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  According to WT 8/11: YOU MIGHT BE MENTALLY IMBALANCED IF YOU PROFESS TO BE ANOINTED!!!

  by JustHuman14 in

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  according to the august 2011 watchtower magazine:.

  memorial partakers.

  this is the number of baptized individuals who partake of the emblems at the memorial worldwide.

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  sizemilk: "have the potential for a hugely extended, even an eternal life span . . . ie; it's biologically possible."

  Some scientists (usually only scientific journalists that have no clue what they're talking about and some scientists speaking outside their field) have this theory, the same ones the WTBTS likes to quote frequently.

  Most other scientists that actually study the biochemistry are not so sure (they won't rule it out) since the problem is that when you start messing around with the telomerase levels you start inducing cancerous growths as well. IMHO nature has a way of limiting life for good reason (overpopulation being one of them). There may be ways to extend life but near the end the nuclear-level of our cells will start breaking down, the sun will eventually die and the universe will reach it's thermodynamic equilibrium. Either way, we're going to be dead.
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  Evolution

  by goddidit in

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  what does the jw literature have to say about the fact that human embryos develop, and then lose, tails and gills?.

  or do they just ignore it?.

  anyone have any links?.

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  They just ignore it just like most of the scientific evidence with regards to anything really and if you really press them they may answer generically with: even doctor's don't agree on evolution but we have the truth so you should believe us.
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  Damn you Kingdom Melodies! Damn you to hell...

  by unshackled in

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  i haven't been anywhere near a jw meeting or convention in at least 8 or 9 years.

  but this afternoon, i'm doing some weed trimming and suddenly realized i had this lyric playing in my head...over and over.... .

  "ours is the god of true prophecy,.

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  I have started replacing the lyrics during the song with my own (more biblically correct) lyrics lately, not very loud but mumbling it to myself. I've noticed that the lyrics in the new book are actually fairly generic and can be applied however which way you want. You could go to a baptist church and sing most of them without issue.
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  Got "THE letter" ....how to proceed?

  by 2pink in

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  my husband and i faded/mysteriously disappeared from meetings over a year ago.

  we've had a few visits from elders (where we said very little but thanked them for their time), the last one being when we had some nice jack o lanterns sitting on our porch.

  on saturday, we got letters cordially inviting us to our beheading, i mean, our judicial committee meeting.

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  If they're hardasses about it in your area (DF quickly even when nobody acknowledges them), send a lawyer their way, WT legal will tell them to stop it.

  Otherwise just ignore them especially if there is nobody you care about in the congregations.
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  Hi :-)

  by GiveMeAnAspirin in

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  hi, i am a catholic.

  i've never been a jw nor ever tried to become one but i know a number of former jws and one or two current/active jws.. i've been wondering why active jws are so anti-catholic; is it part of the teaching they receive in the watchtower?.

  cheers.

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  Because the Catholic Church developed much like Jehovah's Witnesses did - they had a grain of truth in the beginning but then made a bureaucracy around it that perverted it?
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  Can you answer: What is "The Truth™"?

  by serenitynow! in

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  i mean can someone, preferably an active jw, explain in 5 sentences or less what that really means?.

  i ask because of the long post that "20571..." made on another thread about how "the truth" is better than this, that and the other thing.. what does it really mean?.

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  When you boil it down, "The Truth" in JW-land is a subliminal message that is and has been stressed that the JW's have in long, confusing talks. It is a form of a code word. It means everything to the JW but nothing really to outsiders. They use it as an anchor-word where if you ever try to leave you won't be "in" the truth (JW definition) and you will be missing out on hearing the truth (dictionary definition) about this world. It's a word that inspires fear - they are implying they have the only truth (dictionary definition) or the real meaning behind everything that is happening and everything outside their definition of truth is inherently false.

  If a scientist proves that people have been around longer than 6000 years, he does not have the truth or he is not in the truth and thus he is false. If a doctor tries to give your kid a blood transfusion, he does not know the truth about it and he cannot understand it since he is not in the truth.
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  Are more long standing JW's leaving?

  by cantleave in

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  at one time, it seemed that the majority of those leaving, were young ones brought up in the cult.. from what i can see now (at least on here), there seems to be a high number of 20+ baptised members years leaving.. has this always been the case?

  it might be i just didn't notice from my parochial view from the kingdom hall!.

  or are there really more long standing jw's leaving now, than ever before?.

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  Experience told to me from one of the CO's: In his old (affluent) circuit of ~2000, 179 children went to get a 4y higher education, 2 remained in 'tha truus'. Really sad to see them young ones go. The other young ones all feel downtrodden and oppressed, the WTBTS blames the 'demonic spirit of the world', I blame their monoculture of thoughts and the repression of normal culture. Humanity as a whole is getting slowly better by the day (if you look at it objectively, less people are dying, more people are getting a modicum of information (the Internet in 3rd world countries) and as a result health)
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  Governing Body Represents Who?

  by Marvin Shilmer in

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  governing body represents who?.

  today i uploaded a new article to my blog examining the veracity of watchtowers claim to represent all the anointed ones on earth.

  there is gigantic absurdity that to this day watchtower leaves unexplained, except to contradict itself.

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  @lotsofnumbers

  So, first the body governs itself and guided the others to itself

  Very true, that's what they are doing. You'll hear it at the convention talks sprinkled around a lot (if you pay attention to that kind of newspeak): the Governing Body and Faithful and Discreet Slave = Jehovah's voice (they don't say God's or Jesus' voice, just Jehovah's). The two entities are only separate for legal reasons, in practice they seem to be the same mofo's.
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  Any new directions about Facebook at the summer conventions?

  by awaken2004 in

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  just wondering because a few of my jw friends have "left the building".

  i really hope so because i am totally regretting having a few fb pals.

  hope more leave soon.

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  @DesirousOfChange

  Not a rogue CO. If you're in the running for any position you'll get that question: "do you have any social networking sites you (or your wife) is active on". If you are, you are less likely to be accepted.

  It's probably not very official but it's one of those unspoken rules trickling down through the CO's. However I found out there are a surprising amount of "rogue" elders that do not really agree with the recent direction regarding social networking and higher education and some even about homosexuality.
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  Does anyone know what happens to full-time JW's(DO's, CO's, Missionaries, Special pioneers, etc) when they reach old age?

  by african GB Member in

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  i am just wondering since these people never work a secular job.

  is there some sort of an arrangement from the society to care for them?

  presuming they don't even have children of their own to look after them when they are old..

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  Depends on where you are in the org. If you're a life-long with a high-enough position you can retire at Bethel. The rest is either CO/DO until they die (literally). Missionaries, special pioneers etc. have to either continue that or live off whatever they have saved, in the EU there is a lot of welfare they can live off while most in the US at least have to go back to work, some simply leave the JW's if they're young enough and get ditched.

  A LOT of CO/DO's that I know have it made however. They were able to 'do more' because of long-term investments and golden parachutes rather than self-sacrifice. Some of them even own properties they rent out while they are in their positions.