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  Should I be with someone who's had lots of pervious partners?

  by Jxvi in

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  thanks for reading (i'm sorry this is a little bit of a sensitive topic, though i'll try to be gentle.).

  a little back story.

  i have been working so hard to build my faith this year, and i am finally at the point where i am beginning to trust god and i want to build an unbreakable relationship with him.

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  Listener

  I'll second what Vanderhoven said.

  Check out JWFacts.com for information regarding the JWs.
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  “Do You Know the Time?” From WT Sept 2018

  by skin in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  there is a one page article in the current wt study mag, sept 2018 pg 22 with the title “do you know the time?”.

  in that article it describes a number of different ways you can say the time is 1:30. it goes on to say “there are even places where that same time could be expressed as “half two,” meaning 30 minutes before two”.

  what i would like to know is this, where in the world does “half 2” mean 1:30?

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  Listener

  A quick google suggests that this might be the case in the German language.
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  Happy Face to the World vs. Controlling Dogma to the Publishers

  by Solzhenitsyn in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  holidays.

  https://www.jw.org/en/jehovahs-witnesses/faq/jw-celebrate-holidays/ .

  "regarding other holidays, each witness makes his or her own choice, striving “to maintain a clear conscience before god and men.”​.

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  If they are supposed to have a clear conscience before men then why do they not insist that their sins which are crimes be reported?
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  Be Honest in All Things - New video exposes a problem with honesty at Bethel/Construction

  by George One Time in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  on tv.jw.org kenneth cook jr. discusses how important it is to be honest when applying for special assignemts.

  he mentions health and viewing pornography.

  those who viewed pornography during the last year should not apply.

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  It is so creepy that they want only people that are close to perfect, physically, mentally and spiritually at Bethel.

  They are hypocrites for asking such questions on the application form and having the individual sign it. But when it comes to appointing an Elder, a man that is given judicial powers over the congregation and deals with very intimate problems, there is no such requirement.
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  Pure Worship restored only for English-speaking?

  by AlexPancho in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  gb recent presents new book "based ezekiel" - pure worship restored.this book also provide into jw-borg site and jw-lib too, but only english.as examle, spanish - it`s second largest language into us and america continents, but has no translated into it.do you have any idea why this could happen?

  they hide something, or just did not have time to translate (but previously published in all major languages at the same time).

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  Listener

  Good question. They have been making large reductions in their workforce, including the branches but they have been buying properties specifically for translation work. It may be that their focus on what can be translated at any given time is severely restricted.

  Have they completed the translation of their new, new world translation in Spanish?

  Given their limitations, they may only have enough translators to work on the magazines and ministry work books as well as all their video's.

  The fact is, they are producing less and less material, this means not only less printing but less translating. They continue to struggle with what they are producing.

  Another possibility is that the English audience is the test audience to see how interested they are and how acceptable they are of any new material before they decide to expand on production.
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  BLONDIE'S THOUGHTS ON 11/11/2018 WT ARTICLE September 2018

  by blondie in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  blondie’s first thoughts 11-11-2018 wt study (august 2018, pages 12-16 (displaying love).

  https://www.jw.org/en/publications/magazines/watchtower-simplified-september-2018/ .

  excellent general website: www.jwfacts.com .

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  Listener

  Thanks for the summary Blondie.
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  Worst Fire in California history

  by 3rdgen in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  in terms of destruction.

  52,000 people are evacuated.

  started thurs.

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  Nice to hear from you Bonezz. It's awful to hear that you haven't seen your own grandchild. You would think that the devastating fires close by would make your daughter rethink her own stupidity.
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  Role Call!

  by new boy in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  how many here have been active here on this site in the the last seven days?.

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  Put me down for 3 hours, 5 placements and 10 return visits.
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  Can you ever see a time when Govt`s of this world will attempt to abolish all religions ?

  by smiddy3 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  we are now in the 21st century of our common era with its insights into the potential of what can be achieved in the near future to benefit mankind for years to come .. the co-operation of governments around the world on so many levels has never been better than it is today and it is at least encouraging to see this .. whether it has to do with the climate , the environment ,food production ,safe water for all ,and the better health for all in the near future, and in the future space exploration.

  however the problem today is still religion !

  in its many extreme forms that divides us in no ways that politics divide us .. politicians learn how to compromise and work with their opponents for the greater good ,whereas religions don`t.. religions divide humans like no politicians ever did well not to the extremes religions will go anyway.. is their going to come a time in history when governments politicians say enough is enough and try attempt to abolish religion ?.

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  Religions do a lot of charity work that the Governments would otherwise have to provide. As long as they continue to do so, it is not in the interest of the Governments to abolish them.
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  WTBTS says JW's are not members of the Christian congregation

  by The Fall Guy in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  are r & f jehovah's witnesses aware of the fact that their faithful slave-masters exclude them from being members of the christian congregation?.

  w71 7/15 p. 430 par.

  8 - membership in the christian congregation is strictly limited in number.

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  Listener

  In the parable of the wheat and the weeds they interpret the wheat as being true Christians and just the 144,000 whereas the weeds are counterfeit Christians. No comment is made as to where that leaves the rest of JWs.