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  The elders came by and my DA letter

  by Crazyguy in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the lead elder co of my hall said he was going to push for a jc meeting.

  i could tell all along all hes interested in is protecting his god the org.. so i'm 90% sure now of going on the offesive and first having a family meeting telling them i'm offically quitting and how its going to play out and how i'll will be shunned even though i have commited no sin.

  i also may explain a little of why and how i came to this decision with out bashing the org to much out of respect for my wife.

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  Zoos

  That is a great letter and I love your final line.

  Please remove me from your ranks as one of Jehovah’s Witnesses, for now I am divinely called a Christian.
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  Why remove John 8:1-11 in the NWT if these verses speak highly of Jesus

  by I_love_Jeff in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i understand these verses were removed in the nwt as well as some other bibles because they were added later & considered uninspired.

  jesus protected an adultress so why remove it?

  it fits in nicely with his teachings, does it not?

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  Zoos

  With this gone from the Bible, the younger generation will soon not even know it was once in there

  Exactly!

  I just read a thread on Yahoo! Answers about the old Youth book claiming masturbation causes homosexuality. A young(ish) JW chimed in, " I've never heard, read, or had even a remote insinuation of this preposterous assertion. Lie #1001018382828 about JWs."

  http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20131126121603AApQTp3

  It doesn't take long for the old teachings (or scriptures) to fade from the collective memory of the group.
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  "Special week of activity"

  by stillin in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  the co visit.

  i should keep count of how many times somebody uses that phrase.

  in the announcements, in the prayers, in their parts, ad nauseous.. and really...c'mon, now.

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  Zoos

  Ugh!... the spirit of complaint.

  LOL
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  Feb 2014 WT Study article

  by molybdenum in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  the caption under the picture in the first article.

  hail christthe glorious king!says:.

  birds will be called on to cleanse the earth (see paragraph 18).

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  Zoos

  LOL all ya'll!
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  Feb 2014 WT Study article

  by molybdenum in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  the caption under the picture in the first article.

  hail christthe glorious king!says:.

  birds will be called on to cleanse the earth (see paragraph 18).

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  Zoos

  They keep squaking about this because they're a bunch of loons who are bittern because the end hasn't come yet. They have some gull repeating this guano all the time. They act like a bunch of heron addicts. Pay those turkeys no attention. They'll all be eating crow before too long.
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  Comment made by an uber dub aunt

  by joe134cd in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  ok i've read similar threads to this before, but i just thought i would share a comment made by an aunt.

  my aunts bible student died, and due to the families wishes the funeral service was given in another church.

  my aunt with a disgusted look on her face when recalling the events to me said "and you know what, they must of only spent about 5 minutes talking about the person, and the rest of it was about the church".

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  New Article on BEARDS and Attire of Jehovah's Witnesses

  by jwfacts in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i have had requests to add an article about beards and jehovah's witnesses.

  it is interesting that there is virtually no statement that says a witness cannot have a beard, yet universally they do not have beards.

  i have scoured quotes from all the threads on jwn, all references to beard on the cd watchtower library, and copies of elders letters that i have.

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  Zoos

  Great article.

  Under the subheading Excessive Control, second quote, I noticed a small typo.

  "Therefore, even during leisure time, such as when going out to eat after the program, we should dress as befits ministers who are in the city for the purpose of attending a Christian convention and should not were such clothing as jeans, shorts, or T-shirts." Kingdom Ministry 2007 Apr p.4

  Perhaps "wear"?

  I've learned so much from your website. Thanks for all your hard work.
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  Scratch a Christian and see the Intolerance under the Skin

  by fulltimestudent in

  1. social
  2. current

  a bishop of the apostolic church (grandiose title, isn't it?

  ) in the cook islands, wants to ban local indians who are hindu's from celebrating their diwali festival.. he claims its blasphemy against the christian god, and that because the cooks islands is a christian country, no other form of worship should be permitted.. gotta love your average christian, don't you?

  if they are banned or persecuted, they scream their heads off, but as soon as they control things they want to ban any alternative worship.. cooks bishop condemns diwali celebration as blasphemyupdated 15 november 2013, 14:52 aest.

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  Zoos

  because the Cooks Islands is a Christian country, no other form of worship should be permitted.

  I heard a similar comment by a retired S. Baptist preacher recently. We get together for bible discussions and are careful to respect each other’s differences but he got a little excited about how God Bless America was bending over backward to accommodate Muslims and other non-Christian religions.

  "This country was founded by Christians, for Christians!"

  We were discussing the book of Daniel, specifically where the three boys were thrown in the fire. Mr. Preacher man said that the command to bow down to that alter was Nebuchadnezzar's version of trying to unite all the various gods in to one harmonious act of worship.

  I thought, "huh?"

  "And that's what Obama is doing now. He's trying to make Christians accept all these other gods and I'LL NOT STAND FOR IT!"

  I thought, "Obama is doing... huh?"

  I quickly remembered how rabidly some of these American zealots, especially in the southern states, are as incapable of seeing the difference between God and America as Jehovah's Witnesses are of seeing the difference between the governing body and Jehovah. It's not an argument worth having with a fully indoctrinated drone. I let it drop and tried to steer the conversation back to neutral territory.

  I wish I had thought to ask him Tec's question:

  So how could there be a 'christian country' other than the one He is coming to establish?
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  Baptism is a risk says JW.org - New YouTube video

  by RayPublisher in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i've been working on this one for a few weeks and it is finally done.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inmzhysxa-o.

  here's the description from the youtube video:.

  baptism is a risk!

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  Zoos

  marked
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  TED Talk: Coming Out of Your Closet

  by adamah in

  1. social
  2. family

  although the speaker is referring to coming out of the closet as gay, here's a good reminder for those fading, as the dynamic is the same (and a point she makes in the video about not comparing the difficulty to others).. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksr4xuu07sc.

  adam.

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  Zoos

  Awesome!