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  Wedding Officiation

  by grewupjw1969 in

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  i have a question.

  as i was reading the "shepherd the flock" book 12:8 (boy do i think that's stupid) i saw that an elder has to make sure he can officate at a wedding.. who determines whether he is qualified to do that?

  they aren't recognized by any other authority to be ministers.. .

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  GrandmaJones

  It's the questions they will ask you about petting and such. Ugh. Nasty and humiliating.
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  Outlaw Is a Sweetheart :-)

  by snowbird in

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  a true gift to this here board.

  sho nuff iz.

  syl.

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  GrandmaJones

  He is not only smart, but terribly entertaining with his jokes and photos. I love his posts.
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  jw splinter groups

  by bigmac in

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  jookbeard wrote:.

  "they are globally united in their beliefs;.

  not true there are many splinter groups and sects of the wts and they have the worse retention rates of any man made religious cult on the planet".

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  GrandmaJones

  Also, check out jwfacts, that's a real eye-opener
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  JW Statistics

  by JimiH in

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  ran across this site that has some interesting jw stats: http://www.jwfacts.com/watchtower/statistics.php.

  jimih.

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  GrandmaJones

  great site, information on a lot of things
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  instead of posting on the 1975 everlasting life thread

  by booby in

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  *** jv chap.

  8 p. 104 declaring the good news without letup (1942-1975) ***.

  the witnesses had long shared the belief that the thousand year reign of christ would follow after 6,000 years of human history.

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  GrandmaJones

  btt
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  jw splinter groups

  by bigmac in

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  2. bible

  jookbeard wrote:.

  "they are globally united in their beliefs;.

  not true there are many splinter groups and sects of the wts and they have the worse retention rates of any man made religious cult on the planet".

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  GrandmaJones

  I think when I googled "beliefs similar to Jehovah's Wittnesses" quite a few things came up. (Including the Mormons!)
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  anyone ever have a book burning?

  by Evidently Apostate in

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  tossed most of the jw books i had in the burn pit the other day.

  it was quite relaxing.

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  GrandmaJones

  Don't burn them, don't sell them....KEEP THEM! It was all our own publications that convinced me that this wasn't the truth. The old ones are rare, and without the originals, people would think the information in them wasn't true. Aren't you glad the publications (originals) are still around from the sixties and seventies? It cost me a small fortune to collect copies from the turn of the century. Go on ebay and see what even a really old Watchtower will set you back. The organization would LOVE IT if all the old stuff disappeared. The CD-Rom already doesn't contain anything earlier than 1950, and many of its other publications even after that are not available to view. Nothing could benefit the org more than than the elimination of all it's lies. In CoC, it was the copies of letters to and from the WT that convinced me that Ray was telling the truth. Maybe we might feel that our library isn't old enough to save. Others felt that way too, that's why it's hard to get copies, they all went in the trash.

  EA, please don't see this post as disrespectful to you, it's just that I know that it felt cathartic, but in the long run, I wouldn't advise others to do it. I think the reason the literature on ebay is so expensive is that the org was bidding against me! (Look at their reaction to the "Flock" postings)
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  Duck and cover

  by d in

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  did any of you here have to do the duck and cover drills during the 1950's.since i never lived in that time period, i would want to know..

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  GrandmaJones

  yes,all the time.
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  What made you start questioning: people or doctrine?

  by In in

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  let us know what got you questioning wbts in the first place.

  i've got a theory that it starts with people hurting us and only then does the "apostate" turn to looking at the beliefs.. anybody who started questioning beliefs first?.

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  GrandmaJones

  Yes, it was the beliefs first, then the organization. The light didn't get "brighter" it kept turning on and off throughout my life.
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  My Story

  by kp138 in

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  GrandmaJones

  Welcome, welcome. My heart goes out to you.