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Are there things they DON'T tell you until AFTER you're baptized?
by lavendar in
1. jw
2. friends
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just wondering....... are there certain teachings / beliefs they don't tell a person who is studying....until after they're baptized?.

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Have You Ever Walked Out Of a KH "Meeting"?
by african GB Member in
1. jw
2. experiences
did you have enough of boasting, and decided to walk out?.

that's what happened to me during this week's bs about how to "treat the disfellowshipped"?.

i just picked up my bag and stormed out...... will i get called into the back room?.
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My Father has just past away
by caliber in
1. jw
2. friends
yes my father has passed on sunday.... all my family brothers, sister, in-laws are jws .

it is occasions like this that.

make me see why i and countless others are just faders .. not taking that bold step of disassociation .
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May 15th WT- " Wife's Dedication to Jehovah more Important than Marriage "
by flipper in
1. jw
2. friends
i wanted to make just a thread for this statement of mind control as it was very blatant .

in the may 15th witness only wt under the article "husbands, imitate christ's love !

" it states, " if you are a christian husband, remember that your wife is also your christian sister.
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Convention-Assembly CONTRIBUTIONS, Elder Experience Required
by V in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
do you have experience as an elder and the contribution arrangement for assemblies or conventions?

an upcoming watchtower comments video will be exposing the resolution arrangement that makes this a cash-cow for the society.. i am particularly interested in recent experience, including countries other than the us.. let's get our facts straight and explain the ever-present "deficit" once and for all.. v. [email protected] .
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Counting Time: Is it Scriptural?
by cameo-d in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
what is the purpose of punching jehovah's timecard?.

doesn't wt psychologically imply that jehovah "owes" them paradise because they have "worked" for it?.

it seems there is a scripture somewhere about "love does not keep an accounting".. perhaps one of you can find the scriptural incidence.. .
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WHO WAS WATCHTOWER BEST LEADER?
by badboy in
1. jw
2. friends
russell?.
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What constitutes adultery for the WTS?
by iknewit in
1. jw
2. experiences
i was an elder many years and only sat in on one case of marital infedilty.

since there was a confession in this instance.

we didn't need to know anything about the "act" (and none of us really wanted to know).
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The Secret Pioneer School Manual
by WuzLovesDubs in
1. jw
2. friends
i saw one up close and personal because the jw annointed sister who was studying with me, told me that if i looked up every scripture in her (illegally gotten before the school started) pioneer school book and cut it out of old green nwts and pasted them in the margins, it would make her a stronger pioneer and jehovah would reward me.

and in the process i would learn where things were in the bible.. gosh what an incredible honor i was blessed with!

you know i did it..i didnt know a damn thing.
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If there's some good in the Watchtower, why leave it?
by AlmostAtheist in
1. jw
2. friends
the post about crisis of conscience in which the poster said he knows there's some bad in the watchtower (as brought out in coc), but there's some good in it too got me to wondering about people that stay for the good in it.. the united states makes some decisions as a country that i don't agree with, perhaps even object strongly to.

but i don't disavow my citizenship.

it's mostly a good place to live, so i stay.. if you want to live in a way that utterly conflicts with the watchtower -- homosexual, multiple sex partners, smoking, whatever -- then you have reason to leave.