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  Watchtower is cashing in on China

  by nakanozzi in

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  japanese brother in china recently revealed thatmany wealthy chinese are interested in watchtower’s teaching and donating money.ex-cos and ex-district os are now preaching undercover in china,and, numberes of special pioneers in china are growing !

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  stuckinarut219 minutes agoLots of witnesses are going over independently to preach...unofficially supported by the society...

  No lots are not. Maybe a few here and there may be. There are so many reasons that make any kind of campaign there not viable it's not worth mentioning.

  
  

  You have 1.35 billion people there, and a handful of nuts going there to preach?

  Preach to a society that is completely conditioned to distrust outsiders, who often have to report on each other for any unusual behavior, and are not interested in christianity at all?
  

  
  

  Any who try have have to deal with being watched, bugged, followed, or deported for preaching, as this is a constant threat.

  
  

  By the way the have 200 dialects, making communication from outsiders not very easy.

  
  Anyone who tells you of the great work going on in china is delusional.

  
  

  p.s. Want to read a great article by a 'sister' who actually went to china to preach?

  http://www.believermag.com/issues/201302/?read=article_scorah
  
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  Watchtower is cashing in on China

  by nakanozzi in

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  2. beliefs

  japanese brother in china recently revealed thatmany wealthy chinese are interested in watchtower’s teaching and donating money.ex-cos and ex-district os are now preaching undercover in china,and, numberes of special pioneers in china are growing !

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  I don't believe any of that for a moment. Why would wealthy Chinese be more interested than poor ones? And how is the money being collected and what's happening with it. There are no Donation boxes, and no easy way to hide it nor move it out of the country.

  Ex COs and Ex DOs - hogwash - just like all the hogwash you hear every few years about the work opening up in China. Never ever ever gonna happen.

  I know someone who went to South Korea, and they talked about China, the few that are there are ULTRA careful. Nothing is happening in China.
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  Premarital sex--how prevalent?

  by wafflesandpancakes in

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  in my old congregation, everyone seems clean.

  mostly chaste courtship, kingdom hall wedding, blah blah.. well there are lots of cases of fondling but they were soon forgotton.

  when my husband and i confessed to sex before marriage, the elders were disgusted.

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  Well I thought it was very rare. I knew so many "spiritual couples" who didn't have an blots on their record. But over the decades of being an Elder, and after, I found out different.

  So I think that the majority couples fool around in some way prior to marriage, and most of those never "confess".
  And good for them.
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  Money....

  by The Rebel in

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  i believe all our worst nightmare are believing money will make our life's complete.

  i am not talking about money providing life's comforts, but i am mortified that contentment and happiness always requires " more money"..ummm i need a window cleaner, a flashy car and a 50inch t.v screen to be happy.

  money...well in my opinion we need money integrity to be happy, but it seems such a waste of life to search for the making of money more than ....well what i mean "hey" most of us have more money than most, and would the making or having more money really make you happier?.

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  Time magazine..Melissa Chan, "Here's how winning the lottery makes you miserable".

  FYI on that - generally people who win the lottery are people who were NEVER prepared for dealing with having lots of money, nor are the circle of family and friends part of a group of people who have money and are not looking to benefit from the pot of gold in their reach.

  Think of being a guy who is running a local print shop getting promoted to the CEO of Staples. He will not do well. It's not the position that is bad, its the person's lack of ability to handle the responsibility.
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  Splane "Bible writer's not logical"

  by Backinthebox in

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  2. bible

  bethelite asked splane since mt 25 is set in the great trib because half way through mt 24 events turn to the great trib, does that not mean the generation starts when the great tribulation starts and has nothing to do with 1914. splane replied the bible writers were not logical they would pick a topic then randomly go back to another topic.

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  When was this? Do you have some more context to this story?
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  ABBA's "Jehovah's Witness" Birthday Song

  by Simon in

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  i came across this on wikipedia, it made me laugh at how random it was:.

  in january 1981, ulvaeus married lena källersjö, and manager stig anderson celebrated his 50th birthday with a party.

  for this occasion, abba recorded the track "hovas vittne" (a pun on the swedish name for jehovah's witness and anderson's birthplace, hova) as a tribute to him, and released it only on 200 red vinyl copies, to be distributed to the guests attending the party.

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  I like ABBA even more now!!
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  How Should Anointed Christians View Themselves?

  by jwdoctrine in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  in this coming sunday's study article :”we want to go with you” and paragraph 5 we read :.

  “those who partake of the emblems at the memorial should carefully consider the warning found at1 corinthians 11:27-29.

  (read.

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  Latest WT messaging to 'anointed' and to everyone else...

  1. Never ask an anointed about being anointed.
  - Subtext - we know most are all batcrap crazy, and we don't want you to hear the crap they would say because you might question us the GB.

  2. Anointed, shut up and sit down.
  - Subtext - I know just a few years ago we at the GB had to respect you and you had some voice, now we just think you're all nuts - and there is only room for us 7 nuts at the top, so shut up and sit down and don't bother us.
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  Do you know what Rahab looked like?

  by ttdtt in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  hello friends - here is a new area in the kids section of the jw website - learn how to draw rahab.. 1st - she was a prostitute of jericho.

  could there be other characters to talk about with our kids?.

  2nd - it says "learn how to draw rahab".

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  SafeAtHome

  Mommy daddy said you should know? Whats he mean?
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  Money....

  by The Rebel in

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  i believe all our worst nightmare are believing money will make our life's complete.

  i am not talking about money providing life's comforts, but i am mortified that contentment and happiness always requires " more money"..ummm i need a window cleaner, a flashy car and a 50inch t.v screen to be happy.

  money...well in my opinion we need money integrity to be happy, but it seems such a waste of life to search for the making of money more than ....well what i mean "hey" most of us have more money than most, and would the making or having more money really make you happier?.

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  If you dont think Money can give you happiness by, having the security to pay your bills, go on nice vacations, not worry about your junker of a car breaking down on the highway, not worrying if you should get a new pair of shoes or live with the old ones, not worry about going to the Dr, Dentist, Optometrist, feeling you can give your kids a good college education, or just not freaking out that you will have to live on SS for the remainder of your older years, then go ahead and try Poverty. See how happy that makes you.
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  2016 Formula 1 Season is Go, Go, Go !!!

  by Simon in

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  i love formula one :).

  here's to a great 2016 season !.

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  Qualifying is a JOKE now. And each year the race gets less and less interesting to me.