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  Door-to-Door Work - Most Inneffective Work of the 21st Century

  by Black Man in

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  knockin' on doors when nobody's home, processing ten of thousands of hours that u know are fake, refusing to embrace modern-technology to further the work just adds up to the most ineffective public relations campaign of the 21st century---yep, you guessed it the house-to-house work.........

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  rocketman

  Excellent comments,a nd I can only echo what most have already said, plus add my own observations at Circuit Assemblies, where just about the only people who got baptized were JW kids. For all those hours spent (1,000 people x 10 hrs per month x 6 months between assemblies, and even if you count them all as 'low-hour' you can still make it 1,000x5x6= 30,000 hours spent) with very little to show for it.

  Of course, the WTS claims that their work is not results-driven or oriented. But the feeling I got being out there until I recently became inactive is that what I did was accomplishing absolutely nothing, and I was spending my time and resources on it. How many people would take up a "work" like that? How many people would ask that of others - 'you spend your time and money, do our work, accomplish virtually nothing, and don't expect anything from us in return'?
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  Why Do Jehovah's Witnesses View Disfellowshipping The Same As The Jews?

  by minimus in

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  jw's are so fond of quoting the scripture about treating a sinner "just as a man of the nations and as a tax collector".

  since this was clearly an unloving jewish practice, why does the society feel obliged to use this jewish practice in disfellowshipping??

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  Good question minimus, and good comment wannaexit. I've felt for a long time that their actual teachings are based more on the Law Of Moses than on the Law of the Christ, even though they, of course, would deny that.

  I also feel that Jesus showed us, by active demonstration, how the "man of the nations" and "tax collectors" really should have been treated.
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  Counting time on internet

  by happy man in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  intresting qestion, isnt internet the perfeck way to find peopel all over the world?.

  aspecilay young how we not meet in sevice?.

  i think i must write to gb and tell them this enormus news, it will bee a very high increase in ours , you now time on internet goo so fast, only today i have been out fore 3 ours talking widh diffrent peopel, from all over, perhaps i can report as ax pionj this month?.

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  rocketman

  Yep, it's just one more form of communication. Go for it Happy Man.
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  michael jackson interview

  by the mole in

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  ****the mole..........to those of you who didnt see the interview...dr. bashir stated that jacksons where abused as youths and that because they are jehovahs witness michael is afraid of having normal sexual relations.............................more proof that jw's do abuse there families and abnormal sexual desires come those being suppressed and made to conform to an unnatural worship of our god jehovah..they are the unholy thing trying to stand in a holy place...

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  rocketman

  One weird family.
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  My father is dead

  by cruzanheart in

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  today i found out that my dad committed suicide, probably on sunday sometime.

  his body was found today and the plano police department called me.

  i am numb and grieving, kind of relieved for a lot of reasons, and very very sad.

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  rocketman

  I am very sorry to hear about your dad Nina.
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  gossiping about a pedophile GRRRRRRR

  by Brandy5 in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  a publisher can get disfellowshipped for gossiping about a pedophile.

  a pedophile molested his own child but showed the elders that he was repentant and still lived with his family.

  this child had told your child about her dad molesting her.

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  rocketman

  The whole thing is ridiculous. And thing is, if you go to the elders and tell them what you heard, they likely won't act on it anyway.
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  Did you know: some states will force blood transfusions on your child

  by joe_from_kokomo in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  one of my children is facing surgery, and when we went in for pre-op discussions and tests, we met with the anesthesiologist's assistant.

  of course, we told her we were jws, and noted that on the questionaire form, but she was quick to inform me that in my state, blood transfusions can be administered to minor children in spite of the parent's objections, even if they are jws.

  state law precedent has been set in this matter, and they will get a court order if needed.. .

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  rocketman

  This was something that I was not really aware of, even as an elder. State laws were never explained to us in any real detail as far as I can recall.
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  Harbinger of Spring

  by Robdar in

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  2. friends

  i saw my first robin of the year today.

  spring is finally on the way and i am feeling a little pagan.

  i believe that some sort of spring celebration combined with a happy dance is in order.

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  rocketman

  Robyn, with 22 inches of snow in the ground here, we could sure use a spring harbringer. I guess we won't see any Robins here until we can see the friggin grass again. But it's nice to know that spring is not all that far off.
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  ADAM AND EVE CREATED SAME YEAR says Jehovah's channel:

  by garybuss in

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  2. bible

  adam and eve created same year says jehovah's channel:.

  insight book #1 p. 772 eve .

  when adam was 130 years old, eve gave birth to a son whom she called seth, saying: "god has appointed another seed in place of abel, because cain killed him.

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  rocketman

  Runningman, thanks for including those 4 cracks the WTS took at the 6,000 yrs. Good info.
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  Six million people mislead?

  by ikhandi in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i have done a little research since joining this board and honestly believe that jehovahs witnesses fit in the cult category.

  however what i don't understand if this is not the so called true religion as most of you have expressed how do you figure six million were mislead into believing it is the only true religion?

  i mean this is not like the heaven's gate cult or the infamous jonestown cult who had very little followers in comparison with jehovahs witnesses.

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  rocketman

  I agree with Dan The Man. It's not at all inconcievable that 1 in 1,000 people can be misled (the jw ratio to population). Far greater numbers have been, as Dan points out.