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  Breaking the Waves - Have You Seen It?

  by Preston in

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  breaking the waves is a beautiful love story/spiritual film about a spiritually devout woman who belongs to a strict religious sect that allows people to comment (although nor freely), where marrying outside of your religion is a problem, and people who committ sins are publicly humiliated and condemned at their funeral (hmmmmm...does all of this sound familiar).

  it is a 2hr 20min movie, but for my money it is one of the best films ever made and i want everybody on the board to see it.

  it addresses problems that a group of church elders could never comprehend and it refers to the ambiguities of christian faith.

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  WHY APOSTATES THEMSELVES ARE DOOMED!!!

  by You Know in

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  all mankind stands condemned before god, and yet some are more reprehensible than others are.

  as an example, christ called the original christian apostate, judas, the son of destruction.

  so too, and not surprisingly, the activities of modern day apostates are said to awaken the judgment from of old, so that "the destruction of them is not slumbering.

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  The Blood Issue

  by dutyfree in

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  i have a question about the infamous blood issue, which i am sure will be very easy for some people to answer.. in the bible, niv, nwt, kj or whatever, the line, '...you should abstain from blood...' is taken literally by the witnesses and they do not take into account other scriptures whilst reading it.. what other scriptures are there in the bible to support the theory that the writer's intended meaning was not to take it literally?

  so, in other words, i have argued with jws that it means to not drink blood as there were no iv needles around then to inject the blood into the veins.

  but are there any other scriptures to back this up?.

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  Want to help my JW friend

  by wannahelp in

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  i'm new here, and i want to make it clear upfront that i am not, nor have i ever been a jw.

  in fact, until recently i didn't know much about jw's.

  but i do have a question that i hope both jw's and ex-jw's will try and answer for me... about 10 months ago, i hired a 20 year old to work for me.. i hired him because he seemed very loyal, ethical, sincere, hardworking and honest.

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  Coming Out Experiences

  by Preston in

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  2. friends

  hi, this is my first post so i would like to get some things off of my chest.

  i recently had to leave my congregation after five years after deciding to take a proactive stance regarding my beliefs and the fact that i found it necessary to come out to the congregation regarding my queerness (i usually try to stay away from labels like straight or bi since i think they are deceptive).

  i was very active in my congregation: i was a ministerial servant, i handled the accounts, and i performed a lot of other duties.

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  High priced Kingdom Halls

  by JWD in

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  2. friends

  it`s been interesting watching the org.

  trying different ways to make money while at the same time keeping up a front of not being interested in money.

  especially since they were forced to drop the.

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  HELLO? HELLO? "ALL" SIGN IN???????

  by waiting in

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  2. experiences

  simon did away with the sex forum - so i must take the tradional route and post under "make new friends.

  " how mundane!.

  fyi ---- for all of us, please take the time to write a sentence or two about yourselves, and encourage new ones to do the same.

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  In there no good in the WTBTS??? or ourselves??

  by jst2laws in

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  we hopefully all agree it is wrong to reject an entire race because we have found one of its member to be flawed, or to reject an entire concept an the basis of finding a flaw in its argument.

  would not fair people look for a way to accept the good in the concept, modify the flawed portion and rejoice in what was gained from the refined concept?

  it would also be wrong, as the wt does, to reject an entire institution because some of its precepts are flawed.

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  Updated list of Watchtower RANKS (*not* Classes!)

  by Focus in

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  23 common or garden bethelite.

  25 common or garden elder.

  58 female child of unbaptized associate; dead unbaptized associate/family.

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  Ten Greatest Movies Ever

  by Seven in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  what does this have to do with being a jehovah's witness?

  nothing.. the greatest movies ever made.

  1. the godfather.

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