Topics Started by Amber Rose

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A little example of how severely the contributions for the Society are drying up
by sir82 in
1. jw
2. friends
just a little tidbit from the congregation i attend..... the congregation has approximately 120 publishers.. well over 1000 magazines per month are picked up, not to mention all the books, brochures, and tracts that are picked up.. there was a "local needs" part on the service meeting recently, asking for more contributions.. it seems our congregation has averaged just about $300 per month contributions to the "worldwide work" over the past year.. .

assuming 1500 magazines / month, that's just 20 cents per magazine - and that completely ignores all other literature that is picked up.. the last price the magazines had, 20+ years ago, was 25 cents per issue.

with inflation that would have been about 50 cents each now.. just another sign of how severely the contriutions to the society are drying up..... .
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Why are they so anal about assembly badges?
by highdose in
1. jw
2. experiences
they insist you must wear you and whats more it must be placed in clear view for everyone else to see.. i have been challenged before now " sister!

are you wearing your badge!?

" it made me wonder why?
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New method of distributing magazines
by jah1914 in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
don't know if someone already commented on this.

i did a search and did not find anything.

not that big of a deal, but the concept of having a personal order of the magazines is going away effective immediately.
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Most people who are not JW's live with out moral restrain! All who have left the "Truth" regret it. June 15th WT
by life is to short in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
in the june 15th wt it says on page 9 i will just write it out as it is to hard and unbelievable to preface this.

so here it is.. "many who today are members of the christian congregation can tell you that before learning of and adopting jehovah's righteous standards, they lived without moral restrain.

yet, they were unsatisfied and unhappy.
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If someone is benefitting from being in a cult, should we leave them there?
by Confuzzled in
1. jw
2. friends
if scientology has narcanon, and it has gotten people off drugs (although that 85% sucess rate they say they have is suspect), and becoming a jw sorta forces you into line, would it make sense to leave someone in if they were helping them?

if you knew somebody was a drunk, sex addict, drug addict, what have you, and they were studying, and it appeared that they were actually being helped (albeit by twisted means) would you leave them be?

like, if uncle jim was a fall down drunk that ran around on his wife, then someone introduced him to the wts, and it all stopped, would you still try and expose the cult even if they were actually helping and it was working?.
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OKKKAAAAYY Now I get it! Another JW Belief Screwing W/My Life "Date To Marry"
by Confuzzled in
1. jw
2. friends
i have a convaluted relationship w/my jw for-lack-of-a-better-word-bf.

we have a bizarre relationship.

i am not his gf but must act accordingly.
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"Take away my birthday"
by OnTheWayOut in
1. social
2. humour
i used the phrase on another thread and realized it might be of interest."....

take away my birthday" is:a sarcastic response when someone warns you not to do something that is considered socially unacceptable.. example of usage:'you really shouldn't drop stink bombs in the class room the same day of finals.

take away my birthday?
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Are You Still Interested in Looking for Truth?
by cameo-d in
1. watchtower
2. bible
what are our origins?

what has this life all been for?

is there anything after this life?
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Jehovah's Witnesses and Calvinistic Predestination
by AllTimeJeff in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
this is a complex question, and i just want to get a discussion started on the message of jehovah's witnesses and how it relates to their adventist roots, and esp calvinism.. bear with me, i will try to be concise.. we all know that while jehovah's witnesses like to deny adventist roots, that it is clear that according to them, the man jesus selected to get the whole thing started, c t russell, was heavily influenced by adventist ideas, esp the (adventist) idea that has really never left them; the idea that somehow, a time date or period can be inferred from the bible if you read certain scriptures through an adventist lens.

(thus, the 2520 years, 7 gentile times, etc.).

so while this is relatively well known, there is a concept that jehovah's witnesses teach against, yet practice.
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Why are gossip and slander tolerated in the congregation?
by hoser in
1. jw
2. friends
why are gossip and slander tolerated?

is this part of the master plan to control the masses?.