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  $25,000 for one-day assembly in our area

  by Bonnie_Clyde in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  they started out with a $3,500 carry-over but by the end of the day they were short $25,000.

  the speaker eloquently beseeched the audience to go the atm machines and give their generous contribution or at least their widow's mite.

  after the sessions were over, our friend who attended walked from one end of the assembly hall and then to the other end and noticed long lines up to both machines with people who couldn't wait to run up their credit cards.

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  LevelThePlayingField

  I haven't donated in over 3 years. But I just had an idea. I WILL donate this time.

  I will take out my credit card, walk up to the machine and punch in $0.01. Yes, one cent, and process it, just to piss them off. :)
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  Have You Found Your Place in the World?

  by Rainbow_Troll in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  we were all told when we were in the watchtower that we should be grateful to be part of such a loving family.

  we were told that just beyond the superficial glamour of the world was a quagmire of despair, emptiness and pain waiting to suck us in.

  obviously, we took that part with a mountain of salt or we wouldn't be here today.

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  LevelThePlayingField

  Rainbow - just keep trying. I think if you keep looking you will find good friends. I was raised in the world till I was 27 years old and the world is not lost, just some people are. If you think all the young people are doing drugs then keep looking because there are plenty of youths that don't do drugs.

  Widen your circle, the world isn't empty, it's beautiful.
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  Autocratic Rule: Could It Happen?

  by Cold Steel in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  first the bible students represented an insulated layer.

  they were the faithful and discreet slave of jehovah who were expected to guide the people in all matters of overall import.

  but eventually someone noticed that in the first century, the seven churches were not independent, but had a council to guide them in weightier matters.

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  Maybe there already is a one-man rule by someone like tight pants ranting in the GB weekly meetings. Who knows.
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  Two (circumstantial) lines of evidence for the real motivation behind the Russian lobbying?

  by doubtfull1799 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  1. in bro sandersons latest video (in which he shows a very impressive skill with russian) he mentions two likely results of the imminent russian ban: the liquidation of the branch office and its assets, and the individual brothers capacity to worship freely.

  no prizes for guessing which one gets mentioned first!.

  2. why have the gb never attempted in the past, and are not interested in attempting now, such a letter writing campaign in other communist countries where the work is under similar restrictions, like china, or vietnam?

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  LevelThePlayingField

  I second that motion...follow the money.
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  What's up with the baptism date survey?

  by NikL in

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  2. friends

  i was browsing the letters at avoid jw.org.

  what's up with this one to elders in ghana?.

  https://drive.google.com/file/d/0bwqmwmk7dwtlz0fxcezfuedlzve/view.

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  LevelThePlayingField

  I don't have the slightest clue. Anyone else?
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  Heb 10:34 & the Russian Situation

  by doubtfull1799 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  as would be expected we've seen a lot of the "persecution" scriptures bandied about recently in connection with the likely imminent ban on the org in russia.

  they like to claim that being targets of persecution they are seeing the fulfilment of those verses.

  but they conveniently ignore what the bible teaches about how christians should respond to said prophesied persecution.... for example, no one is referencing the above verse which talks of the apostles "joyfully accepting the plundering of their belongings.

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  very good point doubtfull1799. I think the government will read the first few letters that come their way, and pitch all the others. They aren't fooled by this.
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  Aren't you a bit amazed that the WTS/JWS is still around ?

  by Finkelstein in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i know i am, to me its a bit of a peculiar anomaly that the wts is still around and functioning in reflection of its decades and now complete century that the wts has been bullshitting to people .

  organizations like the church of god have shrunk dramatically from its heyday of the 1980's, this too was another organization that spread and grew by publishing its own magazine proclaiming a armageddon soon doctrine and its main publication was called " the truth " .

  i'm guessing some of this has to do with the fact that people who get lured into this cult aren't aware of its past, its doctrines, the people who started it and so forth.

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  What a great thread. I think any who become JW's now will think their beliefs are par on. What could ever be wrong with it?
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  Real reason why Russian government is trying to ban JW's

  by LevelThePlayingField in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bv59ttywjom&feature=youtu.be.

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BV59TtywJoM&feature=youtu.be
  
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  Reasoned With A JW Yesterday

  by pale.emperor in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  had a great chat with a jw on my door yesterday.

  girl 1: .... i dont think you would.

  me: ________, and say hi to my uncle ________ for me.. girl 1: i will.

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  Excellent job. I sure hope they see that jwfacts.com is more about truth than all the Watchtowers since Russel's day.
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  Red Alert - Propaganda is Being Used!!!!!!!!

  by The Searcher in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  check out the latest watchtower:.

  "your defense?

  be determined to stick to jehovah’s organization and loyally support the leadership he provides—no matter what imperfections may surface.

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  Two things that article said stand out to me. The first is:

  "Do not be “quickly shaken from your reason” when faced with what appear to be damaging attacks by apostates or other such deceivers of the mind—however plausible their charges may seem."

  Notice that it said, "however plausible their charges may seem". In other words, don't believe it even if it's true because it came from an apostate. I have known that an apostate could say that Trump is the president, but a JW will refute it simply because it came from an apostate.

  Also, this point stood out: "Surely there is ample evidence to show that you can trust the channel that Jehovah has used for nearly a hundred years now to lead us in the way of truth."

  So, there not counting any time before 1918? I think that's a new thought.