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We Don’t Give Christmas Presents; We Give Presents To Each Other All Year Long!
by Sea Breeze in
1. jw
2. friends
how many of you dutifully told this lie to your friends as a kid?.
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Would You Get A Cease and Desist Letter From the WT if You...
by NotFormer in
1. jw
2. friends
...put a christmas wreath that featured the jw.org logo on your door?

🤔.
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Attended JW funeral today
by usualusername1 in
1. jw
2. friends
never miss a marketing opportunity—even at a funeral.

funerals aren’t the first place you’d expect marketing.

but jehovah’s witnesses know how to turn every moment into an opportunity to share their message.. during funerals, they weave in their teachings of hope and resurrection, offering comfort and, at the same time, presenting their beliefs to attendees who may not be part of the faith.
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L.A. D.A. Announces His Office Is Reviewing The Menendez Brothers' Conviction
by silentbuddha in
1. jw
2. friends
not sure if anyone really remembers this case, it was huge at the time.

the very interesting point though about this was that at the time the parents were known to be very active in the jw religion.

i also believe that the father may have been an elder(i could be mistaken, though).
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It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars (continued)
by Simon in
1. jw
2. friends
uh oh, looks like the mega thread gave up the ghost, so while i investigate / fix it just continue the discussion here .... it's been a long 9 years lloyd evans / john cedars.
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New blood card
by ExBethelitenowPIMA in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
all elders just got letters about this new blood card system .

“language-coordinating congregations will receive separate parcel(s) containing the revised durable power of attorney for health care (dpa-e) for all congregation(s) in their literature group.“.

my questions are - why the revision and what has been revised?.
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Scriptures That Bothered You as a JW Kid.
by Sea Breeze in
1. watchtower
2. bible
my big one was: .

rev.

20: 5 "but the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished.
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WARNING! If you DELIBERATELY avoid the JW memorial.....
by BoogerMan in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
.......you will experience a fate worse than death!

you have been warned - don't come crying to me if you don't go.

you've got one month to change your mind.
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It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars
by Newly Enlightened in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
original reddit post (removed).
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wt on education..
by zeb in
1. jw
2. friends
i have just watched the glass smashing on the wt video on education.. please consider these experiences from the opposite side of that "coin".. i have heard young ones say out-loud on the mike in the kh that "jehovah is my special friend.."these ones who were at the top of the wt 'tree' pioneering, putting in the hours etc but, it followed that soon saying that pivotal statement they dropped their pioneering, faded, picked up the girl/boyfriend and suffered being dfd.. so where did their wt "education" leave them?

it left them as young adults naive to the world, unskilled, with no qualification to offer any employer and having to replace their former family/associates/friends with new ones.. ( dont get me going on shunning) in some cases with little success as we have read here where they moon about for months or longer unable to emotionally heal after the leaving or df'ing and also others with such a turn around they would never have believed it possible... there was a wt that related how a brother (!

) followed an interest in history and left the truth.