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  What WT Children's Book Were You Studied With As A Child?

  by Sea Breeze in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  my mom studied with me in the paradise book before i went to kindergarten.

  i remember the book vividly.

  it creeped me out as a kid.

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  My mother studied the Let God Be True book and was baptized around '63. It was the brown version of that book that she used. She was a voracious reader, and I recall the sister who studied with her would bring bound volumes of previous years, and mom would go through the whole thing.
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  Can a person order a free bible through the JWs?

  by jwundubbed in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i was researching the easiest bible to read (which the jw bible is not) and the best way to buy one online at low cost and it got me thinking.

  the jw.org is doing videos and has a website.

  have they joined the order-online phenomenon that is going on in the world today?

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  dropoffyourkeylee

  My wife is writing letters, in which they often include one of the super-thin tracts they make now. I think they will occasionally mail out a WT or Awake on request, but I'm pretty sure anything bigger than that (like a Bible) they would not mail.
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  What Was Your Most Memorable Field Service Experience?

  by Sea Breeze in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  me: selling the wt and awake for 10 cents at 5 years old.

  i don't mean to brag or anything, but i sold 'em like hotcakes.

  i musta been a cutie at 5 yo.

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  I've done my best to forget it. I truly detested the field service.

  I was told, 'Try pioneering for a year, you'll never regret it". Well I did it, and it was awful. I do regret it.
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  You Tube Questions about Watchtower Property

  by Listener in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  kim and mikey made a youtube yesterday claiming that a business called watchtower property co. was connected to the watchtower.

  they used a recording done by youtuber smurf girl of a call she made to a julie at the company.

  i believe the call was doctored as it has her saying that (no) "we're connected to the jehovahs witnesses directly.

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  dropoffyourkeylee

  Thanks JeffT for your level-headed comments and research. People like to jump on circumstantial evidence to support their already-arrived-at conclusions; it takes careful thought and research to get to the correct answer.
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  Beyond the Watchtower

  by BereanThinker7 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  https://www.ebay.com/itm/203474749415.

  im a watchtower/bible students history nerd.

  i find the movement that engulfed my entire family fascinating.

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  dropoffyourkeylee

  It says it is from 1982. I've never heard of it before, so I am likewise a little curious.
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  Do the dubs do the songs at the Zoom Meetings?

  by Iamallcool in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  any takers?

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  dropoffyourkeylee

  Having multiple people singing while not on mute would be a disaster, with slow connections and echoing. Unworkable to have everyone with live mikes.
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  Do the dubs do the songs at the Zoom Meetings?

  by Iamallcool in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  any takers?

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  dropoffyourkeylee

  They sing along at home with the recording while on mute.

  Speaking of dress, they had a local needs on my wife's zoom this week about the zoom meetings being formal and proper meeting attire was recommended. They also kind of came down on brother's having beards on the zoom, which being the US midwest, is seen as improper for some reason.
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  Eye-Opener

  by ElderStuckin in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  each eye-opener in my awakening had nothing to do with apostates.

  it was always by looking directly at the so-called spiritual food that helped me awaken.. in 2019 they changed the wording of the second of two baptismal questions which are answered aloud before the audience.

  now i realize that these questions have been adjusted over the years.

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  dropoffyourkeylee

  After the 1980-81 purge at Bethel and the later publication of Ray Franz's two books, there were several things which the WT did to do address what they perceived to be issues and to tighten down on further breakaways. One was the change to baptism question 2 to mention the organization. A few others were replacing the AID book with the Insight volumes, the new Organization book, the Unity book, the big Green JW history book (the name escapes me at the moment).
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  Eye-Opener

  by ElderStuckin in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  each eye-opener in my awakening had nothing to do with apostates.

  it was always by looking directly at the so-called spiritual food that helped me awaken.. in 2019 they changed the wording of the second of two baptismal questions which are answered aloud before the audience.

  now i realize that these questions have been adjusted over the years.

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  dropoffyourkeylee

  The wording has been changed a couple of times. I'm pretty sure the questions I asserted to in the '70s made no mention of any organization.
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  For Witnesses Who Want To Leave Fade, Disassociate or Get Disfellowshipped?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  my opinion is if possible fading is the best way to go..

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  dropoffyourkeylee

  I am with jwundubbed. Sending a DA letter implicitly agrees that they have some legal hold on you and that it requires an action on your part to end it. They have no such hold and their supposed basis for it (baptism, which for many was at a teen age) is bogus.