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I think the "Mediator" is changing....
by cha ching in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i just looked at the january 2014 wt study magazine, page 16. pgph 16. i think the wt is finally relenting.... jeus was the "mediator" after all!.

16 by the end of christs thousand.

year reign, the messianic kingdom will.
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I need help! Talk coming up and I need ideas fast!
by BU2B in
1. jw
2. friends
omg i am so distressed.

i have a talk coming up on tuesday, it is the number 3 "abiram.

why opposing god appointed authority is tantamount to opposing god himself"!.
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My Daughter Begins to Reason on Her Own About the Witnesses
by losingit in
1. jw
2. friends
success!.

today my oldest daughter attended her first birthday party ever for one of her best friends at school.

we actually crashed because we didn't get an official invite or even an email, but it ended up working out and the mom was happy to have us there.
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Hello
by GoUnion in
1. jw
2. friends
hello everyone it's nice to finally be able to post i had trouble getting emails last month and was never able to sign up.

this has been a very informative site which has really helped me grow and to think for myself.

please allow me to introduce myself.. i was born into a witness family and was baptized at a young age an was part of a small kingdom hall.
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What are you reading right now??
by DATA-DOG in
1. jw
2. friends
i am reading "stranger in a strange land" by robert a. heinlein.

i read it over 20 years ago.

now i am reading it from a completely different perspective.
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Did Jesus say his followers would be witnesses of Jehovah?
by blondie in
1. jw
2. friends
what did jesus say?.

(acts 1:8)8 but you will receive power when the holy spirit arrives upon you, and you will be witnesses of me both in jerusalem and in all judea and samaria and to the most distant part of the earth.

by "divine providence" what did jesus' followers become known as?.
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Moustaches vs. beards - one of the contributing factors to losing my cognitive dissonace
by Pacopoolio in
1. jw
2. friends
as a little background - i was born-in to being a witness, back in '79, in detroit, in mostly black and poor congregations.

baptized when 10-ish, stayed around, was on the fast track to ms, but faded when i moved out at 24ish.. there was a combination of a few things that got me on the road to "freedom" from the cognitive dissonance that kept me "in the truth" for so long.

the main thing was, being an artist and studying marketing, my thinking was patterned to constantly question if i was doing something "correctly," as constant improvement and questioning is what facilitates artistic and mental growth.
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Newbee
by DullBookworm in
1. jw
2. friends
i have not been a sister for the past 19 years, i asked to be da'd as i had started smoking aged 12 and at 19 no longer wanted people to think badly of the jw's over my conduct.. for 19 years my father, an elder, has tried his damndest to bring me back.

he kept contact sometimes more, sometimes less, always under the threat to stop the contact alltogether.

at one point he managed to not speak to me for several months.
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3 years of study, Just found out!
by impala63rag in
1. jw
2. friends
hello friends, .

i would like some advice from those that are inpartial, and are familiar with the teachings of jw.

i studied with a wonderful jw couple weekly for 3 years.
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Former, Long Time Part 2
by James Jackson in
1. jw
2. friends
first of all thanks for all the kind words!!!

i am over whelmed by the responses.

i work very hard through the week and the only time i can reply is in the early morning hours, i read the respones on my iphone through out the day, if there was a way to log on with the phone, i would.