Posts by WillYouDFme

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237,000 illegal migrants in the last 5 months... is it time to intervene?

by silentbuddha in

is it possible that anyone being truthful with themself can literally believe that there needs to be a cork placed in this problem.. if this continues, and most sources, not speaking about fox, are suggesting this is only going to get worse and at this rate there will be over 750k illegal migrants.

how are we suppose to sustain this influx.

the massive amounts of children flooding the schools in my own municipality is crippling, for many of the counties residents.. as an example the entire county offered free breakfast and lunch to all students.

WillYouDFme

Yes immigration needs to be fixed.

But don't freak out, its at historic lows.

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Helping your Spouse wake up

by HappyBlessedFree in

has anyone had success in helping your spouse to wake up?

i’m thinking of showing my husband jwfacts.

he is starting to do his own research using wikipedia and google.

WillYouDFme

I did. She was part of an UBER UBER family.

I consistently dipped things to her - but in a way as to where I was confused, and or upset, or just not feeling right.

I kept telling her about disturbing things that were going on during elders meetings. I would be very open about how this stuff is not right and is hurting people.

I would point out the incompetent of many of the elders, and how our training is worthless.

I would point out the hypocrisy I would see.

I also had talks about how things didnt make sense. From things like masterbation being wrong, to why did God need 6 extinction level events before he got it right, to how the Flood could not have happened, and had to be a local event.

I pointed out how the bible makes a big deal about a woman not screaming while being raped (with no caveats to it - like her mouth was covered, or he had a knife to her throat, or no one was around) - but David and Solomon got to F#uch hundreds of women and it was ok.

How there was no chance that in Davids and Solomons harem - the girls were not having lesbian sex, and how David and Solomon were probably having group sex with there concubines.

I pointed out that a concubine is just a sex slave, and how is that ok?

Or when we had the reading about Balaam, that when a donkey started to talk, that instead of Balaam freaking out and running away, he stood there and had an argument with the animal like it was normal.

Or how strange that Satan really didnt lie to A & E, because at the end of chapter 3 God confirms what Satan said.

Or was there really only one way to get back into Eden? What was there a wall with only one gate? And why didnt their kids all continually try and get in sicce the tree ment live?

Or why did god introduce man to the FIRST weapon? A sword? Was that a good idea?

If he didnt want them to eat meat - why did he give them Furs from animals?

I talked about how scared I was when the WT put all the legal burden on local elders when it came to DFing and such.

I told her how confused I was that we needed to give all our Hall savings to the WT even though we didnt have a mortgage, and all the craziness about the LDC and such.

On and on like this over a long period of time. I was a prominent elder, not a "spiritual loose" :)

Eventually she did her own research, and woke up.

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If The Cap Fits

by jhine in

l sat in church on sunday listening to this sermon by ray , one of our lay readers , thinking " l wish that the good folk on jwn could hear this , they might be quite surprised " then l thought " why not share it ?

mark 13:1-13.

" l wonder what you make of this reading from mark .

WillYouDFme

The scientists who warn us of the dangers of climate change . The environmentalists who tell of the pollution of our oceans by plastic . The horticulturists who report a decline in insects due to the use of pesticides . Perhaps it is these people who are the true prophets today rather than the ' religious folk ' They are more in keeping with the examples of prophets in the Old Testament .

Ahmen!

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Question? How Many Hours of Field Service Does it Take

by new boy in

jw
friends

currently, to create one new jehovah's witness convert?.

WillYouDFme

Also factor stuff from my experience as a Pio when it was 90hrs a month.

How much of that time was spent, BSing in the car with my other young guy Pios.

How much was driving to a RV knowing they wont be home on one side of town, to then go to another RV on the other side of town you also know isnt gonna be home.

How much of that is from sitting in coffee shops for an hr but taking off 15 min instead of all the time.

So 2 billion hours preaching. Yea funny:)

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Question? How Many Hours of Field Service Does it Take

by new boy in

jw
friends

currently, to create one new jehovah's witness convert?.

WillYouDFme

7,198 hours per convert based on 2017 numbers.

So if you pioneer for 11 years, you might get one.

2,046,000,202 / 284,212

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Research - Jehovah's Witnesses claim to speak for God, and be his only channel of communication with earth.

by Deut18_20-22 in

i believe that before an active jw will care about all of the incorrect claims and prophecies made by the organization, they first must be shown how the society claims to be speaking directly for god, and revealing truth from god.

once this can be established, showing them all of the incorrect predictions and changes of doctrine can have an effect (does jehovah make mistakes?

how can they be speaking for jehovah if they were wrong?

WillYouDFme

Wait! I thought I was the only one God talked to?

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Is your Bible Free of Bias?

by Wonderment in

is your bible free of bias?william d. barrick, professor of old testament wrote in 2001: “biblically based theology has no choice but to be wedded to bible translation.

one’s theology is heavily dependent upon one’s understanding of scripture in translation, whether it is one’s own or that of a published version.

on the other side of the coin, bible translation is inextricably linked with theology.