Topics Started by Riley

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New Watchtower Study: Apostates and Red Balloons 🎈
by raymond frantz in
1. watchtower
2. bible
https://youtu.be/gt0cuez3emy?si=wur7afqwryddqgnt.

the new watchtower study edition is out and i have a bone to pick with the watchtower with paragraph 14 from study article 14. there we read: "we want to help clear jehovah’s name of all reproach.

consider this scenario: you have a close friend who is kind, generous, and forgiving.
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News of fires out of control in California
by ballistic in
1. jw
2. friends
hope everyone near to the region affected in california is ok. it's shocking to hear of the destruction.

these affected areas are some of the places i visited when i came on a tour of the us.

malibu, santa barbera, la, santa monica, hollywood and so on..
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How Do JWs Understand Salvation & What Is Needed to Obtain It?
by LauraLynn in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
from my experience within the jw organization, i understood that salvation meant a person accepted the teachings of the wbts without question as the "faithful and discrete slave," thereby placing their trust in them, not jesus christ.

salvation consisted of being found "righteous" by jehovah and resurrected to everlasting life in an earthly paradise.

to obtain this salvation, one needed to obey the organization's teachings, remain a faithful jw, and lead a moral life.
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JW Vaccine mandate: The contrast between voices of reason and confusion
by ukpimo in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i was reading an intriguing post on the exjw reddit, a forum i do not with to sign up for, as i'm not interested in the internal politics of reddit.

https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/1hwlja8/the_governing_bodys_letter_that_shook_bethel_and/.

another post counteracted this one, driven by the "conspiracy theory" card.
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Age Appropriate Friends
by Riley in
1. jw
2. friends
we have a 25 year guy in our hall who is also a pioneer (which means he lives off his parents money), who likes to spend a lot of time with a 16 year old girl in the hall.

it is usually in a group setting but he seems to gravitate toward her.

he even has her auxilary pioneering , which is something i don't think any student trying to make the grades needs.
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Annual Report
by St George of England in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
the latest report is now available for download on our favourite website!.

george.
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What Theme Song Should Be Played When You Walk Into a Room?
by Sea Breeze in
1. jw
2. friends
this could fun.

what song should be played when you walk into a room that best describes you?

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HOW TO BE LOYAL TO JEHOVAH
by liam in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
a post from another exjw site, shows how throughout the years, in a regular, systematic fashion, the watchtower has influence thoroughly; an ideological point of view, in the minds of it’s members by using bible scriptures and examples, to get the members to do the unthinkable, even if it clashes with modern ethics.

february 2016 watchtower, paragraph 3 of the article titled .

"learn from jehovah’s loyal servants".
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Your First Christmas Tree, Christmas Lights, Other Christmas Decoration/Custom
by NotFormer in
1. jw
2. friends
as someone who never grew up in the shadow of the wt, i love reading accounts of people who began to wake up and think that the wt wasn't all that it represents itself to be*.

and especially when they see that the things that they were told to avoid were harmless at worst, and quite often fun.

christmas is a prime example.
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Merry Christmas Everyone
by jhine in
1. jw
2. experiences
it's that time of year again .

in the words of the bard ( noddy holder ) " it's christmaaas " .

merry christmas everybody .