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  Simon, please update my profile picture!

  by will-be-apostate in

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  2. tech-support

  i've read on another thread you need to delete the cached file of the profile picture so that it can be updated by the gravatar user.

  i created a gravatar account, added the email address i use on here and uploaded the an image, but nothing happens.

  this was 3 days ago.. could you please solve this problem?.

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  I assure you I am far from that. That's what I tell myself daily...
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  JW.org Logo

  by XBEHERE in

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  2. friends

  dear brothers:.

  you will be pleased to know that the governing body has approved displaying the official.

  logo for jw.org on assembly halls and kingdom halls.

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  You will find it helpful to involve a brother or sister with technical experience and an understanding of what is presented below.

  Do they mean a brother with an education?
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  Simon, please update my profile picture!

  by will-be-apostate in

  1. forum
  2. tech-support

  i've read on another thread you need to delete the cached file of the profile picture so that it can be updated by the gravatar user.

  i created a gravatar account, added the email address i use on here and uploaded the an image, but nothing happens.

  this was 3 days ago.. could you please solve this problem?.

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  I'd love to be able to change mine too if possible Simon. Thank you.
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  Losing Faith in Faith..

  by Dis-Member in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i came across this lecture at 3am not being able to sleep by dan baker.

  it details his transition from christian fundamentalist to atheist and the various shades in-between.

  he realises that every denomination of christian can open the bible and prove to you that they have the right interpretation and everyone else is wrong.

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  It's a little different when you see it for yourself. But you realize that it's mostly mental, psychosomatic. They could have made these changes on their own if they only believed in themselves. I could make the change if only I believed in myself.

  Not off topic at all. I think the same. I too made drastic and vast changes to my lifestyle behaviour and personality. But I'm thinking now I could just as well have done all that on my own. I also wonder did I really actually do it for God? Or did I do it to gain love and approval from members of the congregation and elders etc. Peer pressure and the desire to conform can be incredibly powerful motivational forces.

  I guess if one steps away from the pressure and need to please one will see what's really left.
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  Balancing the Mix of Healthy Spiritual Teachings and Questionable Doctrines as JW

  by ProfCNJ in

  1. social
  2. current

  if you are a current or active jw, you cannot help but feel you are in a bind.

  while you have discovered the truth about the truth and has continuously researched on it, you cannot help also but to regard the fellowship inside, add perhaps those encouraging teachings which build up faith and spirituality.. the reality is you cannot just turn a blind eye on the goodness in the organization too or shall we say some of its members who are also standing by you.

  somehow, you felt the fds food is helping you in a spiritual sense.

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  Come to think of it even disfellowshipped people are 'related to you in the faith'. So you must love them too, if not more so.
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  Anti-christ

  by oldflame in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  do you know who the son of perdition is ?

  do you know he is here and active today more than ever ?

  do you know that america is the mystery babylon spoken of in scripture ?

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  Did you get any spelling tuition?

  Maybe he is referring to this..

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paluxy_River
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  Balancing the Mix of Healthy Spiritual Teachings and Questionable Doctrines as JW

  by ProfCNJ in

  1. social
  2. current

  if you are a current or active jw, you cannot help but feel you are in a bind.

  while you have discovered the truth about the truth and has continuously researched on it, you cannot help also but to regard the fellowship inside, add perhaps those encouraging teachings which build up faith and spirituality.. the reality is you cannot just turn a blind eye on the goodness in the organization too or shall we say some of its members who are also standing by you.

  somehow, you felt the fds food is helping you in a spiritual sense.

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  The good that they do?
  
  Please tell me about this 'good' as I'm struggling to find any. Jesus gave the command to feed and clothe and take care of the poor. I have never seen a witness feed or clothe any poor person that was not in their own congregation and maybe related by blood.
  
  They have taken the phrase 'especially to those related to you in the faith' and replaced it with 'only those in your click in your own narrow and very specific faith that attends your own meeting hall and is considered by the local BOE to be in 'good standing''.
  
  The WT organisation with it's billions has never once opened a shelter for the homeless and destitute, no food banks for the hungry, not a thing for single struggling mothers or abused women and orphans, no free medical centres for the sick, diseased and dying. No academies, colleges or institutes to educate people. Things practically every major and minor religion on earth has done in some form or other.
  
  But never the Orgites..
  
  They have never given a single cent to any charity ever anywhere. You will not even get a free sandwich at any 3 day assembly.
  
  Nothing.. Zero.. zilch.. nada.

  They have taken some of the most important words of Christ and nullified them.
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  Balancing the Mix of Healthy Spiritual Teachings and Questionable Doctrines as JW

  by ProfCNJ in

  1. social
  2. current

  if you are a current or active jw, you cannot help but feel you are in a bind.

  while you have discovered the truth about the truth and has continuously researched on it, you cannot help also but to regard the fellowship inside, add perhaps those encouraging teachings which build up faith and spirituality.. the reality is you cannot just turn a blind eye on the goodness in the organization too or shall we say some of its members who are also standing by you.

  somehow, you felt the fds food is helping you in a spiritual sense.

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  On waking up.. don't forget to apply this Bible principal too.

  2 Corinthians 6:17

  Therefore, "Come out from them and be separate, says the Lord. Touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you."
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  Jim Penton's beloved wife Marilyn died today.

  by AndersonsInfo in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  her suffering is finally over.

  marilyn has been battling cancer for about three years and at times it looked like she would win.

  but in the last few months the cancer spread.

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  I do not know these people but 60 years is an incredible time to be with someone. The sadness and feelings of and pain and loss must be indescribable. My heart goes out to this obviously very fine gentleman.
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  What now?

  by thedog1 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i don't know if it has been a good thing or a bad thing to have found this site.

  i stumbled on it about a year ago as i mentioned in previous posts.

  it has opened my eyes to so many things, but right now all is confusion.

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  That is indeed one incredible list Focus and I have come across and been through it via other sources but very useful to have it all on once place as you have made it. It's the things in this list that contributed to my breaking free. In fact there was no breaking free.. the mental shackles just fell off like paper chains.

  Thank you for sharing. I go back to it occasionally whenever my fickle human mind starts wandering.