ElderEtta

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  blood

  by zeb in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  over heard other day.

  if you take blood you are taking in some ones elses dna.?.

  i eat meat and vegetables drink milk so what about the dna in them...

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  Years ago my farmer friend used to call that strawberry milk
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  Dawkins on Jehovah's Witnesses' "Creation" book

  by slimboyfat in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  has anyone read dawkins new book the god delusion yet?

  he discusses the creation book on pages 119-121. he says that he discusses this particular tract only because it has had such a wide circulation - no fewer than 6 of which have been sent to him personally.

  well i think he has at least 7 copies by now because i personally know one witness who sent him one following his recent the roof of all evil?

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  I just ordered my copy of Dawkins book from Amazon at less than $10
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  who has been out the longest?

  by stan livedeath in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  who has been out of the cult the longest ?.

  i'll start--i resigned in 1971, but attended occasionally as a non-interested husband to keep the wife sweet, untill my last circuit assembly in autumn 1980. no connection with the cult since then.

  so--its either 47 or 38 years, depending on how you see it.. which begs the question--why am i on this site now ?.

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  Out in 1977 and am now 77 years old
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  BOE-2018-04-16--Beards and Special Privileges!

  by Atlantis in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  2018-04-16-boebeards and special privilegeshttps://we.tl/qoxbkltp4latlantis!.

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  Copy and pasting might overcome the tracking code trap but not the canary trap. With the Human Resources available at Washtowels modern day slavery camps- I wouldn’t put it past them to slightly alter the wording of each boe letter to catch the leakers.

  Current day word processors even the free ones have infinite ways they can vary a document without you ever noticing with your eyes, line spacing , font type, font size, kerning, and so forth and so forth and all under automated macro / program control.
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  Shunning: Reasoning With JW's

  by The Fall Guy in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  perhaps this line of questioning could agitate a jw's thinking.

  it can't hurt.. you: is shunning a biblical teaching?.

  jw: yes.. you: so it must be god's law?.

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  Papal dispensation. Papal dispensation is a reserved right of the pope that allows for individuals to be exempted from a specific Canon Law. Dispensations are divided into two categories: general, and matrimonial. Matrimonial dispensations can be either to allow a marriage in the first place, or to dissolve one.

  Watchtower governing body dispensation. Watchtower governing body dispensation is a reserved right of the 7 men that allows for individuals to be exempted from their shunning policy. Since exemptions to the shunning policy is not biblically defined the seven men have lovingly added to scripture by providing for family members to associate with disfellowshipped members of their family as long as such ones are living under the same roof.
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  Shunning: Reasoning With JW's

  by The Fall Guy in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  perhaps this line of questioning could agitate a jw's thinking.

  it can't hurt.. you: is shunning a biblical teaching?.

  jw: yes.. you: so it must be god's law?.

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  YOU: Well, according to your religion, if a JW who lives at home with their parents and siblings gets disfellowshipped, their family association continues as normal. But if that individual later moved into an apartment next door, they would be regarded as if they were dead. Can you show me in the Bible where this discriminatory "law of God" is laid out?

  A great unexplainable paradox that I have never heard before
  
  
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  My Personal Atheist Manifesto?

  by dubstepped in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  so, i have a guy that is emailing me after listening to my podcast series "this jw life" about my life story before, during, and after being a jw.

  this guy happens to be an elder and pioneer serving where the need is greater.

  i love this guy.

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  Excellent dubstepped
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  I think you should know about this man. After all, he changed your life!

  by Terry in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  william miller.

  do you know how important this man has been to your life?.

  do you know your life would have been entirely different (without a doubt) had he not lived?.

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  ScenicVierer:

  Here's a link to that father Miller reference here from several years ago here it is

  https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/186678/russell-re-millerite-founder-father-miller-no-less-4-times
  
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  Cancer in Animals

  by Normalfulla in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  we were taught sickness and death is a result of the sin inherited from adam and eve, so why do animals get cancer?

  they are supposedly still as big j intended, so therefore cancer is a creation by the big fella himself?.

  just an exercise for one's who believe in the whole bible story thing.. (not me)... any others anomalies you can think of ?

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  Purrpurr

  I enjoyed your humor
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  Gloom and Doom from 100 years ago -- Watch Tower 1918

  by FatFreek 2005 in

  1. social
  2. current

  i thought it would be enlightening to see what jws said 100 years ago.

  it's no different as we check out the jan 1, 1918 watch tower and herald of christ's presence.. .

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  And how does one get more shares than the next person it certainly wouldn't have anything to do with money wood it