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  Billy asks for your prayers...

  by Billy the Ex-Bethelite in

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  if any of you still believe in god(s), please pray to him/her/them and ask that she/he/they send(s) bad enough weather to my area to hinder travel, but not cut off power.. is that request too weird for this forum?.

  someday i'll share more details.

  peace, love, brotherhood..

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  "Privileges"

  by Joe Grundy in

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  yet another question (two actually), i'm afraid (but i am learning from all this, honestly!)..

  i've seen the term 'privileges' on here many times, and i think i now understand that it means 'being allowed to carry out tasks in the congregation' - which includes walking round with the microphone, operating the pa system, etc.

  in the services.

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  Does the WTS disfellowship mentally challenged people?

  by Elsewhere in

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  has anyone ever seen a situation where the wts disfellowhiped someone who is autistic, retarded or otherwise mentally challenged?.

  i wonder if the elders give them more leeway knowing that they are not always capable of making decisions as well as a normal person.. .

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  Whats Your View on most JW's

  by XBEHERE in

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  its safe to assume that many jw's come on here and just read posts.

  in fact i did it for several months before posting anything.

  i have seen many, many helpful posts giving encouragement, etc.

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  The enigmatic mystery of the Nephilim, the Rephaim, and the Titans

  by Leolaia in

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  it has been said that historical memory in oral tradition goes back only a few hundred years before it alters considerably in later retellings, and when even greater time depth is involved the mythic past fills in what has been collectively forgotten.

  but myths purporting to relate events hundreds or even thousands of years in the past often contain kernals of historical memory amid the layers of tradition and archetypal folk motifs.

  an excellent example from my own reading is that of the inuit eskimo in greenland who have a rich oral tradition about the norsemen who died out over 500 years ago and who originally colonized the land a millenium ago.

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  What year was New World Translation first used?

  by Double Edge in

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  does anyone know what year the jws first started using the new world translation and what bible was used before that?

  thanks.

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  ***"Religion is a snare and a racket.."

  by MacHislopp in

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  i'm sure that many of you remember this kind.

  of catch phrase used in the publications of thewtbs inc.. .. for the sake of clarity let's give some of the quotes from the.

  book : .

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  Me and my brother.

  by nicolaou in

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  an earlier discussion has been highlighting the differences between da'ing and df'ing.

  xena said:i am sorry qadreena but i have never in the 20 some odd years i have been a jw ever heard of an unbaptised publisher being d/aed...marked as bad association yes..but d/a...no...but i guess stranger things can happen.... well that brought it all back.. actually xena the exact same thing happened to my brother in the early 80's.

  he was only 14. he'd carried on associating with a friend of his who'd been disfellowshipped.

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  "He who loves me will OBEY my commandments...

  by AGuest in

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  to the household of god, israel, that is on jw.com, and all those who 'got with' them:.

  may you have peace!.

  because israel has, at this 'season' fallen asleep with regard to many 'things' that our lord, the son of god, jah-eshua mischa-jah ("jah saves"; messiah - "chosen of jah"), 'commanded' us to teach others (matthew 28:20), i am compelled by the spirit of my father, the holy one of israel, jah of armies (psalm 68:4), that is in me, by means of my lord, to remind israel of one of such commandments.. on the night that he was put to death in the flesh, our lord gave a commandment, to which he stated "keep doing this in remembrance of me.

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  The Faithful and Discreet Slave

  by George in

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  <b>"who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom the master has put in charge of the servants in his household to give them their food at the proper time?

  46 it will be good for that servant whose master finds him doing so when he returns.

  47 i tell you the truth, he will put him in charge of all his possessions.

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