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Meetings
by OrangeBlossom in
1. jw
2. friends
do you think the wts will ever reduce the number of meetings per week, maybe drop one night a week?

just curious!

it seems that everyone is so whipped from working all day, i really think that's why there is such a drop in meeting attendance.
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I Think That I Chose My Parents.
by Englishman in
1. jw
2. friends
do you believe in reincarnation?.

i dont think i believe in it in the same way that most believers do, which is that we keep coming back in different fleshly bodies until we have achieved perfection.. i do, however, strongly suspect that we may well be spirit creatures who find it necessary to inhabit a fleshly body from time to time, and that this entails us having to leave behind most of our past memories.. i say most memories, because many people seem to have some vestigal recollections that don`t seem to fit in with earthly experiences.. i`m pretty sure that i chose my parents!

i have a recollection of being shown a young and kind couple through some form of astral telescope and choosing to become their son.
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Anti JW newspaper article
by Freenow in
1. jw
2. friends
this looks like a friendly forum and i will do my very first posting here because i finally feel i can trust someone to help me.

i published an article on the local newspaper against the jw and part of my sour experiences while i was a jw; they only let me use 300 words and deleted the most important ones ofcourse.

my problem is that iam now getting very negative responses to my article and i need you all to help me write something positive for us ex-jw's for a change.
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Using or Abusing Thee Name
by Carmel in
1. watchtower
2. bible
jdubs claim to be gods sole reps on earth basically because the judge adopted the name and thus were "honoring" it.

the israelites were suposedly abandoned by god because they "dishonored his name".

yet we all know judiasm does not use or utter any "name", it is forbidden!
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How should i DA or DF myself in April?
by TheApostleAK in
1. jw
2. friends
i'm thinking of daing myself at the end of april.

what things should i do during april?.

a) doing 70+ hours in field service?.
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Are they looking for "Rice Christians"?
by Gopher in
1. jw
2. friends
i'm trying to get a clear "take" on this:.

the wts has often implied that their form of missionary work, concentrating on "preaching and teaching", is superior to that of christendom's.

christendom often starts out by bringing food supplies, hospitals and the like, supposedly "enticing" the natives with material goodies.
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Let it RAINN
by Seven in
1. watchtower
2. medical
rape, abuse, & incest national network .

1-800-hope rainnoperates the nation's only toll-free hotline for survivors of sexual assault.

the hotline is operated 24 hours a day, and routes each call instantaneously to the rape crisis center nearest the caller by reading the area code and prefix of the caller's telephone number.
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How about 10 favourite albums (er, cd's)
by amicus in
1. social
2. entertainment
how about your 10 all time favourite cd's.

mine:.

beach boy's -pet sounds.
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JW Decline
by larc in
1. jw
2. friends
i found some interesting statistics, some of which you may know, that indicate that the wtbts is in decline.. 1. in the twenty years from 1970 to 1990, the rate of yearly increase dropped from 10% to 6%.

in the last 10 years it has dropped from 6% to about 2%.

since the world population growth is about 1.5% they are only growing at about 1/2 of 1% faster than the population.. 2. in 1999, there were 21 large countries that showed a decline.
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The Shunning Song-On the Turning Away
by Seven in
1. social
2. entertainment
on the turning away.

the turning away.

no more turning away.