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  WT September 2015 (Public edition) - We never petition for Money

  by Designer Stubble in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  page 6 of the september 2015 public wt, under the heading "how is our ministry financed"our work is supported entirely by voluntary donations.

  (2 corinthians 9:7) in 1879, the second issue of this magazine stated: zions watch tower [as this magazine was then called] has, we believe jehovah for its backer, and while this is the case it will never beg nor petition men for support.

  we have not wavered from that policy.

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  Barrold B, Yup, bulletin board is a no no. Cant't be like Catholics except for ATMs. The GB gives them a dispensation I mean exception. :)
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  California Supreme Court Case - S226656

  by Gayle in

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  http://appellatecases.courtinfo.ca.gov/search/case/maincasescreen.cfm?dist=0&doc_id=2109889&doc_no=s226656&search=party&start=1&query_partylastnameororg=watchtower bible and tract.

  started 5/27/2015.

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  Fisherman has been out in the boat too long. Smells fishy
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  Ask a question

  by Mr.logic in

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  ask a question, and i will help with a simple answer, not an over referenced i'm smarter than you vent.

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  That explains everything.
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  Ask a question

  by Mr.logic in

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  ask a question, and i will help with a simple answer, not an over referenced i'm smarter than you vent.

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  Were you kicked out of the other sandbox?
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  If Women were elders, would it make a difference in the organization?

  by John Aquila in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  imagine three single sisters who qualified to be appointed as elders in the congregation.

  they qualified because they started reaching out in their early teens.

  persistently and methodically they worked their way through the ranks by pioneering then becoming a m.s.

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  RVW, Funny. Probably true, buuuuuuuuuttttttt I've been at DC conventions where the concluding prayers were as long as the public talk. Being a kid I thought these guys would NEVER shut up. Think Franz and Knoor who couldn't get enough of their OWN voices.
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  rejection of your own founder?

  by Mr.logic in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  what kind of confidence can anyone have in an organization that rejected its founder and first two presidents for the first 63 years of its existence?

  that's 53% of the time they existed!

  any comments.

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  3rdgen

  Welcome Mr Logic, good op.

  Hold me-Thrill me, What does Gen. 1:4 have to do with Watchtower rejecting it's founders/foundation ?
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  Prayer - The ultimate act of stupidity

  by Doltologist in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  prayer is the act of saying something to someone that doesn't exist.

  above all else, we need to respect ourselves for, if we don't, we are not capable of respecting others..

  thirdly, bow to no one for if they had any respect for you, they wouldn't ask you to bow..

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  My thoughts on Gods existence: Agnostic If there is/was a creator it's long gone now creating something/someone else.

  My thoughts on prayer: Either God doesn't exist, so you're talking to yourself or you're talking to someone who already knows what you need even before you do so why should you have to ask? Is this creature's ego so fragile it needs praise first before it will grant a request? You must beg? That sounds like an unloving temperamental artist. Why would i want to talk to it?
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  Series

  by Berengaria in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  don't post much lately, but wondering what folks are watching.

  i'm enjoying the heck out of "penny dreadful", "outlander", and "grace and frankie".

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  Grace and Frankie . Just started watching. I'm lmao
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  Vacation Time: You want me to use my personal vacation to attend the D.C.? Something i feel is a load of B.S.and waste of my precious time

  by goingthruthemotions in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so you all know that my wife is still blinded....i am well awake and so are our son's.

  so she is expecting me to use my vacation time from work to attend the d.c. waste 3 days of dribble from the cult.

  what of waste of time....yet i will do it to keep the peace.

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  You have the head of the house card to play if you want to. You can drop her off at the RC and take the boys with you to do something fun. Let them decide if they would rather sit all day in dress clothes listening to boring talks with mom or go to (fill in the blank with their favorite thing) with you.

  You have more power than you think.
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  Crises of conscience

  by Deltawave in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i have just read the book crises of conscience in less than 3days!

  i could not put it down!

  even in front of my jw wife and her family.

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  3rdgen

  Yup, 3 days for me too. By chapt. 3 I was mentally out but couldn't put it down. I never bothered with ISCF. The Mexico Malawi issue was enough to convince me that there was NO Holy Spirit operating on this organization therefore, doctrines were irrelevant. Instead, went straight to Steven Hassen.

  If only I would have given myself permission to read COC when it first came out! Better late than never, though.