mom. To see so many JWs in one place (& Polo grounds) was amazing to me. (Going to school for a young JW with all the issues felt like the only JW in the world - lonely). Sitting in the sun all those hours, dressed up, at those assemblies back then contributed to the brain-(d-numbing).
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  Confused: What does the overlapping generation really mean?

  by MicaSmith in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  can someone help me understand how the wt came up with the overlapping generation theory?

  i just don't understand it even though i read the information several times.

  it's bewildering.

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  Gayle

  Nobody can 'understand' the WT teaching on the "overlapping." Some may say they understand, because of the their peer pressure in org.
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  Disturbing/Puzzling Skit at JW Function Last Night Plus Odd Choice of Music

  by Cadellin in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  so i attended a fairly large jw gathering last night with my active, elder husband.

  it was a good-by party for a former special pioneer couple who have been demoted to reg pios and have now moved to a larger city to find work.

  anyway, there was music and skits.

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  Gayle

  how is the spirit of the ex-specials? do they have work skills? has their reality kicked in any yet?
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  Pshycos! - 2016 "Remain Loyal to Jehovah" Regional Convention Program

  by thedepressedsoul in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  wow this is interesting!

  i think how much emphasis this puts on "loyalty" shows their is an issue.

  they're trying to plug the wholes as much and quickly as possible.

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  Gayle

  wow, if you had a friendship or any relationship, and that person stressed "loyalty" every other sentence for days, would that not be alarming?! Sign of a very, very insecure, ill person?!
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  They want to get rid of "anointed ones" - It's getting clear

  by thedepressedsoul in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i've never met a group that turns on it's members like the jw's.

  sister faithful that thinks she's anointed is now bat shit crazy with mental illness.

  we all have known it's true, but now you have the wt, who put it in everyone's head that you can be anointed.

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  Gayle

  But why do they even 'publish' the number partaking? What's their point to do that?
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  New Movie: Blood, dealing with Blood Transfusions. Coming to a theater near you soon!

  by ILoveTTATT2 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=121&v=b-tcy86as6i.

  omg i cannot believe that someone is making a hollywood-like movie based on the topic of blood transfusions and jehovah's witnesses!

  here is the trailer..

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  Gayle

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6v5KVHl5rY

  Alex Riker with Vito D'Amico - discussion
  
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  2016 Regional Convention - Invite First Look

  by pixel in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  you saw it here first!.

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  Gayle

  Interesting, in 2 Kings 18:14-16 Hezekiah states "I have done wrong . . .I will pay whatever you demand of me.
  So Hezekiah gave him (king of Assyria) all the silver that was found in the temple . . .stripped off the gold and gave to the king of Assyria." (I just have a NIV bible)

  Makes me wonder if the org will have some bible way of trying to explain why they have to pay some wicked governments a lot of money???
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  Jehovah / Yahweh must be blessing the Seventh Day Adventist movement and not the Jehovah`s Witnesses.

  by smiddy in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  if you look at the facts and history of both of these religions , you do see a similarity , not only in belief , but also the timing of their origins.

  end times ., paradise earth ( similar to the christadephians , baptists ,and other end times religions ) etc.. the jehovah`s witnesses s put a lot of weight on everybody doing door to door work in the ministry .and counting the time spent doing so.. the seventh day adventists do a fraction of the time doing door to door ministry by everybody in their religion , if they even require every body to go d2d and count their time.

  i do not know.. what i do know is that the s.d.a.`s have more than twice the number of active believers than the j.w.`s do , over a similar time of history .. so does that not indicate conclusively that the god of the bible is blessing the s.d.a.`s over the j.w.`s ?

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  Gayle

  7th day have strong tithing teaching:

  https://www.adventist.org/en/information/official-statements/guidelines/article/go/-/use-of-tithe/
  
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  JWs at Rolling Stones Concert!

  by Atlantis in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  was this done for an advertising stunt?

  received this in an email.. ------------------------------------------------.

  .. a few days ago in porto alegre there was a rolling stones concert.

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  Gayle

  "Watchtower barricades itself against the world with their crosses, er I mean, carts!!"