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  I am having trouble believing in God...

  by thedepressedsoul in

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  i was raised a jw and i am still one but recently i have been having trouble believing in a god.

  this is not meant to offend anyone who does, i am just curious to see if i am the only one who thinks this..... to start, i am a very black and white person.

  if 1+1=2 it makes sense to me and i can agree with it.

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  mynameislame

  I 100% agree with your three points.

  My current belief is that if there is a god he can't be explained in book written thousands of years ago. Especially when you consider how much more we know now than the writers of that book knew. And 10000 years from now we will probably be lauging at the things we thought were true in 2014.

  Or the reverse where the earth gets hit by a giant metorite and starts over.

  I sometimes wonder what people of the future, digging through the rubble from our time, will think when they find a treadmill or a nautilus machine.
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  This JW video tour is disturbing......

  by WingCommander in

  1. jw
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  so i found this video on youtube.

  apparently a loyal jw put it together as a kind of "video tour" to show their friends, etc.

  i don't know what's worse, the creepy music (is this what we've been hearing about?

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  mynameislame

  I don't like you very much right now
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  Do you pray over your meals? If so why? If not, when did you stop and why?

  by BU2B in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  to answer my question, no i do not pray over meals anymore exept for when i am with other jws i do a 15 second head bow for appearances sake.

  i just came to the realization god had nothing to do with whether i ate or not.

  many believers are starving right now whilst many non-believers are eating like kings.. also why should god give me food while he lets little children in dprk concentration camps starve to death.

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  mynameislame

  I was thinking about this very subject recently and wondering why dinner time is the default time for prayer. There is so much more to be grateful for than just food.

  Might be just me but I don’t remember there being a lot of emphasis on prayer. Why would there be when we can leave that up to the experts, the FDS.

  It also seems to me that the JWs don’t show much gratitude. We said thanks for meetings and what the FDS provided bla bla bla. But I don’t remember ever seeing the majority show any gratitude for the little things in life. And I don't remember any of it seeming very sincere.

  
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  No more circuit assemblies

  by justmeok in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i heard from a reliable source that there will be no more 2 day assemblies, but instead 2 one days each year.

  anyone heard this yet?

  supposed to start new service year.

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  mynameislame

  I wonder if they know that 2014 is a psychological year and they expect to lose a lot of member so they are just planning ahead?
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  No more circuit assemblies

  by justmeok in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i heard from a reliable source that there will be no more 2 day assemblies, but instead 2 one days each year.

  anyone heard this yet?

  supposed to start new service year.

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  mynameislame

  I kind of miss the assemblies. Of course I spent most of them hanging out with my friends and scoping out the chicks. Certainly didn’t spend much time listening. If I ever had to listen I’m pretty sure I’d change my tune.
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  The finances of the JW in Canada

  by StephaneLaliberte in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  yes, revenu canada now has a service to display all of that information for free: click here!.

  you can also have the finances of all the circuits, congregations and assembly halls over there.

  wonder how much your kingdom hall is worth?

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  mynameislame

  receipted contributions are given with tax benefits attached.

  Yup, “Pay back Caesar’s things to Caesar , unless you can weasle your way out of it"
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  Jehovah's Witnesses Say They Are The Most Educated In The World. How Would You Prove Otherwise?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  they claim their schools, literature and teaching are far more superior than any "worldly" education.

  how would you counter that belief?.

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  mynameislame

  I have heard that reading the literature for 10 years is equal to a college education. Not sure that was even in the literature. Maybe it’s one of those rumors that aren't so tabu because it suits them? And I could see them claiming that being a JW is worth more than the best education. But I've never heard them make the claim that they are the Most Educated. Is this something new?
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  The finances of the JW in Canada

  by StephaneLaliberte in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  yes, revenu canada now has a service to display all of that information for free: click here!.

  you can also have the finances of all the circuits, congregations and assembly halls over there.

  wonder how much your kingdom hall is worth?

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  mynameislame

  Whats up with the Applewood Congregation.

  Total revenue: $132,953 Management and administration $850 What heading is the heat and electricity under?
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  The finances of the JW in Canada

  by StephaneLaliberte in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  yes, revenu canada now has a service to display all of that information for free: click here!.

  you can also have the finances of all the circuits, congregations and assembly halls over there.

  wonder how much your kingdom hall is worth?

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  mynameislame

  Not sure how they qualify as a charity. Although, that seems to apply to most of the churches I looked at, not just the KH

  Ongoing programs:
  
  To assist the local unincorporated association of Jehovah's Witnesses in carrying out their religious objective of preaching the good news of God's Kingdom and promoting public religious worship designed to uplift Jehovah's Witnesses and any who attend their public meetings by means of moral and spiritual instruction based on God's Word the Bible.

  I found this odd for the one I looked at:

  Receipted donations $15,540 (84%) Non-receipted donations $2,878 (16%) Why are there so many receipted donation compared to the non-receipted? I thought they gave in secret? (ha ha, i guess that isn't so suprising) The others I looked at seemed to have mostly receipted donations as well. A few I looked at also had "Gifts from other charities". Wonder what those are from? And what exactly is the "Charitable program" listed in the expense column?
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  Is there a search bar for jw.org??

  by mauiboy in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i registered as a user (under an alias of course) but can't find a search bar anywhere on the site......i'm not a tech-savvy person, but usually can find what i need.

  i will repost this question under the post "counteract jw.org august 2014 campaign" participating in that idea was what prompted me to open an account on the jw site in the 1st place.

  other than that the whole thing makes me want to puke..

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  mynameislame

  Also found that the online library seems to have a search field

  http://wol.jw.org/