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  Name a song title..........

  by punkofnice in

  1. social
  2. humour

  replace one word in a song title with the word 'elder/s'.. eg.

  the elders are back in town' (boys).

  smoke on the elder (water).

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  Folsom prison elder (blues). Johnny Cash
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  1975... the year that keeps on giving.

  by silentbuddha in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  so i recently moved back to my really really really small hometown in the south.

  it was the place that my parents moved to from a major city up north in the early 1970's.

  when we lived here times were very tough financially and i was always told that the reason we did not attend meetings was due to the fact that we had no car / no gas for the car / could not afford repairs for the years we were there.

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  I lived through the 1975 shit show as a child. My mom still denies to this day that the watchtower promoted the date.

  I know some need greaters moved to our congregation from Edmonton before 75. One family got disgruntled and left in 76. I still remember the father coming to our house and telling my parents how it was a sham. I wish they would have listened to the man.

  The whole 1975 move to some backwoods town had a huge impact on peoples lives
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  Naked Jehovah's Witnesses (bizarre story)

  by wannaexit in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  this is the most weird story.

  if you read half way down you will see the protagonists are jdubs.

  http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/alberta-family-kidnapping-naked-nisku-1.4398942.

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  They are jws for sure. An older brother was talking to me about it yesterday at the meeting. He knows some involved.
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  JWs drank suspicious tea and got naked and kidnapped people

  by yalbmert99 in

  1. social
  2. current

  well, this is awkward !

  these are jehovah's witnesses...lol.

  http://edmonton.ctvnews.ca/naked-suspects-in-nisku-kidnapping-may-have-consumed-hallucinogenic-tea-1.3671452.

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  someone’s getting disfellowshipped for that
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  JW Broadcasting: Russian Convention Travel Report w/Mark Sanderson

  by pale.emperor in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  https://tv.jw.org/#en/mediaitems/latestvideos/pub-jwb_201709_12_video.

  a few things about this video:.

  it's very nice that they managed to host a convention for the russian brothers and sisters, and that they all got fed.

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  Entitled governing body
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  School inspection is just like a CO visit.

  by pleaseresearch in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so our school has just had the school inspectors in, looking and observing lessons.

  the similarities with a co visit is uncanny.. how well behaved teachers, members of staff and pupils are..

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  The CO also checks on ( or at least used to) donations. He would make sure that no funds in the worldwide work donation box ended up in the congregations, or the accounts servants bank account.
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  How/when did you become a jehovas witness?

  by Lewis1998 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  so i've been a protestant for most of my life, it's how i was raised, but recently i started questioning my faith more and more and now i feel like my beliefs resemble that of a jehovas witness rather than a protestant.

  i don't know any jehovas witnesses, so i was just wondering how a lot of you found the religion and adapted to it?.

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  My parents converted to JW's in the mid 1960's. In the mid 1980's my brainwashed mother made a death threat to me by telling me that the generation that saw 1914 was getting old and if I didn't get baptized soon Jehovah God would have no choice but to execute me at Armageddon which was imminent. I took the plunge in 1987. That's how I became a Jehovah's Witness. Little did I know that a mere 8 years later the leaders of the jws would change the generation teaching. The 1914 generation are basically dead at this point.
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  At the annual meeting right now . . .

  by neat blue dog in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i'm at the recorded meeting right now.

  trying to hide my disgust sitting up front listening to geoffrey jackson quibble about the pharisaical minutai of sanctification vs. vindication.

  the audience is thrilled that they now have 'permission' to say god's name can be vindicated.

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  How many times has the sanctification/vindication flip flop happened in the last 50 years? Who gives a f#%k?
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  Door-to-door Going Forward

  by berrygerry in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i found that the sale (placement) of books and magazines was always a challenge, but it was still attainable.

  when the magazines switched from semi-monthly to monthly, magazine calls were automatically cut in half.

  return visits that were made "just to say hi" were hugely awkward.. i never participated in the "please watch a video on my tablet" work, but i would imagine that the fail rate compared to magazine placement is massive.. reducing magazine frequency yet again would make me worked up inside.

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  It looks like the org wants publishers to focus on conversations instead of literature placements. This would have worked 20 years ago when the publishers actually knew what was in their bibles and could carry on a conversation on a scriptural subject. Today's snowflake publishers are always whining about it being too hot or too cold or that their assigned territory is too far from Tim Hortons coffee shop.
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  2017 Annual Meeting

  by obarac in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  on saturday, october 7.. any chance to get user name and password for stream?.

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  The liquidation sale continues.