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  Donating Online

  by Saltheart Foamfollower in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i have just heard that the local needs item next week in the uk is to be about a new arrangement for donating online.

  details will be in the september announcements letter due out on sept 3rd.

  speculate at will!.

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  All the Gold and Silver and precious metals ,diamonds,ruby`s etc in the world .belong to Jehovah right ?

  So what`s his obsession with printed money from a world he`s going to destroy ?
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  Bumped Into One Of My Best Friends On The Carts This Morning

  by pale.emperor in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  so this morning i'm walking to my office and there's the jws on their carts outside as usual.

  and old sister, a brother in his 20s and an elder i instantly recognized from my jw days.

  one of my best friends of about 20 years.. i genuinely just wanted to say hi as i havent seen him in 3 years.

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  Obviously P.E. you were one of his best "conditional" friends and when you didn`t measure up to his conditions you were no longer his friend.

  Sad , but you are by far the better person by offering your hand in friendship without conditions attached.

  Take care
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  Strange first names among jw's

  by fulano in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  do you remember those families where all the sons and daughters had weird biblical names?.

  i recall a " machlon" , "eunice" , even a "jehosafath".

  can you believe it..

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  This was a name of a guy I came across in research though he wasn`t a J.W.

  His name was changed to "Yahweh Ben Yahweh" have you ever heard of him ?

  Google the name. or Wikipedia the name.
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  "We don't do that" - Serena Williams talking about celebrating birthdays

  by vivalavida in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  i guess you can be physically out, like in a huge way, but definitely mentally in.. serena williams claims she won't be celebrating her daughter's first birthday.. i did know people like that, raised as a jw but never actually baptizing.

  that didn't mean they were not messed up in the head though..

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  She ain`t no Virgin either
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  Revelation 14:4

  by Sergey Antonov in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  it turns out that on the basis of the book of revelation 14:4 the anointed ones have to be virgins?

  how does the governing body explain this?.

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  I`ve known a couple of J.W. sisters that have balls , and some facial hair , but penis`s ? Nope.

  And according to their illustrations in their publications anointed sisters grow a beard...go figure
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  Terry's Editorial on the Pledge of Allegiance

  by TerryWalstrom in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  terry's editorial on the pledge of allegiance_____.

  can one child in a thousand actually define the word or give the meaning of "allegiance?

  " can you--without stumbling around about it?give me a moment of your time, will you?first, in medieval times, wealthy landowners allowed peasants to cultivate their property as long as these pitiful souls made a pledge of fealty or allegiance to become a soldier for that lord of the manor if he needed to go to war against some imagined enemy.

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  Through the pledge, Bellamy sought to define “true Americanism” against the rising tide of southern and eastern European immigrants “pouring over our country” in the early 20th century from “races which we cannot assimilate without a lowering of our racial standard.” Although Bellamy conceded that “the United States has always been a nation of immigrants,” he argued that “incoming waves of immigrants … are coming from countries whose institutions are entirely at variance with our own.”

  I see here a similarity in Australia ,in Victoria we have black African youth gangs committing violence ,robberies ,and not assimilating into society.They have become a real problem.

  We also have a problem to some degree with Muslim youths who will not, do not, assimilate into the Australian way of life and are ISIS sympathisers which is a bit of a worry.

  And it is now becoming evident that their are other Nationalities that are not assimilating into mainstream Australian life and if we are not careful we will end up with pockets of ethnic groups who will not assimilate and actually be in conflict with another ethnic group before long.

  Potential problems with races and cultures : Who are not assimilating.

  Muslims / Islam ,Chinese / religion ,Black Africans / Muslim /Christian. ,Jews who don`t assimilate and learn the English language.

  And I believe their are more that could be added to that list .

  Their are pockets of residential areas where each of these groups dominate to the exclusion of anybody else.

  Are we going to have ghetto`s of different races in Victoria ?Australia ? in the near future ?
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  In which month did Jesus die?

  by Doug Mason in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i am putting this out as an idea, as something to think about.. this assumes that the death and claimed resurrection of jesus has soteriological significance.

  i am not seeking comments on the veracity of that position, nor with endeavouring to identify any model that provides an "explanation".. i am simply asking, did jesus die in nisan (march/april = "easter") or would it have had proper soteriological significance if the events took place in tishri (september/october)?.

  is it possible - and i doubt there is any way of knowing - that the early christians found it useful to incorporate existing pagan "spring" festivals, as this enabled them to differentiate themselves from the jews' heavy focus on tishri?.

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  Wouldn`t early October have better fitted in with J.W.Dogma ?

  Just asking ?
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  Cognitive Dissonace on full display at JWtalk over evolution research

  by Sanchy in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  a user over on the jwtalk forum recently shared a warning over his research on evolution in preparation for an assigned talk.

  after detailing a couple of the tidbits that he learned of during his research, he went on to say:.

  this i found to be useful especially when talking ot others in the ministry.. but and it is a big but.....

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  And nowhere in the new Testament are Christians to preach about "Jehovah`s Kingdom" ,for such a term is not found in the Christian Greek Scriptures

  Christians are to witness about the" Kingdom of Jesus Christ"
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  Where is Wake Me Ip Before You Jo Ho?

  by Vanderhoven7 in

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  2. friends

  hope you are well wake me!.

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  smiddy3

  Pass on my good wishes too guys ? and look forward to her return .
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  Why aren't the JDubs receiving more bad publicity concerning the abuse cover-ups?

  by Sour Grapes in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i know that the jdubs think that they are the center of the universe and in actuality, no one except ex-jdubs gives a rats ass about these religious crazies.

  my question is i read that as a percentage of pedophiles per members, that the percentage is larger in the watchtower company than in the catholic church.

  i would think that would catch someones attention in the media and make a good story.. what really pisses me off is the watchtower cult is gloating about all of the negative press the catholics are receiving concerning pedophiles not even knowing that the jdubs have thousands of sexual abuse cases that have been covered over.

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  Doubter ,

  Its a policy worldwide among the Jehovah`s witness religion that Elders ( 3 males ) covering child molestation cases in their judicial committee`s do not and have not reported these allegations to the authorities either child Protection or the Police.

  They fail in their Duty Of care to vulnerable children in their congregations Worldwide .