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What happened immediately after your Judicial Committee was over?
by civicsi00 in
1. jw
2. experiences
whenever i went to my judicial committee (over 3 years ago), the elders opened with a prayer for jehbooboo's guidance.

then they followed up with their loyalty question, "do you believe in the faithful and discreet slave?".

of course i answered "no", and shortly thereafter i handed over my disassociation letter.
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Wait, Wait... WHAT?! Dec 15th, WT Study - This bugs me
by civicsi00 in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
ok so i decided to just take a quick peek at the dec 15th study edition and i couldn't even get past the very first article!

it's a "personal" story of a jw who was born in 1928 and his experiences from that era.

what is the first thing printed on this page?
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My ONLY Regret about being an Ex-Jehovah's Witness...
by civicsi00 in
1. jw
2. friends
reading the title of this thread, you may believe that perhaps there is one thing that i am discontent with in being an ex-jehovah's witness; and possibly this might mean that i would return to the watchtower.. well, it's not one of those threads.

i am quite happy and content since leaving.

i don't regret it one bit.. my only regret with being an ex-jehovah's witness is that i will never be able to confront the people behind the curtain.. i would have loved to have met fred franz... only to be able to confront him about all his false prophecies.. i would have loved to have met rutherfraud... only to be able to tell him that he wasn't just "being an ass" for the whole 1925 thing.
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Question about France/WT/taxes due
by civicsi00 in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
i was reading the article here:.

http://www.jw-media.org/fra/20101006.htm.

and i got to this point and got stumped:.
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Strange statement in last week's study article
by civicsi00 in
1. watchtower
2. bible
there was a strange statement in last week's study article.

well, let's be honest: there were plenty of strange statements!

but one in particular bothered me.
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Another GEM from the 9/15/10 WT
by civicsi00 in
1. watchtower
2. bible
this is taken word for word from the study article entitled: "unity identifies true worship", page 13, paragraph 8:.

"similarly today, a governing body composed of spirit-anointed christians contributes to the unity of the worldwide congregation.

the governing body publishes spiritually encouraging literature in many languages.
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What I love about "worldly" Bibles
by civicsi00 in
1. jw
2. friends
when i was still a witness, i used to peek into "worldly" bibles just to see if there were any differences.

what i really loved about these so-called "worldly" bibles was that some of them changed the font color of jesus' words to red.

i always wished the society would bring more emphasis to jesus' words, maybe just putting them in bold or something.. anyone else ever feel this way?.
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Luke 21:8 and the latest 2008 WT Library
by civicsi00 in
1. watchtower
2. bible
i was perusing the latest 2008 wt library and i ran a search for luke 21:8 (one of the worst texts you could read to a jw).

when i first ran the search, the library only popped up with one article from 11/1/64 wt and a reference to some book called the kingdom of god is nigh (published by the wt in 1944, but is not found on the cd.

i did find it on the internet, though.).
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Need COC - Spanish Edition
by civicsi00 in
1. jw
2. experiences
i really need to get a copy of coc, but in spanish.

i've got a disfellowshipped aunt (who was d/f in 1993) but she is still very captive of the whole wt/fds thing.

(by the way, she didn't do anything "wrong", per se.
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Anyone know about this religious group?
by civicsi00 in
1. jw
2. friends
i've been talking to a guy who belongs to some non-denominational church and here is a rundown of what they believe:.

-that you should still keep the sabbath.

-that jesus returned in 1948.