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  Paranoia of today's WT study!

  by stuckinarut2 in

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  the wt study for sept 7th just breeds such a spirit of paranoia!.

  using old biblical references just so as to prevent anyone from using critical thinking skills and analysing the "truth".. then using incorrect, leading reasoning to paint any who "think outside of the box" of the org as "apostate".... pure manipulation!.

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  Daniel1555

  Hey stuckinarut

  The wt study of next week is even worse.

  One more reason for me not to attend.
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  I'm meeting with my congregation Elders Today HELP PLEASE

  by LennaB in

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  2. bible

  meeting with my congregation elders today.. going to tell them about the things i discovered about c.t russell.

  (astrology, racism, ect.

  ) i don't know how to present this information or what to say.

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  Daniel1555

  Dear Lenna

  You will have a wonderful life ahead of you.

  Love, compassion and respect for other, caring and helping in smaller and bigger things can bring real meaning to your life.

  As to the question about if there is a god. Pray to your creator, even though you don't know who he is. After studying and meditating about old testament accounts of Jehovah ordering genocide and mass killings of children even babies (for example Numb.31) it is clear to me that this is just the tribal god of old Israel and NOT the true creator.

  After doing research about the blood doctrine, shunning of df even among family it is clear to me that JWs are NOT the true religion (I doubt that there is a true religion.

  I believe in a loving father / creator who wants individual persons to be free and enjoy a life of love, compassion and joy.

  There are good times ahead of you. Don't let JWs make you feel guilty and bad. They might be individually loving and kind people but the organisation and its teachings CAN NOT be guided by the true god.

  I wish you and your husband all the best from my heart.
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  Please help....in a dilemma..

  by crazyhorse in

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  2. beliefs

  please help with this: when i was in college, there was a lot of talk about university and how all who pursue that are wasting their time and all that.

  even before going to uni, there was a lot of pressurr on me concerning my decision.

  during that time, two elders sat with me for appointment as ms and asked me if i have freedom of speech in the org since i'm going to uni and i said no.

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  If they ask you again for becoming a ms and you say "yes", they will pressure you to become an elder. Exactly the same happened with me. I didn't want to become ms and elder but I was afraid to say no. For elder I said first no, then they pressured even more and I said yes (you have to know that if you say "no" to the elders it will make them look stupid before the co).

  I learned the hard way. JUST SAY NO WHEN THEY ASK YOU. You don't owe them an explanation. Maybe they will wonder if you committed a secret sin that prevents you. Just answer "no" and "don't worry it's not because of a sin. I am fine and if not I will let you know."
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  Are Congregation Picnics still forbidden? If so, Why???

  by NAVYTOWN in

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  Daniel1555

  My congregation (I attend about 2 times a month) has large congregation parties and picnics about all 3-4 months. So nothing forbidden by the borg.
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  Breast milk contains white blood cells

  by Rufus T. Firefly in

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  i just learned (from a post on a facebook jw recovery forum) that breast milk contains white blood cells [see link below for confirmation].

  so, when nursing, an infant ingests its mother's white blood cells for nourishment.

  furthermore, i have known jw mothers who would nurse the infant of another mother when that mother was temporarily indisposed.

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  Yes exactly.

  I asked to a prominent HLC elder why white blood cells are forbidden, when there are more white blood cells in mothers milk than in the same amount of blood.

  His answer. "I can't answer that."

  I wrote the same question among others to the branch office 2 years ago. Still waiting for an answer.
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  UK September 15 Service Meeting

  by kramer in

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  anyone know what the change of program for that weeks meetings is about?.

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  Daniel1555

  Hi

  Here is the link to the post, discussing what it is.

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/beliefs/283030/1/Sept-1-service-meeting-mystery-revealed#.U_5kWMnemBY
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  BIG CHANGE IN THE WIND?

  by The Searcher in

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  2. beliefs

  following on from this post - http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/beliefs/282716/1/is-this-the-big-change - my info is that the service meeting items next week are to be reduced by 5 minutes each to allow the cobe to present the secret item to the flock!.

  also, no one, not even the cobe knows what the subject matter is yet.. everyone here should be ashamed of themselves for making the glorious ones in brooklyn more secretive than opus dei or the freemasons!!

  :).

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  Daniel1555

  Here is the link to the post

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/beliefs/283030/1/Sept-1-service-meeting-mystery-revealed#.U_5kWMnemBY
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  Another movie (IF I STAY) on immortality of soul!

  by Pinku in

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  materialists continue to dismiss the notion of immortality of soul, calling it as bull-shit.

  however film industry is least bothered about such ridicule as they know that most people are fascinated by the idea that we have a soul that survives the physical death (of the body).

  latest in the series is the movie (if i stay, warner bros. pictures, directed by r j cutler, released last friday) that revolves around the heroine having an out of the body experience.

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  Hi Pinku

  Thousands of people of every culture and religion, adult or child have these Near Death experiences. Many don't talk about them. But they have a profound influence on their lives. They can't be explained by scientific means but many studies have been made about them.

  Like how could a person be conscious of what is happening around them, seeing or hearing things that happened in other hospital rooms while they are clinically dead and should be conscious of nothing at all?

  I believe there is so much rhat we don't know and I take NDEs for real.
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  Smiling at a Disfellowshipped JW instead of Completely Ignoring him

  by ProfCNJ in

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  i was driving our car going to our assigned territory for our sunday field minsitry (was with jw 2 sisters) when i saw a disfellowshipped jw riding his motorcycle heading towards us.

  the guy was df'd around 2 months ago only (won't delve much on his case).

  approximately about 10 meters, we saw him smile.

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  To smile at him I think is the least you can do.

  Why not say "hello" or "hi" to him and don't care what others think?
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  Brother in law thinks I am a pagan Worshipper

  by Yondaime in

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  last month i decided to attend the international convention at metlife since my sister's cong was invited so she took me along with my older brother.

  my sister drove and my older brother sat in the front seat of her suv.

  i was in the back seat with the greatest watchtower apologist/loser/eldermole in the universe my bil.. they were all chatting away about how this assembly filed with regurgitated spiritual stool was a sign of the last days since so many people would be in attendance.

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  When I was 15 my sister (13) destroyed my Bon Jovi Keep the Faith album as another brother told her Bon Jovi is demonic.

  Now she laughs about how stupid she was at that time. Keep the Faith is still one of my favourite albums.