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FFGhost
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Ukraine - Nato - US crisis
by mikeflood indon't understand....but this crisis in ukraine seems to be getting out of control....i mean, everybody knows how to start a war..... by the way, as always, people at the borg are having a field day.....
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Did the apostle Paul, Priscilla and Aquila sell their tents to the Roman army?
by hoser inapparently they made leather tents for the roman army.
i had searched this site but i couldn’t find that this topic had been discussed yet.
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FFGhost
You sure they didn't have a contract with Walmart?
LOL - the WTS is always throwing in anachronistic terms into their "literature", desperately trying to force parallels to modern life.
For example Peter and Andrew are always described as "having a fishing business" - not that they desperately picked something - anything! to get [close to] enough food for their families to eat, but as if they were graduates of East Bethlehem A&T and changed their major from Sociology to "Pisci-business studies" because they wanted to action the potential for maximizing the leverage of synergies which was impactful to their core competencies.
There were so many career options and business opportunities for 1st century Judean peasants! But they gave all that up to be "fishers of men". So you, JW reader, should do likewise.
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Does anyone know why cart witnessing is not allowed at the moment??
by raymond frantz inconsidering it is contacted in the open and i see other people engaging outdoors on other sales activities why is cart witnessing still not allowed?
are there any updates as regards returning to this activity any time soon ?.
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FFGhost
I expect it will come back, along with regular meetings, in the next few months.
Dude, you....are....dreaming.
Everything will be shut down for at least, at the barest minimum, another year. Probably many years.
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Anthony Morris Mormon background, does anyone here have any more information?
by raymond frantz indo you have any information on tony's family history and mormon background?.
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FFGhost
I seem to remember that one of the GB members had a Mormon background
I think it's Ken Cook.
Huh - come to think of it, he does have that pudgy, awkward, nerdy demeanor and pale skin that I associate with the typical Mormon guy. Would not be surprised.
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Did the apostle Paul, Priscilla and Aquila sell their tents to the Roman army?
by hoser inapparently they made leather tents for the roman army.
i had searched this site but i couldn’t find that this topic had been discussed yet.
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The WTS tends to just kind of gloss over this point - just who were Paul and Priscilla and Aquila selling those tents to?
It's not like there were guys getting 2 weeks paid vacation and taking the family on a camping trip to a national park. A subsistence farmer or fisherman of workman would have no need for, let alone could afford, a tent.
Pretty much the only market for tents would be the military.
Today, of course, if you work for a defense contractor supplying material to the military, you are expected to quit your job, under the threat of being disfellowshipped / self-disassociated or "non-neutral activity".
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FFGhost
you might tactfully approach grieving ones in cemeteries on occasions when they return to visit the grave of a loved one.
We had a CO visit not long after this came out, and I recall some folks talking about how the "car group" the CO was in did just this - hung around a cemetery and waited to pounce.
Even though I was a full-on believer at that point, I found it really ghoulish. Never was I so thankful I missed field service that morning!
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Did something changed regarding faders recently?
by Gorb infriendly and good gorby smiled and waved towards 2 local jw's yesterday, and they turned with an angry face their back to me.
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has something changed regarding faders recently?.
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Right here, right now, in January of 2022...what exactly is a apostate?
Right now, the functional definition of "apostate" is "any person who opposes the work of Jehovah's Witnesses or expresses an opinion designed to cast doubt on the legitimacy of the governing body or JW doctrine or policy".
Technically, to be an "apostate" you would have had to be a JW to begin with then "turn away" from it, but the "real" (functional) definition given above does not have anything to do with whether someone used to be a JW or not.
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Interesting field service experiences
by asp59 inany one that have a funny or unusual experience from field service?
maeby you visited favela brazil.
the hood in the usa.
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How does one start a study with Rock Hudson? Did you find him door to door? Informal witnessing? What was the "hook" that drew him in (resurrection hope, a search for meaning in life, fear of nuclear annihilation, etc.)?
If you worked with MJ in service, you must have been in his congregation. Must have been a real circus when he attended meetings? Did he try to just fit in as "Brother Jackson"? Did regular JWs flock around him? Invite him to their homes for a "get together"?
Who answered the door at the Manson murder house?
Sounds like you could write a really interesting memoir!
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Interesting field service experiences
by asp59 inany one that have a funny or unusual experience from field service?
maeby you visited favela brazil.
the hood in the usa.
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FFGhost
Dude, you can't leave us hanging like that.....details, man!
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Are JW's Sins Forgiven? NO - (Says the Watchtower)
by Sea Breeze inanyone who has been of this forum in the past few days has seen doubting thomas (an active jw) refuse over and over to provide even one scripture that can show how a jw can get their sins forgiven while outside of the new covenant as described in mt.
26: 27-28. yet, he claims to believe in the blood covering of jesus while at the same time personally rejecting the new covenant "for forgiveness of sins".
his contradictory claims are common among jw's.
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"The ...other sheep..are...not even justified." WT 1938 pages 104-105
I really honestly don't care one or the other, but....
That seems like a lot of heavy lifting from all those sets of ellipses.
Not to mention that any JW would laugh in your face if you tried to prove a point by quoting an 84 year old Watchtower article. "New light" and all that.
(Yes I know you'll argue that it has not been superseded but still....an 84 year old article? C'mon. JWs would respond by trotting out a couple dozen more recent WT articles explaining how their sins are forgiven)