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HOW JWS TREAT THE MINOR CHILDREN OF DISFELLOWSHIPPED MEMBERS
by steve2 inas part of another post, i asked the following question (but got no reply):.
has any watchtower publication ever discussed - or alluded to - how witnesses are to "view" the minor children of persons who have been disfellowshipped?.
on this board, and from direct experience, i have seen a wide range of treatment dished out to the innocent offspring of disfellowshipped persons.
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ANNUAL REPORT OF JW PREACHING ACTIVITY NOW DROPPED FROM THE WATCHTOWER!!!
by steve2 inthe annual report will no longer appear in the watchtower.
starting in 2008, it will appear as an insert in our kingdom ministry as well as in the yearbook.. .
for more than seventy years, the annual report of the worldwide activity of jws has been proudly publicised in the january 1st editions - and more latterly the february 1st editions of the watchtower magazine.
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WE HAVE SEEN THE FUTURE OF JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES AND IT'S CALLED...
by steve2 inhere's what will happen to jehovah's witnesses as they roll right past 2014: they will become increasingly like the religious group that influenced charles russell: the christadelphians who started around 1830-1840 and who have many basic doctrines in common with the witnesses.
the christadelphians were once an outspoken, vibrant, edgy "christian" group who spread their urgent end-times message far and wide.
they grew exponetially in the latter half of the nineteenth century, but their heyday is long past.
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SCANNED COPY OF KINGDOM MINISTRY FOR AUGUST 2007??
by steve2 incan any poster provide a scanned copy of the us field service report in the august km.
some posts have alluded to less than impressive stats for auxiliary pioneers; however, another poster said that the peak number of publishers was up by about 30,000 +.
it would be helpful to have the figures on hand..
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IT IS EASIER TO LEAVE JWS IF NONE OF YOUR FAMILY ARE JWS
by steve2 inone of the biggest - if not the biggest barriers - to leaving the organization is family ties - particularly immediate family (i.e., those living in your household: sons, daughters, mothers, fathers, mother-in-laws, father-in-laws).
i know of no bigger barrier.
therefore, it's relatively easy to predict who will face the most adversity in trying to leave.
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RECOMMENDED SONG TITLES FOR JW YEAR TEXTS
by steve2 inyou keep me hanging on.
it's too late.
i feel the earth move..... .
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WATCHTOWER MAGAZINE SALES INCREASING?
by steve2 inrequest.
i haven't seen a copy of either the awake!
or the watchtower for years.
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THE BIBLE ADVOCATES GENOCIDE?
by steve2 inhave biblical apologists satisfactorily explained the blood-drenched biblical passages in which jehovah orders his people to wipe out every living soul - young, old, men, women, child, infirm - in the territory they're told to invade?.
who needs bin laden when you've got jehovah?
or is jehovah excused because he's truly mightier, like, because he's the creator he can call the shots, no matter how much and who's blood is shed?
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DAMNED CONSCIENCE:JW Hypocrites Who Take Blood Products
by steve2 inthe blood letters by r jensen made riveting reading.
thank you to the posters who advised about the availability of these letters: a lone elders attempts to elicit some sense from the rigidly nonsensical watchtower's pick-and-choose blood transfusion doctrine.
the guy was probably doomed from the start, but i so admire his persistence and courage!
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IS THE 2005 JW SERVICE YEAR REPORT OUT YET?
by steve2 inthe time approaches for the annual feeding-frenzy over the previous service year report.
has it been published yet?
it usually appears in the january 1st watchtower, but last time it appeared in the february 1st.