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  Jehovah's Witnesses and the Great Crowd

  by Meshech in

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  as jesus christ was preparing to go to his death, he encouraged his disciples with these words:.

  "in my father's house are many mansions; if it were not so, i would have told you.

  i go to prepare a place for you.

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  And if Jehovah and Jesus don`t even exist at all its all very meaningless .

  Its puzzling to me why intelligent human beings in this day and age debate interpretations and meanings of writings of thousands of years ago who had no knowledge of the information that is at the fingertips of anybody who has a PC today.

  If Jehovah ,Yahweh ,Jesus or any other God is going to destroy 8 Billion people simply because they can`t decipher correctly what was written down in an ancient language of thousands of years ago ,

  Then I say stuff em ,their not worthy of my worship ,and they certainly don`t love humankind.
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  The Apprentice - Watchtower version

  by catchthis in

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  being a fan of the tv show the apprentice, i love to "play along" to see if my ideas would work with what the teams are tasked to accomplish.

  many times, their ideas are totally off.

  other times, the executives they are tasked with providing a presentation to feel that they had 'hit a home run.

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  Bring back the Miracle Wheat that was such a big seller in its hey day.
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  Xmas, love it or leave it??

  by DATA-DOG in

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  2. beliefs

  i have to say that i’m not enjoying the xmas season.

  i have no emotional ties and i’m spending money that i have not set aside for xmas during a slow work season for my trade.. i’m not happy about it, because it’s foolish to spend money when you aren’t making any.

  then i feel like i’m expected to do all this, and to be happy about spending money and time on persons that i’m not that involved with.

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  Most people I know that celebrate Xmas are not religious at all and its a good excuse to enjoy a good meal and booze with family and friends and as adults no one is fussed about presents ,that`s for the kids.
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  What Are Ways You Can Tell Someone is a Jehovah’s Witness?

  by minimus in

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  is it something they do?

  how they say things?

  how do you spot a jehovah’s witness?.

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  ohnightdivine

  Their was an Elder in the last KH I attended that said " you can be walking down the street and you can tell a witness by their Kingdom smile " I kid you not.

  He was a nut case through & through .
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  Mo Money ... $$$

  by loneranger in

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  the money grab continues!!

  at a very recent circuit assembly (usa), the accounts overseer gave the typical accounts report for the ca in the early afternoon.

  there were 2100 people at the assembly.

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  The upside to this OP is that it may wake more people up to the fact that the JW religion is a cash cow for those in charge of it .

  Jehovah owns all of the Gold ,Silver, Diamonds and gem stones in all of the Earth ,its about time he started paying his own way.
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  Do elders still ask inactive members to write a letter to disassociating yourself from the Congregation?

  by RULES & REGULATIONS in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  do today's elders ever meet with inactive members and pressure them to write a letter disassociating themselves from the congregation stating that, ''you no longer wish to a jehovah witness"?.

  i was baptized at the young age of 16. after turning 18, i stopped attending meetings, field service, and all jehovah's witness activities.

  i wanted to be with my high school friends, go to rock concerts, have a girlfriend, and live like a normal teen.

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  I`ve said it once i`ve said it before and I will say it again ,the G.B, Elders speak out of both sides of their mouth .
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  Do you have any assembly memories/stories?

  by RisingEagle in

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  on an earlier thread about ice cream i remembered a snack that was sold at assemblies and that started me thinking about some of my memories of childhood at conventions/assemblies.

  i guess it was the taste/smell association because even today when i go to various convention halls for home improvement expos, car shows and the like it takes me right back to the past.

  i have many memories wrapped around the conventions and experienced different things because i have lots of elders in the family that were used, literally, for food service, the accounting office, security and dramas.

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  The brother who converted me gave an experience of converting me at a CA in St Albans ,a suburb of Melbourne

  around Nov 1960 when My then GF and I were Baptised ,so that we could be married in a KH in 1961.

  He took so long about it that the brother after him who was supposed to give his experience didn`t get a chance to.
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  Two for One offer. You get one for the price of two!

  by Slidin Fast in

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  2. experiences

  did anyone else fall for this one?

  i did pre-assembly work in my home town, this was obviously voluntary unpaid work.

  i continued to do part-time work helping to support my mom who has been recently abandoned by my elder dad,.

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  Hey SF don`t feel too bad we were all nuts to fall for this BS in the first place .
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  JW's will NOT like the first months of life in the Paradise! (University Research)

  by fulltimestudent in

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  have you ever wondered (when you were an active believer) what life would be like immediately after the big a?.

  in my experience of the pre-big a spiritual paradise most witnesses were aware of the problem posed by the dead bodies of those slain by the bloody minded, would-be mass murderer jesus.

  most liked to quote the author of the revelation, that carrion birds would eat the carcasses.

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  How would Jw`s in America survivors like the G.B. communicate with Jw`s survivors in the pacific islands ? Africa ,Siberia , Tasmania , or some other isolated place on earth ?

  How would JW`s cope with

  no gas

  no electricity

  no sewrage

  no running water

  no refrigerators

  no tv

  no movies

  no aeroplanes

  no transport

  no food bowls to supply food markets

  no food markets

  no dairy farms

  no cheese makers blessed as they may be

  The list is endless of things that will not exist after Armageddon that J.W`s take for granted in today`s world.
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  JW Phrases

  by Holden Caufield in

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  what some jw phrases that you hate?.

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  Children addressing adults as brother or sister

  meat in due season

  JW`s don`t have a clergy Laity class : G.B. ,D.O. ,C.O. , Elders , M.S. , etc.,etc.,

  Except in a court of Law. Then they claim Clergy Penitent privilege .