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  Did you ever buy into 1975?

  by tornapart in

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  for those of you that can remember.... did you really believe that armageddon was going to come in 1975?

  i was a child of the 60s, in my teens in the 70s and can honestly say that i never bought into it.

  i saw brothers and sisters selling their homes and moving into rented property.

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  My mom got baptized in 74 because of the fear instilled in her about 75 and that if she wasn't her kids would die too.
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  Folly of claiming “only we have the truth”

  by venus in

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  2. beliefs

  one’s mindset and its conditioning pursue what one believes to be the “truth” which it says ‘i can perceive with my senses.

  this makes possible for the life to be perceived in many different ways.

  imagine all were born blind.

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  The BEST most REAL scripture in the whole bible is...

  "What is truth?" retorted Pilate.
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  An honest question for those who were "born-in"

  by stuckinarut2 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  just wanted to ask a question of those who were born in as i was.. how did you feel to have been "privileged to have been born into the only true faith - the truth"?.

  did this make you feel confident, or proud - or perhaps arrogant?.

  how did you reconcile the fact that 99% of the earth's population was not born "into the truth"?.

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  I thought I had won the best lottery ever.

  Looking back it really gave me licence to blow off many normal responsibilities because ...
  A. they were not spiritual activities,
  B. the new system would come soon so I didn't have to worry about my future,
  C. because it is easy to become totally lazy about life when you are told the most important thing you can do is wander around your neighbourhood knocking on empty homes and looking for your next coffee break spot.
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  2018 Annual Meeting

  by EyesOpenHeartBroken in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  does anybody have any word on the 2018 annual meeting?

  i assume something new will be rolled out, since they are having all the congregations do special weekend streaming.. my guess is that there will be some major "new light" concerning the memorial, partaking, anointed, etc.

  i would guess that they will say all baptized believers should partake.

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  No doubt it will be the most important event of your spiritual life.

  Evidently, you will be talking about being there when you are in the New System and Noah and David will be green with envy (then they will be killed for thinking bad thoughts).

  It is a NEVER TO BE REPEATED event!

  Could it be the LAST Anual meeting? It COULD! It COULD!
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  Marrying outside the lord

  by label licker in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i should know the answer to this but my memory is failing big time.

  our friend just called who is still in the cult.

  he's been away from it for about five months now.

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  An annulment is not going to get you considered "scripturally free".

  If you had sex with her - your stuck.

  If she fooled around and that's why you got the annulment, she would have to confess, then the marriage would be dissolved in a way to make you "scripturally free"

  If you screwed around and she didn't, then she could divorce you and both be free but you would probably be DFed for Fing around.

  There are NOT enough details to make a call here.
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  Marrying outside the lord

  by label licker in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i should know the answer to this but my memory is failing big time.

  our friend just called who is still in the cult.

  he's been away from it for about five months now.

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  20 years as an elder, with many cases like this in mine and other halls.

  NO ONE WAS EVER DFed for Marriage outside the religion.

  This is NOT a DFing reason unless they are not free to marry.
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  Special Talks now via video

  by AverageJoe1 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  tired of listening to your local elders giving the "special" talk ever year after the memorial?

  well don't worry, as of next year we will be spicing things up for your enjoyment.. not only will we be having the talk before the memorial (i know, wild huh), but we will be treating you to the talk via video starring our famous speakers from bethel so you can see how a talk should be given (after all bethel does boast the best speakers in any country, right?!).

  here's a copy of the text from our latest letter as i'm sure that with so much excitement you won't believe it at first!.

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  pimojw - don't feel sorry for them.

  This is NOT an instrument to make better speakers of the many elders who can barely put a correct sentence together.

  This is the next step in REDUCING the speaking and teaching role of elders that started when the Book Study was taken out of homes. Since then, less and less is asked of elders when it comes to public speaking.

  It is a bait and switch, much like "we are eliminating the RBC because we need SO MANY new KHs"
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  New "Annointed" Brother In My Old Hall...

  by pale.emperor in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i've only just stopped laughing.. in my old hall there's a brother who's now claiming to be of the anointed.. he's 28.. i do wonder if he's doing this for attention, if he's awake and messing with them, or if he really is that deluded.

  when i was in he was an ms. which surprised even me because only a year earlier than that he was "a bit of a lad", is rubbish at talks and relies on his elder uncle to get him out of trouble all the time.. i guess this now means he's get his pick of jw sisters.

  he's been after the same one as the rest of his peers since 2014..

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  Why would any girl want to be involved with someone who will go to heaven... you know next Tuesday?
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  lf you could be god would you and why and what would you change?

  by atomant in

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  not sure if this question has been asked before but thought it would be interesting to read peoples response..

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  I would not have made intelligent creatures as weak frail and as transient as mankind.
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  Do any of the current Governing Body have academic qualifications?

  by usualusername1 in

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  2. friends

  do any of the current governing body have academic qualifications?.

  thanks.

  paul.

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  They have been qualified by GOD!
  When you tell people that - reason leaves the conversation.