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cobaltcupcake
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Are JW'S "hated" in all the world? Or...are they considered IRRELEVANT?
by Terry inwathctower 90/1/1 p. 12 par.
8 not ashamed of the good news .
while it is true that jehovahs witnesses are hated and opposed in all the nations of the earth, this is in fulfillment of what was foretold to be an identifying mark of genuine worshipers of the one living and true god.
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CS Monitor. Religion in New England...the future of Religion. Some Jehovah's Witnesses become Seventh Day Adventists.?
by Balaamsass ingd2-status-2 spaceid=95400273 loc=logo noad qyz cms_none_avail,,98.139.32.249;;logo;95400273;2;who's filling america's church pewsin puritan new england, protestant and catholic churches are declining while evangelical and pentecostal groups are rising.
why the nation's most secular region may hint at the future of religion.by g. jeffrey macdonald | christian science monitor sun, dec 23, 2012 .
start article more from yog-5u on a snowy 20-degree day in december, the visitors shiver as they move among vestiges of a long-closed pizza hut on this city's struggling main street.
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cobaltcupcake
I'm really surprised to read that. I lived most of my life in New England, but then I moved to North Carolina in the Bible Belt. I was so surprised to find that people actually talked about their church - never heard that kind of talk in NE. Churches back home were usually small (except the Catholic churches), and often in disrepair. In NC churches are enormous and very active in community outreach, totally unlike anything I ever saw in New England.
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An interesting article on scientific explanations of near-death / out-of-body experiences
by cedars ini've been doing quite a bit of research into books recently, and i've noticed that the book "proof of heaven" is selling very strongly at the moment.
it's currently no.1 in the new york times bestseller list for nonfiction paperbacks.. the book is by a qualified neurosurgeon who converted to religious faith after going into a coma and having what he later described as an experience of heaven, which he elaborates on in great detail in the book.
he argues that the experience must have been supernatural, because his cerebral cortex was "offline" for the duration of his vision.. .
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cobaltcupcake
Haters gonna hate.
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Hi I am new. Thanks for the food at the proper time.
by 2+2=5 ini have been lurking on this forum for a few months and thought it was time i joined in.
a big thankyou goes to all who post here, i have enjoyed immensely all the thought provoking discussion and not so thought provoking (thanks recovery/ethos).
i have had heaps to get my head around recently learning the truth about the truth and as i remember reading here before its like digesting a brick.
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cobaltcupcake
Welcome!
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Born in, Convert or 1975er?
by Think About It indoes a person's involvement in the jw religion usually fall into one of these 3 categories?.
a) born in.
b) convert.
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cobaltcupcake
1975er
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My neighbor invited me to Christmas services
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my neighbor invited me and my family to christmas services at his nondenominational church when i was shoveling fresh snow from the driveway this morning.
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cobaltcupcake
A woman I know invited me to Christmas Eve services a year after I left JWs. She told me it was a beautiful service. I had an immediate visceral reaction of revulsion at the idea of anything to do with God or religion. I think she was offended. Unless you've been a Dub, you don't get it.
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is this humor or is it sad?
by stillin ina forwarded e-mail from a faithful sister:.
new classes for jehovah's witnesses .
meets 4 weeks, monday and wednesday for 2 hours beginning at 7:00 pm.. .
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cobaltcupcake
It's both sad and funny.
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The privileged Bethel speakers and the rest of us Jamokes.
by RULES & REGULATIONS incicero,illinois 1970's.
our four day assemblies in the 1970's through the 1980's were pure torture.. they were held at a horse race track in cicero,il in the smoking hot and humid month of july.
they charged around $2 for parking.
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cobaltcupcake
Yep, those 4- and 5-day (don't forget the international assemblies) conventions were torture.
The Odd Life of Jehovah's Witnesses - A Good Opportunity for Discomfort
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January 2013 warns parents to resist contact with df'd children again
by stuckinlimbo insee page 15-16. full of "straw men" like:.
* do not blame yourself it is the child that jehovah blames - parents do not care whose fault it is they just want their child not to be killed by god.
* it is ok for parents to hope their df'd child returns - was anybody really asking if that was wrong?.
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cobaltcupcake
Whenever I tell someone the reason that I have no contact with my mother and brother they are absolutely shocked. I nearly always get the comment, "What kind of religion would do that to people?"
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Your earliest doubt?
by Apognophos inthis might be an unfair question for those who have been out of the organization for decades, but i'm wondering if any of you remember your earliest doubt -- maybe something odd that occurred to you as a kid (if you were a jw then).
please try to limit to two doubts at the most :-).
i think my first "doubt" was simply realizing that at the time of the flood, every animal that wasn't in the ark died (well, besides the fish, supposedly).
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cobaltcupcake
Yea that Rev book study just got stupid after a while. With all the updates. The pouring out of the 7 bowls was hardly monumental.
That's for sure. My ex-father-in-law frequently said, "It's amazing how a bunch of old ladies sitting under the trees in Cedar Point fulfilled Bible prophecy." He died at age 82, faithful to the cult.
First doubt was at age 15 or 16 when I walked into the KH and an elder asked me what my ordination date was. I gave him my baptism date, and he said, "Well, somebody hasn't read their new Watchtower yet!"
Suddenly, the Society had decided that the only congregation members who were "ministers" were the elders and ministerial servants. The "Theocratic Ministry School" became the "Theocratic School," and "The Kingdom Ministry" became "Our Kingdom Service."
I remember feeling deflated and slightlfy ashamed that I had been so presumptuous as to claim to be a minister.
They reversed that a few years later with a stupid article that told us that once again we were all "ministers" and our "ministry" included things like mowing our lawn and washing our car, as the community would see that we're good people. Dude, really? Can I count my time for that?
I noticed that when they released the 1930-1985 (I may have the dates wrong) big burgundy index that I could find no references to those Watchtower articles.