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  The JW library CD - Are the articles in their original version?

  by bohm in

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  hey!

  i stumbled on something on jwfacts.com.

  on this page (http://jwfacts.com/index_files/1800s.htm) it says: (my emphasis).

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  wizardca

  false prophecy revised.
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  How many people did you bring "into the Truth?" Have you tried to tell them the REAL TRUTH since?

  by BonaFide in

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  2. friends

  i pioneered and was a missionary for 20 years.. i brought 1 person in.. he is still a witness i hear, i haven't been able to find him though.. and you?.

  bf.

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  nada. thank you jeebus.
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  elder

  by Derde in

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  2. bible

  how many a minimum should be years to serve as the elder?.

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  If you are counting down the time before you are 25 so you can be an elder....maybe you should re-evaluate your priorities? Don't mean to be rude, but seems like it's for the wrong reasons? Dunno.

  I do know way back when they look at how much time you spend selling in the field service, how visible you are at meetings for field service. Then they look at maturity level. But I have family appointed an elder within a couple months of moving to another country...then moved back to the States and they wouldn't even appoint him as a MS. It all depends on the needs and whims of the BoE, CO, etc.
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  What finally pushed you over the edge?

  by keyser soze in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  was there one issue or incident, final straw, so-to-speak, that made you leave once and for all?

  i know there was for me.. i had been having doubts for years, and had stopped believing it was the truth.

  but i labored on as a jw, in part because of my family, and in part because i had invested so much of myself in it.

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  When I was told I was being materialistic when I bought 4 year old car since the car I had been driving (which was older than me) was starting to nickel and dime me. Oh, but it was ok for the elder to purchase Lexus and he wasn't materialistic or anything.
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  never before 1995...no date or period for the end...we are in uncharted waters

  by oompa in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  right now.......and since 1995.....wt has no real teaching to show how close we are to the end......none......most dubs prob dont even know......but wt has always been about dates.....and how close the end is to those dates......but now.....since we unplugged the generation of 1914 to the end of the world.......and now that we are still recruiting the anointed for heaven......the last days can last and last and last......duh...that is why they are called the last days!!

  !........and so do they still teach it is "very, very near" (only used one time in wt)....or "imminent" ??

  ?......just a year ago i think?.......so how close do they say we are now and why?.........damm the bible is soooo clear that nobody knows the day or hour...yet i bet they still say is just around the corner (based on what scripture!?!??!?!?!)..........

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  since JWs dont believe in rapture and if some annointed survive armageddon, how do they get to heaven?
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  First Century Jehovah's Witnesses

  by cameo-d in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  what proof does wt cite that the formation of jw movement began in "first century"?.

  did the grassroots originate before jesus came on the scene?

  or was it during the time of his ministry?

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  Assuming my memory of JW dogma is correct....as Blondie said, it "started" with Abel, not Adam with no formation of a group...or was that with Russell?
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  Letter to my in-laws regarding shunning over Easter period.

  by jakes in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  over the easter period my family and i took a well deserved break.

  we travelled to our hometown to celebrate my parents' 40th wedding anniversary.

  however, the treatment we experienced from my in-laws was totally appalling.

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  All I can say to this is , wow. I'm sorry that you, your wife and daughter had to experience this with family. I fear this very thing will happen to me if I were to try and go back into the fold, which is why I stick to the fade-away approach to it all. I hope this letter strikes their heart as it did to mine.
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  How do you figure out alimony and child support?

  by WuzLovesDubs in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  ok...im not divorced just separated.

  i just last year started a job but im part time hopefully going on full time, and certainly cant afford to live on my own.

  i have the two youngest kids with me.

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  As others have said, it varies state to state, but I will talk about California from what I know. There is a formula for child support that is used (your attorney should be able to access it). But it's based upon BOTH of your incomes. You probably would get child support until the almost 18 year old turns 18. Alimony could be for life, remarriage or a set number of years. It also looks at the marriage's past and current income. As anything, it's up for negotiation.
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  Wasn't it the BEST when the speaker DIDN'T SHOW for the Public Talk?

  by lurk3r in

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  2. friends

  and all we had to do was sit thorugh the watchtower sudy?

  it was a jw christmas!.

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  Ugh I wish! Usually the PO ended up doing the public talk after the WT study. Usually something he was really familiar with. Only JW X-MAS for me was if there was no power.
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  Anyone Have Any good Or Weird Home Book Study Stories?

  by Tired of the Hypocrisy in

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  2. friends

  i have a lot of them but this one my wife told me takes the cake!.

  my wife was about 15 yrs old and was attending the bookstudy at this sister's house.

  the sister's hubby was a non-believer but her daughter was a jw and was married to my wife's uncle who was also a jw.

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  Along the same lines JWS with the whole non-insulated house so you could hear what anyone did in the bathroom. HATED it. I think Tired wins the prize, though.