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  Can you list the positive points of being a JW as against the negative points of being a JW in your experience ?

  by smiddy3 in

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  i was a twenty y/old when i converted to the jw religion and was a problem drinker and i was a chain smoker .when i was baptized at a circuit assembly a year later , my conversion and change in lifestyle was given as an example of the effectiveness of incidental witnessing to the audience.. so i can point to the 2 positives becoming a jw .. 1.i gave up smoking.

  2.i gave up drinking for a while ,but because i still had association with my wife`s and my family who were not jw`s ,i learnt to control my social drinking when i started again.. and i have been a responsible drinker ever since ,even though i left the religion 29 years ago.. the negative points of being a jw in my 32 years of being one ?

  are far too great to list here .. love to hear your thoughts..

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  Punky you dark horse. Evensong wow .

  I go to the very traditional sung Evensong service at my church In Amington Tamworth. You are welcome any Sunday 5pm . It would be great to meet you.

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  Rutherford and dinosaurs

  by jhine in

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  sorry if this has been discussed before but on quora someone asked if rutherford had said that dinosaurs had been taken to venus .

  i assume that the questioner had heard it somewhere and wanted to check it out.

  i've never come across this before is it true ?

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  Wow , just when l thought that it couldn't get any odder.

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  Rutherford and dinosaurs

  by jhine in

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  sorry if this has been discussed before but on quora someone asked if rutherford had said that dinosaurs had been taken to venus .

  i assume that the questioner had heard it somewhere and wanted to check it out.

  i've never come across this before is it true ?

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  Sorry if this has been discussed before but on Quora someone asked if Rutherford had said that dinosaurs had been taken to Venus . I assume that the questioner had heard it somewhere and wanted to check it out.

  I've never come across this before is it true ?

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  Disfellowshipping

  by jhine in

  1. watchtower
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  so last night my bible study group was discussing the healing of the blind man in john's gospel.

  ch 9 .

  the man's parents were reluctant to say much on the subject.

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  Dagney which orthodox religions do this apart from orthodox Jews ?

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  Disfellowshipping

  by jhine in

  1. watchtower
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  so last night my bible study group was discussing the healing of the blind man in john's gospel.

  ch 9 .

  the man's parents were reluctant to say much on the subject.

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  So last night my Bible study group was discussing the healing of the blind man in John's gospel. Ch 9

  The man's parents were reluctant to say much on the subject. " He is of age , he will speak for himself. "

  Vs 22 " His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jewish leaders , who had already had decided that anyone who acknowledged that Jesus was the Messiah would be put out of the synagogue "

  Vs 34 " ........ and they threw him ( the healed man ) out. "

  My NIV study Bible commented that being thrown out of the synagogue would probably mean being socially as well as spiritually ostracized.

  Of course l was struck by the similarity to the WT disfellowshipping someone. So it seems that they are following an old Jewish practice, who knew ?

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  Back to the Meetings------Back to Covid.

  by pistolpete in

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  a lot of pimos are reporting that returning to the meetings is backfiring in that covid is spreading among the members returning.. post;.

  so last saturday was my first meeting back in person and well it completely backfired.

  last night i got a text from my group overseer saying that someone in the hall tested positive for covid and that we need to get tested(great 🎉).. honestly i kinda expected this.

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  Here in the UK churches are back to normal. Yes we're hearing of some cases but not just in church members . It's still in the community generally so you can catch it anywhere.

  Also when people have it most are not too bad , just like a bad cold . My daughter just got over it . She doesn't come to church so she got it - well who knows where?

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  New Discovery at Mt. Ebal: the earliest historical instance of the name of God

  by Terry in

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  https://youtu.be/guzbxzdpflo.

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  I think that everyone else has known that for years have they ?

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  Punkofnice Gig

  by BoogerMan in

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  @ punkofnice - .

  oscar wilde was an irish poet who moved to london in the late 1800's where he became famous.. his brother toby who was a songwriter, decided to emulate his brother and traveled to england to seek fame & fortune also.

  he chose lincolnshire as the base for his songwriting, and settled in the town of bourne.. it was here where he wrote his most well known song, "bourne toby wilde.

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  Groan . 😬.

  Boogerman did you want to start an awful joke thread? Cus l can help .

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  Just how damn good is this song?!

  by LoveUniHateExams in

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  purple haze by jimi hendrix.. f**king awesome, gotta say.. enjoy .... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgodayjdfsg .

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  Just got Alexa to play them both. Fantastic , you forget how good some of this early stuff is .

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  Where did Christendom go? They HATED our bible in 1950...just read...

  by oompa in

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  the articles on the jw-cd which only go back to 1950 where we fought back the attacks.

  i do not understand why they did not continue to blast our bible since it is such a fraud....down south in usa churches teach members how to refute dubs at their door.....but why did they stop blasting the nwt?

  it is sooooooo easy to show a dub there is a bunch of made up crap in it.....i may have to help my local chruches.....if you need more info about the horrible fraud parts, feel free to pm me.........................oompa......even elders dont know

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  Speaking as a Brit Anglican l would say that most members of Christendom don't know any very much about the WT.

  Certainly my fellow church members often think that l am being somewhat unChristian when l speak of a cult.

  Most know that JWs don't celebrate Christmas and birthdays but know little about the level of control , shunning etc . They don't know that the WT has it's own Bible.

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