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  their beliefs and practice's don't tally- tonights book study

  by purrpurr in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  tonights book study in part is about jesus throwing out the merchants and money lenders in the temple... how do they manage to tally that up with asking for funds for all their various projects?

  it seems hardly a meeting goes by without some kind of money plea?

  don't they realise that they are doing the same thing that jesus got so angry about and threw out of the temple?

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  hoser

  What book is being studied right now?
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  Find What Your Social Status Was in the Congregation

  by Mary in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  ever notice how the "happiest people on earth" are also the most class-oriented?

  the social structure in the congregation is more complex than the blueprints of a nuclear warhead, but just so that you "remember your place", see if you can find where your niche was/is:.

  1. at the top of the social order of things within the congregation is of course, the presiding overseer and his family.

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  I was a 3 now I'm an 8
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  Is It Just Me??

  by What Now? in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  we're 2 years in to our exit from the witnesses.

  we're not disfellowshipped or disassociated ... just inactive.

  none of our friends speak to us anymore.

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  My family shuns us to a certain extent too. It is just the sick way that they try to control our life. My wife and I found a new circle of friends and ignore our family. They phone once in a while but are starting to figure out that the guilt trips don't work anymore.
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  NEW LEVY FORCED ON WITNESSES?

  by The Searcher in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  have i missed a previous posting on this?

  sorry if this is old news.. just heard from someone whose meeting is on a tuesday evening; basically, 3 per publisher is to be levied to "replace" the kh insurance payment.

  the money will be used for damage, vandalism, & disasters, but also to protect any of the societies' entities.. .

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  In Canada they require the congregations to pay so much per publisher for an insurance policy, but when there is a claim they ask for donations from the congregations to cover the cost of the damages.
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  new assembly experience... what do you reckon to this one?

  by purrpurr in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  ok so aparently there was this young girl who wanted to study with the jw's because she loved the bible so much.

  she asked her fathers permission but he refused, after much nagging though he said she could have a study if she was prepared to have one of her fingers chopped off.

  he thought the is would stop her but she was willing so he got a knife and cut off one of her fingers... a little while later she wanted to attend the meetings and he said no and again when nagged said she could attend meetings if she had another finger chopped off so she agreed and he chopped off a second finger.

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  Did anyone take a close look at her hands?

  Did anyone at the assembly call the police and report the father for child abuse?
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  WT Study 26th Oct. '14

  by BluesBrother in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i could find another thread so i thought i might add a few comments here - not a full critique though.

  "hear jehovah's voice wherever you are".

  http://www.jw.org/en/publications/magazines/w20140815/hear-jehovahs-voice/.

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  hoser

  I thought what a loser that is grown up and still sits between mom and dad at the meetings.
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  What Kingdom Halls do you know of that have been closed down recently?

  by 4thgen in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  recently, we drove by the kingdom hall in galena, il, the sign was removed and it was closed down.

  a while back, the hall in taylor mo was also closed.

  one congregation in peoria, il was dissolved last year.

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  hoser

  I know of 9 in my region
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  Watchtower encouraging members to go and preach in Israel

  by wannaexit in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  an odd letter was read at last nights' meeting.

  it was in regards to a special campaign for next year arranged by the governing body to go and preach in israel.

  the call is going out to anybody that speaks hebrew and english.

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  OK so this is from the US department of state

  http://www.state.gov/j/drl/rls/irf/2011/nea/192887.htm

  From the above documents

  "During the year members of Jehovah’s Witnesses reported assaults, threats of violence, and other crimes and noted the difficulties their members faced in convincing the police to investigate or apprehend the perpetrators. On August 13, in Holon, approximately 15 Haredi men disrupted a religious meeting held at a sports hall and one of them punched a member of the community. However, after police questioned the attacker, authorities only gave him a restraining order."

  "After Jehovah’s Witnesses held several meetings in the Raanana sports hall in November, city council member Ilan Cohen called publicly for halls to refuse to rent space for “missionary activities.” Afterwards the sports hall could no longer find an available date for any future Jehovah’s Witnesses’ gathering. In Netanya on December 13, police fined two members of Jehovah’s Witnesses NIS 730 ($200) each for sharing their faith from door to door and passing out free literature, stating in the citation that such religious activity was “peddling” without a license. Authorities also confiscated their Bibles."

  "Major Protestant denominations that have been in the country for many years, such as the Assemblies of God, Baptists, and Lutherans, among others, are not recognized. Four religious communities that have applied for official recognition have had their applications pending for years: Ethiopian Orthodox, Coptic Orthodox, Evangelical Lutheran Church, and the Evangelical Alliance of Israel. Jehovah’s Witnesses presented two applications for recognition as a religious congregation, in 2003 and 2008, which were rejected."

  As noted in previous posts the watchtower corporation is using this campaign to cry persecution. They throw their own under the bus.
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  Mental Disorders among JW's

  by Blackfalcon98 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  hi everyone, im begining to notice patterns of mental issues in the congregations and among the witnesses as a group.

  do you think this is a trend in the entire world or is it exagerated in this organization?.

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  As recently as a year ago elders in my congregation were implying to a friend of mine that his mental illness was a direct result of some secret sin he was hiding.
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  Watchtower encouraging members to go and preach in Israel

  by wannaexit in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  an odd letter was read at last nights' meeting.

  it was in regards to a special campaign for next year arranged by the governing body to go and preach in israel.

  the call is going out to anybody that speaks hebrew and english.

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  hoser

  I wonder if they will do something like this?

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQ5YU_spBw0