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  How can I get my daughter, who's in j.w. Bible study, to look at this forum

  by hubert in

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  2. bible

  i have a daughter and son-in-law who are in a j.w.

  bible study, thanks to my sister-in-law.

  i have been researching the w.t.

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  Can We Make April 2004 Our Best Month Ever? Figures say otherwise

  by truthseeker in

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  2. friends

  the first thing i read when i get the new kingdom ministry are the service report figures.

  i was surprised to see that for the month of april, the auxiliary pioneers were far less than what they had been in previous years, even though the number of dubs preaching were over 1 million.

  compare april 2004 with april 2000, and you can see a massive drop off in zeal, during the famous "memorial season"

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  Joker10

  Thanks Blondie, but I was looking for the April 2004 figure.
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  Can We Make April 2004 Our Best Month Ever? Figures say otherwise

  by truthseeker in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the first thing i read when i get the new kingdom ministry are the service report figures.

  i was surprised to see that for the month of april, the auxiliary pioneers were far less than what they had been in previous years, even though the number of dubs preaching were over 1 million.

  compare april 2004 with april 2000, and you can see a massive drop off in zeal, during the famous "memorial season"

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  How many publishers reported in April? Last year 984,608 reported. Thanks.
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  Questions about Jehovahs Witness???

  by JDWEEE in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  charles taze russell, founded the jw in the 1860's.

  which is based on his own interpretations of the bible.

  he had no theology education, and did not know the greek, and hebrew language.. question: how can an average man, with "no" education, interpret the bible correctly?.

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  Question: How can an Average man, with "no" education, interpret the Bible correctly?

  With prayer.

  Question: Why would God allow man, to go for so long, up until the 1860's, without the correct interpretations of the Bible?

  JWs belief is that God has allowed enough time for humans to realize that they can't live happy and peacefully without his guidence.

  Question: Why would God guide, lead, and empower, people to write the scripture in a way that we could not understand, and interpret?

  They don't believe the Bible is too dificult to understand. People just don't want to accept things.JWs are right becuase they stay away from this wicked world, like Jesus.

  Question: Why should i, base my beleif on what an average man, such as myself, interpreted the Bible to really say, and mean?

  Study for yourself.
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  Are JW teaching the truth??? Do JW's know the truth???

  by JDWEEE in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i recently became interested in the jw, when a classmate of mine in college, told me he was a jw, and how it changed his life.

  i didnt know much about it, and asked him questions about his faith, and what it meant, and where it came from?

  and i was surprised at the answers he gave me, and became very interested, and wanted to learn more.. after asking him questions off, and on, for a period of time, i decided to go to the web, and find out more.

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  They believe that the true worshippers of Jehovah were going to show up during the "last days" after a long period in which no other religion was practicing the real Bible truths. They believe this is part of the Bible's prophecy of "spiritual restauration".

  They also believe that Jehovah was in favor of Russell and his bible study groups and the "new understandings" that they were learning. Thus the rapid growth.
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  WATCHTOWER SUE GOV + SEC OF JUSTICE for negative growth

  by one in

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  wt says governor and secretary of justice responsible for decreased jw membership

  you can save and print all filed documents if you are suscribed to pacer, 7 cents per page.

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  Is this the Puerto Rico case?
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  Silentlambs.org Uploading WT Documents Drawing Gasps By Denver Audience.

  by allpoweredup in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  part of email sent out from silentlambs.org regarding jw elders abetting child molestation at watchtower direction:.

  william h. bowen addressed the (denver snap) conference on the topic, ?is it possible jw?s are far worse than main stream religion when dealing with child abuse??

  never-before-seen material was presented to show the extent of the problem to gasps from the audience.

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  iHow many were there?
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  The 15 minute rule - how long will its effects last?

  by truthseeker in

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  it seems that there is an ever growing number of people who are still active and are handing in "bumped up" hours.

  yet, i have never seen an article acknowledging this.

  to my mind, nothing has been printed that counsels witnesses on lying about their hours.. and all these bible studies - do you really see them at the meetings?

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  Only disabled people who can't do much at all qualify to report 15 minutes.
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  The "United" Watchtower Society

  by Kenneson in

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  2. scandals

  "now i exhort you brothers, through the name of our lord jesus christ that you should all speak in agreement, and that there should not be divisions among you, but that you may be fittly united in the same mind and in the same line of thought.

  " 2 cor.

  1:10. according to the watchtower society one of the characteristics of apostasy is that it leads to division and fragmentation.

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  Elliott Kenan Kamwana was the founder of the Watch Tower movement and a Christian separatist leader, one of the forerunners of the independent church movement.
  
  
  He began as a Scots Presbyterian and between 1899 and 1903 led a highly successful revival movement. On a trip to South Africa he met Joseph Booth, a peripatetic English missionary who founded many sects and had baptized John CHILEMBWE. Kamwana became an Adventist and then a Jehovah's Witness. Returning to Malawi in 1906, he established a branch church known as the Watch Tower, taking the name from the newspaper of the Witnesses, and within three years he had baptized 10,000 followers. Kamwana preached that Armageddon would arrive in 1914 and that at His second coming, Christ would abolish hut taxes and expel all Europeans. The British authorities deported Kamwana to South Africa (1909-1914) and banned the Watch Tower movement.
  
  During Kamwana's exile, his churches continued clandestinely. Without organization, the Watch Tower movement spread to Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) and the Belgian Congo (now Zaïre), continuing to preach the end of colonialism. Whole areas of western Zaïre converted to the new religion. Although it was pacifist, colonial authorities suppressed it whenever possible. The Watch Tower movement continued to follow Jehovah's Witness teaching, using its symbolism. It was often known as Kitawala or "Kingdom", a central Witness theme, and preached the imminent coming of Christ, although it was non-Christian in its focus.
  
  The failure of the millennium to arrive in 1914 as predicted by Kamwana did not deter the growth of the movement. Kamwana preached briefly in Mozambique but was promptly deported to Malawi. During the Chilembwe revolt (1915) he was placed in preventive detention and then deported to Mauritius in the Indian Ocean because his followers refused to enter the army. In 1937, Kamwana returned to Malawi to take charge of the movement, but it was much reduced by then. He quietly continued to lead it until his death.
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  Will I die at Armageddon?

  by sinamongurl in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the anwser is: know one really knows but jehovah.. i have been df'd for 3 years now.

  i still struggle with: "should i go back cuz i dont want to die" .

  but then its not really for the "right" reason.

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  Don't go back because you "don't want to die". But becuase you wish to be a Jehovah's Witness again. Many people fear death. HaVing no hope.
  You say you believe some teachings like Armageddon. Well then you can go back when the tribulation begins? Many people live this way. They don't go back just yet because "there's still time". Stop living afraid.