kashkrunched nice find, and welcome to the forum. All that has unclean origin must be avoided right? Also worth mentioning that the passing around of "Jesus' body and blood" is found in one more ritual besides JWs memorial: in the satanist black mass.
Posts by teel
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22V's memorial teaser - its time to get busy with your email campaigns :-)
by besty inthey had better wine glasses at this hall, but otherwise everything was the same.
we had one at our hall last year.
so the people in the side rows get to hold the wine glass twice.
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The Beard Starts TODAY
by Mad Sweeney init was only this past weekend that i finally stated (both aloud and in print) that i would never attend another meeting again.
like many brothers before me, i have decided to symbolize this new dedication to freedom for myself and my family with a beard..
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teel
Before you do this very important step, you need to respond affirmatively to these two questions:
(1) On the basis of knowledge about the WTS, have you rejected the GB as God's appointed men, and dedicated yourself to not do their will?
(2) Do you understand that your dedication and growth of beard identifies you as not being one of Jehovah's Witnesses in association with an organization going against God's Holy Spirit?
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Advice on how to shed your worldly friends.
by iknowall558 inalana christinei have a question for you guys out there who have enough knowledge about my situatuion to inform on me as much as you can.
i'm living in the dorms at college right now, yes it's not the best situation for me.
i made a few friends when i arrived, but they weren't the best people even though some say they are religious, ...(they've been baptised but they don't show it).
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teel
Gromit: why the red herring? Just because JWs are not the only nutjobs on the planet, it doesn't vindicate them in any way. Sure, there isn't one single thing that's unique to JWs, but this is JWN, not orthodox-judaism.net.
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WTS comments UN case in Portuguese newspaper
by Osarsif inarticle in portuguese newspaper publico (saturday, october 20, 2001) about the un case:.
testemunhas de jeova ligaram-se a "besta".
(jehovah's witnesses connected with the "beast").
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teel
You know what they say: what happens on the Internet, stays on the Internet!
http://web.archive.org/web/20011119221025/http://jornal.publico.pt/2001/10/20/Sociedade/S05.html
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What's your plans on the JW Memorial night?
by dissed infor the last 13 years, we haven't attended and didn't even care about it.
but since we became card carrying members of jwn in september, we have an interest in what are friends here on jwn are doing.. for us?
we will be watching 'dancing with the stars'.
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teel
I just got the movie 2012 on blu-ray. It seems fitting to watch a representation of the "JW good news" right on the JWs only holiday.
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V's memorial teaser - its time to get busy with your email campaigns :-)
by besty inthey had better wine glasses at this hall, but otherwise everything was the same.
we had one at our hall last year.
so the people in the side rows get to hold the wine glass twice.
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teel
While still active I was one of the servers. An old sister in my cong gave me quite a scare, when I gave her the bread, she picked one up. I just didn't know what to do: should I grab it out of her hands? She was obviously not annointed, so what am I supposed to do? Noone told me what should I do...
Then she smelled it and put it back... Weird old lady, giving me the scare...
It is only now that I realise how judgemental I was, deciding she can't be annointed.
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The Marks the WT is God's Only Org on Earth
by maputo95 inwith monotous regularity, my jw friend says the proof that the org is god's only divinely inspired org on earth is the fact that they go door to door.
how should i respond to this convuluted logic?.
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teel
An elder ex friend of mine (ex because friendship is conditional in the WTS world ) used the same argument. I told him there are many other religions who do the same, and told him that it should also matter what message they bring, just going door to door is not enough.
Don't expect to convince a JW of anything, they have too much invested to actually admit they're wrong. The best you can get is to get them thinking. If not right then, maybe you just plant a seed that later will resurface.
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10 good reasons why celebrating birthdays should be allowed
by bluecanary ini cannot take credit for any of the gems below but i did want to polish and organize them.
much of the information was borrowed from this thread.
if you can come up with any more, please post them.. the bible does not ban birthdays.
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teel
Also a very good counter-example to their reason that only bad things happened on birthdays: the pharaoh on his infamous birthday not only beheaded the baker, but restored the chief cupbearer to his position. This later lead to said cupbearer to talk to the pharaoh about Joseph, and his capability of interpreting dreams, Joseph's appointment, etc..., and in the end Abraham's family being saved from starvation.
Basically if the pharaoh wasn't celebrating his birthday, the izraelites may have well never have formed.
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Turning in time?
by crazy2try ini have a problem.
my hubby and i are tying to fade out completely, but we ran into a snag.
my in-laws showed up with a stack of time slips and said that they will turn them in for us if we fill them out.
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teel
Do this: put a big 0 on the report, and mail it directly to the secretary. Then tell the in-laws you sent it by yourself. If they ask the secretary, he'd have to say yes, he got the report, yet he can't tell what was on it.
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teel
Huh?
Water.
On the rocks.
How about on tuesday?