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  "You knew what the consequences were when YOU decided to leave The Truth. This is YOUR decision and the outcome is YOUR responsibility."

  by nicolaou in

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  how many of us have had to deal with a version of that retort?!

  it's hurtful and i suspect - for some - that's partly because of the nagging feeling that our families may have a point.. but do they?.

  i was 15 when i got baptised, is it reasonable that as the 50 year old man i'll be on my next birthday i continue to be held to a decision i made as a schoolboy?.

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  It isn't the same religion that I was baptised into 25 years ago.

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  Nelson Mandela Discharged From Hospital

  by Bangalore in

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  2. current

  nelson mandela discharged from hospital.. .

  http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/09/02/nelson-mandela-health-africa/2754971/.

  http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57600936/nelson-mandela-spends-1st-night-back-at-home/.

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  Personally I think he has chosen to go home to pass.

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  Do You Think The Witnesses Actually Know What They Believe In?

  by minimus in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i think they know what they don't believe in, like no blood, no hellfire, no trinity....but they really couldn't explain what their beliefs are and why they believe as they do.

  do you agree?

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  Our cong sometimes does a witness quiz night.

  It would be revealing to have a few New Light questions in there so they could see for themselves.

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  Resurrection of the men of Sodom and Gomorrah...the complete story

  by MacHislopp in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  sometime ago a friend of mine was very surprised when i did tell him about the many changes concerning the resurrection of the men from sodom and gomlorrah.

  he didn't want to accept just the statements i.e.

  yes/no + publication + date, so to make him a much happier person i did send him this:

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  *** Ezekiel 13:8-9 ***
  Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord Jehovah has said: "‘For the reason that YOU men have spoken untruth and YOU have visioned a lie, therefore here I am against YOU,’ is the utterance of the Sovereign Lord Jehovah." And my hand has come to be against the prophets that are visioning untruth and that are divining a lie. In the intimate group of my people they will not continue on.

  *** Psalms 107:27 ***

  They reel and move unsteadily like a drunken man, And even all their wisdom proves confused.

  *** Galatians 2:18 ***

  For if the very things that I once threw down I build up again, I demonstrate myself to be a transgressor.

  *** James 1:7, 8 ***

  In fact, let not that man suppose that he will receive anything from Jehovah; 8 he is an indecisive man, unsteady in all his ways.
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  What's with all the 'Imminent' nonsense?

  by AK - Jeff in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  could it be that the proximity of 2014 is at the heart of it?.

  i have no contact with jw's - except on this board - but my wife does at times with her family.

  imminent is the cry of the sky for the jw's it seems.. i recall the years leading up to 1975 with a lot of that sort of thing.

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  *** w64 3/1 pp. 143-144 par. 1 Youth, Get Saved from This Crooked Generation ***

  "What makes these the grandest of times in which to be alive with all the vigor and promise of youth is that there is now imminent a vaster change in man’s way of life than that resulting from the deluge of Noah’s day. That great transformation of earthly conditions, however, will not come about without first our earth’s experiencing “great tribulation such as has not occurred since the world’s beginning until now.” (Matt. 24:21) Happy will those be who survive that tribulation and live to enjoy the peace and happiness that will replace the present chaotic way of life."

  Who can find an older reference?

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  Now I'm not a JW, is it ok for me to...

  by Julia Orwell in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  ...drink a lot?

  gosh i love wine.

  i like a good bottle of wine each night, and i have a high tolerance to alcohol, though i never drank much (except for a couple of times with the vodka, but i don't keep that stuff in the house anymore, way too dangerous) as a jw because getting slightly happy is a 'sin'.

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  I seem to be going against popular opinion, but that does seem a little excessive to me.

  What's the recommended guidelines for women and alcohol?

  I love good wine too, but I save it for the weekends and special events, occasionally a glass in the week.

  Forgive me for saying, but if keeping a bottle of vodka in the house is 'dangerous', do you think you have a difficulty with alcohol?

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  A Shameless Plug

  by Narcissistic Supply in

  1. social
  2. humour

  hey.

  i'm not asking for anyone to build me a billion dollar resort hotel in upstate new york or anything.

  you don't have to give me tens of thousands of dollars in free labor.. all i'm asking for is visit my page.

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  Self advertising. Cute.
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  I Know A MS That Just Got Reappointed As An Elder After 5 Years And Still Thinks He's Not Qualified

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  he's a very good man and recognizes his limitations.

  he still dislikes field service and considers himself inferior to the other elders.

  he has almost no contact with his disfellowshipped older son.

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  Self doubt, inferiority and unworthiness are the trademark traits of a JW.
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  Re: 2013 annual meeting

  by pixel in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  remember, you read it here first!.

  dear brothers: .

  we are pleased to announce that arrangements are being made for all baptized and unbaptized publishers who read and write english, along with their minor children, to be invited to locations where they can hear the 2013 annual meeting program that will be presented on saturday, .

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  I'm invited

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  "False Prophets" part notably uncomfortable

  by Separation of Powers in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so, service meeting last night.

  bro handling the "false prophet" part was notably disturbed.

  every time he spoke of previous "expectations" his body language was like "oh my god, can you believe i'm saying this?

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  I pointed out that even though the Reasoning Book listed 1914 as 'one of the doctrines that has never changed', it has actually changed, having previously been 1874. Naughty Reasoning Book. Splash