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  Sign-witnessing photo from around 1937 in San Diego

  by Dogpatch in

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  2. friends

  i thought some of you might enjoy this picture that was just sent in.

  it is a girl and her mother (far left) doing sign witnessing in san diego, calif., advertising a lecture by the late great judge rutherford!.

  http://www.exjws.net/museum/signwork.jpg.

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  Looks like its in front of Sprekels Theatre downtown, can't be sure though.
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  Thoughts from the inside

  by ezekiel3 in

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  2. beliefs

  i can?t believe it?s going to be 30 years.

  june 1974 was the year i really dedicated myself to jehovah.

  because, although i had been baptized two years before, it was this moment in time that i really saw the love and power of jehovah?s organization.

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  I really feel bad for these people, their adherence to this religion has caused them all kinds of hardship and a wasted life in return for an imagined reward.
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  How Many of You Felt That The "End" Would've Been Here By Now???

  by minimus in

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  2. friends

  for what it's worth, i never did.

  i just never really believed in '75 or any other time.....signed, faithless minimus

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  As a child I thought I would never graduate from high school before the end came. I graduated in 1995, the same year they changed the generation teaching, the same year I began to feel that witness doctrine wasn't perfect.

  The "end" is a myth.
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  Why JW Enemies Will Fail? - A Consultant's Analysis

  by reason in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  as an it business consultant, i always use michael porter's competetive forces model to assess whether a firm's e-business strategy will give them a competitive advantage against competitor's.. the competitive forces model identifies five forces in the industry that a firm needs to contend with to become successful.

  these forces are the:.

  1) bargaining power of customers.

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  The only 'war' going on between most who have left the JW religion and the JW's is in the minds of the JW's. Most of us are content to have left and to have our lives to ourselves. I am just as content to let JW's be themselves as well. I can't say that I don't wish for the dissolution of the religion, but I can't say that I wish any harm on anone who is a JW and if they wish to continue to believe the religion it is fine with me.

  The problem that the witnesses face is not from any so called "apostate", but from the incredulity of their beliefs. Apostates can't help that the ordinary witness might have doubts, merely through their daily life and existence as a witness, not from any idea implanted upon them by any so called "apostate". The witnesses time and again prove to their adherents that they have nothing to do with the God of the bible, that is, if you believe in Him. No banners on the outskirts of a convention are necessary to raise doubts, the faulty religion does all the heavy lifting there.

  But the witnesses are facing an added problem. They have reached out to just about everyone they can convert at the doors. Everyone who is of the mindset to converting to the religion already pretty much has. Fewer and fewer of the adherents are coming from the general public, and more and more are the offspring of witnesses. There is an inherent difference in the mindset of someone who converted to being a witness and someone who was forcefed the religion from youth, someone who has seen everything through the eyes of a child, growing up in it, with a knowledge and understanding of the religion that someone who converts as an adult has a hard time attaining. And it is the children, the offspring of witnesses who will be the downfall of the religion.

  Right now, most witness youth are living what they refer to as a "double" life, as opposite to a witness standard as can be when away from their parents and the Kingdom Hall. They have a support group in this so called double life in all of their other "double" friends. Should a witness youth decide to leave the religion the concequences are not so grave, most parents decide to go easy on their children should they become disfellowshipped, because of a little thing called "love". You might remember Jesus talked about it with the parable of the prodigal son. Many witness youths are putting off baptism, again because of their support group of other so called "witness delinquents". There again the consequenses for leaving the religion are even less.

  So as more and more of the youth leave the religion and les and less people around the globe are able to be snookered into following the witnesses, both through saturation, the fact that the Witnesses no longer have an urgent date or time to sell and that they have become a more mature religion, with more information on them in the public arena than ever before. The witness will become marginalized, an unimportant blip on society, much like the quakers. They still exist, but nobody gives a crap anymore.

  This of course will take many years, but it will happen. And it may not be in my lifetime, but hey, I'm not concerned. I'm no longer a member of that religion. In my opinion I already have been saved and my life has begun anew. Thank God. What things happen to the witness religion will only affect me in that I am now merely a curious observer when it comes to their fate. The very fact that they think that they are warring against the likes of me should say much as to their idiological condition.

  I wish you a good day!
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  It hit the fan tonite...

  by beaker in

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  i picked up my kids from my ex (still jw) tonite.

  she wanted to come and get them back off me on sunday morning so she could take the meeting and every sunday meeting.

  of course i wasn't going to agree to that so she said that she wanted them every second weekend so they could go to the meeting.

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  Don't wait, get a lawyer now. She threw a phone book at one of them? Get a lawyer now.
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  Prince has recorded "Kingdom Melody" No 15

  by yxl1 in

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  2. entertainment

  apparently he couldnt sleep, so one night he popped into his studio and recorded km number 15, with drums, bass, piano and jazz guitar.

  i've heard that its been copied and handed around a select few (according to jw's on a prince website).

  i wonder if he's gonna get punished for this.

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  After he composed it, he went and made some pancakes...

  game, blouses.
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  Do NOT watch this...

  by blacksheep in

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  2. current

  i know i was warned.

  i had to see for myself the berg video.

  saw it at work this am.

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  Yes, we are at war, a war that was declard on us, not just Americans, but all Westerners, over 20 years ago. This is nothing new, such human garbage has been doing this to people like you and me since they declared this war. They wish to fight us and kill us over there and in our own homeland. There is no vaccuum, we must fight them and eliminate them or risk the ending of our very way of life. This is what is at stake, a war that has been happening for over 20 years and which will take much more than 20 more years to run its course. It is a war of idiologies as much as it is of bombs and bullets. This is a war we must fight and win if human civilization is to move forward.
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  Jehovah's Witnesses are lovely and cuddly kitten soft special people.

  by ScoobySnax in

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  isn't that what you expected?.

  scooby- "emotional meanderer"- snax (i never disappoint....and aim to please)

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  What Made You Realize The WTBTS Was NOT The Truth

  by Kevin in

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  2. friends

  my wife is a jw.. i've been trying to point out the errors of the wtbts but she just doesnt want to hear it.. i'm wonder if some people could share your turning point in regards to your relationship goes.

  with the society.

  what made you realize that the society was false.

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  Matthew 7 16 By their fruit you will recognize them.
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  WTS law and oral law

  by lurk in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  has the wts commited the same folly as the writers of the oral law?

  in a magazine some years ago there was an article on the oral law.

  it discribed how the oral law was developed to be like a fence around the writen law to prevent ppl from breaking the writen law.the article showed how the priests, who invented the law ,were laying a burden on jehovahs ppl that the didnt need ,sort of saying how wrong and misdirected the priests were.

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  My 19 year old brother in law just had all priveleges stripped from him for his hair being too long in the "opinion" of the elders.