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  It's amazing the cognitive dissonance....

  by notverylikely in

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  2. friends

  so...i'm a born in, fading, can't break away with a df or da for various reasons.

  as some of you may know from posts i have made, i am pretty much a total non-beleiver is god in general and a full throttle "this is bullshit" believer for the watchtower.. i've been doing some work for a friend of mine who is in a similar situation as me with the exception that he is not sure if he beleives in god, but he does believe the watchtower is bs (he's a born-in too, his wife, his family, all his friends are wt people, etc).. so, since i have been working with him we have had some interesting conversations about the wt and their bullshit.

  most of his "friends" are people i know, but he has known them a lot longer.

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  MEMORIAL SHOCK!!!!

  by african GB Member in

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  2. friends

  last year in my cong (well it's not really "my cong" as i'm just "in" for the sake of family) we had a new "partaker of the emblems".

  it came as a shock because this man was only baptized in 2005.. his wife has been a dub from birth.. he was 63 when he got baptized, took "auxilliary" pioneer after 1 month...became a full-time pioneer after a year....became ms after 2years...made an elder 6 months later.....2008 he got "anointed"....we were all surprised at the amount of time he took to climb the jw corporate ladder....rumours are that he donated a car to our po when he (po) lost his job, and some other favours( this man is wealthy).... .

  i'm looking forward to be "just an observer" at this year's memorial in my cong (i am thinking of partaking myself, but i sure would rather not,the "bread" is tasteless and the wine is of poor quality,...i don't wanna throw out at the ms serving the emblems)..... back to that man,...how long would it take him to become a gb member?.

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  NY Times: "Bad times are good for churches." Why so little JW growth?

  by Seeker4 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  in today's ny times there is an article on this topic, and here are two quotes:.

  "bad times are good for evangelical churches.

  'its a wonderful time, a great evangelistic opportunity for us,' said the rev.

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  From the offical WT website ... new light?

  by sacolton in

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  do the witnesses believe that their religion is the only right one?anyone who is serious about his religion should think that it is the right one.

  otherwise, why would he or she be involved in it?

  christians are admonished: "make sure of all things; hold fast to what is fine.

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  *BBC News Platelets are a vital part of treatment for premature babies*

  by truthseeker in

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  2. medical

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7758706.stm.

  son's memory inspires donations .

  by jane elliott .

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  Every JW should be asked...

  by Honesty in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the following 2 questions when they arrive at your door with the watchtower society's 'good news' and their jesus (the prehuman angel michael, the human jesus and a resurrected spirit creature [6/15/06 watchtower page 30]) who is 3 persons in one:.

  the first question is, if you truly abstain from blood, how can you belong to a religion that allows parts of blood?.

  the second question is, would you donate blood so that the fractions allowed by the watchtower society could save the life of one of your jehovah's witness brothers or sisters?.

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  Worshiping the cross

  by Amyfa in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  there is a poster on here called reniaa and she has said a few times that we worship the cross.

  i know i don't and know my family don't.

  so i decided to look into it to find out if what she is saying is true.

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  MY PROJECT IS (FINALLY) FINISHED!

  by Mary in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  for those of you who are interested, the project i've been working on for the last few months is finally finished.

  i originally did a thread about it back in april: http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/10/156497/1.ashx.

  it seems that alot of us still have family members in the religion and have not infrequent arguments with them about some of the beliefs and practices.

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  jesus denies being God! scriptural discussion.

  by reniaa in

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  2. beliefs

  i thought after recently reading the bible i would put up for disussion some recent scriptures up which for me show that jesus never viewed himself as god and anyone listening would also see it this way too.. first mark 10 :17-20.

  17as jesus started on his way, a man ran up to him and fell on his knees before him.

  "good teacher," he asked, "what must i do to inherit eternal life?

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  Is it the JW's or the God of the bible you no longer believe?

  by reniaa in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i have a question for the ex-jw's on this forum after months of reading the forum..... many say how good it is to be free of the oppressiveness of the jw's that they can now enjoy the freedom to... have sex, celebrate christmas, gamble, embrace politics etc.

  there are still biblical scriptures and principles in place that if you still followed the bible would mean you avoid these things and yet these are now embraced as one of the perks of no longer being a jw so in my confusion i ask.... if these are what you want, isn't it more correct to say you no longer follow the bible as apposed to just the jw's?.

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