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  Sentinel Island: Rewards for Those Who Expand Their Ministry, Blessings Await You!!!!!

  by moomanchu in

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  "can you serve where the need for kingdom publishers is greater?".

  https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/22/asia/north-sentinel-island-worlds-isolated-tribes-intl/index.html.

  the message of jehovah’s kingdom by christ has already gained grand triumphs throughout the earth because he backs up and blesses the preaching of this “good news” by his witnesses in all the inhabited earth.

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  So many cults ....... so much suffering
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  Nobody cares and that’s the problem

  by Crazyguy in

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  when i was a young teenager one of my friends stabbed another in the arm with a hunting knife.

  i was a witness to the event and we were all appalled by it.

  but being kids after a few months when the victim wasn’t around we would try to get this guy to come out and play with us .

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  It's true, we don't like change and we're afraid of losing friends in case we can't make new ones. That's a real fear for people leaving he JWs. That's why the cult uses fear of shunning to keep people from leaving, they know what they're doing.
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  Why does WT rarely reference creationist scientist?

  by Sanchy in

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  in watching the latest video in the series "was it designed?

  " at tv-dot-jw-dot-org, i got to wondering why is it that watchtower hardly references scientist that are creationist.

  i know its only a minority from that group, but there are enough out there for them to reference from.

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  JWs don't trust scientists at all.

  What's the objection to the term creationist scientist? There are scientists who don't believe in evolution and believe in creation. Don't understand the objection to the term. If they have a science doctorate and work in science they are a scientist. Why is it an oxymoron? I believe in evolution by the way, just baffled by the objection the the term.
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  How do you determine whether any religion is good or bad since...

  by TerryWalstrom in

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  so, yesterday whilst playing chess i had a discussion ranging widely topically in which my chess opponent asked me, "how do you determine whether any religion is good or bad since there is so much basic disagreement on interpretations of text?

  "i replied this way:"does this particular god need to be treated like an adult, or as a spoiled child with a churlish temper?

  that's a good place to start.

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  How do you determine whether any religion is good or bad?

  It seems obvious to me that any system of belief that is supposed to come from a divine being would make its followers really, really happy and would cause them to treat others well. It's not rocket science is it but why are religious people often judgemental and unhappy?
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  #100 Women

  by Lost in the fog in

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  in the uk the bbc has been celebrating the role of women who have made a difference to the world.

  they have focused on 100 women in particular who have taken a lead in various professional jobs.

  isn't it sad that we'll never see a jehovah’s witness woman appearing on such a list because of the misogynistic attitude within their organisation.

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  We could talk about what these hundred women have achieved, or we could just talk about Chelsea Clinton........ Why am I not surprised
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  #100 Women

  by Lost in the fog in

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  in the uk the bbc has been celebrating the role of women who have made a difference to the world.

  they have focused on 100 women in particular who have taken a lead in various professional jobs.

  isn't it sad that we'll never see a jehovah’s witness woman appearing on such a list because of the misogynistic attitude within their organisation.

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  Fabiola Gianotti, 58 - Particle physicist, Italy.

  Fabiola is a particle physicist and became director general of Cern, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, in 2016.

  I didn't know this! Great thread.
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  Thanksgiving Dream List

  by TerryWalstrom in

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  thanksgiving dream list______.

  1. i give thanks to mom, for the blond wig and dress when i was a child (pinch-hitting for the daughter i was meant to be).

  it was a voyage of self-discovery for me to play cowboy, tarzan, and superman in drag in my neighborhood--completely unwitting to my astonishing spectacle presented to the neighbors!

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  Thanks Terry, sounds like it's been a hell of a ride!
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  Explain Your Avatar

  by new boy in

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  i know this thread has been done before.

  however maybe some of the new comers might like to know.. my avatar is the cover of my first novel "your crazy life.

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  Xanthippe - Lake Como, Italy, not a bad jump off point to start living! I've been there but now confused between Lake Como and Lake Bellagio. Italy is incredible.

  Italy is beautiful. Bellagio is a village on Lake Como, very pretty, lots of cobbled alleyways. What I love about Como is it's in the foothills of the Alps so if you get rain at the lake in Spring you get snow on the mountains, stunning.

  
  

  
  
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  Tell you what to do - what to think and what to feel!

  by StephaneLaliberte in

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  i just watched the movie apostacy and thereby, visited an ancient feeling of mine.

  there were various moments where you could tell that the mother and even the “faithful” daughter were bottled up inside with many thoughts and feelings left unsaid.

  their basic, normal, human morality immediately tells them that the proper way to act is not that of the wt.

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  the misery of knowing something is wrong and you keep telling yourself it must be you. Convincing yourself that the better part of you is arrogant, evil and prideful, the only possible result is depression and constant sadness. - SL

  Yes for years I kept thinking it must be me, everyone else is happy with the stuff they say from the platform or write in the watchtower. Nobody thinks they are contradicting themselves or being harsh about people who have doubts.

  Depression is the only result if this goes on too long, I agree. I remember it well. Note to self, don't ever doubt yourself if your doubts are well founded, eight million people can be wrong.
  
  
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  Foreign holidays now expicitly forbidden too

  by George One Time in

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  https://www.jw.org/en/jehovahs-witnesses/faq/jw-celebrate-holidays/.

  mostly we read about the regular holidays in the western world.

  now the other ones are also named, because some witnesses could be in doubt .

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  Amelia I thought exactly the same thing!

  I read your link, they say if it's not a religious festival everyone must make up his mind according to their own conscience. Then they list a scripture that criticises every form of special day whether it celebrates a country, a person, a flag, the moon, whatever. Basically don't celebrate anything. Conscience! They're not allowed a conscience, just follow the GBs rules.