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  Where Are You From?

  by finallysomepride in

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  alot of members don't have a flag or country name beside their user name, and well frequently one doesn't know where that particular person is from, tell us your country, state, county or what ever you feel like giving out.

  if you are going to post please at least devulge your country.. me, i'm originally from taranaki, new zealand via auckland.

  for the most of this decade i have been living & working in brisbane, queensland, australia.. .

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  I think it would be cool to end our posts with our location if we don't mind doing that. May find out we have a fellow ex nearby. Hudson Valley NY
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  Off-topic: hand shaking

  by Libelle in

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  this is totally unrelated to anything jw, but it's the only group i'm in online with such a mix of men and women, so i'm asking.

  what's your experience with hand shaking?.

  me, when i meet someone for the first time, i offer to shake their hand.

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  I also agree with the germ thing and shaking hands. Fist "bump" makes much more sense. Worse than shaking hands is passing that germ-infected microphone around. Hudson Valley NY
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  Did God invent the sword?

  by Badfish in

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  2. bible

  in genesis 3, when adam and eve are kicked out of the garden, it says there is a flaming sword guarding the way to the tree of life.. this was before adam and eve had any children yet.. but metalworking and forging are not mentioned until tubal-cain -- adam's great great great great great grandson -- comes along.

  not sure if it means he invented the forging of tools or if he was just a blacksmith, though.. but back to the main point.

  if there was this sword guarding the way to the tree of life, does that mean god invented swords?.

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  I do believe God invented killing. According to the book Able was making animal scrafices that pleased Jeh. EVIDENTELY if those scrafices pleased god he must be the one who invented it. Hudson Valley NY
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  Mother of All Mistakes!

  by Marvin Shilmer in

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  mother of all mistakes!.

  today i added a new article to my blog addressing what should probably be ranked as the biggest mistake possible made by watchtowers top leadership.

  the material is documented by a new release by watchtower dated november 9, 2012. .

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  So the GB when working together has Jehovah's spirit and direction, but isn't that what local elder bodies pray for and suppose to have when they meet? So what do JWs' need GB for. Local elder bodies should have all the divine direction they could ever need.
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  Sisters and the Double Standard in the Hall

  by Apognophos in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  "i do not permit a woman to teach, or to exercise authority over a man, but to be in silence.

  " -- paul.

  okay, so this means that a sister has to speak to a householder when on the platform, so she isn't addressing us herself and teaching us something.

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  Used to have a sister audit our accounts. She was a bookeeper. Did a great job, on time. That was back when we used spreadsheets. Brothers never questioned it because they were happy not to do it. Then some new Circuit Overseer put a stop to that in a real hurry. I did the accounts before I was a MS and became the account servant after I was appointed MS. When that sister stopped doing the audits the brothers had to take turns doing the audit and it was seldom done as well and about never on time. Pontoon, Hudson Valley NY
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  Contributions ,how the Society CONTROLS the funds of a congragation

  by raymond frantz in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  i'm not sure if anyone has started a post about contributions recently ,but if there is an accounts servant here please free to correct me or shed some more light .what i'm about to say is 100% accurate and applies to congragations in britain (don't ask me how just ...join the dots).

  the society controls all the funds that are coming in the kingdom hall all of the time .the way this works out is as follows :you put any money in any of the contribution boxes and in the end all money are added to together and deposited to the congragation's bank account .the worldwide donations leave the account as a direct debit to the society every week and the rest stays in the account .now comes the interesting bit :once the account goes over 5000 we are instructed to send the rest to the society as a cheque and is held in their account for as long as the congragation doesn't needed back .this way all but 5000 are held in the society's account .any other experiences ?.

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  So if the congregation wants their money back they will get it, but who earns the interest of that big pot of money in those CD's? Sounds like a crafty way for the borg to earn money off the congregations' funds. I was still attending when that letter was first read. Thought it smelled fishy back then and was hoping our body would not do it.
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  About what one thing do you find yourself being a real SNOB?

  by Terry in

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  you know, to fit in....to be a part of our own family or group and not be a total nerd or contrarian.. we hold our tongue.

  we smile and nod.. but, then....there is at least one thing we just can't go along with because it is too important.. why?

  because we are a total snob.

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  Omelettes. When I order a veggi or western omelette I want a omelette, NOT a wrap.
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  Disfellowshipped for reading "apostate literature"?

  by Vanderhoven7 in

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  2. beliefs

  is reading apostate literature a disfellowshipping offense?.

  do you know of people being disfellowshipped for this or for receiving apostate literature?.

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  Might come under their new catch-all of "brazen behaviour," depends a lot on the body I think.
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  beliefs, doctrine, teaching that you never could handle

  by pontoon in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  1) jehovah telling abraham to murder his son.

  my reply; kill me now, i won't do it.

  2) the bear killing i think 21 wise ass children.

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  Thanks, but still not OK with any of them.
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  Never, never was 100% in

  by pontoon in

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  2. experiences

  over 40 yrs baptized, service, builds, talks and talks and talks that i put countless hours of prep into, elder, meetings, assemblies,----you all know.

  but through it all i never bought the whole truth idea 100%.

  no matter what it was, meeting, service, assemblies, i just couldn't wait for it to end.

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  Botzwana; My hat is off to you for being all in and yet still able to reason and change.