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What I am most ashamed of.........
by Xanthippe in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
is not giving to charity while a jw.

this whole 'lets sit back and wait for jehovah to sort the world out while we do nothing' really gets to me.

there is so much to be done in this world, so many people doing good things but the jws just say bang on doors and sell watchtowers.. i did plenty of voluntary work in the jws pioneering my youth away but it was all so useless, now i do voluntary work to help people who want to be helped, as well as my job.
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Field Service Requirements
by DATA-DOG in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
has there ever been any official letters stating the amount of field service required to be considered exemplary?

usually the number given is 10hrs, but if you look up " 10 hours " in the cd-library you get 14 hits.

none from the bible of course, and only 3-5 are related to field service.
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"Keep close in mind Jehovah's day"
by Splash in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
this is the sunday public address title from the 2012/2013 circuit assembly program.. .

i also found it here:.

-- w54 9/15 p.556 make wise use of the remaining time.
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"Recovery" Could Benefit By Following My JW Grandfather's Advice
by steve2 in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
recovery is new to this forum.

he inevitably uses a confrontational approach, requesting - demanding?

- that people show him why the watchtower is wrong.
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Let's Discuss Ray Franz's Books
by Recovery in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i have been repeatedly pleaded with to read the books of ray franz in my short stay on this board.

apparently these are all the all-powerful, wt crushing arguments, that lead so many to leave jw's and become ruthless opposers of god's people.

we can discuss any claims/statements/scriptural arguments presented in either of his books, as long as it somehow proves jehovah's witnesses are not god's people.
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Starting to read 1984 by Orwell
by TimothyT in
1. jw
2. friends
i bought the book for a number of reasons:.

1. it sounds brill.. 2. it sounds like the kind of people who read are rather clever and well educated (and i want to be one of them).. 3. i may find it interesting how it relates to the jws.. regarding the latter, does anyone have any thoughts and feeling on this point, or is there anything i should look out for when comparing what orwell writes about with the jws?.

timmy :).
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Who Really is The Faithful and Discreet Slave?
by Recovery in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
let's assume, as most of you probably believe, that the anointed christians are not the fds.

if the anointed are not the fds, who are?.
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You Can't Live Forever in Paradise on Earth
by smmcroberts in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
this will come as no shock to most of us.

but i wanted to detail the reasons in simple language for our witness friends in my latest blog: you can't live forever in paradise on earth.

sorry if it bursts anyone's bubble, but those who are loyal to the truth surely won't mind following where it leads.
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Post 607: Reject 607 BC if You TRULY Trust the Bible!!!
by Londo111 in
1. watchtower
2. bible
therefore, if the 70 years period is for the destruction of jerusalem and exile at babylon:.

if zedekiah had not rebelled against babylon, had he surrendered during the final siege that lasted two and a half years, then the destruction of jerusalem and the deportation need not have happened.

then in the jubilee year, they were set free and their hereditary land was returned to them.
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A New "Class"?
by Pathofthorns in
1. watchtower
2. bible
(edited for waiting :).

in 1935 a "new class" was "discerned" when the great crowd was understood to have an earthly hope and survive armageddon.. could there be a new "class" of witnesses surfacing today?

the articles, such as those on blood, feature a "some" whose conscience permits this and that.