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Quotes to discourage JWs from researching WT history?
by JWOP in
1. watchtower
2. bible
are there any direct quotes from the watchtower's literature that discourages investigation into their past doctrines and practices?.
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Children getting publisher status or getting baptised
by Apostating in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i live in holland and my children are 5 and 7 years old and live with their jw mom.. today i was pondering what legal rights i have as a parent regarding the status of my under age children within this religion.

what would happen if i was to send a registered letter to the branch and congregation, that as long as my children are under age they cannot be publishers or get baptised.

and if they are there will be legal consequences.
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YOU WILL NEVER SEE THESE ACTS EVER MENTIONED IN A WATCHTOWER PUBLICATION
by steve2 in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
faking of hours in field service or dragging service time out by making coffee stops or driving for hours "between" household contacts are never frowned upon, let alone mentioned, in the publications.

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yet, in each congregation of jehovah's witnesses, to one degree or another, faking hours, padding time out with coffee stops and long journeys between opportunities to "witness" are endemic practices..
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How can I stay motivated for field ministry?
by jgnat in
1. jw
2. friends
thus asks my beloved and slow-on-the-uptake jw hubby, who is finding it increasingly difficult to drag himself out the door.

so far, i've tried to avoid sarcastic comebacks (i'ts boring and useless!

duh!
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Family worship Ideas
by DS211 in
1. watchtower
2. bible
ok guys im getting sick of sitting around.. i read an article submitted on freeminds called .

how i helped my family leave jehovah's witnesses.

ok so in light of this i need some advice.
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THREE BASICS of Jehovah-dumb
by Terry in
1. watchtower
2. bible
keep this one fact in mind about jehovah's witnesses.

they exist in three dumb categories throughout their history.. 1. honest bible students attracted to the gimmicks of russell (charts, graphs, chronologies, pyramid inches, etc.

) expected the end of the world to come and they wanted to know more.. 2.contrarian hard heads under rutherford wanted to prove everybody was wrong about everything except themselves.
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Gerrit Loesch was at our DC today!
by goatshapeddemon in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
so, unexpectedly, the final talk was announced today and to my surprise and evil glee, they announced gerrit loesch as the speaker!

first off, at the beginning of his talk, he interrupted himself in the middle of his sentence to scold the microphone brother to lower my mike it's right in my face.. anyway, it was the talk on inspired truth, vs. inspired falsehoods.

he went through 6 expressions inspired by the demons.
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The importance of 1975 or was that 1976?
by Listener in
1. watchtower
2. bible
i came across an article in the feb 1, 1955 watchtower (questions from readers) which discusses 1976 as being 6,000 years since the creation of adam.

the question being addressed was -.

what are the reasons for changing the date of adams creation first from 4028 b.c.
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Conti v Watchtower - Court Denies Watchtower Motion re: Substituting Bond - November 16 court documents in pdf
by jwleaks in
1. watchtower
2. child-abuse
jw leaks has published the latest court documents, in pdf, relating to "candace conti v the watchtower bible and tract society of new york" as filed on november 16, 2012.. the watchtower society motion to substitute or reduce bond on appeal is denied.. www.jwleaks.org.

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Notes From Hawaii-Gerrit Losch Talk
by Save My Soul in
1. watchtower
2. bible
a (conditional) friend sent me some notes from the talk in hawaii.

gerrit was the keynote speaker.

this occurred 'immediately after the tribulation of those days' (matthew 24:29), referring to the destruction of babylon the great.