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Signs of JW decline
by larc inthe decline of the jws has been discussed before in bits and pieces.
i thought i would summarize some of the "signs of the times".
1. there is been no growth in 24 internet connected countries.
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Comments You Will Not Hear at the 10-20 WT Study
by blondie incomments you will not hear at the 10-20-02 wt study.
"without an illustration he would not speak to them"matthew 13:34. introduction.
"can you recall an illustration you heard, perhaps in a public discourse, many years ago?
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Stumping bible questions for JW's
by Dawn ini have a friend who is studying with the jw's right now.
he's a very open minded guy and has been interested in hearing what i have to say on the matter.
he has seen the dateline show (i taped it for him) - and i've shown him some info about the history.
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Money, Money
by drawcad_1 ini have noticed that in the last few months the issue of giving more donations, because the wachtower needs it has become more popular.
the convention that we went to this summer had three references to the poor lady who gave all that she had to give.
last night we had a very boring talk about how little we give as compared to how much we recieve from the tower.
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Hostages in Phillipines
by writerpen inanyone know the latest on the hostages in the phillipines?
we are working on a segment for church this weekend and i would like to bring this out.
last i heard was that two had been murdered.
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Why do elders not disfellowship inactive people?
by kenpodragon inwhen i left the religion, i walked away and did not get df'ed or da myself.
in doing so, my wife left the religion at the same time.
in our life we have been very nonwitness in our life.
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WHAT'S THE WORST SCANDAL YOU KNOW OF?
by minimus insome here have been privy to certain scandals such as pedophilia in your congregation.
we have never had such a scandal in our area that became well-known.
one of the worst scandals i've heard was that of how 2 elders terrorized an entire congregation.anybody that disagreed with them, was considered disloyal.
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JWs, Who are they patterned after?
by WildTurkey inif you asked a jw, who jehovahs witness were patterned after, they would all answer, the first century cong.
i also would have answered that way, when i was a dub.
but when reading my elder book, i found this:
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JW: Lower requirements
by larc inthe lower requirements of the wt has been brought up from time to time.
i thought i would summarize the ones i know of.
1. conventions used to be one week and go from early morning til late at night.
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convention notes
by drawcad_1 ini didn't get to hear the talk about not listening to television articles (dateline)about the borg or reading internet articles that might undermine the good news.
but i did notice some other issues that seem to be highlighted.. contributions must be down.
there must have been three references to the widow woman who only gave 2 coins to the collection, but that was everything that she had.