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  AGM 2014 - How are faders gonna hide in plain sight anymore?

  by tootired2care in

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  so two big changes in the org were announced in the most recent agm.. local needs part is replaced by "how do you know the truth" where all members will tell their experience (oh what fun).

  basic pioneer role 10 only hours a month required (see, jehovah lightens our load, therefore he loves only us)!.

  it seems like they have really turned up the heat here.

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  Fading? Why not simply stop going to meetings and going out in service?
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  Red light camera ticket

  by sspo in

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  my last speeding ticket was in tennessee in 1993, was going 15 miles over the speed limit and got a $60 ticket.

  that was my last one.. three weeks ago did not make a complete stop making a right turn here in california and got nailed with a "camera ticket".. damage to my wallet ...$540 and have to take an 8hour class.. i guess california is in need of a lot of cash.. do you have traffic cameras where you live or are they illegal?.

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  On the way to work this morning at 5:30, I was the only vehicle on the road. I saw the yellow, gunned it, it turned red before I made

  the stop line. Saw the strobe flash behind me from the red light camera.

  I've been researching it and it is $100 civil penalty. If I don't pay it, they can't do anything to me. Doesn't go on my record as they don't

  know who was driving. I will also try to time the yellow light to see if it is too short. That is the problem in many cities, they shorten the

  yellow lights below regulation to catch people. The ordinace does say "The placement of control devices and timing of yellow lights and red light clearance intervals shall conform to the most recent edition of the Traffic Engineering Handbook. It shall be presumed that the city is in compliance with this section unless the contrary is shown by a preponderance of the evidence."
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  To Transfuse or Not To Transfuse

  by Chris Tann in

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  2. bible

  when my son became baptized as a witness at age nine, it worried me that he could now get a no blood card.

  i wanted to make sure if blood transfusions were really as disgusting to "jehovah" as i was taught.

  i already found out some things about my beliefs that were not true, so it wasn't hard for me to be questionable about this.. i first looked in the reasoning book under blood as to why we don't accept transfusions.

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  The problem I see is: Why do we have to follow what the apostles said?

  Who named them leaders?
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  SAD HOLY SPIRIT ILLUSTRATION

  by GreenhornChristian in

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  just got an email from elder sharing illustration from assembly.

  the holy spirit does not seem to be in control as it supposedly was in the 1st century.

  it's just lube now.

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  It hasn't helped my Megamillions numbers come up.

  If the holy spirit was of any use, it would help the needed win sufficient so they wouldn't be needy.
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  “The Gentile times have ended; their kings have had their day.”

  by Londo111 in

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  dear jw,.

  on october 2, 1914a hundred years ago todaycharles t. russell announced, the gentile times have ended; their kings have had their day.

  for almost 40 years, among other predictions for that year, 1914 had been looked to as the end of armageddon, false religion, and all governments, and the beginning of paradise on earth and the resurrection.

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  October 1 1914. Whatever happened to not knowing the day or hour or month or year?
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  Christians: Question about, "Be obedient to those who are taking the lead among you..."

  by Zoos in

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  "those who are taking the lead among you"

  Simple. Don't be among them and it won't apply.
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  Do You Think All JWs Believe Whatever Their Religion Teaches?

  by minimus in

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  2. friends

  that same question applies to catholics, jews, islamists, baptists and so on.

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  just because you belong to a religion, does it mean you espouse every idea that they have ever presented?.

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  I don't believe anything that any one teaches. especially doctors, lawyers and religionists.
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  December 1,2014 watchtower saying buying house is bad

  by hoser in

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  page 15.

  "take for example a christian couple in asia.

  in their younger years, they admired those who could afford to own a house.

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  So, if they sell, where will they live? Apartment? Rent is more than house payments.
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  One Day Assembly Costs How Much, WTF?

  by NoMoreHustle in

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  the recent circuit assembly day cost get this... $17,0000 in an assembly hall that they own!

  this was announced during the assmbly at the 3/4 mark of days activities.

  after he said how much the assembly cost, he then proceeded to say that we have recieved $6,000 in donations up to this point of the day.

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  It is a franchise fee
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  1914 or 1934 ?

  by Chris Tann in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i have thoroughly researched the watchtower doctrine of 1914, and am convinced it is neither biblically or historically correct.

  but every now and then i wonder how ironic it is that world war 1 did start in that year, also pestilence and famine perused.

  maybe, just maybe the witnesses are correct.

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  "I have thoroughly researched the Watchtower doctrine of 1914, and am convinced it is neither biblically or historically correct."

  No you have not thoroughly researched it.

  And it is biblically and historically correct.

  "Watchtower time prophecy of 2,520 years and apply it to the true historical date when Jerusalem fell to the Babylonians; 586/587 b.c.e.."

  If you thoroughly researched it, you would understand that the 7 times does not start at the fall of Jerusalem to the Babylonians. It starts when the kings in the line of David lose their sovereignty. That happened in 607 though Jerusalem fell in 587. They continue to hold that 607 was the fall

  of Jerusalem because if they change it, it would be too embarassing.

  "Now to be clear, I do not believe in the 2,520 year time prophecy. It is not in the scriptures or in history"

  Yes, it is. Otherwise how can it be explained that the kings in the line of David stopped servicing on Jehovah's Throne when the prophesy of Nathan

  said they would. How can it be explained that Jesus did not become king when he was on earth.

  Here's an idea. Open up your mind to more than what The Watchtower teaches.