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  Today I Dropped In To Field Service Meeting

  by pale.emperor in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i just dropped my daughter off to her mum at her parents house.

  it was 12pm and i knew they meet for feild service there but my ex and i assumed they would still be out knocking on doors.

  i pull up in the street and there's quite a few cars parked up and the house was backed with jdubs from my old congregation.

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  Chook

  As 1947 awake says let them suffer in their pagan practice
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  Extreme rules on Dating – is this for all congregations?

  by Bonnie_Clyde in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  just found out that in the congregation we used to attend there are two young brothers, both are sons of elders and recently engaged to girls in neighboring congregations.

  instructions are that they may not sit together at assemblies or meetings.

  but get this….they can’t even ride in the same car even if their parents are also in the car.

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  Chook

  Just another example of going beyond what's written. The church does it, the parents do it, it's a grand cycle.
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  Jehovah’s (Hidden) Message Revealed (Why no TV ministry?) Terry Walstrom

  by Dogpatch in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  jehovahs (hidden) message revealed

  by terry

  walstrom

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  Chook

  Everyone googles any new endeavour which has the Jws shitting themselves . If a worldly family member wants to join, the relatives will do a search online and that's where Jw growth stops.
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  FYI, Eloise Dupuis, 27, a JW, died last Wednesday in a Quebec hospital because she refused a blood transfusion

  by AndersonsInfo in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  i just received the following message from a friend this morning.. barbara.

  eloise dupuis, 27 years old, died at the hotel dieu hospital in lévis, quebec, canada, wednesday, october 12th.

  she died because of her religious principles.

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  Chook

  So sad religious legalism gone mad.
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  Been witnessing today - first time in over 2 years!!

  by The Searcher in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  and it felt wonderful!!.

  i went into the city to where i knew there was a "cosmopolitan witnessing" trolley, because i wanted to ask a simple bible-based question.

  the trolley was attended by an elder and a sister who was another elder's wife.

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  Chook

  We should stream live coverage of apostate encounters at the carts, sounds wonderful entertainment.
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  Big Day fast approaching Letting go

  by rebelfighter in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the big day is two days away when she will say "i do".

  i knew this day would come someday but as a mom you just want to hold on even though i did everything to train her to be very independent.

  she has been making most of her own decisions since middle school.. she moved away 5 years ago but still was totally mine till 2 years ago when mr. wonderful appeared in her life.

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  Chook

  I don't think as parents we never stop worrying about the kids.
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  Which Kingdom Hall Should They Sell? How Does The Governing Body Decide?

  by Brokeback Watchtower in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  well what rule of thumb do you think these financial dim-wits dream up?

  i think those not sending in their money to the org are some of the first properties to unload while you spare the higher payers for last.

  you don't want to piss off the loyal contributers by making them miss meetings,, that's a no win situation so dump the free loaders as a negative asset and keep the more profitable ones.. and those who's loans the wt forgave, watch what happens if you're not send in those regular payments like before, and slack off by a significant amount.

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  Chook

  Amen to freddo
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  Impact of NWT

  by menrov in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  hi all, just recently i was thinking about the period of my study and eventual baptism as jw.

  it took many years, i guess in all about 10 years.

  various times i stopped the study but after a while it started again.

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  Chook

  They would consider it rebellion not to use NWT, your chances of baptism would be a big no, even though in old times they used king James . The Hebrew and Greek scholars at Warick have only endorsed the NWT of scripture. It's all about the grand magic trick , create a religion, create bible, create a unique language, have leaders that communicate with god then out comes the white rabbit out of Tony Morris pants.
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  another kingdom hall closing

  by nowwhat? in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  this one in avon lake ohio 25 miles west of cleveland.

  only one congregation there.

  average attendance was only 40..

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  Chook

  Maybe head office is cashing in all the realestate.
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  Does becoming (or remaining) one of Jehovah's Witnesses result in Poverty? Pew Research results differ from Watchtower claims.

  by Balaamsass2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  "raised in the truth" during the 50s, 60s,and 70s i repeatedly read and heard from the platform how reading the magazines weekly "was the equivalent of a college education" and how many had turned their family economic situation around by being "trustworthy" and giving up expensive bad habits most "worldly people" had.

  sounded good.. what is the reality?

  how does avoiding higher education, and then spending up to 20 hours a week getting ready for, commuting, and then participating in meetings and field service affect family finances?.

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  Chook

  It boils down to what value you put on time , because Jw church takes a LOT of irredeemable time