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Is it all just a 'Cosmic Crapshoot'?
by AK - Jeff infirst my faith in the wts went away.. later my faith in religion [for purposes other than fellowship] went away.
to date, my faith in the existence of the 'great cause' remains, but is tarnishing in some respects.
i have no clear picture of what we really are, where we are really going, and why we exist.
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Hello everyone
by Ben_Waterford inmy name's ben and i'm fresh off the boat, if you will.
are there any real life support groups for people like us, or is this as good as it gets?
i look forward to meeting you all.
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Did you get a little pressured to get baptized young?
by outofthebox inwe saw an elder the other night trying to convince a couple of kids that they were ready to be unbaptized publishers.
and then he went and added that he was baptized very young and they should too.
so, these two kids were feeling the pressure.
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Your own Judas: Did somebody 'borrow' the money of the contributions?
by outofthebox instealing is a very serious accusation (if you don't believe us ask judas), but it looks like is not that uncommon between jws.
we have been in different congregations were money has been 'subtracted' from the contributions for personal purposes.
an elder used some to buy stuff, although he returned the money later, but... in this other congregation the accounting servant (is that the correct term in english?
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Was Your Field Service Report Accurate?
by minimus indid you typically "fudge" your report??
i did.
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Star Fallen from Heaven ... Christ? Revelation 9:1 Study this Week
by jgnat inheck, if hubby asks me to study, you guys get to study along with me, too.
this week we are studying the first paragraphs of chapter 22, "the first woe - locusts" from the study book, "revelation, it's grand climax at hand".
i can't pass paragraph six without commenting.. first of all, here's the paragraph in its entirety.
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Pyramid prediction of 1914 and Daniel's Dream
by Erace ini'm new here and i've been researching the 1914 prediction by russell using the measurements from the great pyramid.
i was born as a jehovah witness and after 20 years, i never heard about a pyramid measurement.
i never missed a meeting either!
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Does anyone know of a good Hispanic anti-JW site?
by BONEZZ ini live in a small (very small) town in northern ca.
the dubs come around every so often and put up spanish language jw tracts and other crap on the grocery markets bulletin board targeting our growing hispanic population.
i've been ripping them down but i'd rather point the people to a spanish speaking anti-website.
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Did the title of "overseer" ever bother you
by freyd init bothered me a lot.
overseers used to be called servants.
the roles were reversed when servants became overseers.