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  My half-day at the Portland Bible Students Convention

  by Glenmore in

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  i am neutral on the bible students as i liked russell?s stuff; i even scoffed at the anti-russell books when i was becoming borg in 1981. so this isn?t at all criticism.

  it was a bit refreshing.

  but this is just one study period, lunch, two discourses and a few breaks, so i just saw and felt what half-a-day in rural

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  Baptismal Pool

  by Sunspot in

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  the other day i received an email from a man in croatia, who sent me and someone else a copy of a picture from a wts magazine.

  i wasn't quite sure about the contents, but it looked to be legitimate----but being in croatian i was not sure of what it actually said and i ended up putting it aside intending to check it out (if possible) and then forgetting all about it.

  he had also sent this to another person, who went to the trouble of verifying the facts and getting an understanding of what was being said in the picture.

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  How Many Here Left The Organization? How Many Got Kicked Out??

  by minimus in

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  just curious.....

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  What first gave you doubts ?

  by rick1199 in

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  we all know the big problems with the wts, but what was the first thing that made you realise there were problems with the organisation ?

  with me it was realitivly small stuff like an 8 year old getting baptised and a comment my best mates made about another of our friends asking if we should be hanging round with her as she might be bad assciation (she had just been reproved, but they had been mates 20 years).. .

  how ever the first time i ever thought something was really wrong was when i was about 11 and my grand farther died, and mu mum wouldn't go to the funeral, i remeber thinking that surely it was better to say good bye properly than worry about if the service was in a church.. .

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  How many were raised as a JW during their teenage years?

  by codeblue in

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  and how many of you feel because of that, you never really got to be a "teenager"?

  codeblue

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  ARMAGEDDON UPDATING?FROM THE WBTS INC. ??

  by MacHislopp in

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  "armageddon"

  "armageddon is

  before armageddon.

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  Is it ok for a man and a woman to live with each other wihout being wed

  by fearnotruth22 in

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  sometimes it may not be possible to get married for a lot of reasons so is it ok for a man and a woman just to live with each other?

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  Common Sense Defies The Society

  by shamus in

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  how can you explain to a person that "god is love" then explain disfellowshipping to them, even though the person who is the "prodigal son" is forgiven instantly?

  witnesses say that this is just an illustration.. they forgot to tell you that all they're teachings are from illustrations that jesus used.

  they use double speak in this regard.

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  Don't YOU just LOVE the SNOW?

  by mpatrick in

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