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  Would YOU Have Refused Blood To Remain Faithful To Your JW Beliefs?

  by minimus in

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  i believe that most witnesses would refuse blood to show their faithfulness to jehovah's law on blood transfusions....( that sounds silly, huh?).

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  Fernando

  Before awakening, sure.

  I am very thankful I never had to.
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  HELP! Elder bombarded me with scripture...& I don't know what to do.

  by Smoky in

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  i have been lurking on this site for many years.

  i rarely post anything, because my english isnt the best and not sure if anyone understands.

  i just recently had a run in with an elder, have not seen him in a few years.

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  Fernando

  If you ever really HAVE to go against your better judgment and the good advice given above, you'd be surprised just how blind and ignorant these so-called "elders" are when asked a few well chosen "simple" questions...
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  When did the last days start ?

  by raymond frantz in

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  somewhere hidden well within the jw.org exists an article about the last days of the last days of the jewish system of things .when did the last days of the jewish system of things start was it at the pentecost or before that ?

  is that important when we compare jesus' days our days as a way to find what will initiate them ?

  i wrote a small post in relation to this any extra valid information towards this will be much appreciated.

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  Fernando

  Didn't some rather dramatic events at the time of Jesus' death indicate abandonment of the physical temple, in other words the end of the Jewish system?
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  What is the perfect product to sell to a JW?

  by usualusername in

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  what is the perfect product to sell to a jw?.

  cheap?.

  exclusive?.

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  Fernando

  Everything they are buying from the apostate Watchtower Organisation?:

  • organisational salvation
  • baptismal salvation
  • self-righteousness
  • hypocrisy
  • works-righteousness
  • a VISIBLE golden calf as pseudo-mediator (GB/FDS/JW.org)
  • clericalism (an authoritarian hierarchy)
  • legalism (rules)
  • moralism (more rules)
  • ethnocentrism (supremacist doctrine)

  But of course if it is about a quick buck then one would have to go with what joe134cd said is hot at this time.
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  A VERY IMPORTANT QUESTION to those on J.W.NET...

  by new hope and happiness in

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  what is important to you and why?.

  maybe i should begin with a few suggestions:-.

  love,.

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  Fernando

  The custody battle fought over us (the human family) by means of controlling religion and its nemesis the liberating gospel of grace and peace.
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  The ignorance of the "sheep"...and will door to door work phaze out due to being "challenged" too much at the door?

  by integ in

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  hello friends.. i notice alot of talk about the future and what it would take to bring the whole thing down and no one seems to think it can or will happen any time soon.

  just seeing people here talk about what will happen once 2034 comes and goes is very discouraging.. i'm amazed this religion continues to move along as it does.

  building, growing etc.

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  Fernando

  I wonder if the d2d work is more likely being phased out, by means of initiatives like "trolly folly", jwTV and jw.org due to basic math lessons the GB have taken at JWfacts.com.

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  Total hours of FS worldwide for a given year namely 2013 [ 1,841,180,235 ],

  divided by (an estimated) half the baptisms, namely those not recruited by their parents [ 0.5 X 277,344 ],

  divided by a 10-hour-per-month publisher's hours per year [ 10 hours per month X 12 months ],

  equals x-years of doorknocking by a 10-hour-per-month publisher per baptism via doorknocking.

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  Years = 1,841,180,235 / (0.5 X 277,344) / (10 X 12) = 110 years

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  In essence, using 2013 figures, it will take a 10-hour-per-month publisher (an average of) 110 years to generate 1 baptism via doorknocking.
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  The ignorance of the "sheep"...and will door to door work phaze out due to being "challenged" too much at the door?

  by integ in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  hello friends.. i notice alot of talk about the future and what it would take to bring the whole thing down and no one seems to think it can or will happen any time soon.

  just seeing people here talk about what will happen once 2034 comes and goes is very discouraging.. i'm amazed this religion continues to move along as it does.

  building, growing etc.

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  Fernando

  Hey integ!

  I agree, the mindlessness is frustrating.

  Sadly most householders, including especially Christians, are no different, and have nothing substantive or useful to offer the next doorknocking WBTS cultist.

  Just ask almost any "Christian" to explain what the gospel is in one word.

  The result is the same as a "car salesman" that does not know that a Ford is a motorcar.
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  Melbourne's Herald Sun -- "confessions of a Jehovah's Witness"

  by MrMonroe in

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  all the dubs pouring into melbourne, australia for the international convention gonna choke on their cornflakes when they read this .... http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/opinion/former-jehovahs-witness-lifts-lid-on-stifling-doomobsessed-religion/story-fni0ffsx-1227092921890.

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  Fernando

  Another very well written model that could be followed in many other cities by those so inclined...

  I'm feeling a little inspired...
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  Why I Refuse to Accept the term APOSTATE

  by Black Man in

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  been going back in forth with my mom (who is a longtime pioneer and dyed-in-the-wool jw) about the term apostate.

  she has labeled me one because of my fading and because i stopped attending meetings a few years ago.

  i told her that i refuse to accept the term apostate because its a lazy way for the wts to not deal with dissenters and address why people are leaving this organization in droves.

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  Fernando

  Black Man, my thoughts too.

  Besides laziness (on the part of the R&F) it is also deception on the part of the hierarchy.

  Apostasy is correctly defined as spiritual unfaithfulness, adultery, fornication, or prostitution (Ezek 16 and 23) of which the Watchtower is doubly guilty.

  The evidence is in how this harlotrous organisation and hierarchy use malicious clericalism, magisterium and misdirection to keep their followers ignorant of "the truth of the Good News" (especially according to Paul in Romans through Hebrews).

  Reference: search Watchtower library for -

  aposta* unfaithful*

  using paragraph scope, and displaying results from the Bible only.
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  New development in my life

  by EdenOne in

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  no longer a ms ........................... can't give details atm, for it might be a dead-giveaway and it ain't quite over yet.

  but, it really taught me one thing: if you're trying to fade or stay in, trust no one.

  and i mean no one.. eden.

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  Fernando

  Fantastic Good News EdenOne.

  Our family is with yours in spirit, and if you expect the worst from those following a false "Good News" you will at least not be disappointed.

  A great future awaits once you have put off the weight of the corrupt and dysfunctional Watchtower Organisation.

  (Hebrews 12:1) . . .So, then, because we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us also put off every weight and the [dysfunction] that easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us. . .