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  Top 10 Memorial Excuses

  by rebel8 in

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  good excuses.

  pinkeye.

  (highly contagious, and you aren't supposed to touch other people's dishes and glasses.)tuberculosis.

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  Q.: Why did you not attend the memorial?

  A.: Despite saying 'i t is important to attend' there is no scriptural backup. Actually, I have been quite sick from travelling to and fro the many meetings, so I read all the scriptural accounts myself at home.

  Those who are of Jesus’ “other sheep” class, with the hope of everlasting life on a paradise earth, are not under command to partake of the bread and the wine. (John 10:16) It is important to attend the annual celebration, but they do not partake of the emblems. So if one of them is sick or is traveling and thus not with any congregation that evening, he or she could privately read over appropriate scriptures (including the account of Jesus’ instituting the celebration) and pray for Jehovah’s blessing on the event worldwide. But in this case there is no need for any additional arrangement for a meeting or a special Biblical discussion a month later.

  w93 2/1 p. 31, Questions From Readers
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  1914: Still Important to Watchtower in 2012

  by leavingwt in

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  98 years later, the 1914 date is still important to the watchtower organization.. .

  below is a screenshot of a portion of page 19 from the may 15, 2012 watchtower magazine.. .

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  Wester >>

  Welcome to the board !
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  how exactly does god communicate w/ the gb?

  by mP in

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  just wondering has there ever been a definitive article responding to this or a similar q ?.

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  designs >> Freddie was just like his nemesis, Daniel of old.

  . . .Daniel himself beheld a dream and visions of his head upon his bed. At that time he wrote down the dream itself. The complete account of the matters he told (Daniel 7:1).
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  Timing of "thinner magazines" announcement

  by sir82 in

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  the announcement of the reduced number of pages in the watchtower & awake will be made after the watchtower study following the "special talk" on april 8.. theoretically, that's when there will be more visitors and "outsiders" than usual.

  even the talk itself has 1/2 of its content directed at inactive jws.. obviously this reduction in pages has been in the works for several weeks if not months.

  why pick that date to announce it?

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  Remember the good old days?

  Shelves upon shelves full of brown binders to dust down during spring cleaning. Nowadays the produced tripe is downloaded and archived, soon to be forgotten. - Honey, I just formatted the drive!
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  And down comes the house of cards

  by Blind_Of_Lies in

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  Q.: Is it going practice with the WTBTS to predate letters? (2 de abril de 2012)
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  IRS Letter To Watchtower

  by Bangalore in

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  Courtesy of Bangalore:

  

  

  
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  IRS Letter To Watchtower

  by Bangalore in

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  According to the Department of the Treasury the WTBTS can be requested to show some public records.

  ...unless it turns out to be an April Fool's Day joke. After all the letter is dated April 1, 2003

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  "The law requires you to make available for public inspection a copy of your organization's exemption application, any supporting documents and the exemption letter to any individual who requests such documents in person or in writing. You can charge only a reasonable fee for reproduction and actual postage costs for the copied materials. The law does not require you to provide copies of public inspection documents that are widely available, such as by posting them on the Internet (World Wide Web). You may be liable for a penalty of $20 a day for each day you do not make these documents available for public inspection."
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  What Draws People To The Witnesses? What Keeps Some Far Away??

  by minimus in

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  if you weren't raised in the religion, why did you get involved?.

  what issue(s) keep some from ever being attracted to the witnesses?.

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  If there ever was a time the dispensational prophecies of the JWS made any sense it must have been around 1990/1991. With bated breath we looked at TV when the communistic bloc was dissolving rapidly, German unification was happening, and China had its democratic uprising - what would be next?
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  Stumbled by June 2012 Awake

  by breakfast of champions in

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  it would appear that none of the caterpillars or locusts consumed in the article "edible insectsa meal we will not forget" were properly bled before eating.. .

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  therevealer >> Not really: The European Soccer Championship is on (Poland & Ukraine) - so they are just cashing in on the vibes.
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  THE SEASON IS NEAR AT HAND!

  by justmom in

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  well ......here we are agian.

  april 5th 2012 memorial season.. now, for many many of us here that know and understand what the wtbs really is and...what it isn't, the truth, you may wonder why would anybody want to put themselves out there and actually go the kingdom hall this year ?.

  for me and my family who have been disfellowshipped for fourteen years for disagreeing and standing up for the real truth (they called it apaostacy) and my husband partook of the emblems for many years inside as a witness.

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  Feeling so sick: "It turns the stomach not to partake"

  In rare cases some unforeseen circumstance, such as illness or travel complications, might prevent a Christian from attending as he or she had planned. What should be done in such a situation?

  During the celebration unleavened bread and red wine are passed, and those who have been anointed with God’s holy spirit and chosen for life in heaven partake. (Matthew 26:26-29; Luke 22:28-30) If one who has each year been partaking is this year confined to a sickbed at home or in a hospital, elders of the local congregation will arrange for one of them to take some of the bread and wine to the sick one, discuss appropriate Bible texts on the subject, and serve the emblems. If an anointed Christian is away from his home congregation, he should arrange to go to a congregation in the area where he will be on that date.

  In view of this, it would only be under very exceptional circumstances that an anointed Christian would have to celebrate the Lord’s Evening Meal 30 days later (one lunar month), in line with the command at Numbers 9:10, 11 and the example at 2 Chronicles 30:1-3, 15.

  Those who are of Jesus’ “other sheep” class, with the hope of everlasting life on a paradise earth, are not under command to partake of the bread and the wine. (John 10:16) It is important to attend the annual celebration, but they do not partake of the emblems. So if one of them is sick or is traveling and thus not with any congregation that evening, he or she could privately read over appropriate scriptures (including the account of Jesus’ instituting the celebration) and pray for Jehovah’s blessing on the event worldwide. But in this case there is no need for any additional arrangement for a meeting or a special Biblical discussion a month later.

  w93 2/1 p. 31, Questions From Readers