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  Jehovahs Witnesses have no clergy,dont charge for weddings,have no collection plates,are no part of the world,live in a spiritual paradise,what other fallacy is their.

  by smiddy in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  these are just some of the things i was told studying with the witnesses in 1959 .in 1960 we got married in one of the few kh`s that existed in melb.at the time .and we were required to pay/contribute to the bro.who conducted the service.. i was led to beleive in my studys that smoking was a no,no ,so i gave up ,learning later that wasnt the case ,the ministerial servant book study conductor in our group still did smoke.

  ( the ban on smoking didnt come in till later on ).

  while they may not have passed the collection plate around , they did on a regular time frame appeal for donations from the platform for funds to offset the renting of a hall , my first congregation , or the upkeep /maintenance of a kh or for the"world wide work of witnessing" .

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  Pubsinger

  The 'contributing to the brother who gave the wedding talk' one is news to me. Never heard that one before!
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  What's The STRANGEST Thing You've Seen At A Kingdom Hall?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i saw a fight break out on the platform between an elder and a unbelieving husband who accused the elder of f---ing his wife.

  he then threw the lectern on the floor and pushed the elder.

  it was cool.......

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  The funniest thing I can remember was interviewing my best mate (who I have just got back after he finally saw the light 13 years after I told him ) on the service meeting and asking him why he had decided to regular pioneer. He said he had decided to because he wanted to serve Jehovah while he was full of youthful virility, quickly correcting this to youthful vitality! But it was too late - I was crying laughing so much that I couldn't breathe.
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  New Rumor - Watchtower and Awake in one magazine only?

  by TJ Curioso in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  hi folks!.

  someone told me that there is a rumor that soon the watchtower and awake's magazines will be only one (fusion).. anybody knows something concrete about that, or is only rumor instead?.

  tj curioso.

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  Pubsinger

  They'd still claim they printed the same amount of 'separate' magazines even if they merged them into one.

  It's only like them claiming for years that they had 5 meetings a week when it was actually only 3.

  They still go to 5 meetings a week when it's now only 2.
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  The self-made PARADOX of "witnessing" without Television or Radio

  by Terry in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  what if i asserted the following as true?

  the watchtower bible and tract society has no interest in an effective evangelical program of conversion.. .

  would that sound silly?

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  Pubsinger

  Spot on JWfacts.

  And totally agree Terry
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  Who left or got stumbled over the 1995 generation thing?

  by Julia Orwell in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  or the 2000's generation thing?.

  how did you feel?

  how did it help you wake up?

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  That I obviously missed
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  Who left or got stumbled over the 1995 generation thing?

  by Julia Orwell in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  or the 2000's generation thing?.

  how did you feel?

  how did it help you wake up?

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  What apology was that?!
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  Who left or got stumbled over the 1995 generation thing?

  by Julia Orwell in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  or the 2000's generation thing?.

  how did you feel?

  how did it help you wake up?

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  Yep me.

  Saw the flaw in the reasoning behind the '95 generation change. Was another 4 years before I got directed to Crisis of Conscience and then everything here and at Freeminds. It was the Generation change that opened my eyes though and the rest was confirmation.
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  New Magazine says birthdays will kill you

  by RayPublisher in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  new july 2013 awake says this on page 3:.

  "there is a 14 percent greater probability that a person over 60 years of age will die on his birthday rather than on other days.".

  wow, they have now proven that birthdays are pagan and not fit for christians!.

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  Interestingly enough . . .

  www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-18626157

  900 out of 2.5m

  I make that 0.036%

  So statistically true but I reckon driving your car is much more dangerous than celebrating your birthday
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  List of UK Travelling Overseers in 2013

  by soiledumpling in

  1. social
  2. current

  hi pepeep am attempting to get a current list of uk travelling overseers.

  left 4 years ago and have heard rumours of many new ones.

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  Pubsinger

  Tijkmo!!

  Bloody hell how ya doing?!!!
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  Jehovah's Witnesses and spiritual healers top complaints to Charity Commission

  by iamwhoiam in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  jehovah's witnesses and spiritual healers top complaints to charity commissionby ian griggs, third sector online, 7 january 2013. charity commission.

  the rspca and national trust are also in top 10 most-complained about charities, the regulator has revealedthe central body for jehovahs witnesses in britain and a spiritual healers organisation were the charities about which the charity commission received the most complaints in the two years to march 2012.. the regulator said it had received 13 complaints about both the watch tower bible and tract society of britain and the nfsh charitable trust during the period.. the figures were revealed in response to a request under the freedom of information act, made by the conservative mp simon hart in july, for a list of the ten charities about which the commission received most complaints.. the rspca and jnf charitable trust, which is concerned with israel, were the next most complained about, with 12 complaints to the commission over two years.. hart, a former chief executive of the pro-hunting charity the countryside alliance, was one of a group of cross-party group of politicians that has called on the commission to investigate the rspca after it spent more than 320,000 on a successful private prosecution of the heythrop hunt.. the commission's list does not include complaints made to charities themselves or to other regulators such as the advertising standards authority and the fundraising standards board.. the commission said none of the complaints against charities in the top 10 resulted in any formal action against those organisations.

  it also said the number of complaints would not necessarily mean that a charity had acted wrongly or contrary to its charitable purpose.. begin ad tag c501 end ad tag c501 "an internal dispute within a membership body could result in several letters of complaint or dissatisfaction, but may not be be a fair indication of the level of service that is being received by beneficiaries," said liam carroll, the commissions complaints manager.. .

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  Fair to say that Brits don't complain that much