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  Homeless Man Plays Piano Beautifully (Sarasota, FL) (ORIGINAL)" Is it wrong to donate money to him? Would the Watchtower help out?

  by The1975Blues in

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  mitch jensen 13 minutes ago.

  jehovah's witnesses have learned by the mistakes of all the christian churches who wasted valuable money by spending it on "food banks", "woman's shelters", "orphanages" and "homeless shelters feeding the poor and hungry kids".

  the current may 2015 "awake" magazine deals with the only way to help the homeless people.

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  Go, be warm and well fed.
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  Just found out my older brother has passed away

  by stuckinarut2 in

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  i have just found out that my brother (who was one of a bunch that shared this login) has died.. he and his wife were living in another country where they once pioneered.

  i didn't see him that often.. such an empty feeling.....

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  Very sorry to hear your sad news Stuck.

  You'll always have your memories.

  Thinking of you.
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  Special assembly Belgium

  by InquiryMan in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  special assembly was attended by 30,000 and 173 was baptized.. see video-footage given by english language belgian web site.. (interestingly, the press spokesman was a sister).. http://deredactie.be/cm/vrtnieuws.english.

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  173 out of 30,000 is 0.6%.

  Typical figures as we're seeing in other places.
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  According to William Malenfant the serpent in the garden was a "she".

  by Hold Me-Thrill Me in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  on jw broadcasting malenfant's latest video, "do not be misled by the wicked" states (@ 4:30) "did it (the serpent) take a bite of the forbidden fruit and because of that was she allowed to gain this ability to speak?".

  where does malenfant get the idea that the serpent in the garden was female?.

  interesting, because malenfant, like the governing body, adds to scripture what is not there.

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  @freemindfade We've had from the platform that the Stonehenge stones were put there by the nephilim, and that the great tribulation may have already started.

  The meetings are worth going to just for the Ripley's Believe It Or Not content.
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  This just happened within last 15 mins......

  by Lied2NoMore in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i saw an instagram post showing a short clip of a talk being given in one of our southern states.

  the talk clip showed speaker making the statement, "jehovah doesn't want anyone to know satans real name, jehovah hates satan so much, he doesn't even want his name mentioned" .

  i posted in comments: matt 5:44-48 with the full scripture rendered from niv.

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  Does it matter if no one knows his original name?

  It's not as if he doesn't have a name, its just not his original one.

  People change their names all the time if they don't like what they were given, maybe Satan did the same.

  At the end of the day, Satan has a name - Satan.

  If we're going to get picky we could also say that God has hidden his own name, since no one knows how to pronounce it. It doesn't matter though because He's been given a name.

  What's the big deal?
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  This just happened within last 15 mins......

  by Lied2NoMore in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i saw an instagram post showing a short clip of a talk being given in one of our southern states.

  the talk clip showed speaker making the statement, "jehovah doesn't want anyone to know satans real name, jehovah hates satan so much, he doesn't even want his name mentioned" .

  i posted in comments: matt 5:44-48 with the full scripture rendered from niv.

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  For such a leaky belief system they need constant reassurance, not another hole to patch up.

  When it's impossible to 'give an answer', the only course left is to pretend you were never asked a question in the first place.
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  They dared !

  by coalize in

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  i can't believe they had the cheek to come out with that explanation.. it's no more "new light" it's "new scam"!!

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  Village Idiot The thing I don't understand about the "overlapping generation" teaching is why there can't be more than just two "generations".

  Actually, by their own specific definition, there could be three overlapping generations.

  The first group saw 1914, but those who overlap constitute the other group.

  The WT do not define that the overlap is later than the 1914 generation, since there was also a generation who overlapped before 1914 and include CTR, George Storrs and Henry Grew.

  For legalistic wordsmiths like the WT, I would expect better.
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  How to Block an Interrogation by J.W's

  by The Searcher in

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  "don't you believe that this is god's spirit-directed organization?".

  "do you believe that god is teaching us through the faithful & discreet slave?

  "who else has the truth?

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  How about a slight change to Searchers killer question to "Do you believe that everything the faithful slave has said in the past was correct?"

  If they say "yes" then ask why they have changed stuff.

  If they say "no" then say "so they CAN be wrong!"

  If they say "it was right at the time", then add "but it was wrong later?"
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  A Watchtower quote about apostates I never knew about

  by Saintbertholdt in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i knew the watchtower didn't like me, but i didn't know they wanted to physically kill me (if they were allowed)from the 15 november 1952 watchtower magazine under questions from readers:.

  in the case of where a father or mother or son or daughter is disfellowshiped, how should such person be treated by members of the family in their family relationship?.

  we are not living today among theocratic nations where such members of our fleshly family relationship could be exterminated for apostasy from god and his theocratic organization, as was possible and was ordered in the nation of israel in the wilderness of sinai and in the land of palestine... (and a bit later)..being limited by the laws of the worldly nation in which we live and also by the laws of god through jesus christ, we can take action against apostates only to a certain extent, that is, consistent with both sets of laws.. so let me get this straight: if our secular pesky laws were not an obstacle and jesus was not in the way we'd be hunted and exterminated?.

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  You should've replied "If I was in Israel I would have had a fair trial by competent men."
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  What Would Happen if the Watchtower Loses Their TAX EXEMPT STATUS?

  by John Aquila in

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  2. beliefs

  would it really affect them?

  how would it affect volunteers at any construction project since that work would now be taxable.

  any materials they buy would be taxable.

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  They would be hit with property taxes and in the UK at least, their contributions would be down by 20% at a stroke.