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  Brother & Sisters, Aunts and Uncles.....husband and wife

  by menrov in

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  was just thinking about the practice in wt (and i believe some other religions as well) to call your fellow female (baptized) jw a sister, a brother if it is a man.

  children call older people aunt or uncle.

  so, at home, i can call my wife by her first name etc.

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  cofty

  Ditto ^^^
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  Terrorist Attack in Paris

  by cofty in

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  a car has struck a group of soldiers in paris, injuring six, two seriously, police say.. a large and urgent police operation is now under way to find the vehicle and driver involved in the incident in the north-western suburb of levallois-perret.. the local mayor, patrick balkany, said he had "no doubt" that it was a deliberate act.....

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  cofty

  A car has struck a group of soldiers in Paris, injuring six, two seriously, police say.

  A large and urgent police operation is now under way to find the vehicle and driver involved in the incident in the north-western suburb of Levallois-Perret.

  The local mayor, Patrick Balkany, said he had "no doubt" that it was a deliberate act....
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  The most successful teaching of Jehovah's Witnesses and an amazing new book on the divine name

  by slimboyfat in

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  jehovah's witnesses have had to revise their chronology and various doctrinal interpretations due to events and scholarly corrections.

  but the one teaching where they have been consistently ahead of the curve is the importance of jehovah's name.. .

  i'm going to run through a (necessarily selective) timeline of jw events and scholarly publications that demonstrate the phenomenal success of this teaching in the last days.

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  cofty

  I have not got a clue what you mean. Argentina?? What are you trying to say?
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  The most successful teaching of Jehovah's Witnesses and an amazing new book on the divine name

  by slimboyfat in

  1. watchtower
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  jehovah's witnesses have had to revise their chronology and various doctrinal interpretations due to events and scholarly corrections.

  but the one teaching where they have been consistently ahead of the curve is the importance of jehovah's name.. .

  i'm going to run through a (necessarily selective) timeline of jw events and scholarly publications that demonstrate the phenomenal success of this teaching in the last days.

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  cofty

  Imagine a man beating up a child in the street and you walk on by reassuring yourself that if only everybody acted like JWs these sort of things would never happen.

  This is the moral cowardice you are trying to sell as a virtue.
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  The most successful teaching of Jehovah's Witnesses and an amazing new book on the divine name

  by slimboyfat in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  jehovah's witnesses have had to revise their chronology and various doctrinal interpretations due to events and scholarly corrections.

  but the one teaching where they have been consistently ahead of the curve is the importance of jehovah's name.. .

  i'm going to run through a (necessarily selective) timeline of jw events and scholarly publications that demonstrate the phenomenal success of this teaching in the last days.

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  If everyone had acted as he did there would have been no war and no Holocaust. - SBF

  But that didn't happen. The churches in Germany supported Hitler - shame on them.

  There was a holocaust and JWs did absolutely nothing to stop it - shame on them.
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  The most successful teaching of Jehovah's Witnesses and an amazing new book on the divine name

  by slimboyfat in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  jehovah's witnesses have had to revise their chronology and various doctrinal interpretations due to events and scholarly corrections.

  but the one teaching where they have been consistently ahead of the curve is the importance of jehovah's name.. .

  i'm going to run through a (necessarily selective) timeline of jw events and scholarly publications that demonstrate the phenomenal success of this teaching in the last days.

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  cofty

  is that better cofty?

  I understand every word but not when you arrange them in that order and in this context.
  
  
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  The most successful teaching of Jehovah's Witnesses and an amazing new book on the divine name

  by slimboyfat in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  jehovah's witnesses have had to revise their chronology and various doctrinal interpretations due to events and scholarly corrections.

  but the one teaching where they have been consistently ahead of the curve is the importance of jehovah's name.. .

  i'm going to run through a (necessarily selective) timeline of jw events and scholarly publications that demonstrate the phenomenal success of this teaching in the last days.

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  cofty

  the record of JWs refusing to kill each other as other religions do is impressive - SBF

  Actually their neutrality is not impressive it is shameful.

  When JWs opted out of WWII that was morally reprehensible.

  Fascism is evil. It could only be defeated through war. Chamberlain proved that beyond doubt. The moral thing to do would have been for JWs to fight against the Nazis regardless of what country they belonged to.

  A meaningful comparison is not between JWs and the Christian churches of Germany, but between JWs and the Christian churches who supported the war effort against Hitler.

  The churches who supported the Allies were morally superior to the cowards who hid behind neutrality.
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  The most successful teaching of Jehovah's Witnesses and an amazing new book on the divine name

  by slimboyfat in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  jehovah's witnesses have had to revise their chronology and various doctrinal interpretations due to events and scholarly corrections.

  but the one teaching where they have been consistently ahead of the curve is the importance of jehovah's name.. .

  i'm going to run through a (necessarily selective) timeline of jw events and scholarly publications that demonstrate the phenomenal success of this teaching in the last days.

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  cofty

  Ok whatever.
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  The most successful teaching of Jehovah's Witnesses and an amazing new book on the divine name

  by slimboyfat in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  jehovah's witnesses have had to revise their chronology and various doctrinal interpretations due to events and scholarly corrections.

  but the one teaching where they have been consistently ahead of the curve is the importance of jehovah's name.. .

  i'm going to run through a (necessarily selective) timeline of jw events and scholarly publications that demonstrate the phenomenal success of this teaching in the last days.

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  cofty

  Laika - Can you really not see why your argument is pathetic?

  Do you really need it explained? Do you know so little about history that you can pretend unilateral pacifism would lead to anything but the genocide of the naive?

  SBF - Sometimes we have discussed things so often I just can't be bothered going through it all again.
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  "Even if this wasn't the truth, I would still stay. This is the best life to live..."

  by HereIgo in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i was recently told this by a jw family member when trying to get through to them.

  does this quote indicate that maybe such ones have considered that the jw's may not have the truth after all?

  or is that just my wishful thinking?

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  cofty

  The blood stance, I totally get it; "abstain from blood", Old and New Testament. So, JWs interpret it literally. So it is.

  Is this genuine ignorance or wilful ignorance?

  The shunning practice needs to be tweaked for sure. However, in many instances, this type of treatment is absolutely necessary.

  Disgraceful!