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  Why the so formal attire?

  by greendawn in

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  2. beliefs

  having visited various churches i have seen that many of their members are casually dressed while worshipping.

  the contrast with the jws is great, why do they always have to be formally dressed in their suits and anyone wishing to dress casually is frowned upon?

  it goes to show how pharisaic and controlling the cult is.

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  Need to vent

  by lola28 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  it's been one of those days, the kind that make you wish you never got up in the morning.

  as many of you know my younger sister has lupus and had to go on meds late last year thankfully she has gotten much better these past few months, but it seems that there's always a trade off, we get good news only to be hit by bad news.

  a few weeks ago she went to her doctor for a check up and they did a few tests, late last week they called me because they had some bad news, there was sugar in her urine and her blood, it seems that this is a result of the steroids that she is on for the lupus.

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  Do You Agree With This Quote?

  by Confession in

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  2. current

  and, if so, why?.

  "there is nothing that makes us feel so good as the idea that someone else is an evildoer.

  " robert lynd (1879-1949).

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  Nothing.

  by Narkissos in

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  2. friends

  perhaps this paradoxical "topic" is one with which we here have dealt a little more, or a little more consciously, than the average population.. we used to have our heads full of beliefs (which we called "truth") in every direction: on theology, on cosmology, on paleontology, on past history, on so-called prophetic future, on heaven above, on earth, on she'ol beneath.

  on many things -- current events, traditions, other peoples' beliefs and behaviours -- we had strong opinions which were directly or indirectly (the famous "conscience" matters) part of the same deal.

  and of course our life was filled with activities and relationships, a community of "friends," people to "help" or "teach," etc.. then, gradually or suddenly, we came to suspect, often with a measure of terror, that all of this was not what we had thought and might sooner or later turn into... nothing.. this "nothing" is perhaps one of the most scary thoughts to people contemplating leaving the org one way or another.

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  Introduction

  by Vernon Williams in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  in christ, by shared concerns and a common history, .

  my name is vernon williams.

  i live in monett, mo.

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  What to do?

  by adam1989 in

  1. social
  2. relationships

  ive currently been dating a jw girl for aboit 10 months now.

  i met her at college and eventually we started going out.

  at first is was difficult with me it took her a while to open up to me especially with holding hands and kissing.

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  3.9% interest

  by indahsempurna in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  does anyone else find it terrible that the society is charging interest for congregations to build kingdom halls????

  why the hell are people putting money in the "special" box marked kingdom hall fund??

  my boyfriend who already hates the witnesses found this absolutely horrible.

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  Map of where we all are.

  by wanderlustguy in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  http://www.frappr.com/xjws .

  don't know if this is done already, but here is a pretty neat way for us all to map out where we are so if anyone is travelling, they know who is in the area...if anyone thinks this is a good idea, feel free to click and update!

  edited to add...it has chat, too.

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  Russia - Still King of the North

  by proplog2 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  when the berlin wall came down, even before the offical dissolution of the soviet union, the watchtower was quick to back away from the idea that russia was the king of the north.

  nothing really changed.

  true, there is an appearance of friendship and cooperation between russia and the us but russia is the one country that can totally destroy the usa.

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  1975 New Info

  by AlanF in

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  2. friends

  it means that within relatively few years we will witness the fulfillment of the remaining prophecies that have to do with the "time of the end.".

  the lead article "the finest work on earth" in the october 1967 km (p. 1) continued the theme of preaching with a sense of urgency:.

  the sense of urgency was effective in getting some students to make a decision.

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