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  JWs in China?

  by crochunter in

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  does anyone have any info about jw in china?

  i've never heard about this topic?

  since everyone is supposed to be witnessed to, china is obviously important.. thanks.. croc.

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  TheOldHippie

  Larc said:
  **********************************************************************A few thousand compared to a billion in "unassigned territory" ain't many.
  Why are the Japanese preparing to preach in China when Armageddon will be here any day now?
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  1. I never said a few thousand compared to 1.3 billion are many.
  2. I never said Armageddon will be here any day now.
  I hope those are satisfying replies to your questions, as I never said what you imply I did.
  OK?
  Greetings
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  i still haven't found what I'm looking for?

  by spacegirl in

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  i have played my trumpet for god in the salvation army.

  i have taken confession and holy communion with the catholics.

  i danced down oxford street banging a tambourine with the hare krishnas.

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  TheOldHippie

  Having been a Lutheran, a Catholic, a Pentecostalist, a Mormon, a Worldwide Church of God - guy, an Occultist and a Yoga / Meditation guy, and a Communist/Maoist/Socialist/Left-Winger/Red Guard/US-embassy window-crusher, I guess you'll find many prospective members here.
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  I am already in heaven folks!

  by Norm in

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  la times have found heaven folks.. and guess what rex, you ain't there.

  http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-000089269nov08.story?coll=la%2dheadlines%2dworld.

  norm

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  TheOldHippie

  What theological implications does this bring for us? Should Bondevik finally be installed in Brooklyn or Patterson, or should the Stoltenbergs?
  I just LOVED the part that we are calling the King by his first name. Have you ever heard of a king with a family name? King Peterson? King Kennedy? That's just as well-founded as when theysay the people on Iceland so much loved their female president that they only used her first name when addressing her. Well, here are news for you: On Iceland, they only use the first name, they only have the first name, the telephone books are arranged or sorted by the first names, and the family names are only used to tell which one of the persons with the same first name you are talking about. Just as thorough an investigation as you would say you every other week find in a certain magazine, but - OK .....
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  Seventh Day Adventist Funeral

  by Judith in

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  i attended a seventh day adventist funeral today.

  she was a really nice person that i had worked with some years ago.

  she was kind to everyone, never a bad word about anyone, always willing to help, and didn't toss her religion down your throat.

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  TheOldHippie

  To RR:
  I bought a lot of literature from the Bible Students a few years ago, and the Dawn magazines as well, and my feelings - please don't get me wrong or think that I am trying to be judgmental on you - were/are that it is kind of "old-fashioned", that it still is so very much "Russellism". That it is stiff, hardened, whatever I should call it. How is your everyday-life as a Bible Student, and how are meetings/services, and how are differing opinions handled? I assure you I have no hidden agenda in asking, I just want to know.
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  JWs in China?

  by crochunter in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  does anyone have any info about jw in china?

  i've never heard about this topic?

  since everyone is supposed to be witnessed to, china is obviously important.. thanks.. croc.

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  TheOldHippie

  There are congregations in many cities in China, and thousands of Witnesses; Witnesses from the US and other areas bring in literature etc. when they visit China for business or vacation purposes. Stories of this and about for example the "My Bible Book of Bible Stories" incident are regularly told at conventions, at CO visits etc. Hundreds of Japanese Witnesses are learning Chinese as a preparation for the service to come.
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  People's Pulpit Association of Brooklyn, New York

  by Dan B in

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  ever hear of this?.

  dan

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  TheOldHippie

  I think you have mis-read the quote, it is not as you say that "This People's Pulpit association which according to the WT society "tended to establish a religious sect centered around a man"", but it was A BOOK published by the said association. The same association later stopped distributing the book and by so doing stopped the establishing of a sect if one is to follow the line of reasoning.
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  Har-Magedon JW-Style -- You Really Believe It?

  by Room 215 in

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  despite an occasional denial or duplicitous ``we can't say, nor can we judge'' for public consumption, i guess all of us are aware that the official wt line on who lives and who dies at the big a is all unbaptised people (99.9 percent of humanity) as well as those among them who got baptised but are lax at getting to meetings and field service (maybe half or more of the present memebership).. my question is: what percentage of the rank and file buy fully into the party line on this?

  i know inevitably there are hard-liners who spout it, but my experience is that the average dub, while not protesting vocally, has more or less privately concluded that it just can't be that way... too many really decent, well-motivated people are out there in ``the world,'' (and the corollary to that axiom, too many stinkers inside the organization, for that matter).

  babies dying?

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  Never has there been the belief that all un-baptised people will die. And never can any living person stand up and tell who will likely die and who will not. 90 % of the Witnesses with who I talk, over and over again state that if one survives, then after these events the survivors will look at each other and be surprised to state the least when they see who made and who didn't.
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  We Change the Organization!

  by metatron in

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  who brings about moral change in the organization?.

  we, who are called "apostates", "opposers" and the .

  "embittered".

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  TheOldHippie

  And woulod there be a new version of the flock-book without the Observer??
  said OhHappyDay.
  There is no new version of this one, my friend, it is still the very same which has had its copyright violated.
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  WTBTS & OSCE etc.

  by Kent in

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  it would be hard for the wtbts to deny their open connections to osce and other political forums.. http://www.jw-georgia.org/eng/rights/00octoscehrwf.htm.

  this link is from an official jw website, and i believe those interested in such connections should take a long and hard look at the russiand and other jw sites.

  it seems they are more "open" as to admit, and not least - use - their un connections as a tool of the trade.. i have reasons to believe the wtbts will try to use as defence that "human right issues are non-political" - and as such say the un connection is really a non-issue.

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  TheOldHippie

  I couldn't guess anything as to how many Witnesses have checked up on the Georia sites etc., but I can tell that much, that all Witnesses I know of who have Internet have been surfing those sites and the others of the Witness-sites. The book dealers in germany printing books on WWII, the Amnesty sites dealing with Witnesses, you name it - they, and I, have all been there regularly. There is nothing secretive about these sites or these questions. As to what each Witness understands or "sees" of or in this, that's another question. But try pick up any group, or any person, and make a survey as to how much an average person REALLY grasps of what is goin' on, and you are probably bound to be surprised. Why should Witnesses be that exceptionally intelligent? The general world inhabitant is not especially well informed about matters as these. he has more than enough to do in trying to cope, in trying to make it thru the day.
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  WTBTS & OSCE etc.

  by Kent in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  it would be hard for the wtbts to deny their open connections to osce and other political forums.. http://www.jw-georgia.org/eng/rights/00octoscehrwf.htm.

  this link is from an official jw website, and i believe those interested in such connections should take a long and hard look at the russiand and other jw sites.

  it seems they are more "open" as to admit, and not least - use - their un connections as a tool of the trade.. i have reasons to believe the wtbts will try to use as defence that "human right issues are non-political" - and as such say the un connection is really a non-issue.

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  TheOldHippie

  I don't see the problem at all here, and as you state yourself, the link is open for everyone to see thru the jw-georgia site. Should one not be able to address various institutions when one is persecuted? But then, you have labelled me a terrorist, so I am sure you will continue your ravings once you see my name.