NewChapter said,
They will LOVE her to death, and gossip in car groups later.
Bingo!
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opinion needed quick!
by independenthinker inhey guys, .
bringing my gf along tonight after been forced to invite her(shes worldly).
how will people treat her?
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opinion needed quick!
by independenthinker inhey guys, .
bringing my gf along tonight after been forced to invite her(shes worldly).
how will people treat her?
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ScenicViewer
People will likely be very polite to her, and to you too. After all this is an occassion where they look for new people, and others they have not seen for a while, in hopes that they can start a study and bring them in.
Any negative talk will probably be behind your back.
Of course the elders might want to meet with you later for an explanation, and to give some counsel about being "unevenly yoked" with unbelievers.
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"Crisis of Conscience" and "In Search of Christian Freedom" in stock at Amazon.
by ScenicViewer in- crisis of conscience (hardcover), $29.95 here.. - in search of christian freedom (hardcover), $29.95 here.. - in search of christian freedom (paperback), $29.95 here.. all sold by cynthia franz..
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ScenicViewer
Price seems a little high really...but great information.
The price was definitely lower before Ray Franz died; I seem to remember paying about $18 or $19 for CoC. After his death new copies became unavalable, which caused the price of used copies to go through the roof at $100 and higher.
Considering how scarce they have been the current price of $30 isn't that bad, and if it goes down more in the future as Randy suggests, even better.
Of note, $30 will get you a hard cover of either book.
The PDF download is available here for $7.95, http://www.commentarypress.com/Detail/eng_crisis_e.html, also sold by Cynthia Franz through the CommentaryPress site.
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Today, the Sudbury (Suffolk - UK) Congregation heard announced that "Rory Sullivan is no longer one of JWs"
by AndersonsInfo inhttp://www.acarpenterfromnazareth.com/2012/03/open-letter-to-body-of-elders.html#moresunday, march 25, 2012an open letter to the body of elders .
an open letter to the body of elders,.
sudbury (suffolk) congregation of jehovah's witnesses.
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ScenicViewer
The scripture he cited, John 16:2, that they "...will imagine [they have] rendered a sacred service to God" by making the announcement to remove him , is exactly what will be in the heads of the elders involved.
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How do you Spell Disfellowshipped?
by RayPublisher inthe reason i ask, is that if you search the wt publications, you will see that it is spelled with only one "p" over 600 times, but also spelled with two "p"s 600 times.. .
very confusing!
any linguistic experts out there that know which it should be?.
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ScenicViewer
Where's the often praised "worldwide unity"?
I guess there is no unity in the Society's Spelling Department.
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Kool-Aid Man, Is Your Army Ready For The Memorial? Where did you go?
by Bubblegum Apotheosis inkool-aid man, is your plan to protest the memorial still in play?
are you mia?.
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I hadn't noticed, but the last posts from Kool-Aid Man were one month ago.
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Mormons in decline because of the Internet
by slimboyfat ininteresting article.
i've often thought empirically mormons have an even harder sell than jws.
the watchtower merely falsifies the date of the fall of jerusalem.
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"Do people in suburban neighborhoods see Mormon missionaries..."
I live in a central California town of 50,000 and I see Mormon missionaries regularly. Saw two of them yesterday. They seem to be quite active here and in the neighboring towns in the area.
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"Crisis of Conscience" and "In Search of Christian Freedom" in stock at Amazon.
by ScenicViewer in- crisis of conscience (hardcover), $29.95 here.. - in search of christian freedom (hardcover), $29.95 here.. - in search of christian freedom (paperback), $29.95 here.. all sold by cynthia franz..
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Will Embracing the Internet lead to Increased Growth for the Watchtower?
by jwfacts inmore important than the reduction in the size of the new magazine is that the watchtower will be actively promoting its website and encouraging people use it to download magazines.
my concern is that this has the potential to lead to an increase in growth for the watchtower.. the door-to-door preaching work has been one of the most inefficient means imaginable to gain converts, and done little more than tie up the time of active jws.
now, by directing people to the internet, witnesses can spread their message at an alarming rate for little cost.. do you feel that this has the potential to lead to a surge in growth of jehovah's witnesses?
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Watchtower's use of the internet to gain growth may backfire.
For Witnesses that are already internet savvy, I feel that many of them will take the change as a sign that the internet is ok after all, and begin searching religious sites other than the Society's official website. As a result they will be exposed to sites like JWN, JWfacts, Freeminds, and others, and learn a lot about Watchtower that they never knew.
For the Witnesses that have held back from using the internet because the Society has demonized it, they will embrace it to view the Society's literature online, and they too will come across information that will open some of their eyes.
Watchtower is of course very crafty and controlling; it will use the internet to it's advantage, but at the same time try to keep opposing information from the eyes of it's dedicated followers and newly interested people, a very difficult task. The Society is at a cross roads: it can't beat the internet, so it will try to join it, and the result of joining may be even worse than before.
(This reminds me of the mid-90s when a College education was given the ok, but several years later was banned again because of negative results for the organization.)
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What are the levels/ranks within the Jehovah's Witnesses
by biometrics ingrowing up as jw it was constantly drummed into us that we're not like churches having different classes (e.g.
preists).
however it is quite apparent that there are ranks within the jehovah's witnesses.. this is the list i have so far.
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'Approved associate' should slot in there somewhere. This is a person who has shown sufficient progress to be viewed as good association, but isn't yet baptised.