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  Oh, How to Choose What to Follow in the Mosaic Law...

  by Sorry in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  my sarcasm will get me df'd one day.

  after being disgusted by the bs of the sunday meeting, i chatted with one inactive brother came back for that one meeting.

  i can't exactly remember how it came up, but he told me and a sister whose a close friend of mine that she shouldn't be so uptight, we're no longer under the mosaic law.

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  Jehovah's spirit vessels...

  Spirit wessels...

  Wessels...

  "What does God need with a starship?"
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  "You Wouldn't Believe How Many Have Crawled Back To The Meetings"

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  that's a comment i heard from an elder i haven't seen in over a decade, yesterday.

  i mentioned it all on my other thread.

  i responded that i knew of no one that was crawling back to the meetings and gave him an incredulous hearty chuckle.

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  The sad thing is that I can imagine a dub saying this with all sincerity, like the world has humbled these people. It's positivity but in like a twisted way.
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  I just want to say thank you

  by Sevan in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i've been gone for a while doing other research, checking out other forums.. this forum is the first place i went when i very first started waking up and i just want to say thank you.

  from the bottom of my heart thank you.. you guys were so helpful, so kind and so supportive.

  you guys got me and were there for me when my whole world was crashing in on me.

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  This forum saved my sanity. Sure, there are atheist and secular forums as well. Of course. But Jehovah's witnesses have a specific experience set that I needed to talk about and dispel. So I needed this... You guys have been awesome!
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  JW Ideal candidates for Life Insurance?

  by MNLifeAgent in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i am not a jehovah's witness, although i do respect your religion entirely.

  i am 27 years old, and live in minnesota.

  i have an older cousin, who's mother (not with my uncle -separated when my cousin was a baby) had been a witness, grew up in your word, and about 12 years ago she fully converted.

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  Smiddy speaks an unfortunate observation about your average JWs. Not all, of course, and in fact there are many JWs who sell insurance products. I was a life agent myself for a time, though I never made a sale.

  At my work, I have practically all the insurance I can get through my employer. Investment and retirement savings too. It's a thing for me. My dad was on the phone with his insurance company and trying to save some money, and I will always remember his words: "I'm not gonna die any time soon." He canceled his life insurance policy. He was diagnosed with terminal adenocarcinoma shortly thereafter. After he died, my mom was just a year too young to collect his social security benefit, so I had to take care of her.

  Sad story is sad.
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  WELL BEARDS ARE STILL A NO NO!!!!!!

  by DwainBowman in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  well beards are still a no no!!!!!!.

  in a new letter from the branch/gb nut's, beards are not acceptable in the us branch area!!!!!!.

  my eldub brother in law, shared this today.

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  That reminds me. Do JWs depict Jesus in their skits? If so, does he sport a beard?
  

  In the dramas? They did in 2015 and yes, he did.
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  If You Could Ask the GB Or One Of Its Members...

  by Cold Steel in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  ...one question about anything and get a straight answer, what would it be?

  historical, philosophical, theological, eschatological, anything.

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  Me: "So hey, I read in a Kiyosaki book once that Ray Kroc told a bunch of people that McDonald's is not in the business of burgers at all but is really in the real estate business. Totally unrelated, so how's the real estate business?"
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  JW Ideal candidates for Life Insurance?

  by MNLifeAgent in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i am not a jehovah's witness, although i do respect your religion entirely.

  i am 27 years old, and live in minnesota.

  i have an older cousin, who's mother (not with my uncle -separated when my cousin was a baby) had been a witness, grew up in your word, and about 12 years ago she fully converted.

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  You'd talk to the families, and have something to show them at their own convenience. If they're interested, they're interested, but it won't be held in any Kingdom Hall. JWs are told not conduct or solicit business there, even in the parking lot.
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  JW Ideal candidates for Life Insurance?

  by MNLifeAgent in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i am not a jehovah's witness, although i do respect your religion entirely.

  i am 27 years old, and live in minnesota.

  i have an older cousin, who's mother (not with my uncle -separated when my cousin was a baby) had been a witness, grew up in your word, and about 12 years ago she fully converted.

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  I really want to get all of this in presentation form, and present it to someone at the Kingdom Hall here in town if it is something the community thinks is a just cause. I know there is stipulations about giving a presentation as a women, but maybe just the information would be helpful.
  

  Regardless of your gender, I will tell you that this commercial presentation isn't going to happen at a kingdom hall. Many here are also ex-JWs as well.

  Good luck on your endeavors, hope all goes well for you.
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  Numbers 31:17 and 18

  by schnell in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him.

  but all the women children that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.. *sigh*.

  it's not that i haven't seen this passage before.

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  Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him. But all the women children that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.

  *sigh*

  It's not that I haven't seen this passage before. Of course not. It's not that I didn't know how terrible and regrettable it is. I did.

  I just happened to look it up on WOL and see what Insight on the Scriptures says on the subject.

  In the battle with Midian, the Israelites preserved alive only virgins from among the women and girls. (Nu 31:3, 18, 35) The Law allowed for the taking of a wife from among such parentless female war captives. (De 21:10-14)
  

  The law allowed for the taking of a wife from parentless female war captives... After killing their families? The girl's mother, father, brother... All dead. How old is the girl? She could be a preteen. Maybe younger. She might even get killed if they thought she wasn't a virgin. (And how would they know?)

  I am sorry, how is this a perfect law again? And how does Insight on the Scriptures so tersely and heartlessly breeze right over this? How do you write that and not immediately know it's wrong?
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  El General on the December Broadcast

  by Sliced in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  please see google article on the brother franco who just pleaded to all young ones to stay close to jehovah and learn from his past mistakes on the december broadcast to see the real reason he left the music industry.

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/el_general.

  later career[edit].

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  Sure but the target audience of JWB is probably not going to check that.