I agree with ttte36: loosing your faith isn't a reason for disfellowshipping. But it should not appear to the elders he is an opponent or apostate now. So he should try to avoid any dispute about the topic. The tone should be more or less: "Oh, brothers, I loved Jehovah so much. But now... I don't know... I'm struggling. I think my faith has weakened." Next the elders will 'encourage' him to study and to visit the meetings. "Yes, brothers, you're probably right. I will think about that. Thank you so much for your encouragement."
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by cookiemaster ini need some advice.
actually my friend needs some advice.
a few years ago i moved about 50 km (30 miles) away from the nearest congo and have since tried to live a normal life.
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Serena Williams
by New day ini am a big tennis fan and today i watched serena williams win the australian open, one of the four tournaments which make up the pinnacle of achievement in the tennis world, the grand slam.
in her victory speech the first thing she said was that she thanked her god jehovah for the victory.
now i know that rumours have circulated for a long time as to whether she is a baptised witness or not, but she is definitely associated with witnesses .
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I always loved how these JW girls were waving the American flag.
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WT were correct about snakes with legs all along!!
by Splash in.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/wildlife/6187320/snake-with-foot-found-in-china.html.
what does this tells us about evolution?.
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JW.org email and contact numbers
by Juan Viejo2 inok - here is your task for the day:.
go to jw.org and find their information email address.
then find their weekend support desk phone number.. there is a link at the bottom of many pages that says [ ] email link.
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Their App in the Play store refers to [email protected].
The WHOIS-record refers to [email protected].
And something like [email protected] and [email protected] should always be available.
I doubt you'll get a reply on any of there addresses.
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What was your experience in school as a Jehovah's Witness youth? What were some of your regrets and how did your peers treat you?
by adjusted knowledge ini was in the first month of kindergarten on the night my parents had their first bible study with the jehovahs witnesses.
it was around october and would be my last halloween, christmas, and birthday.
i cherished those last memories though i cant really recall my last birthday celebration as a child.
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I had a good JW youth. Got baptized when I was 14. Never had any problems with not celebrating holidays, did some occasional 'witnessing' to my school mates. I had a lot of friends at school and they loved to discuss religious matters with me. I laughed at them and they at me, and we mutually respected each other.
The only thing I regret: there was this one girl I fell in love with when I was 17, and she with me. I really should have uhm... 'explored' our relation a lot more. -
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Je Suis Charlie
by Slidin Fast inthis incident in paris makes me feel absolutely furious.
yes i feel desperately sorry for the victims and their families no one should have to deal with that.
the thing that makes me feel absolutely incandescent though is the attack on freedom of speech and expression.
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Quoting a journalist friend:
We all have our tendencies towards certain ideologies or belief systems. For example, you can be a follower of Christ or be convinced socialism is the best socio-economic system, it doesn't matter. I'm an atheist. We are all different. We all have our individual or shared beliefs.
Now, I feel we're being generally quite hypocritical as we tend to be more lenient towards acts of brutality depending on how loyal or disloyal we are to their alleged cause.
I'm quite impressed by some of these scholars and how they really lay the responsibility of extremist elements within their own community. We should do this too. Ultimately, the justest way is to meet in the middle. It's where I meet my friends. We do this by moderating the extremes on our own end, not by targeting our so-called opponents.
BTW I live in Colombia. Since 1977 about 142 journalists got killed here (and none by a Muslim).
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No longer to use "house to house record" slips and "please follow up slips"!
by stuckinarut2 ina letter has just been read out indicating that effective immediately, witnesses are no longer to use the s-8 slip known as the "house to house" record slip, as well as the s-43 "please follow up" slip (usually used for foreign language people).. the letter stated that this is because of the changes in privacy laws etc that are becoming common in the world today.. i will try and get a copy of the full letter and post it asap.. .
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I know the slips were banned in Belgium years ago. In The Netherlands they still used the forms when I got out (2012), I don't know the current situation. And for the foreign field (I was the ministerial servant in charge of the territory) we builded a nice program to keep track of all the foreign addresses, which we printed on S-8.
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I use RSS in Firefox. Love it. Especially for a dozen blogs that don't update every day, or news sites that have a lot of not-interesting articles.
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This weeks service meeting! More craziness.....
by stuckinarut2 inso this weeks service meeting is so full of "crazy".
a whole 15 min part devoted to trying to indoctrinate everyone on how to "explain our beliefs on 1914".
then another 15 min part called "a tool to help us explain our beliefs about 1914".
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Tv.jw.org - Average Jdub reaction? I'm getting NOTHING but Silence!
by 4thgen inhello all, as you know, when jw tv was announced, our board went wild.
many comments, much speculation and alot of negative feedback on the quality, etc.
well, what has me concerned is that i have not heard a peep from any of my connections left in kingdom-land.
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How many JW read their magazines? Read the Bible daily? Participate at the meetings? Pioneer? How many do recognize 'new light' when they read it? (Usually the WT needs a footnote to indicate: this is new light.) How many are really able to lead a Bible study? Etc.
Really, most JW aren't very jolly about their religion: they're followers, not more. Maybe just 10% is really active and happy about it. The rest is mentally inactive.
So, I am not suprised that most jdubs aren't very exited with tv.jw.org.
