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  How to be invisible, Hire a JW to clean your house.

  by ElectricJello in

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  i think i threw up a little in my mouth when i got this email.. this is being emailed around the jws right now.

  sure you can trust them with your money but what about your children???.

  this book has been published to tell folks how to protect themselves from identity theft, among other things.

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  OT question about dogs

  by Irish Rose in

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  my husband and i will be getting into our own home, before this year is over.

  we are both hoping sooner rather than later.

  with renting, owning a dog was very much out of the question.

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  Do you guys remember the big push to baptize kids?

  by isnrblog in

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  it was in the 80's i think but they began stressing the urgency of baptism for anyone who was "at an age of understanding".

  i heard several assembly talks that said kids under ten could be baptized if they qualified.. this sticks in my mind because my kids were 12 or so and not qualified in my view.

  my ex wife pushed my daughter into baptism at 12, she is now 32, not a witness and we both laugh about it.. www.isnrblog.com.

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  What J.W teaching did you find the hardest to accept??

  by karter in

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  for me it was the fact that god is allowing all these innocent people to get killed to prove a point ,i mean it was a big bet he had with satan.. i explained it to my wife this way if i had our children killed in the most horriable way just to show they couldn't live without me how does that make me look?.

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  PO kids

  by memphisbelle in

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  this is pretty amazing !

  this girl is the daughter of a man who was a major elder in a local cong.

  for years, he had no problem telling anyone within earshot how to raise their children, and tel them what they were doing wrong, and what wonderful pioneer - missionaries his kids were going to be.

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  Dec. 15, 2007 magazine question.

  by memphisbelle in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  while sitting at the meeting fighting sleep last sunday, i was reading the magazine and an interesting comment came up !

  page 28 heading 4:3, in what way will jehovahs worshipers tread down the wicked?

  the paragraph states "gods people on earth will not literally tread down the wicked, that is share in executing his judgement upon them.

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  It's tough letting go

  by B_Deserter in

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  you know, we all like to talk about how awful the congregations we attended were, but at the end of the day, most of us are here because we need support letting go of our friends and family.

  personally, i had and still do have occasionally (because i haven't faded yet) great times with some of my friends.

  yeah, it's all based on our religion and they wouldn't be my friends if i didn't believe it.

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  Tell me about the weirdos in your congro.

  by karter in

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  we had a guy who used to bang on about natural remedies.. at the doors and meetings he would tell everyone what was wrong with them and what to take to remedy it he even told the brothers of for sell coke at the assemblies.. however there was know remedy for his mental health apart from that he was a fat little porker who looked like you could grow spuds on his teeth and washing wasnt big on his agenda last i heard he joined scientology.. we had 4 sisters in the congro pregnant one nut case confessed to the elders he was father to all of them.. one sister used to attack the po's wife in the kh then stand up through the meeting and abuse at the speaker after that they would call the sike team it wasnt uncommon for her to go door to door at midnight.. last i heard she became a counsellor..

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  Stories; Who got d/f'd and it really shocked the congregation?

  by jambon1 in

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  any stories?..........

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  Pray silently?!? What the heck is this about?

  by A-Team in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i was just reading memphisbelle's account, and she mentions that the wt says that one is suppose to pray silently so satan wouldn't be able to mess up god's plans.

  um, correct me if i am wrong, since i have never been, or will never be a jw....but what the heck kind of logic is this?!?

  (especially if you read what the bible says about prayer.

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