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  What has happened to AJWRB?

  by Haelcer in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  does anyone know what going on with ajwrb's website?.

  "this domain maybe for sale!

  buy it now!

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  Pubsinger

  I get what Minimus is saying, but to set out with one objective and achieve another which is still worthwhile is not a total failure.
  
  I don't think the WT will be reformed on its' blood policy by pressure, either from outside or within. I think it will take a tragedy which hits them hard in the pocket and threatens to trigger a raft of lawsuits to make them change.
  
  I have long believed that Hospital Liason Committees were set up NOT to ensure that JW's firmly refused blood in all its forms, but to ensure that JWs ACCEPTED blood products that they would normally have refused if they firmly and faithfully adhered to the WT interpretation on blood. All along it has been a two faced, damage limitation exercise which has saved lives as a by product of saving face and protecting the WT's image and reputation.

  That said the AJWRB website opened my eyes too and was a big piece in my own journey out.
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  Do Wills Ever Affect Shunning?

  by Cold Steel in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  a man has several sons and daughters who are active jehovah's witnesses.

  so was his wife, who died two years ago.

  he has since lapsed into apostasy and has been openly critical of the governing body.

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  Pubsinger

  I have long said that if I ever won the lottery I will be sending the JW members of my family who ignore me, a cheque for a tempting amount of money with a note that says:
  
  "I won this money in the lottery, which is gambling. I know you don't gamble and wouldn't want any money gained in a way God disaproves of, but I wondered if you are as hypocritical and inconsistent on this principle as you are on everything else"
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  I'm back!!!!

  by RichieRich in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  hello again from sunny north carolina!!!.

  our state lotto started today, and i won 15 dollars, and only bought 1 $1 card.

  so whoop whoop for gambling.. i was in miami florida last week for the photoshop world conference, but i also got to tour the everglades, where i took some beautiful pictures.

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  Pubsinger

  Heck! Whatever happened to RichieRich?! Can't believe this is 7 years ago
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  The packages will arrive today... What do you think will happen?

  by Faithful Witness in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i have decided that ignoring my niece and nephew during the holidays, is the most unloving thing i could possibly do.

  they stopped celebrating christmas and birthdays, after my sister began studying with jw's about 6-7 years ago.

  we did not celebrate either, until 3 years ago, when my son was 2 and my daughter was 4, and we'd figured out that the jw's are wrong about this decision.

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  Pubsinger

  Send birthday and Christmas cards and put in a cheque. Then you'll know when they break their rules and accept the gift.
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  new friend for me

  by besty in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  just spent some valuable time with a long-lost friend from back in the day.

  a reminder for me that jw's are just bubbles waiting to float up into freedom.. one day they will post their story here :-).

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  Pubsinger

  Happened to me just over a year ago.
  
  Best feeling ever
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  Head coverings yet again in the latest KM

  by life is to short in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  my husband just gave me the latest km the novermber 2013 and it yet again has a question box on head coverings.. question box "should a female publisher wear a head covering if she is accompanied by a male pubisher at a doorstep bible study?".

  it says "when a female publisher conducts a reagular, scheduled bible study and a male kingdom publisher is present, she should wear a head covering.

  (1 cor 11: 3-10) the july 15 2002, issue of the watchtower page 27, explains: "this is a prearranged session of teaching where the one conducting the the study actually presides.

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  It never happens or will happen tho because the sister will just make sure she never takes a brother on the study, doorstep or otherwise.
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  Upcoming KM!! Why we are not False Prophets!

  by DATA-DOG in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  this subject is coming up this month in the tms.

  i just thought i would start a post for newbies or lurkers.

  if you have any scans of the awake inside cover that would be awesome.

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  Out of interest, has anyone ever written or contacted the WT direct and asked them why they changed/falsified this in the bound volumes?

  Just wondered what they'd say.
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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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  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.