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  Name Things You Did As A Witness That You Weren't Supposed To Do

  by minimus in

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  2. friends

  i was considered "exemplary" but i defintely liked my drinking with my other fellow examples.. porn was never a terrible thing to me.

  i looked.. throwing in a few extra hours and placements worked pretty well for me too..

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  I had a secret boyfriend during my last two years of high school.
  Then he took a different girl to the prom, telling me that he had to work that night.

  The bum.
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  The tanning mom

  by Frozenout in

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  2. friends

  nice tan.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtwz1qz-ofo.

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  The woman is a walking melanoma.

  But I do believe the mother -- I don't think the girl went into the tanning booth. I don't think any tanning business would risk the legal ramification of allowing such a thing.
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  Best Site For Refuting Blood Doctrine?

  by allyouneedislove in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  best site for refuting blood doctrine?

  can everyone give their input?.

  i have read jwfacts and it is real good..

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  JW's haven't equated blood transfusions with cannibalism in decades, so I question whether that approach will work these days.

  I prefer the idea of promoting the question of mercy regarding blood transfusions:

  Jesus Christ showed it was required to put mercy ahead of Theocratic Law by pointing out that respect for life should come foremost, regardless of Law (Matthew 12:11). He mercifully overrode the Sabbath Laws when he healed people on the Sabbath day (Matthew 12:9-13; Luke 14:1-6); even though the breaking of the Sabbath Law could easily result in the death penalty (Numbers 15:32). He also overrode the adultery Law when he showed mercy to an adulteress (John 8:1-11), even though the sin of adultery was also supposed to result in the death penalty (Leviticus 20:10-12). On another occasion He mercifully healed a bleeding woman with only one touch, even though the Law stated that such a woman was unclean and untouchable (Mark 5:25-34, compared with Leviticus 15:25-27). On yet another occasion, He mercifully healed the daughter of a foreign woman even though it wasn't His responsibility to do so (Matthew 15:22-28). You know that Jesus didn't sin in doing these things because the Bible clearly tells us that Jesus never sinned (1 Peter 2:22). In essence, Jesus was teaching us that mercy is not a sin – in fact, Jesus even rebuked the Pharisees for inflexibly putting Theocratic Law over mercy (Matthew 23:23).

  Remember, God is a merciful God (Psalms 103:8; Ephesians 2:4), and God is LOVE (1 John 4:8). And when it comes to Theocratic Law, love is the Law's fulfillment (Matthew 22:36-40). This is why Jesus made it clear that God wants mercy to override Law (Matthew 9:12-13). God is so serious about this that those who do not show mercy will, in return, not be shown mercy in the Kingdom judgment (James 2:13), whereas those who do show mercy will be shown mercy (Matthew 5:7).

  Jehovah's Witnesses tend to have a tough time reconciling the above line of thought.
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  Best Site For Refuting Blood Doctrine?

  by allyouneedislove in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  best site for refuting blood doctrine?

  can everyone give their input?.

  i have read jwfacts and it is real good..

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  Both AJWRB is the best, but JW Facts is really good too.
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  What did your personal big AHA moments look like when you saw through a LIE or suddenly understood a TRUTH?

  by Fernando in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  "what is an aha moment?

  it's a moment of clarity, a defining moment where you gain real wisdom - wisdom you can use to change your life.".

  (from a financial services company - http://www.ahamoment.com/what-is).

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  My "Aha" moment came when I realized that the Watchtower/U.N. thing was fer real.
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  What's a Good Standard for Right and Wrong?

  by Perry in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  1. if you say that reducing harm is a valid standard because that is what people want, then how are you not committing the logical fallacy of begging the question by saying that what people want, is what makes something morally right?.

  2. if you say that reducing harm is a valid standard of morality because that is what people want, then how are you not promoting an arbitrary standard since it is based on peoples subjective feelings and desires which change?

  3. if reducing overall harm is the standard of morality, then should a nation that is being attacked by another nation not practice self-defense, since by defending itself it may very well increase overall harm to both nations?.

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  I think the most simplistic way I can put it is this:

  "Right" is anything done with genuine love and in another's best interest.

  "Wrong" is anything done with selfish motives that has reasonable potential to hurt someone else.
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  If the Watch Tower Society discontinued shunning.... new survey!!

  by cedars in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i'm pleased to announce that juan viejo2 has launched a new mini-survey on jwsurvey.org.

  the survey tackles the premise that the society might one day abandon shunning (at least between family members) and asks: what effect might this have on us?.

  the survey is primarily targeted at df'd/da'd and active jws, although there is one question applicable to all, which asks simply whether you agree with the practice of shunning.. there are only a handful of questions, so if you feel inclined, please do visit and take the survey on the link below:.

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  They hafta shun... if they don't, then us filthy, mentally diseased apostates would get a firm foothold on the Good Members and lead them down the path to everlasting destruction, dontcha know....
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  Watchtower threatens to sue their own

  by blond-moment in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  examining the scriptures daily.

  interesting.

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  Blond Moment,

  Are those your videos?
  I checked out your (?) You Tube channel and watched a bunch of them, and I liked them, so I added a link to your channel in my website's video link page, under the "Educational Videos" list:

  http://www.witness-outreach.com/Videos.html
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  Alteration in the German Watchtower about spousal physical abuse

  by slimboyfat in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i noticed that the german edition of the study watchtower for today didn't include the phrase about the husband "hitting" the sister.

  instead it just says that he became ferociously angry, which need not imply physical abuse.

  i wonder if the german translator altered it off his own back or was instructed, and how other language editions compare.

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  I just find it interesting that the Watchtower will teach one thing in some countries and an altered version of the teaching in others due to regional laws. If they really had the truth, shouldn't the truth be true no matter where?????
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  New Site JW Outreach

  by Bangalore in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  here is a new site named jw outreach launched by an xjw from another board.. .

  http://www.witness-outreach.com/.

  bangalore.

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  Blind No More:

  Thank you for understanding the point of the site:

  It was not for us to expound out views, instead it is for preventing others from being conned by the Watchtower Society. Simple.