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Money $?$?$?
by tattoogrl333 in
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2. friends
just curious they seem to have an endless supply of literature but they never ask me to pay them for the books.

and i never see a collection basket being passed around.

so how do they get their money???.
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Any good times?
by tattoogrl333 in
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2. friends
just wondering if there were any positives to being a jw.

i have read most of the posts and see that a lot of people were jw for years and years and was thinking that not all that time could things have been bad?

oh and somewhere in gen. it is supposed to state that we are living in the 7th day now????
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Disfellowship?????????????????????
by tattoogrl333 in
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2. friends
today's study topic included disfellowship.

i'm a little confused i was told that the only way you can be disfellowshipped was if you did something you knew went agains jehovah and would not repent for it.

but the only person you can repent to is jehovah......... then i was told that the elders can however "keep the flock pure" b/c if jehovah is not happy with the congregation he can take his holy spirit away.
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wrong date part 2
by tattoogrl333 in
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2. friends
well i went for my study session today and showed her the encyclopedia articles i had printed up.

she said she didn't know why the date was 586 and not 607, and asked if she could take them to show her husband.

her husband is an elder so i'm not sure what his reaction was going to be.
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Gain???
by tattoogrl333 in
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2. friends
i've asked a few people this, but what do the jw have to gain by luring people into their religion?

do they take your money or posessions?

i just don't understand why people would want to do that.
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Wrong date
by tattoogrl333 in
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2. friends
hello i'm new to the whole jw study thing, but they said it fell in 607 but due to the advice of others here i looked it up.

i found in 3 encyclopedia's online that it fell in 586. i printed them out and am going to get more.

i'm going to show the lady i study with, i'm just curious what you think will happen, and if she will try to deny it.
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Studying
by tattoogrl333 in
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2. friends
i flat out asked the jw i'm studying with what she would do if someone was disfellowshipped and she was honest and said she wouldn't talk to them since they wouldn't be good examples of jehovah witness.

then we started talking about appearances and tattoos, and about my pink hair :) and she said it didn't matter.

i am enjoying reading and visiting this web site but i am just not seeing the same things you guys have.
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First Meeting
by tattoogrl333 in
1. jw
2. experiences
i went to my first jw meeting, there were actually two but i only stayed for the first one.

it was actually kind of fun.

there was role play and that was funny, everyone was laughing and people were soooooo nice in fact most new who i was already.
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Stupid people
by tattoogrl333 in
1. jw
2. experiences
well in an attempt to question and learn more about the bible as was suggested to me by various people, i attended church with a friend.

afterwards i spoke with the preacher, and asked him about some of the things i had learned from the jw.

he quickly disregarded what i told him and pointed out a few scriptures, i showed him more that backed up what i had been taught.
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questions i should ask
by tattoogrl333 in
1. jw
2. friends
i have just begun recently to meet with a jw to study the bible and various material that i have been given.

i have no prior religous background and have only started to read the bible about 3 mo ago.

after reading a lot of the posts i have noticed a lot of people talking about how when they started to question jw beliefs, they were shunned.