Topics Started by popcorn_eater

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Will Embracing the Internet lead to Increased Growth for the Watchtower?
by jwfacts in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
more important than the reduction in the size of the new magazine is that the watchtower will be actively promoting its website and encouraging people use it to download magazines.

my concern is that this has the potential to lead to an increase in growth for the watchtower.. the door-to-door preaching work has been one of the most inefficient means imaginable to gain converts, and done little more than tie up the time of active jws.

now, by directing people to the internet, witnesses can spread their message at an alarming rate for little cost.. do you feel that this has the potential to lead to a surge in growth of jehovah's witnesses?
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rules about kids going door to door alone?
by popcorn_eater in
1. jw
2. friends
my stepdaughter, who just turned 12, was telling me about her most recent door to door experience and how excited she was to get her first return visit.

i was pretending to be happy for her and not horrified, and listening to the story.

but then she said that the other person with her at the door was her 13 year old friend, also a girl.. i know the org doesn't seem to care much about children and their welfare, but is this normal?
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I Was Offered A Bible Study By The Elders
by minimus in
1. jw
2. friends
2 elders, the cobe and his sidekick, a former bethelite and a young ms (elder in waiting) stopped by my mom's home while i was visiting with her.

they were very congenial and eventually asked me if i got invited to the memorial and whether they could arrange a future visit with me and a possible study.

i thanked them and told them i appreciated their invitation but that i was going to "pass at this time" but thanked them for their concern.. they recited a "wonderful experience" about a young man that was raised in the "truth" but wanted out so he decided to go to asia where he could not be found by witnesses.
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The "Worldlies"
by popcorn_eater in
1. jw
2. friends
i just wanted to say that i think it's disgusting that jw's refer to people who happen not to be in their religion as "worldlies.

" like we're not even people, just some other group, like aliens.

i suspect jw's would also not be beneath calling homosexual people "the gays" which is kind of similar.
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Thinking about going to the memorial and...
by popcorn_eater in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
partaking.. background: i have never been a jw.

i have been brought into their world (and the way better ex-jw world) through having a jw stepdaughter and extended family.

i have really come to love my stepdaughter and frankly all this jw stuff pisses me off to no end, as you all might imagine.
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Catching the Manipulation in Sundays Watchtower Article
by Butterflyleia85 in
1. watchtower
2. bible
inspired by many on jwn board, my goal is to every sunday study the article and find the manipulative parts.

if you would like to join me that would be great!

we can then find them together and then find what the scriptures or insights truly means with research, our own understanding, or maybe how it should be interpreted to ones self.
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I just "witnessed" officially for the first time!!!
by NoRegrets in
1. jw
2. experiences
i mean door to door (sort of), not informally to non-witness friends and family!.

so for a few weeks, i have suspected that my neighbor across the hall was being studied with by witnesses.

i wasn't sure but saw a couple of older women leaving with what looked like bibles, but never saw watchtower literature.
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What is the WT's current stance on the age of the earth?
by popcorn_eater in
1. watchtower
2. bible
the reason i ask is i remember reading quite recently, in i think an "awake" mag about creation, that other churches confuse people by insisting on young earth creationism, which causes people to lose their faith.

the magazine was going off on groups and churches who insist on teaching science that conflicts with the bible (....).

i thought the wt was a proponent of this young earth creationism as well.
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Why do we have to 'prove' anything to God. (This point made at assembly today)
by PaintedToeNail in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
the point was made at the assembly today, that we have to 'prove' our love for jehovah to him.

as i sat there, bored, this thought struck me as odd.

since jehovah is supposed to be able to read 'hearts', why do we as humans, have to prove anything to him, since he already knows us down to our kidneys and would know if we loved him or not.
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Homeschooling and JW children
by Pams girl in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
how many jw kids are homeschooled where you are?

its not very common here in the borough where i live.

i just found out on the grapevine that a girl i know is taking her kids out of our very good primary school because she feels the other children are having such a bad influence on her kids.