Amyfa

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  New Yearbook stats for 2007 now out!

  by Dogpatch in

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  the report is out!.

  http://www.watchtowernews.org/2007report.pdf.

  cooking the books with 3% increase??.

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  Amyfa

  It still only works out at 2 or 3 baptisms per congregation, and if most of them were family memebers that's not a lot.
  
  Would be nice to know how many over 21's got baptised. Also how many new families joined.
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  Just what were the "80 questions?"

  by avishai in

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  never having been baptized, i never got too them.

  anyone have them handy?

  just what did i need to know to be a dedicated dubbie?

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  Amyfa

  Why 80 questions you only need 3
  
  Do you turn to Christ?
  
  Do you repent of your sins?
  
  Do you renounce evil?
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  power of prayer, is it possible?

  by bite me in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i'm all about praying, but not necessary to get what i want or for something to go my way.

  lately ,praying hasn't seemed to work.

  i go to sleep each night literally crying because it makes me sad to know that they are going to the meetings blindly.

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  Amyfa

  I pray for my friend to come out of the JW religion, it may take a few years but I will keep on. I have also asked others to pray as well.
  
  You said you go to sleep crying because it makes you sad I feel the same way for my friend.
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  JW say df/shunning is Scriptural...How do we get around those Scriptures?

  by oompa in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  paul of course is the mainstay of this, and i really like saying "hey lets stick to what jesus taught" but even he condemned the pharacees and others in a considerably judgemental manner.

  so what to say to my elder/dad who won't speak to my df son?

  like when paul says to not eat with them, don't say a greeting to them etc....how do we get around that?

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  Amyfa

  It's just a form of blackmail.
  
  A childs game if you dont play the game my way I am going to take my ball in and not play with you any more.
  
  It's so sad men can have a hold over these people.
  
  How can you phone your parent/child/friend and say I love you but can't talk to you anymore unless you do as you are told.
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  Argument re: alcohol injected in body like blood transfusion proved wrong

  by truthseeker in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7037443.stm .

  doctors save man with vodka drip .

  australian doctors have kept an italian tourist alive by feeding him vodka through a drip for three days, medical staff in queensland say.

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  Amyfa

  The Alchohol was not put in the body like a blood transfusion
  
  "The hospital's alcohol supplies were soon exhausted, however, so they purchased a case of vodka to help finish the job. "We ... decided the next best way to get alcohol into the man's system was by feeding him spirits through a naso-gastric tube," http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,300661,00.html
  
  It went direct to the stomach
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  Trinity

  by desib77 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  been a long time since i've posted.

  just thought i would stop in, say hi, and get your thoughts on this.. since leaving the jws i have tried to be open to all ideas regardless of how different it is from the way i was raised.

  i am having trouble with one issue, though, the trinity.

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  Amyfa

  The trinity is not easy to explain. When you read the bible without any other publication it just comes to you or it doesn’t. Myself personally I feel it. My friend who is a JW says it’s not true, but when I explained how I feel he understood. He said it had never been explained that way.
  
  I don’t know what the watchtower says about it and I didn't ask him. I don’t worry about it. I like to think I am and live as a good Christian, and the finer points don’t matter they will sort them self out.
  
  I think its just JW's that try to make a big thing out of it.
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  Organ Donation

  by Amyfa in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  can a jw be an organ donor?

  i have read they can't give blood but can they carry a donor card?

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  Amyfa

  Can a JW be an organ donor? I have read they can't give blood but can they carry a donor card?
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  J.W peado from u.k. latest.

  by xnmad in

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  2. friends

  have found out from reliable source that the object of our hatred at the mo( and still very deserving of our loathing though he may be) was actually disfellowshiped years ago, am still working on the exact details but will share them as soon as i get them guys.will try and get the date of his disfellowshiping etc n let you know.

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  Amyfa

  So was he disfellowshipped since 1986 untill 2000? As this is what the BBC site had to say.
  
  Porter, 38, carried out the assaults between 1986 and 2000.
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  JW growth statistics anyone?

  by winnie in

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  i am currently debating a topic with someone who cosistantly says that the wt is growing at a rate of 5000 per week and 50 new halls each week.

  he reckons he's privvy to 'inside' info that suggests this.. does anyone have any of the actual worldwide growth rates and new halls being built?.

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  Amyfa

  I would like to know as well so sending this back to the top.
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  If You Didn't Have The Internet & Places Like This, Would U Still Be a JW?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  clearly, the internet and sites like this one helped get me out.

  once i started continuously reading how the organization and watchtower writings were bogus, i couldn't help but get out!

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  Amyfa

  Never have been a JW but I think the internet help me when my friend tried to convert me.
  
  I looked into everything for and against JW's I found lots more against them than for them.