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  Interesting District Convention News.....

  by Pyramid Scheme in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i wanted to share some news from a family friend (he is my wt mole - still an elder, hates the shenanigans, but is still hanging on for all the reasons often discussed on this site) i know the various rumors have been discussed on here, and unfortunately the rumor about the conventions being eliminated weren't true!

  (what a burden on the jw community - financial hardship for a good portion of them, guilting people into actually quitting their job to attend, physically exhausting for many, etc...etc......).

  anyway, he told me that the district convention is being moved to 11 weekends at the jw-owned circuit assembly hall, and they are no longer planning on renting stadiums/large facilities in our area (northern ohio/southern michigan).

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  Thanks, and welcome to the forum!
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  Good Jehovah's Witnesses don't miss meetings....a fact every good burglar knows.

  by Balaamsass in

  1. social
  2. current

  good jws follow a strict schedule...in fact it is posted in front of the local kingdom hall !

  every burglar (and stalker) simply needs to note down meeting times, and follow a few attendees home..and then wait till next week........ we were victims, were you ?

  readfield man pleads guilty to robbing homes of jehovah's witnesses while they are at church.

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  " The prosecutor said the victims considered the 27-year-old Bilodeau family." ... so it appears the burglar likely was a JW, no?
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  Watchtower Corporation's new Real Estate business venture?

  by Billy the Ex-Bethelite in

  1. social
  2. humour

  since the watchtower publishing business has gone down the crapper, how can the gb keep bringing in the money?

  they only have a limited amount of brooklyn property and international branches to sell, so their real estate sales business can't last long... or can it?

  this video by betty bowers of the landover baptist church may be similar to an idea that could keep wt rolling in cash for decades.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ro1e3ieykfq.

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  ... and they could resolve any disputes over which dubbie gets which mansion by applying the old seniority policy for rooms they use at Bethel
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  Are JW'S "hated" in all the world? Or...are they considered IRRELEVANT?

  by Terry in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  wathctower 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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  Their outmoded dress code, facial hair prohibitions, etc. makes them appear to outsiders to be stuck in a time warp, increasingly marginalized from society at large
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  The Gentile Times Reconsidered (607 B.C.E.) -Part A1 - Jeremiah 25:10-12 Reviewed

  by FaceTheFacts in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  during the last three to four months, i have spent a great deal of time sinking my teeth into various critical biblical commentaries and lexicons.

  naturally, after beginning to research "the truth about the truth" one of the most commonplace yet controversial arguments revolve around the "gentile times" doctrine (i.e.

  the application of the seven times of daniel 4 from 607 b.c.e.

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  In my mind, a lot of brain power has been lavished-- squandered really -- on this exercise, simply to prove, or to refute, the notion that the destruction of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar took place in 607 BCE, when the entire premise of its relevance to the 1914 date-setting is built on the flimsiest of constructs-- i.e. the "day-for a-year" hypothesis, the arbitrary stitching together of widely disparate scriptural texts in Ezekiel, Daniel and Revelation, the "Nebuchadnezzar-as-symbol-of-divine-rulership of the earth, etc., etc.
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  January 2013 warns parents to resist contact with df'd children again

  by stuckinlimbo in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  see 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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  Reminds me of one friend, who was so frustrated by his rebellious daughter slipping out at night he nailed shut the windows in her room...
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  New letter RE public witnessing.. omg they are setting up stands!!!

  by BigE in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  this link contains news of a letter sent to the elders about witnesses setting up stands to peddle literature in public places!

  how desperate are they?

  it sounds sad honestly... and they are told not to argue with apostates .

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  I can see they're opening themselves up to a whole host of unintended consequences....
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  What do you mean?! I ALWAYS go to the beach after service and wear long pants and button up shirts while I play a game in the sand with my family! Sometimes I wear button up long sleeve shirts too!

  by Crisis of Conscience in

  1. social
  2. humour

  the wts likes to imply how jws should dress in and outside of the hall.

  you always want to set an example.. so i couldn't help but share this beauty in the january 15th, 2013, study edition of the watchtower.

  i always go to the beach like this!

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  My God, what planet are these people on? And ronwashington, what's with the gratuitous swearing?
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  AUSTRALIA: Migration Scam Being Operated by Jehovah's Witnesses and the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society

  by jwleaks in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  jw leaks has updated their "human rights" page with hundreds of pages of documents released, all relating to 19 separate court cases involving jehovah's witnesses conducted through the european court of human rights and also the australian refugee tribunal.. .

  the 9 cases that were run through the australian refugee tribunal by the jehovah's witnesses all came from lebanon.. .

  one former member of jehovah's witnesses, who advised on a number of refugee and migration cases for jehovah's witnesses and the watchtower bible and tract society of australia, and provided the documents and background information (yet to be published) to jw leaks, stated:.

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  Par for the course with these people... I believe jw leaks means "reprehensible".... I certainly do
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  Which of the 5 weekly meetings did you hate the most?

  by RULES & REGULATIONS in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  it was always stressed that the five weekly meetings were like the fingers on your hand.

  each one was just as important as the next.

  which of the meetings were the most boring,bothersome and difficult to listen to?

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  Service Meeting, for sure... the WT study, where the conductor loves the sound of his own voice, pontificates ad nauseum, runs way overtime and then rushes the last few paragraphs to catch up; most of the comments were read-outs verbatim, or from kids who mumble them out as their doting parents nudge them.