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  Modern replacement for make sure of all things book

  by Jehovahisgod in

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  question please for one of jehovah's witnesses i'm doing some prison ministry.

  you used to have the make sure of all things hold fast to what is fine book what is the modern equivalent of this book i need a book which lists the bible topics and where to actually find them in the bible can somebody give me a pointer?.

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  Suspect in Jehovah's Witness child sex abuse case arrested

  by Tahoe in

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  by david gambacorta, staff writer @dgambacorta | [email protected].

  martin haugh rolled out of bed one morning earlier this month, shuffled into his kitchen, and turned on his coffee maker.

  while the machine gurgled to life, he glanced at his phone.

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  great work Barbara, lets hope the parasite suffers when he is locked up
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  Ex-Jehovah's Witness Recovering Group 3 and This Site

  by dubstepped in

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  i don't remember seeing it ever really talked about here but the facebook group with the namesake of this post shut down at the end of march.

  it was archived and they weren't clear as to when or if they would come back.

  it seemed to come out of nowhere, and i know a lot of people were disappointed.

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  I removed myself from all the FB exjw pages, for some reason they just seem too toxic, over familiar and tend to bring out the worst in people, I had 2 very abusive exchanges with two exjw's over the years, I was blocked by one and received a tirade of abuse from another (both women!) FB generally is like this, and as regards to the guy called Tim Nassen and some of the trolls targeting Cedars it went well over the line, I like the slightly more anonymous feel to this forum.
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  Material such as the film at the end of this years convention confirms that I was right to take my kids out the religion

  by jambon1 in

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  it’s quite affirming to see the horrific material that they’re serving up at the convention this year.

  aside from blatant homophobia, the scenes at the end of the convention that are discussed on another thread stoop to new levels of fear mongering.

  it seems to occur to nobody inside the organisation that this kind of material could trigger fear, deprsssion, anxiety, stress.

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  the end with the bow and arrow being fired from the sky looks like something from Harry Potter
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  Motherly Love, that "Unbreakable Bond"

  by Simon in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  my father died a couple of months ago.

  he'd been ill for some time and had many health scares and heart troubles over the years but always managed to keep on going.

  then one time he didn't.. i'm glad i got to know him again and spend some more time with him after so many years missed because of the wts but those years will always be lost forever.

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  words cant really do this terrible cruelty justice that so many of us suffer, my mum would have done the same and became more hardlined in the last few years til her death in 2015, her dying wish was that she demanded me to not be invited to her funeral.
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  Making contact with family

  by Crumpet in

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  2. friends

  some of you may know that my parents and whole family do not have any contact with me, apart from my dad who has provided his mobile number for "family business/emergencies".

  i never try to contact them anymore after a negative experience after being beaten up trying to break up a streetfight last november when i called my dad and he hung up as soon as he realised it was me crying on the other end.. .

  anyway - i decided that just because they want to forget about me i don't have to be the same anymore and i wanted them to know how happy i was.

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  whatever happened to Crumpet ? I always remember her as one of the very first posters I interacted with when I joined here, I wonder if the issues with her family have improved?
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  Life in Paradise

  by Sour Grapes in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so we all survive the great tribulation and now as the dead bodies of 99.9% of the world's population begin to stink up the place, the bodies become bloated and the flesh begins to fall off of the bones what happens when the elders tell us to grab a shovel and haul the corpses to a mass grave site for burial or perhaps a mass cremation and you tell them that you will not bury dead bodies.. what will the elders do?

  (i guess they are princes now since we are on the other side of the gt) will they haul the person into the back room of the candlelit kingdumb haul for a judicial meeting?

  if the person is unrepentant and doesn't follow direction from god will they be disfellowshipped or forced to move to a colony for troublemakers?

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  have they thought about the environmental implications of billions upon billions of corpses rotting away all over the entire planet, what about countries like India and China where there are very very few jw's, what about the food and water systems that will be clearly polluted? I love watching the yearly population figures rise!
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  Modern replacement for make sure of all things book

  by Jehovahisgod in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  question please for one of jehovah's witnesses i'm doing some prison ministry.

  you used to have the make sure of all things hold fast to what is fine book what is the modern equivalent of this book i need a book which lists the bible topics and where to actually find them in the bible can somebody give me a pointer?.

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  excuse the typo its silentlambs.org
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  Modern replacement for make sure of all things book

  by Jehovahisgod in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  question please for one of jehovah's witnesses i'm doing some prison ministry.

  you used to have the make sure of all things hold fast to what is fine book what is the modern equivalent of this book i need a book which lists the bible topics and where to actually find them in the bible can somebody give me a pointer?.

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  jehivahisgod, you might find jwfacts.com useful, and for more information on their dreadful child abuse cover ups silentlambs.org, within the last couple of years the Australian Royal Commission conducted an inquiry into child abuse and the reasons why perpetrators where not reported to the police , there are various links, please remember to share this information with the person you are studying with, they may find it very interesting, jwfacts.com also nicely covers the United Nations membership, the so called wild beast of revelation which is due to be destroyed in the coming great tribulation.
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  144000 The numbers don't add up

  by LevelThePlayingField in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  in 1935 there were 63,146 who attended the memorial and 52,465 partook.

  (proclaimers book page 717).

  according to the bible teach book on page 78, it says, “since the days of the apostles, god has been selecting faithful christians in order to complete the number 144,000”.

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  its a ridiculous doctrine, doesn't make any sense whatsoever , to think I was requested to attend a judicial committee on the charge of apostasy because this very doctrine which I vocally disagreed with was on a list of charges that they concluded made me an apostate, another one was that I disagreed with was the "generation of 1914" not having any biblical basis and we are not living in the last days! LOL, this was in the early 1990's.