If you want to be in a certain club you have to follow their rules. They believed evil Spock sported a beard and the good Spock was clean shaven. They also believed the Amish way was the norm for all women but their men were evil, you know...due to the beards.
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Sisters can now wear pants. Any more important changes
by Witness 007 inalot of my witness friends were excited sisters can now wear pants and you can say hi to disfellowshiped folks but what about important stuff child molesters in the congregation you need 2 witnesses blood fractions are fine but not whole blood????
607 bce is from the 1880s wrong....anything else?
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Memorial attendance
by Balaamsass2 incurious.
what was your local memorial attendance like tonight?
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Acluetofindtheuser
It was packed where I attended. I don't know how many were on zoom.
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Special Talk just prior to the Memorial
by Acluetofindtheuser inis the sunday special talk prior to the memorial just an introduction of a new outline for the sunday public talks?.
is it an attempt to get the faders back to the meetings?
they present in a way like some new light is going to be presented at the special talk..
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Acluetofindtheuser
Nicely put AnnaNana. Thanks for sharing your thoughts.
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Special Talk just prior to the Memorial
by Acluetofindtheuser inis the sunday special talk prior to the memorial just an introduction of a new outline for the sunday public talks?.
is it an attempt to get the faders back to the meetings?
they present in a way like some new light is going to be presented at the special talk..
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Acluetofindtheuser
Is the Sunday Special Talk prior to the Memorial just an introduction of a new Outline for the Sunday Public Talks?
Is it an attempt to get the faders back to the meetings?
They present in a way like some new light is going to be presented at the Special Talk.
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If you are reading this Courtney and Helene
by newsheep inplease please contact us by private messaging us.
we didn't know what to put this under so sorry in advance but this is why we are here.
courtney was a co serving in another country when his father was dying.
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Acluetofindtheuser
Wow! I missed this shocking story when it came out 6 years ago. I bet there are many in Ontario that witnessed his revelation that are on the way out now.
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1/2 of the Jehovah’s witnesses have gone
by hoser inthere are 1/2 of the jehovah’s witnesses that there were 30 years ago in my area.
some have left but i think that many have died and none of their kids stayed being jehovah’s witnesses.
7 congregations have been dissolved over the years.
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Acluetofindtheuser
Hey! I'm one of the zoom faders. There can be around 60 on zoom and there is an unknown amount on KHConf. A good number of zoomers don't go to the circuit assembly.
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JWs in the news: "‘I Slay and Pray’- Jehovah’s Witness Serena Williams Reflects on Her Faith With Daughter Olympia in a Candid Confession"
by Balaamsass2 in"i slay and pray" :).
serena williams knows how to own a red carpet.
the 23-time grand slam champion turned heads at the vanity fair oscars afterparty, dazzling in a midnight-black, off-shoulder gown.
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Acluetofindtheuser
Why are so many JW Celebrities black?
Because the The Jackson family made being a Jehovah's Witness look cool.
It all started because of a JW Mom named Katherine Jackson.
From eldest to youngest: Rebbie, Jackie, Tito, Jermaine, La Toya, Marlon, Brandon, Michael, Randy and Janet.
In the end only Katherine and Rebbie remained Jehovah's Witnesses. Wikipedia puts Katherine as 94 years old with no mention of a death date.
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New World, New World Order, New System of Things
by blondie inthe wts has used to above terms, over the years, some more preferred in certain time periods.
more though, but these occurred to me first.
also the terms "new world" and "new world order" have been used by some us presidents and other leaders..
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Acluetofindtheuser
When I was growing up in the Org I always heard the witnesses say The New Order when referring to the future paradise. Nowadays you don't dare say New Order when talking about the paradise. That word is now associated with illuminati world domination.The witnesses now have an smart phone app to keep tabs on service hours and congregation announcements called NW Publisher. The NW stands for New World but when it first came out I thought the NW stood for North West. That's what happens when you don't go to all the meetings and besides it's only for the US.
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Don't you just love LITERATURE truths?
by BoogerMan inas jw's we swallowed such concoctions for years - without a single scripture provided as proof!.
w71 12/15 p. 759 - "apparently, the apostle peter was the chairman of the governing body on the festival day of pentecost of 33 c.e., and the disciple james, the half brother of jesus christ, was the chairman at a later date, according to the account in acts of apostles.
from this, and from what historical evidence there is available, the chairmanship of the governing body rotated.".
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Acluetofindtheuser
Isn't the term Governing Body borrowed from British government oversight?
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1 Thessalonians 5:3....Prophecy ?
by HereIam60 ini've always had difficulty understanding how watch tower interprets 1 thessalonians 5:3 as prophetic of a future event - that the nations will unite in a (false) cry that they have achieved 'peace and security' which will signal the start of the great tribulation.
whenever i've read that passage i got the sense that it is simply stating a general principle... that when people are complacent and off-guard, thinking everything is o.k., peaceful and secure then sudden unexpected events hit them harder and they don't know what to do.
when i was first coming in (1980s) i well recall the "true peace and security" book that made a big deal about the un having declared 1986 'the international year of peace'.
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Acluetofindtheuser
I'd like to add another scripture that the Organization uses to say that Paul was even a Visionary, when in fact he was not.
2 Corinthians 12:1-5
This is where Paul relates a man's vision of him being sent to the third heaven and to paradise. Paul is boasting about this man's special vision but he refuses to boast about himself in any way. The vision was not given to Paul it was given to this unnamed man. The Insight Book says this about that vision on 2 Corinthians in the section on Heaven.
"Since there is no mention in the Scriptures of any other person having had such an experience, it seem likely that this was the apostle's own experience."
Paul said it wasn't his vision and he didn't want to boast about himself so he boasted about this guy. They can't throw in the words "seems likely" to prove their point without data to support their conclusions.