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  Voting, military, etc?

  by cothrige in

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  2. beliefs

  i am a catholic who was recently visited by a jehovah's witness who had some things to say which i had never known about.

  this got me to thinking, and so i am now curious about the full teachings of the wts in this regard.

  basically i was informed that witnesses cannot vote nor serve in the military, or even fly a flag.

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  A God I can believe in

  by DanTheMan in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i sometimes feel this spiritual void inside, like i'm standing at the edge of an abyss, and it's so much that i can hardly take it.

  the odd thing about it is that i always feel it when i'm starting to get close to a lady, close enough to where those deep feelings start to arise - where a momentary look into her eyes feels like a thousand years of life experience and the ephemeral nature of life becomes most painfully plain.

  i think that i need to believe in god, somehow, someway, if i'm gonna get through life without going nuts and/or doing myself harm.

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  Thank you, Watchtower, Bible and Tract Society!

  by David_R in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i wanted to say thank you to the wbts for enforcing a 'no-contact' rule on all those that have left the organization.. only by experiencing first-hand my former best-friends treating me like a complete stranger (see 'garbage') for standing up for my own beliefs was i finally able to tell the society 'good-bye' forever and not feel guilty about it.. i know this was not the wbts's intention from the alienation practice.

  it's intention was to make me feel guilty and lonely enough to come back to them.

  however, it has backfired on them and finally given me my freedom.. thank you, society, for lacking kindness and understanding.

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  Single Ministerial Servants and Elders...

  by B_Deserter in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i'm sure this has been touched on before, but i just thought about it tonight.

  i was thinking about the appointment of ministerial servants (deacons) and elders (bishops) in the kingdom hall.

  the watchtower society runs down the list of requirements in acts, that they must be good examples, pure, etc.

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