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  Question has this happened to anyone else?

  by skyman in

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  i was reading a post last night about the society breaking into several corporations.

  it reminded me about something that happened to me a few years back.

  my company was asked to do work for a world wide church in my home town.

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  skyman

  I was reading a post last night about the Society breaking into several corporations. It reminded me about something that happened to me a few years back. My company was asked to do work for a world wide church in my home town. I told them no way I could not work for them. The local brothers thought I was crazy for not working for the church because in was more money than most of the brothers make in a years time. Plus the contract would be for a minimum of five years. It was very tempting but I did not want reproach put on the congregation so I refused. The church threatened to sue my company. So I wrote the Information desk for help. The response form the Information desk was.

  "We believe in the direction provided on page 703 of the November 15, 1964, issue of the Watchtower would be applicable in your situation?. To work as a regular thing or as an incidental job, with a false religious organization?is an offense punishable by Dfing."

  So after receiving the response from the Information desk a brother from a near by congregation wanted me to give him a copy of the letter. I told him to write the Society himself I was not going to let him have a copy. I had the feeling he was trying to trap someone in his congregation. So I called the PO from thats congregation and sur enough he was. A brother from that congregation was doing work for local churches but he had a letter from the Society saying the he could. I went and talked to the this brother. He said the body of Elders was trying to remove him as an Elder for doing nothing more than what he had permission to do from the Society and he was not going to quite doing work for the local churches. His letter from the Legal Branch said he had to provide work for the churches because it was against the law to discriminate for religious reasons. This brother is now a circuit overseer. So I guess if you don?t get the answer the first time try a different branch of the Society until you get the answer you want. I was threatened with DFing and he became a C.O.
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  Blood transfusion saves the life of JW youth

  by TresHappy in

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  2. medical

  against his will, the transfusion that saved a boy

  by leonie lamont.

  the supreme court building had emptied hours before, except for the duty judge hearing an urgent application.. the children's hospital at westmead was seeking the court's approval for a life-saving blood transfusion for one of its patients.. the 16-year-old cancer patient and his parents were jehovah's witnesses.

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  skyman

  That is good new thanks. The blood issue is one of the biggest issues for me. I studied hard and have found over helming scripture support against the Societies doctrine. That does not even touch the wishy washy watchtower publications in regards the blood stance.
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  How many of you are still in?

  by IP_SEC in

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  i just thought i'td be neet to get a poll of how many people on this board are still meeting attending, time reporting publishers, who believe the wts is all crap?.

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  skyman

  Been out for 3 1/2 years and this is a great question.
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  What are Born-Again Christians going to do if 616 is the # of the beast?

  by booker-t in

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  2. bible

  pleasuredome posted a very interesting post about the number of the beast of rev is not 666 but is actually 616. he mentioned that scholars have found remains of old new testament fragments that actually show the number is 616. will born-agains announce that they have been wrong on this for over 2000 years when the apostle john wrote the book of revelations?

  i have always thought christians put to much emphasize on the number 666 and trying to make it a real person such as hitler, nero, president reagan, president clinton, etc; i have always felt the book of revelations is symbolic and cannot be taken so literally.

  i think many born-agains and other christian group are going to be shocked when they realize that they have been misled by their ministers and religious leaders.

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  skyman

  Great question. I was wondering the same thing. What is enteresting to me, what else in our translations we have today are wrong. All the fanatics better be ready for old mistranslated scripture to come to light.
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  confused

  by sugarbritches in

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  2. friends

  question-- if a jw is disfellowshipped for having too much association with a non-witness- is this jw likely to be refused a reinstatement as long as he is associating with her-- and if so- will he be allowed to talk to her again to some degree after he is reinstated?

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  They can DF the him if they can prove that you both had stayed the night together without anyone else being there for ex: staying the night at your house without anyone else there. Traveling together a lone over night. Most Elders think the worst and will assume your doing the wild thing.
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  TMS

  by loosie in

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  does anyone have some good excuses for getting out of giving talks in the theocratic ministry school?

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  As long as you keep going to the Borg's meetings you'll be pressured to give talks. Either be honest with the Borg Elders or have a sick felling in your heart every time you are asked to give a talk. Simply faking sick, or not showing up will altimately not work. If you say no more talks and think they'll leave you a lone you're crazy. They'll smell your questioning spirit and start look for way's to get you. You'll become their pray. I know I have hunted person like you for years when I was a faithful Borg.
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  What are some Bible contradictions that JWs can't reconcile?

  by marked in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i remember reading in the reasoning book about how to approach someone at the door who said the bible was full of contradictions.

  one of the answers was "many say the bible's full of contradictions but no one's been able to show me an example of one.".

  so, what are some examples that jws would have no real canned answer to?.

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  How about Abraham and GOD's one on one conversation does not the bible said GOD (does not say his Angle) came down to earth and talked person to person with Abraham. Yett the bible say's no one has seen GOD and lived.

  How about Jehovah had to ask his Angles to go down and find out how bad Sodom and Gamora was, could not the all knowing GOD allready known? How bout Moses wife hiding her son from God in a cave? How could GOD not have know where he was?
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  Do Jehovah Witnesses Believe in the Trinity?

  by researcher1 in

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  2. beliefs

  hello, my name is brian jackson.

  i am a seventh-day adventist and i am doing a bible project for my 11th grade religion class and i chose the topic of the trinity and decided to compare that of the seventh-day adventist teachings with that of your teachings.. what do you believe about the trinity?.

  also, a little off the topic, but why don't you believe in having an american flag in your sanctuary?.

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  I have to tell you the Trinity is not a good subject to try to convence a witness that he is wrong on. For exsample John 1:1 take a look in a diglot (Greek into English) I use the Zondervan translation you'll notice two different spellings for the God Jesus and the God Jehovah then look down at look at vrs 18 you'll notice the same two different spellings for God here notice the GOD for Jehovah Oeov the bible say's no man has seen but the god for jesus Oeos declared him to the world. I ask you this why does the writer of John use two different spellings for God here if it is the same God. John 1:1 look you notice the subject (word) has the article (o) but when it is said here that the word is God it does not have the article showing. Which mean it should be translated a god. Now look at when he was with God this GOD has a article before it (tov) which show that this God (Oeov) was of more importace than the god spelled (Oeos) Jesus god. Greek does not use a or an ex. lets go look at a house or leta go look at the house. a is plural the is singular. So when two nouns a used in the same sentence the Greeka use a diffinite artcle to show the reader which noun is the most important. So John 1:1 actually prove the Trinity wrong..
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  Giving your life for a Brother or Sister, would you have done it?

  by JH in

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  often, we hear that jw's would give their life for a brother or sister anywhere in the world.

  the more i know jw's, the more i say, "heck no"!

  since jw's believe in the resurrection, why bother?

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  skyman

  Yes I could. But it depends on the situation. For exsample in the spring of the year while the rivers are running high I would not jump into the river to save a JW or anyone else except if the person was one of my own children then would. So if I thought I could save the person Yes I would.
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  Introducing myself

  by bitca in

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  2. friends

  i've been lurking here for a while, so i figured it's time for me to introduce myself.

  i was raised in "the truth".

  both of my parents were witnesses, and so were their parents.

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  skyman

  I have never posted before either. I have been reading the post for over three years now and have allways been afraid of the Borg finding me out. I know MerryMagdalene we grew up together so it is time for all of us to stand up and not worry about the Borg.