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District Convention Observations

by TD in

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friends

this year, i again accompanied my jw wife to one day (sunday) of the district convention this weekend.

for any who are interested, i offer these observations from the sunday afternoon session:.

a couple of things about the audience struck me as interesting.

My 1970s story on chronology

by Doug Mason in

this is a snapshot of activities i am personally aware of during the 1970s relative to the wtss neo-babylonian chronology.

it is not a discussion about the inaccuracy of their chronology.. .

i joined the seventh-day adventist church in 1964. later in the 1960s, we were regularly visited at the door by jehovah's witnesses.

onlytruegod.org -- refutation of blood apologia

by Marvin Shilmer in

the web site onlytruegod.org publishes the work of watchtower apologists.

the last couple of days i have written refutations of material from this site regarding watchtowers blood doctrine.

readers will note a few pieces of new (or rarely used) refutation.. onlytruegod.org, blood and ravensbrueck: http://www.topix.com/forum/religion/jehovahs-witness/tq0ks22frq7qt8g82.

whereami

Marvin I don't know how you have the patience for thirdwtness and his drones. He will NEVER admit that his god, the WTS is wrong at anything.

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Is it always about them? (The JWs in Honduras)

by easyreader1970 in

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what follows is an email that has been going around to witnesses for a month or so.

it may have even been posted to this forum and escaped my notice.. anyway, apparently there is some civil unrest in honduras which, according to this email, has disrupted the activity of jws in that country.

what i always find amazing is that jws always conclude that everything that goes on in these countries that negatively impacts them was definitely started by satan and always for the direct purpose of slowing down or stopping the preaching work.. .

whereami

Funny, I just got this in my inbox. Truely puke worthy.

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Experience at the Calif. Convention Email

by whereami in

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friends

get ready to gag.. .

*** for those of us who daily pray for our loved ones to turn to jehovah.

quickly, this is a real shot in the arm!!

whereami

Get ready to gag.

*** For those of us who daily pray for our loved ones to turn to Jehovah
quickly, this is a real shot in the arm!! ***

The following experience was given at the Long Beach International
convention on Sat afternoon.
Bro Jeffrey Jackson related the following to impress on us the power of
prayer:

Jose was baptized in 1968 in Ecuador, but his family, a wife and 6
children were opposed to him.
They never let him study with them in his home.
But something he could do was pray with and for his family at meals.
He did this for 20 years. His family never responded though and in 1988
Jose died.

The family, now also grandchildren went to his funeral then came back
home.
One of the grandchildren, a girl, stood up and asked, "who will pray for
us now that Grandfather is dead?"
The family of course started to cry, then one of Jose's sons, Carlos
stood
up and said he would try to pray for the family.
During the prayer, Carlos?asked forgiveness for the family for not
becoming Witnesses.
He then said?he would become a witness.

20 years later and 19 members of Jose's family are in the truth and 10
are
studying.
Carlos is an elder and one of the grandsons is at the branch in Ecuador.

The thought was that Jose was ignorant of the power that his prayers
had?and so are we.
Keep on praying and know that they may be heard even if we?don't know it.

During the telling of this experience Bro Jackson stopped.
He was giving the talk in the Korean venue and his translator got choked
up and couldn't keep going.
Afterwards when he could start again the Korean brother and sisters
clapped for him.
We teared up and laughed at the same time

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ROMANS 8:18-25 PROVES 2 CLASS WT TEACHING.. SAYS THE WIFE

by whereami in

can someone help me here?.

maybe narkissos or laolaia can help?.

.

whereami

Thanks to all that contributed. I will study this well and try to present it to the hardcore JW wife. Wish me luck.

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ROMANS 8:18-25 PROVES 2 CLASS WT TEACHING.. SAYS THE WIFE

by whereami in

can someone help me here?.

maybe narkissos or laolaia can help?.

.

whereami

Can someone help me here?

Maybe Narkissos or Laolaia can help?

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Atheists choose 'de-baptism' to renounce childhood faith

by whereami in

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friends

do you think the wts would except this?.

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http://www.usatoday.com/news/religion/2009-07-21-atheists-debaptism_n.htm?csp=usat.me.

whereami

Do you think the WTS would except this?

http://www.usatoday.com/news/religion/2009-07-21-atheists-debaptism_N.htm?csp=usat.me

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2009 "Keep on the Watch" drama on YouTube

by whereami in

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friends

well sort of.

oh, the background music is some of the new songs that also came out at the convention.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6vbe7j2y24.

whereami

Well sort of. Oh, the background music is some of the new songs that also came out at the convention.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6VbE7j2y24

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Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: Jackson 's death 'an American tragedy' -E-Mail going round

by whereami in

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the jw community are having a field day with this crap.. .

whereami

Thanks BC. I'll remember that next time.