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  JWs and breastfeeding past infancy

  by rebel8 in

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  my jw mother breastfed my sibs so long they remember it.

  one she stopped feeding when she went to kingergarten; i kid you not.

  my mother justified it by saying moses' mother breastfed him until whatever age and the bible encourages it.

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  When is the FDS appointed

  by cocus illicis in

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  2. bible

  when is the fds appointed

  can anyone tell me the date when the wt teaching of fds's appointment over master's belongings became an official doctrine of the society?

  was it a new 'truth' revealed in a wt circa 1914/19, or was the doctrine developed piecemeal in hindsight because subsequent events seemed to indicate it?

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  Field Service is a Farce

  by swiftbreeze in

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  2. beliefs

  i touch on this subject in another post but i felt the need to take it further...back in the day jw's went out in fs but i don't know about today.... i live in a big city....the territory my congregation has is small because there are so many cong.

  here.. our bookstudy only had maybe four blocks at the most to work.

  my ex husband and i would go to the meetings and hear talk about fs and all the wonderful and experiences and the joy oh joy in being out in the ministry.

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  Dubs putting smiley faces and scriptures on notes they send you.

  by LongHairGal in

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  2. experiences

  i am not necessarily referring to the scriptures they quote in greeting cards.

  although this is enough to make you barf because it makes the person sending it out to be so "spiritual" (whether they are or not) and also it makes a false impression that they love you (whether they do or not).

  what i am really referring to is when one of them needs a favor from you and they send you a note and put a smiley face at the bottom and quote some scripture.

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  Karate Lessons

  by Gill in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i often feel that i'm on this site having a 'moan' about one thing or another but this is one confused country when it comes to any sense of law any sense of law and order in any form.

  yesterday, on his way home from school, by son was attacked by someone with a record for violent behaviour, a boy of the same age.

  i rang the school and the police because son received injuries and was threatened with more violence if he reported the attack.

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  Is 2034 ''New Light''?

  by MidwichCuckoo in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  bear with me.

  over the years jw have always strived after/prophesied (even though they deny this) a carrot ''date''.

  as dates come and go, we hear about ''new light'', but according to the wt :-a new view of truth never can contradict a former truth.

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  #2 Talks

  by dothemath in

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  brothers assigned #2 talks have no work to do at all as far as i can see.

  if you're even a moderately good reader, you could look over it for about 2 minutes ahead of time.. when someone doesn't show up for the reading, and another brother fills in "short notice", there really isn't any noticeable change in the talk, or how it's read.

  in other words, just about anyone could do it.. and then the counselor has to come up with terms about how well the brother read it.........etc., etc., etc.. the commendation is pretty much identical every week for this part.. the sisters have to do extensive research on their parts, but the younger brothers who don't do the #4 assignments have got it very easy..........for most, it's about a 5 min.

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  Counsel by school overseer...

  by in a new york bethel minute in

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  what was your worst point of counsel?

  i think for most men, it was gesturing to an audience while trying to make it look natural.

  i remember writing on my notes to gesture and to speak slowly... what was your hardest point of counsel to work on?.

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  Do J.W.'s still spank their kids in Kingdom Hall libraries to punish them?

  by hubert in

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  2. beliefs

  i've heard a lot on this subject, and was wondering if it's a common practice?.

  can you go to a meeting and almost always see some poor kid getting a walloping in the back room for talking or misbehaving at the meeting?

  or is this a thing of the past?.

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  How do the Kigdom Melodies compare to Christendom's Songs?

  by Honesty in

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  2. experiences

  i just have to comment about the canned wtbts music on cd the local congregations play on $150 cd players through $20 speakers set in the foamboard ceilings at their sales meetings worship services.

  what a joke the music is that they use to sing praises.

  the lyrics remind me of a high school pep rally with all the emphasis on 'we're joe hoba's witnesses and yada-yada-yah preaching from door to door and from house to house' or 'life everlasting in the pair-o-dice' crap that just tickles the dubbies ears so much they get all pretty and pink.

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