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  Twilight by Stephenie Meyer...has anyone read it?

  by White Dove in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  anyone?

  anyone?

  bueller...bueller...fry...

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  Should Smoking Be a Mortal Sin?

  by skeeter1 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  jdubs hang their hat on the fact that the wts was right about not smoking.

  (the jdubs forget that the wts did not get it right on vaccinations or organ transplants...but that's for another post).

  granted, saying "no" to smoke was a good, healthy decision.

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  Date tonight

  by B_Deserter in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  well, i have a date tonight.

  predictably, i'm pretty nervous.

  does anyone have advice as far as what are good conversation ice breakers and subjects that work well for date talk.

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  Will the WTBTS ever become mainstream like the WWCG?

  by donny in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  back during the 80's and 90's, i occasionally heard statements lumping the society in with the likes of the worldwide church of god who had very similar teachings and even believed in 1975 as being a year that god would act (1975 in prophecy!

  by herbert w. armstrong).

  clearly the roots of the wwcg were from the same as the societys and both groups were viewed as cults.

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  SCANNED ARTICLE ON BLOOD FRACTIONS 'WORKBOOK'

  by Mary in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  i'm not sure if this has ever been posted, but here's the uh "workbook" that all jws are given regarding blood fractions.

  of course, the hypocrisy shines through as when it asks "are fractions also covered by the command to abstain from blood?

  we cannot say" and "your decisions should be your own and should not be based on someone else's conscience.

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  WTBTS Hints At Incest/Pedophilia?

  by sacolton in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  from their publication on breaking free of self-abusewhy?

  [watchtower 1973 sept 15 pp.564-5].

  many things are suggested.

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  Critical Reading

  by megs in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  one of the most important things i learned in university was critical reading... when you read something, look at who's writing it, are they credible, do they have a known bias?

  if they are quoting, is the quote taken in context?

  the wts seem to be masters at trying to curtail critical thinking because then their bias, credibility and context would be shot.!

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  Few Jehovah's Witnesses bother to GRASP THEIR OWN THEOLOGY!!!

  by Terry in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  keep this one fact in mind about jehovah's witnesses.

  they exist in three parts throughout their history.. 1. honest bible students attracted to the gimmicks of russell (charts, graphs, chronologies, pyramid inches, etc.

  ) expected the end of the world to come and they wanted to know more.. 2.contrarian hard heads under rutherford wanted to prove everybody was wrong about everything except themselves.

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  Martin Luther Sounds like He's talking about the WTBTS in the 1500's!

  by AuntBee in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  usually i'm just a lurker.

  i'm a chrirstian concerned for a jw teen, and wanting to understand what he's going through, and where he's coming from i don't usually post, but this morning i came upon this while reading from the sermons of martin luther , volume 1. he's speaking about luke 21:28.. "the godless fanatical preachers are to be censured who in their sermons deprive people of these words of christ and faith in them, who desire to make people devout by terrifying them and who teach them to prepare for the last day by relying upon their good works as satisfaction for their sins.

  here despair, fear and terror must remain and grow and with it hatred, aversion and abhorrence for the coming of the lord, and enmity against god be established in the heart; for they picture christ as nothing but a stern judge whose heart must be appeased by works, and they never present him as the redeemer, as he calls and offers himself, of whom we are to expect that out of pure grace he will redeem us from sin and evil.. such is always the result where the gospel is not rightly proclaimed.

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  New Here Also- Thoughts on the current state of JW

  by secretjw in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i am a baptized witness... i've been around it most of my life.

  i've been baptized for a while now.. just as a topic of thought, what do you think is the current state of the society/jehovah's witnesses today?

  it seems like we're in the last days.... but then again, the last days have been going on for 60+ years!

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