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"A Jehovah's Witness"
by NotFormer in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
a very certain distinctive of jws is how they refer to themselves.

"one of jehovah's witnesses".

it's one of those coded jargon thingies.
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JW Opening Questions
by NotFormer in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i had a visit from jws yesterday.

https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5993895939276800/there-some-sort-campaign-going-on.

the opening question was "do you think that the world is getting better or worse?".
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Is There Some Sort of Campaign Going on?
by NotFormer in
1. jw
2. friends
a pair of young blokes came to my door @ 10am (ish) today (wednesday, if that matters).

i opened the door a crack to : hi!

just asking a question: do you think that the world is getting better or worse?*".
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Lines You Never Used To Hear From A JW (But You Can Now)
by NotFormer in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
inspired by ron.w.

's thread:.

https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5992982038183936/lines-you-would-never-hear-from-jehovahs-witness.
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JW Ranking System
by NotFormer in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
it's fairly evident to little old outsider me that the organisation has a class system, perhaps even a caste system.. from what i've read, there seems to not only be an official ranking system (m.s., elder, c.o.

) but an unofficial one.

has anyone ever sat down to figure out what the unofficial ranks are and how they affect the pecking order?
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Kingdom Hall Insurance
by NotFormer in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
that the wt "self insures" kingdom halls has come up in occasional conversations on here.

how exactly does that work?

do they* actually set aside a portion of the monthly remittance from each kingdom hall and save into a pool to cover damage etc.
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Do JWs Get Excited About WT Publications Any More?
by NotFormer in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
memory from long ago: my old mate from high school lived next door to a jw and was often "treated" to the latest jw literature.

when the "you can live forever in paradise on earth"* book came out, this neighbour waxed lyrical about how good this book was and how powerful the message was.

he acted really keen about it, like it was the greatest thing since sliced bread.
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Still Confused About The FDS
by NotFormer in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
this was prompted by another thread where it was revealed that the gb were referred to as "our future kings" in a wt video.

https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/4911685446402048/fun-moment.

if i've got it right, the 144,000 are (or were until recently) the fds.
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Constant Pleas For Money
by NotFormer in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
it comes up from time to time: that the wt's "constant pleas for money" signifies their precarious financial state due to the pressure of the csa settlements.

is there any way of demonstrating that to be a fact?

i ask because i've always been under the impression that "constant pleas for money" is the default state of the organisation, possibly going back to rutherford's time.
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Was Anyone Ever Disfellowshipped For Having a Beard?
by NotFormer in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i read a comment somewhere that having a beard ( before such was allowed) was never a disfellowshippable offence.

but does that mean that no-one who grew a beard was ever eventually disfellowshipped?.

growing a beard when such was frowned upon would surely attract the attention of those with nothing better to do, and possibly lead to sniffing around to try and find things that the "disobedient" one was up to.