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  CO want to talk to me

  by goodsoul in

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  co want to talk to me.

  first of all, i am very apologize for my english- i am studying this language nearly 2 years, so it's not that good yet, unfortunately.

  also, it's my first topic.

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  cobaltcupcake

  Good luck! I hope everything works out well for you.
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  I ran into an inactive JW at the store we talked for 20 minutes

  by RayPublisher in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i ran into an inactive jw at a department store last night and we talked for 20 minutes easily, it was actually pretty fruitful.

  so here's what happened:.

  i see him and recognized him but he didn't know who i was at first as he hasn't seen me in at least a year and i've lost weight, have a goatee and dress way more awesome than i ever did as a dubb schlubb.. so i said hi to him by name and he says, who are you i'm not sure?

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  cobaltcupcake

  Yay Ray!
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  Your Take On 30 Hour Pioneering

  by jw07 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the gb has magically reduced the hours sufficient for being an auxillary pioneer for march and april to 30.. this is my take:.

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  cobaltcupcake

  The titles meant something back in the days when we paid a certain amount for the literature. Pioneers and Temporary Pioneers got a discount rate so that they could make a little money off their placements. Pennies meant something back when gas was less than 50 cents a gallon.

  Nowadays, the only real benefit to having the title of "Pioneer" is going to Pioneer School and the extra days of everlasting life you accrue for each year of pioneering.
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  Newbie here; my intro post :)

  by Sparlock the Wizard in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  so, i finally decided to become a member and make my first post .

  a bit about me:.

  i've been lurking around the forum for quite some time (about 6 months i think).

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  Welcome, Sparlock!

  I'm happy for you that you woke up at a young age! I was JW for 30 years and finally got disgusted over the rampant pedophilia and left 9 years ago.

  You might enjoy reading my humorous blog about life as a JW:

  The Odd Life of Jehovah's Witnesses
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  Confrontation of Needed Worldwide Church of God apologies

  by Gayle in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  http://hwarmstrong.com/apology-worldwide-church-of-god.htm.

  now their church is so splintered it is hardly recognizable anymore anywhere.. most of these are amazingly similar to those necessary by the wts, of which they also will never apologize for either.. interesting, how a very strong 'end-times' religion can go down eventually.. .

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  Well, it's nice to know we're not the only ones who fell for that load of crap.
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  jw's view of wordly people - hipocrisy

  by spirituk in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i was wondering how a baptised jw see wordly people?

  i mean what do they think of people who arent jw ?

  do they think we will die forever and that we are controlled by satan?

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  JWs are constantly warned of the danger of associating with worldly people. They use the scripture, "bad association spoils useful habits."

  They must have some association with them during work or school hours, but they avoid unnecessary association with them after hours.

  They view worldly people as essentially "unclean" and as a threat to their spirituality and relationship with God. However, they also view them as possible converts to whom they are obligated to preach so that they have an opportunity to learn "the truth."

  Since they are not worshipping Jehovah they are serving the interests of the Devil, but they aren't necessarily Devil worshippers.
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  How to choose your religion

  by Skbj in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  it's old so you probably have seen it but i was doing some cleaning up of my inbox and found this that my husband sent me a while back and still made me chuckle.

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  cobaltcupcake

  Love it!
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  JW.org on Twitter ??

  by Poztate in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  is this legit or is someone playing games.

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  https://twitter.com/jworg.

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  So who mans the Twitter Desk in the Writing Dept?

  
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  Email RE "Sandy"

  by stuckinlimbo in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  dear brothers and sisters:.

  subject: quick overview of storm damage.

  subject: disaster relief update .

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  cobaltcupcake

  Since I've moved to the Bible Belt I've discovered that Christendom has the Dubs beat when it comes to acts of charity and kindness. All of the larger local churches in Charlotte send out teams on "missions" every year to some disadvantaged neighborhood to do exactly the same work that the JW's do after a disaster. They run food pantries and soup kitchens. They have projects going all the time to help individual families (not necessarily members of their church) who are in need.

  I only found this out because one of my coworkers belongs to one of these churches, and she mentioned that her husband and teenaged daughter were going to be gone for a week on one of these mission trips, and they go every year.

  The test of loving your neighbor as yourself is not running to someone's aid after a huge disaster but in day-to-day kindness and charity.
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  Do you think those at the top realise that it's their fault - suicide as a result of being disfellowshipped?

  by jambon1 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i have been stunned to hear of two suicides in our area recently.. this adds to the other 3 that i have known of from the past.. the two recent suicides resulted from 1-the person being gay & hearing a horrific talk at the kingdom hall & 2-the person with problems who was disfelloshipped & then took his life the next week.. it astonished me that jw's in general don't rebel against this sort of thing.

  it's an appalling lack of support which leads people to feel distressed, abandoned & unloved.

  how the witnesses in the locality can just sail on without giving the cruelty of these measures serious though is beyond me.

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  They take the comfortable position of blaming the victim.