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  Anybody from Flint Michigan?

  by mindnumbed in

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  ... wondering if you might know a certain jw who used to live there.

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  So very confused and scared!

  by MissConfused in

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  i am so nervous and waited for long to speak to someone on my faiths and beliefs!

  i am from a non-christian background, a hindu.

  i got to know 'the truth' (or myth) from my hubby while we were working.

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  MissConfused, welcome, I am so sorry that you are feeling confused and scared.

  It is true, they do speak badly about the people who leave, but why are you worried about how they define you if you leave? You will lose people who are friends with you because you are a JW, you will have the opportunity to make many more friends who like you for who you are, not what religion you belong to.
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  Anybody from Flint Michigan?

  by mindnumbed in

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  ... wondering if you might know a certain jw who used to live there.

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  Anybody from Flint Michigan?

  by mindnumbed in

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  ... wondering if you might know a certain jw who used to live there.

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  ... wondering if you might know a certain JW who used to live there
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  The Divine Name King James Bible

  by JakeM2012 in

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  a friend sent me a link about the king james bible translating the "divine name".

  maybe this is why there are no new nwt bibles available.

  the web site states:.

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  I believe this KJ version with Divine Name was done by a JW.

  Notice it is the original KJV which means it is in the public domain. That is why the person was able to publish it as there is no copyright. No translating here, just replacing LORD with Jehovah.
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  Why no females on the governing body but ok to be one of annointed

  by not bitter in

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  so why not female governing body?

  why not female anything?

  i mean, i kind of know the answer.

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  1 Corinthians 11 3 But I want YOU to know that the head of every man is the Christ; in turn the head of a woman is the man; in turn the head of the Christ is God.

  1 Timothy 2 12 I do not permit a woman to teach, or to exercise authority over a man, but to be in silence. 13 For Adam was formed first, then Eve.
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  Watchtower youtube channel

  by seek2find in

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  does anyone know if the watchtower recently oppened an official you-tube channel?

  http://www.youtube.com/user/jehovahswitnessesen?feature=.

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  it looks official ... damned if they do, damned if they don't I guess
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  Interesting quote from the DC

  by GoodGuyGreg in

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  i don't know if anybody else has mentioned this, but i'm currently at a dc in sweden, and this morning, during the symposium on different kinds of service, it was mentioned that 40% of baptisms are the result of informal witnessing.

  if you add the number of baptisms of children of jw parents to this, how many are left that are baptized as a result of the door-to-door work?

  doesn't sound very effective at all....

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  mindnumbed

  Perhaps it is an accurate statistic in context. We all know that the Organization doesn't lie, they just get creative with what they say and how they say it. For example, if the quote was "40% of all baptisms throughout the earth are the result of informal witnessing", this would be an outright lie, however, if this were a true statistic in a single area, such as the Dominican Republic for example, the Watchtower would feel as though they were being perfectly honest editing the statistic and letting you, the listener, come to the conclusion on your own that they meant it was a global statistic.
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  What piece of WT literature is worth holding onto, or have you kept? Why?

  by losingit in

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  i have basically thrown away all of my bound volumes and loose wt and awake magazines.

  i kept some bpoks, the insight to the scriptures, god's love, the reasoning book, and daniel's prophecies (this was my favorite) .

  i held onto insight to the scriptures after reading some of ray franz's book, crisis of conscience.

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  1968 Awake! bound volume

  
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  What happened to the victims of the Bethel inquisition?

  by Bonnie_Clyde in

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  i just cracked open my "crisis of conscience" book and reread the chapter, "point of decision.

  " i wonder what ever happened to the people who were disfellowshiped and kicked out of bethel.

  i know that ed dunlap went back to oklahoma and died not too long ago.

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  mindnumbed

  Thanks Cedars, for posting this article about Nestor and Toni Kuilan.

  http://jwsurvey.org/life-stories/nestor-kuilan-surviving-the-fall-from-watchtowers-trapdoor