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  The long weekend of B.S begins - UK.

  by quellycatface in

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  isn't going to be wonderful??.

  not being there..

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  88JM

  63 baptised here in Glasgow, Scotland (28 male, 35 female) from an attendance of 8164.

  About par for Scotland from what I remember from previous years - maybe a few more than the last few conventions.

  Anecdotal observation: the young/old split of baptisms was about a 50/50 split - not all teenagers but certainly a sizeable amount. I don't think I saw any pre-teen, really young kids getting baptised - maybe one young boy who could possibly have come into that category.

  Definitely the most boring convention ever. And I think Sam Herd is back on this afternoon...
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  Assembly:Symposium:Who will not inherit God's Kingdom:"Idolaters

  by raymond frantz in

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  2. bible

  lol!

  typing that while at the assembly, the benefits of technology.this theme is about idolatry.

  the watchtower explains what is idolatry.

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  88JM

  I heard the quote about the Mormons too raymond frantz. He also mentioned that they were favouring preaching on social media instead, implying that it was more productive. Such hypocrisy.

  Agruably, I would say social media would be a better tactic than a single website alone, though plenty of JWs do their advertising for them on Facebook anyway.
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  Assembly:Symposium:Who will not inherit God's Kingdom:"Idolaters

  by raymond frantz in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  lol!

  typing that while at the assembly, the benefits of technology.this theme is about idolatry.

  the watchtower explains what is idolatry.

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  88JM

  Yep - just heard it here this morning - listening to their own definition, their "worship" of JW.org definitely is idolatery.
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  KM Oct 2014 - Homosexuality (week of Oct 13th)

  by Splash in

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  2. bible

  it would be interesting to have some present (stonewall?

  ) at these meetings to witness and record talk number three on the tms.. talk 3 - "what the bible says about homosexuality" (reasoning book p.368-369).

  the reasoning book tells us in part:.

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  88JM

  They'll probably try to skirt it by trotting out the old line about "hating the sin, but love the sinner" - I think that probably is about as close to the edge of legality without being identifiable hate speech? (although it really is)
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  Today's Watchtower study. Good example of "talk is cheap."

  by stillin in

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  all about love.

  how to do it.

  why jw's are the experts at it.. gag.

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  Whoops wrong thread
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  inactive ones going back...

  by monis1 in

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  i have quite a big group of friends who were all in the cong together when we were teens.

  about 75% of them stopped going or were df'd right after high school.

  it is a varied group; a couple are staunch apostates, some dont care one way or another, and another handfull are fully "worldly", but still believe it is the truth.

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  88JM

  Maybe some elders are taking seriously the recent push from Circuit Overseers to contact inactive JWs?

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/279918/1/CO-Special-Meeting-with-MS-Elders
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  Why the Nov. 2014 Study WT could be a good thing

  by Apognophos in

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  hey guys.

  i am seeing a lot of flak on the forum over this study wt, and rightly so, as it's rather creepy.

  but i'd like to suggest an alternate way of looking at this upcoming series of articles -- as an opportunity.

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  88JM

  I wish I could afford to go on vacation. Maybe I could just hide in my basement for a month.

  Oh wait...
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  11-15 WT- Drinking before meetings

  by Absalom in

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  to be holy, we must weigh the scriptures carefully and do what god asks of us.

  consider aarons sons nadab and abihu, who were executed for offering unauthorized fire, perhaps while inebriated.

  (lev.

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  Rutherford would be pleased.

  
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  stupid statement in watchtower about appointments of elders

  by hoser in

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  2. beliefs

  after going through all the processes of how they appointed elders in the past they say this:.

  "the elders in turn would inform the newly appointed men of their appointment, asking them if they were willing and actually qualified to accept the assignment.

  so after qualifying the man you ask him if he is qualified.. .

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  Same thing happened to me being announced as an MS too - bundled into the back of a car a few mins before the meeting started, with no idea why they were asking me questions.
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  The Watchtower 11/15/2014

  by wifibandit in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  http://bayfiles.net/file/1jpu5/qhxxxl/w_e20141115.pdf.

  select "premium download".

  (thanks breakfast of champions).

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  88JM

  That guy in the basement may just as well be reading the instructions on a packet of kool-aid.