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  poll, why would you hide it your buisness/job

  by sowhatnow in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  how many people on here who were or are jws, owned or ran a buisness who would not willingly let people at the k hall know, maybe to avoid feeling like you had to give your fellow brothers and sisters a discount, or free help, or out of fear of being judged.

  did you only help out the pioneers?

  and not the poor ones?

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  "Sorry, I only fix stuff for my family nowadays. I found I was spending all my free time doing jobs for others so I just had to stop".

  "I'll put you on the list. I have a queue of people asking me and I already have a full schedule."

  "Drop it round to mine at the weekend and I'll take a look. I'm afraid I had to start charging though, since I was just spending all my time fixing PC's for people."

  "I'm taking a break from fixings PC's. It's all I ever seem to be asked to do."

  "I'll have to examine the contents of your hard drive because some of these problems are caused by what we download from the internet".

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  Will the kingdom hall of jehovahs witnesses signs eventually come down?

  by hoser in

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  2. friends

  it is clear that the leaders of the jehovahs witness religion are rebranding.

  so as a strategy they could have both the jw.org signs and kingdom hall signs running at the same time and then in a few years instruct congregations to remove the kingdom hall signs.

  this happens all the time with commercial products when there are mergers and company takeovers.. .

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  "Donation Station" seems more fitting.

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  Chile and the flag: It's true!! Undeniable evidence!!

  by ILoveTTATT in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  joe, sorry, you'll have to eat some humble pie.. .

  thank you so much for the poster on extj.com who sent these pics!!

  can't have been better!!.

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  National flags are consistently referred to as idols in WT literature. Putting a flag in a KHall is akin to putting a statue of Buddha in there. They are both viewed as religious icons.

  "Flee from idolatry" and "Guard yourselves from idols" are the usual quoted verses.

  The WT praise early Christians for not sprinkling incense on an altar for Caesar, but would install the Roman colours in the temple.

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  JW.ORG signs on Assembly Hall

  by Nosferatu in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  what the hell is going on here?

  i drove past the assembly hall today and noticed the square blue jw.org signs on the building.

  coupled with the steel gate that keeps worldlings out, it really looks quite cultish.. so is that the new name for the kingdom halls or something?

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  Splash

  It's funny that all this 'simplifying' keeps pushing the costs up week after week.

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  best blonde joke ever

  by JeffT in

  1. social
  2. humour

  my wife (a blonde) told this one to our son and i yesterday, knowing we'd find it really funny.. .

  a blonde woman was speeding down the road in her little red sports car and was pulled over by a woman police officer who was also a blonde.

  the blonde cop asked to see the blonde driver's license.

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  A blonde goes into an electrical store and points out to the shop assistant which TV she wishes to buy.

  "I'm sorry, but we don't sell to blondes."

  She goes home, colours her hair red, then goes back to the shop to buy her TV.

  "I'm sorry, but we don't sell to blondes."

  Amazed, she goes home, colours her hair brown, then goes back to the shop to buy her TV.

  "I'm sorry, but we don't sell to blondes."

  She says "I've come here as a red head and a brunette. How did you know I was blonde?"

  "That's not a TV it's a microwave."
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  More WTS cash-grabbing: "Funds on Deposit" program for Circuits

  by sir82 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  at a recent circuit assembly "business meeting" for elders, a new program was announced: "funds on deposit".. here's how it works:.

  each circuit determines a "floor" and a "ceiling" for an amount to hold in their circuit checking account.

  when the "ceiling" amount is exceeded, the amount above the threshold is wired to the wts and held by them.. if the circuit checking account drops below the "floor" amount, the circuit can send a request to the wts to request that some of their "funds on deposit" be returned to them so that their checking account resumes a "safe" level.. as explained by the elder explaining the program,, "in other words, the branch is acting exactly like a bank - the circuit will make deposits and withdrawals as needed.

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  UK congregations have operated this Funds On Deposit Arrangement for a few years now.

  The letter instructed them to have 3 months operating cash in the bank, and the rest sent to bethel in this fund.

  When the khall accounts are read each month, this figure is included.

  How long until a letter asking for these funds to be donated instead?

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  jw-cult.org is available for web name

  by LogCon in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  sunday sept 21, 2014 , 8:45 pm.. i am interested to see how long it will be available and just who will grab it up.. jw-cult.org.

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  Is jworg.org available? That would be confusing!

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  School for Congregation Elders

  by C.O.B.E.Beef in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i attended the school late last year, and it was an emotional and mental rollercoaster for me.

  i was already divided in my heart to say the least.

  one of the instructors stayed in my home for the week, and my family genuinely enjoyed his company.

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  "Old quotes are not relevant."

  Define "old".

  Teachings are changing so rapidly that even things from 1 or 2 years ago are now out of date, redundant, or 'false'.

  When a religion is based on such shifting sands, it has no foundation. Noone knows what to believe anymore. The religion has contradicted itself into incredulity - it no longer can claim any authority since it changes monthly.

  What fool would build on sand?

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  Accuracy of the Revised NWT

  by dabster in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i was speaking with a jw yesterday.

  i'd previously mentioned the removal of the brackets around 'other' in colossians 1 making the mistranslation complete.

  during our chat he said that the previous edition of the nwt was the more correct one, that the revised version was simply more readable and that it shouldn't be considered the best translation.

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  I recently gave a Bible reading, and I used the black bible.

  Afterwards I was asked why I chose to use that version. I said it is a more accurate version than the new grey one.

  I was shown the TMS instructions stating that the grey version should only be used, so use that in future.

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  David and Abishag

  by opusdei1972 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  1 king david was now very old, and no matter how many blankets covered him, he could not keep warm.2 so his advisers told him, let us find a young virgin to wait on you and look after you, my lord.

  she will lie in your arms and keep you warm.

  3 so they searched throughout the land of israel for a beautiful girl, and they found abishag from shunem and brought her to the king.4 the girl was very beautiful, and she looked after the king and took care of him.

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  The Song of Solomon was written about Abishag.

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