InquiryMan

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  In the News: How being a teen mum, growing up as Jehovah’s Witness and my kids prepped me for Masterchef fame

  by Wild_Thing in

  1. social
  2. current

  from australia: http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/entertainment/sydney-confidential/how-being-a-teen-mum-growing-up-as-jehovahs-witness-and-my-kids-prepped-me-for-masterchef-fame/story-fni0cvc9-1226974154930.

  renae smith with her two daughters kyah and paris who had to agree before renae went onto masterchef.

  picture: richard dobson.

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  InquiryMan

  I had good parents. They got baptized when I was 11 years old and I got baptized four years later. I would most definitely say that I had a good life most of the time as a witness. But I discovered the truth about the truth and left. I am not at all bitter...
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  ex elder sentenced to 14 years.

  by ThomasCovenant in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/im-relieved-everybody-now-knows-7357125.

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  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-east-wales-28127683.

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  InquiryMan

  14 years is a very long prison term by European standards
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  What's missing from this list of technologies used by JWs

  by scotoma in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  this topic has been discussed before but it is interesting to look at it in the light of the new book god's kingdom rules.. 1903 news paper sermons.

  1914 photo drama of creation.

  1922 radio.

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  InquiryMan

  They have been using TV. It has been mention of it in the yearbook in the account of a certain country or countries... Perhaps it was Italy. Cannot remember exactly....
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  "Banned in Brooklyn"

  by Quendi in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i hope this thread generates some discussion as well as some amusement.

  i want to talk about "banned books".

  back in the middle ages, the roman catholic church issued its index librorum prohibitorum, the list of prohibited books.

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  InquiryMan

  I remember visiting Bethel in my country on the time they got their postal delivery... At lest four or five of them got the book of the month from the biggest book club in the country... I would say Bethel thus had a slightly higher percentage of people getting that book that particular book than the general population...
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  Expressions on faces at DC/RC

  by BU2B in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i have become more observant at the last couple district conventions of jws faces and enthusiasm and it seems to be very somber.

  i remember a couple of years ago i was an attendant at one of the upper sections at the blue cross arena in rochester, ny and in afternoon session at least half were curled up with their eyes closed, some with blankets.

  the applause seems very forced and mechanical.

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  Is it an American trait to overdo/exagerrate things???
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  Critique of new JW DVD: “These Words Must be on Your Heart.”

  by WingCommander in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  http://youtu.be/dhn2to663cu.

  im really channeling my inner blondie with my observation and critiques of these new watchtower videos.

  something about them really turns my stomach.

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  InquiryMan

  Towards the end of the movie Jesus was mentioned as part of an quotation. Jesus said or something along that line...
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  New DVD review

  by Laika in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i managed to catch the new dvd on youtube last night before the inevitable takedown.

  as a film i felt it wasn't anywhere near as good as the prodigal movie, the story wasn't as dramatic, the characters much less interesting and developed and the direction weaker.

  i found the prodigal relatively entertaining (all things considered) this one was just dull.. here are some of my random thoughts anyway [spoiler alert - ha!].

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  InquiryMan

  I just saw it, and I agree the house was over the top. It is ridicilous to live in such a big house...

  Few people in general do and even more so among JWs that in general have other priorities and possibilities.
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  International Convention East Rutherford, NJ 2014

  by wannabefree in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  listen ... obey ... and be blessed!

  has this become the official cult watchtower theme song?.

  here is a video making the rounds on facebook.

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  InquiryMan

  No wonder this interview is popular among JWs. And for them it is a truly big event and I guess this talk show sequence really makes them genuinely proud.
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  RC & International attendance???

  by Crazyguy in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  just wondering to those that have gone to one of the international or rc assemblies what's the attendance been like.

  wondering if people are still willing to spend so much money and travel to go to a convention or if more people are just saying no??

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  InquiryMan

  I went to two international assemblies, one in Europe and one in Africa. These experiences were great :-) . I got friends with several people at both assemblies that I kept in touch with for years and even visited later.
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  An old Watchtower offshot in Africa

  by Londo111 in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/religion_in_the_democratic_republic_of_the_congo#kitawala.

  a much more radical product of the synthesis of african and christian elements is the kitawala movement or so-called "watchtower movement", which appeared in katanga province during the 1920s.

  influenced by the black american missionary activity in south africa of the watch tower bible and tract society (jehovah's witnesses), the movement converted miners who then spread elements of the movement northward from their south african base into the katangan copper belt.. the british "reverend" james booth and his african associate elliott kamwana, both black, used watch tower publications but did not limit their preaching to the bible students message of charles taze russell (it does not seem that russell understood this at the time).

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  I have read about this movement in the Yearbooks...