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  Can JW's celebrate Hannukah?

  by Splash in

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  what's the official teaching on celebrating this jewish festival?.

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  scratchme1010

  The best way to find out information about what JWs do and don't do is by asking JWs directly and/or by going to their official website.

  Just sayin'
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  What Do You Think A CIA Or NSA Security File On The Watchtower And Tract Society And It's Governing Body Would Say?

  by Brokeback Watchtower in

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  2. scandals

  i'm sure that a top secret security clearance not very high up the chain of command would show a ton of information, .

  i mean everything that happens on the internet and on computers i'm sure is assessable to the us intelligence community, why would the government not pass up an opportunity to spy on it's population and run all internet data through homeland security to protect it's interest both home and abroad, realistically thinking that is.. so with this in mind what would a highly classified report look like?

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  What Do You Think A CIA Or NSA Security File On The Watchtower And Tract Society And It's Governing Body Would Say?
  

  Bunch of wackos!

  Seriously, I think ti has some kind of summary about them, an overview of what they are, and some kind of scale that measures the level of relevance that they have to the work that they do. Nothing fascinating.

  The WT is a mediocre, irrelevant, vapid organization. I doubt that they (if at all) have any relevant information on them for their purposes.
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  Jehovah`s Witnesses / Governing Body Claim To Abhor Child Sexual Abuse Within Their Congregations /Members who are victims.?

  by smiddy3 in

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  2. child-abuse

  so my question to them is why have they continually failed to report incidents of child sexual abuse of child members in their congregations to the appropriate authorities ,either police or child protection agency`s, when they are holding judicial committees into these allegations in their congregations when they occur or even some time after ?.

  they have consistently failed to do so.. and this failure to do so is not confined to one country ,it is a pattern that is repeated worldwide ,in one country after another country .

  (worldwide where they operate in ).

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  The answer to your question is in you question. They CLAIM that they abhor child sexual abuse, the same way that they claim that they are going to live forever in paradise on Earth, and that they are not part of the world, and that... ok, I don't have to give a list of their stupid, ridiculous claims.

  Just because they say something, it doesn't mean that they are being truthful. They are just lying.
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  Read this Pretty Good Advice!

  by Iamallcool in

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  Can we make that a mural next to every KH?
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  Difficult to internalize that all the connections are gone

  by truthseeker in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i was in my old stomping ground a couple of months ago and happened to be walking past the home of an old family friend.

  word is in the hall that i used to go to is that "i am one of them" meaning apostate.

  no one from my old hall has contacted me to find out what happened.

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  No one from my old hall has contacted me to find out what happened.
  

  That's how you know you made the right decision.
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  "In a human moment before Jehovah grabbed her"

  by truthseeker in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i often wondered how far back the witnesses had been involved with my family.

  my grandmother died at the end of 2013 and while going through her photos we found some of my great-grandmother, dora, who was born in 1901 and died in 1994. there is a photo of dora dated 1946 standing outside her house in east riding, yorkshire.

  on the back of the photo her husband had written "in a human moment before jehovah grabbed her".. my great grandfather, who died before i was born, did not like the witnesses.

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  Those are lovely photos. To find out the right time when the family started involved with the WT, you might need some accurate family history.

  What your great grandfather wrote in the photo may have been written at any time. It may not difficult to verify with the right documentation and tools.
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  question of the day if Jesus on earth today and assuming he was a jw

  by poopie in

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  would he be disfelowshipped for talking to df persons?.

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  question of the day if Jesus on earth today and assuming he was a jw, would he be disfelowshipped for talking to Df persons?
  

  Yes, that is if somehow he becomes a JW or cares to be one.
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  It's hard being bisexual and being a jw

  by Sally fields in

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  2. relationships

  i've been bi for a long time but i know it's wrong if you want to be a jw... .

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  I've been bi for a long time but i know it's wrong if you want to be a jw...
  

  It's hard being any kind of anything other than what they expect and tell you to be. That goes with sexuality, health care decisions, marriage, social events, career, possessions, the list is endless. Sexuality is one of the many ways in which they want to control their people.

  I understand not having a healthy way of expressing your sexuality being a severe stressor, but I wonder if that's the only thing from that organization that bothers you.
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  Bible is good if we look for implied truth

  by venus in

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  2. beliefs

  thumbs-up gesture doesn’t covey much if we see only four fingers closed and thumb standing upward.

  but if we look for the implied meaning, then it is a positive, informal signal indicating a job well done, and saying ‘keep it up.’.

  similarly, biblical accounts don’t convey much if we see them as mere accounts.

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  ...But if we look for the implied meaning, then it is a positive, informal signal indicating a job well done, and saying ‘keep it up.’...
  

  Too much work. I rather use Google.
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  Bought My First Christmas Tree Last Night

  by pale.emperor in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  last year i didn't bother with christmas as it still felt like a "nothing" day to me (thanks watchtower!).

  this is the 2nd christmas since waking up and leaving the cult and i've finally bought my first christmas tree:).

  i have no idea what to do with it though.

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  scratchme1010

  I have no idea what to do with it though. How to decorate it. When to put it up. Where to put it?
  

  Use the best learning management system in the planet, YouTube.

  Enjoy the holidays.