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  Using history as a means to pinpoint possible future events.

  by HealthySkeptic in

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  the purpose of this thread is to share some history with the community.

  i am an active jw.

  the reason i picked this forum is due to the openness and ease with which information can be accessed.

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  cofty

  I know there's a lot of negative people on here. I'm not here for them or to waste their time and my time in pointless, endless debates

  In other words you have a huge amount of disconnected ideas that you have developed in an intellectual bubble and you won't tolerate any challenges to your pet theory.

  This is not the way develop your knowledge and critical thinking skills.

  By the way you have joined a discussion forum not a blog. Expect to be challenged - welcome it and see if your ideas hold up to scrutiny.
  
  
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  Do They Still do Door-to-Door as Much as Before?

  by cofty in

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  2. beliefs

  since the advent of the trolleys do the majority of jws still go door to door like we used to?.

  do they still have meetings for field service on sat mornings and sun afternoons where most head off to the local territory while one or two go to do trolley work or has the importance of door to door work reduced?.

  with the reduction of printing wts and awakes what will they offer at the doors?.

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  occasionally with an elder driving by to ask "do you need more territory?"

  Ha so true!
  
  
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  Just woke up turn TV on to hear yet another nut case with a gun.

  by Still Totally ADD in

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  2. friends

  first they said 20 dead with 100 injured.

  now i just heard 50 dead and 200 injured.

  whatever it is it just another nut case who was able to get a high power gun to kill people.

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  cofty

  We'll have to pursue this via PM if you're interested

  You made a public statement I asked for your source.

  Betheliesalot has provided a secondary source from a crazy website called "natural news". I was hoping you had something more reliable.

  Conspiracy theorists are the most gullible people.
  
  
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  Just woke up turn TV on to hear yet another nut case with a gun.

  by Still Totally ADD in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  first they said 20 dead with 100 injured.

  now i just heard 50 dead and 200 injured.

  whatever it is it just another nut case who was able to get a high power gun to kill people.

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  cofty

  but have stated that it is very, very unlikely that the prime suspect acted alone

  Source please.
  
  
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  Can Today's JW Logically Explain Their Beliefs?

  by minimus in

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  2. friends

  when i was a jw, i relished explaining my beliefs and why we had the truth!

  lol.

  todays witness has no clue , in my opinion..

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  cofty

  "This Good News of the website will be declared in all the inhabited earth..."

  The decline began with the publishing of "Reasoning From the Scriptures".

  When I was a pioneer in the 80s we began to be encouraged not to provide answers from the bible in our own words but to take out the reasoning book and read the answer. I never went along with that. I took pride in being able to deal with any objection directly from the bible.

  I suspect the motivation was uniformity.
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  Jonestown

  by Akid48 in

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  does any one think the wt is going to go out this way?i know its dark but i can see it going down that way but i dont see it being the way there would go down..

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  cofty

  No. It's still a long way from that end of the cult spectrum.
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  2017 Annual Meeting

  by Jules Saturn in

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  this just in from the 2017 annual meeting:.

  1. watchtowers and awakes won't be released regularly, at least three watchtower and awakes per year.

  6 magazines a year.. 2. a new book is being released: remain in god's love, more of an update like how they did for the what does the bible really teach book.

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  I suspect the GB genuinely believe their own bullshit. I reckon they are stressed out trying to make sense of why everything is going wrong.
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  Trivial stuff about the AGM

  by sir82 in

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  lots of good comments already about the content of saturday's agm broadcast.. i just thought i'd add my (trivial!

  ) comments about the magnificent 7:.

  -- loesch - was he intentionally trying to be boring?

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  cofty

  It was a mistake to let the masses see behind the curtain.
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  Do They Still do Door-to-Door as Much as Before?

  by cofty in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  since the advent of the trolleys do the majority of jws still go door to door like we used to?.

  do they still have meetings for field service on sat mornings and sun afternoons where most head off to the local territory while one or two go to do trolley work or has the importance of door to door work reduced?.

  with the reduction of printing wts and awakes what will they offer at the doors?.

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  Interesting thanks. koncpetual99 it looks as if they still do as much door to door officially but not in reality.

  Snugglebunny I'm going to have that tune in my head today!

  maybe, they distributed your picture as an evil and dangerous apostate Cofty - Suavojr

  I was talking to a JW at a cart in Edinburgh last week while his partner stayed back out the way. Another two JWs arrived to take over my wife overheard one of them saying to him "you shouldn't be talking to him, that's that apostate I told you about."
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  A Korean Tragedy

  by fulltimestudent in

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  2. friends

  the modern history is full of deep, dark tragedies.

  and, my intention, as i sat down to write of those tragedies for a fb page i look after for a macquarie university student society, was to tell the story of these very dark contemporary events.

  but east asia history is complex and i think its helpful to try to have an overview of that history to understand what has happened in the recent past.

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  cofty

  Thank you. Interesting stuff and great pics.