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  How do we gain the knowledge that leads to everlasting life?

  by wannabe in

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  many today, more notebly, the religious leaders of this world, and their followers, feel that they can do a mere cursory, superficial reading of the bible, and from that, set forth their hard and fast interpretations of the holy writings.

  but is it really all that easy, to understand the holy scriptures, to get 'the breadth, length, heigth, and depth,' of everything written; in order to be 'rooted and established on the foundation, to 'grasp mentally,' with all the holy ones?

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  First official shunning was AWESOME

  by SweetBabyCheezits in

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  2. friends

  we went to target this weekend to look at halloween costumes for the kiddos (and maybe me - i'm still a kid at heart).

  my daughter and i were walking down a main aisle when an ex-friend - the very one who testified that i refused to discuss my doubts - came out of a side aisle and almost turned our direction.

  we made eye contact and i gave him a nod as we continued to walk toward him.... but he stopped like he'd run into a brick wall, then turned and started walking with his back to us so that we didn't cross paths.. my daughter pipes up and says, "hey, daddy, isn't that [edit]??

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  Any ex-JW's going to a different church? If so, which one?

  by 1Robinella in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  since i've been out of the jw religion, i've had no desire to attend any churches.

  although i've always liked the way many churches look with the (stained glass, etc).

  growing up our kh was so ugly and boring to look at.

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  It's OK Lurkers, Paranoid former JW's, and even you current JW's....

  by AllTimeJeff in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  it's ok.... to post here on the internet, on jwn, and other jw related forums.. first of all, as we all know, the governing body doesn't provide a forum for jw's to "associate" with their brothers and sisters.

  i'm just guessing, and i could be wrong, that its harder to control the flock when they have free access to information and each other.

  damn electricity and the technology it brings..... anyway, i realize that for anyone leaving, or for practicing jw's, to post is a nervous thing.

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  Thought stopper: "We are the only ones doing what Jesus did."

  by sabastious in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  this is one of the top thought stopping phrases here.. it invalidates any argument presented against the organization.

  it basically says this:.

  "it doesn't matter who did what in the org, it doesn't matter how bad things get, we are the only ones doing what jesus did, therefore all errors and corruption are disregarded as we await the end.".

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  What would you do with a Time Machine?

  by oldlightnewshite in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  for me, i would go back to the day when charles taze russell snuffed it.

  i'd wait for judge rutherford to turn up at the ibsa headquarters, then run him over with a steamroller, in true buster keaton styleee!.

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  Are you a meat-and-potatoes kind of guy/gal?

  by compound complex in

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  or is tofu your bag?.

  coco ambivalent.

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  Sisters told they strictly can't wear slacks to Meetings to keep them submissive! Why?

  by Witness 007 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  yes slacks and pants on women are evil.....the first step to wanting to be elders or even worse lesbians!

  so the watchtower in it's wisdom put a strict bad on women wearing pants at meetings, even in siberia or alaska where it is freezing cold....i qoute the governing body who said: "we need to show these sisters who wears the pants in our congregations...literally.".

  in the 70's when it was all the rage, my mum tried wearing slacks to the hall....."go and get changed" said the sister who studied with her.

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  Have you ever had a prayer answered?

  by nicolaou in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  prayer topics seem to be the bandwagon of the moment so i'm jumping on!

  seriously, has anyone here asked for something specific in prayer and actually gotten what they asked for?

  what convinces you that you wouldn't have got it in any case?

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  Awake! says we can pray in Jesus' name!!!

  by Leolaia in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  according to this, jesus is not just the mediator of the 144,000 -- he's the mediator of mankind!!

  and apparently "dear jesus" prayers are okay!

  the watch tower says i can say, "dear jesus, you are my mediator as you are for all mankind..." "the bible clearly says that jesus christ is mankind's redeemer, so he is mankind's mediator.

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