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  Congregations receive branch letter about UN

  by cyberguy in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  i don't know if this has been posted on this site yet, but i came across something that indicates that congregations in germany were sent a letter of explanation (or rather, deception) about the societys un connection.. scroll to the end of page -- .

  http://www.quotes.jehovahswitnesses.com/united_nations.htm.

  can someone do a better translation from german to english?

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  Queen Mother Condolence Book

  by gem in

  1. social
  2. humour

  extracts from hm the queen mother's condolence books: .

  "when diana died i swore i would never smile again, but eventually i did.

  now the queen mum has gone i cannot image that i will ever smile for the .

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  Are cats for true Christians?

  by gem in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  has anyone stumbled across the following site:.

  http://www.angelfire.com/ky/proclaimer/607.html.

  it includes such gems as "are cats for true christians?

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  An open letter to all JWs who want to know why we

  by closer2fine in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  believing is something you feel in your heart; exercising knowledge is something you do and actually requires no belief.

  there is no need for an outside group to tell you how to go about doing this.

  i can see that all that is truly required of you is that you believe jesus is lord, that his father raised him from the dead, that you love god with your whole heart, you love your neighbor as yourself, and you confess your beliefs to others.

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  do you try to re-build Childhood memorys????

  by lydia in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  with so many having been raised in the truuf.... do any of you now feel that due to the abuse and horros of being raised that way that you now need to work at building positive memories of things..like christmas??.

  do others accuse you of going overboard with the holiday celebrations??.

  do you look for opportunitys to have a party??.

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  How Many JWs Fully Buy Into the WT Party Line?

  by Room 215 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  for those of us with years of acquaintance with the wt and its teachings, it's clear that full acceptance of the 1914 date as the establishment of god's kingdom in the heavens is a non-negotiable condition of remaining in good standing in the organization.

  many of us know people who've been booted out just for expressing misgivings, lety alone outright denying this teaching.

  almost as central, and as non-negotiable, is the teaching that only baptised jws can expect to survive the big a.. .

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  Do Apostate demos at conventions work?

  by home_and_dry in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  firstly, hello from a newbie .

  i was reading a thread a few days ago which got me thinking.

  it was about everyones views on apostates before leaving the dubs.

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  Today is my B-day and here is my brief story

  by STRUGGLE in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i am a third generation jw.

  i told him we would talk later.

  later told me i was going to be dis'f.

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  Technical Curiosity

  by JBean in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  hi everyone... in my last post i admitted that i was semi computer-illiterate (!

  ) so my question is, given the stuff that's just gone on with yoyo/sexyteen's threads... how does simon (or anyone) figure out that these are the same people?

  he mentioned that the post was from the same computer!

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  The Doorstep Presentation THAT TRULY WORKS!

  by Focus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  greetings, dear worldly householder of the birdseed class, i'm a member of the great crowd of other sheep, or jonadabs (who are not marked in the forehead as would have been the case for one of the eternal remnant class of 144,000 whose membership was closed 64 years ago until new light from the great teacher of progressive revelation caused it to be understood that vacancies would from time to time occur), rendering sacred service to the ancient of days in the earthly courtyard of the spiritual temple by following the example of the fine shepherd and engaging as a member of the pioneer class in preaching the good news of the kingdom with the mouth-borne sword of the spirit now the 2,300 symbolic evenings have passed.

  we are helping warn those not familiar with the divine name that the second presence of the chief agent of life who returned after being resurrected but not in his own body which was dematerialized into gases and after then being out of action has now already begun, and has in fact been in progress now for 86 years, and that no one else has noticed this totally obvious but wholly invisible event is irrefutable proof both that it is true and that our faith is the one true, all other ones being from their father, satan the devil.

  we have a lot of proof to justify this reasonable view, including evidence as yet undiscovered.

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