Topics Started by william draper

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Regional Convention 2015 - Program
by Designer Stubble in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
friday morning9:20 music9:30 song no.

5 and prayer9:40 chairmans address: imitate jesuswhy and how?10:20 symposium: lessons from jesus word pictures observe the birds and the lilies have salt in yourselves build your house on the rock11:10 song no.

120 and announcements11:20 follow jesus patternkeep on asking, seeking, and knocking!11:45 keynote address: concealed in him are all the treasures of wisdom12:15 song no.
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Having Faith in the Bible
by william draper in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i know many on here have lost faith in the bible , is it possible that is because ones do not have the right perspective regarding it .

we have usually been taught by bad teachers , or ignorant .

i believe if we take an honest look at the bible , we will see that it gives us the best answers to crucial matters , it gives us some amount of bearings ( understanding ) , which without having such knowledge we would all be more like walking zombies in amanner of speaking , we would be lacking hope in something better , for surely something better is to come , how can we be sure , .
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Is door to door activity over?
by badcompany in
1. jw
2. friends
just curious about others experience.

i've been living just a few miles from a kingdom hall for 9 years.

i've been called on 0 times.
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Being in a cult - what good did it do?
by Garrett in
1. jw
2. friends
so, here's a bit of a different point of view.

while most of us will agree that our time within the jw cult was rather terrible, however, i'd like to look at another aspect.

did anything good come out of being in a cult and then waking up from it?.
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My first "disagreement" with standard JW thinking
by TTATT_Paladin in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
about two years after i was baptized, i had this incident.

i looked at it as an isolated incident at the time, but now realize it would have had basically the same result with 99.99% of any jws not members here.. i will keep it short.

i was talking with a person who was raised in the religion.
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PSALMS 83: 18 What is the name of God ?
by william draper in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
so many of us have been taught that the name of god is jehovah , if like me many have come to really appreciate god's name .. .

more accurately we , at least many or most love the name of jehovah , or more accurately should i say this pronunciation .

does god care what we call him , of course he does , he had his name written in the bible as yhwh ( best i can do on this computer ) , more than 6000 times .
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Where is it said , not to independently do deep study of scripture
by william draper in
1. watchtower
2. bible
i do believe it is written somewhere in jw literature .
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1 Meeting for each of your fingers ? ? ?
by william draper in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
anybody remember how this became a doctrine , years ago , we were at the meetings so that out fingers would be learning something .

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When you were Hard-Core JW, did Opponents Screaming or Filming you help your Exit?
by PokerPlayerPhil in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
all of us are upset in different ways, some of us are ferociously angry because, let's face it, it's our fault!

i had many clues they were lying about our religion but i failed to see through them because of the pain of admitting we got conned and family pressure from peers stopped me from making a courageous choice.

when i read about people who confronted the elders and won their judicial committees (even though the jw elders df'ed them) my heart goes out to their courage, their amazingly stronger than i will ever be.
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Hounded to his Death
by Slidin Fast in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
http://www.thanetgazette.co.uk/inquest-concludes-dad-died-margate-night-went/story-26272711-detail/story.html.

this story makes me ill with rage.

this man's crime?