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  I'm thinking about going back

  by Corboy101 in

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  i have been out for 22 years.i was raised as a jehovahs witness.

  i was baptized in 1986 but soon after left the religion.

  theres a whole lot to the reasons why i left, but i left.

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  The most important day of the year. Sometimes. Sort of.

  by Jeffro in

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  for jehovah's witnesses, the "most important day of the year" is supposed to be the 'memorial'.

  this 'sacred' event is to be held after sunset on nisan 14. except most of the time, it isn't.. as 'explained' in the watchtower, 1 february 1976, page 73, the "governing body" (not capitalised at the time) takes it upon itself to 'determine' the 'actual' date of nisan 14. they claimed in the article that the 'modern' date for the start of nisan in the hebrew calendar is calculated differently to the ancient calculation.

  however, that's not actually the case.. the actual calendation for determining the start of nisan was (since at least the neo-babylonian period) and is based on the metonic cycle - a sequence that repeats every 19 years.. in the metonic cycle, the 3rd, 6th, 8th, 11th, 14th, 17th and 19th years have an extra (thirteenth) month (adar ii, or veadar).

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  Less than one third (1/3) of Jehovah's Witnesses will survive Armageddon

  by Calebs Airplane in

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  in the early 80's when i was just a teen, i was out in field circus one day when i overheard our cobe (called president at the time?

  ) telling another elder that, if armageddon were to come tomorrow, less than 1/3 of the congregation would survive.

  this was actually in a bakery as we were just finishing up and they didn't even notice me standing in line as they were too busy drooling over the pastries and talking trash about a ministerial servant who decided not to go to field circus that day for whatever reason.

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  Branch Organization Manual! download .....

  by notgoinback in

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  as my second post on this forum, i want to share this with you guys!

  this is the official branch organization manual (updated 2003) of jehovah's witnesses:.

  http://jhonlemos.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/branch-organization-watchtower.pdf.

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  The New World Translation in Papiamento

  by 1009 in

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  2. bible

  in 2011 the wbts released the new world translation in papiamento.

  papiamento is the language from the netherlands antilles (aruba, bonaira, and curacao), which i have mastered well.. upon reading the translation i was shocked: this isn't the nwt anymore.

  there are other bible translations in papiamento that a better representation of the english nwt than the papiamento nwt.

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  Newby here

  by 1009 in

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  i am new here and briefly want to introduce myself.. my name is michel and i am from the netherlands.

  became baptized when i was 14, started pioneering when i got 18 and i've been ms for a number of years.

  i married another pioneer and after a while we joined a foreign language congregation.

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  John 3:16 - "EXERCISE faith"...??

  by EdenOne in

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  the nwt often uses the expression "exercise", when it comes to the expression of faith.. "a notable use of that is in john 3:16 - for god loved the world so much that he gave his only-begotten son, in order that everyone exercising faith in him might not be destroyed but have everlasting life.".

  i started to be intrigued by the expression "exercise faith".

  it is true that james wrote that "faith without works is dead", meaning that faith must be more than just an inner feeling or an oral statement; it must be evidenced by works.

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  I was reading an "old" Watchtower mag and the "overlapping" generation was hinted at with President Knorr from a QFR

  by booker-t in

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  i was flipping through an old volume of the wt mag from 1952 and a qfr was asked about "this generation" from matthew and the author actually mentioned "overlapping" generations.

  i was surprised but it dawned on me that pres knorr toyed with this explaination 60 yrs ago so the new light is really partially "old light" from the 50s.

  the sept 1 1952 qfr ask "your publications point out that the battle of armaggeddon will come in this generation and that this generation began ad 1914, scriptually, how long is a generation?

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  What Would Jesus NOT Do?

  by whereami in

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  warning to fundies, you might want to avoid this.

  your brain might start working.. .

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zofjkl-3sne.

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  Farkel is a liar and a cheat!

  by seven006 in

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  i have absolutely had it with farkel's lies and (try new kiddy bathroom bubbles only $3.95 per bottle) his childish attempts to discredit those who still believe in god.

  he is relentless in his (now the one pound tub of the famous amway laundry detergent only 19.95) efforts to shove atheism down our throats.

  i personally am offended by (new amway energy bars in four tasty flavors, box of 12 only $6.95) his blatantly cynical attitude and slamming dialog.. i think his account should be (summers coming, try amway car wax and make your old car look new)!

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