If you are as ancient as me the old green songbook was okay. Actually written in 4 part harmony (there used to be choirs at the assemblies). then the Brown songbook came out. Keys that most people would never be able to sing in. Don't know anything about anything newer. The society is not about any "feeling". It's dead, remote, legalistic and that is not what music is about.
dogisgod
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How was the singing in your congro?
by karter inmine as best abysmal.. we had brother ..i can't sing in tune but will sing louder than anyone else.. sister trained opera voice that sang a note or 3 above everyone else.. the rest were just down rite dreadfull..
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Constantine's Sword
by Band on the Run inhas anyone read this book?
i borrowed it from the lbrary b/c i thought it would be about the doctrinal and political changes when christianity became established but it is about christianity and antisemitism.
it seems a good read so far but it is a thick book..
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dogisgod
I read it. It was a hard read. If you want to know the beginnings of what is now called Christianity it is the book for you.
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What Was Nathan Knorr Like Compared To The Other Presidents?
by AvocadoJake inbrother knorr is rarely mentioned in the awake or watchtower and i don't really know much about him.
is there a reason why brother knorr does not receive as much mention as brother russell, rutherford or even frantz?
can you help me understand why he was like?
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dogisgod
I actually met him once when I was a pre-teen. Nothing. I do remember an elder asking me once why I thought the gov bod at that time all had German names. Didn't know what to think about that. Knorr was just boring.
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Are Jehovah's Witnesses considered a Catholic schism?
by sabastious ini was reading through this article: http://www.ourcatholicfaith.org/thechurch.html.
1822: mormons founded by joseph smith, who made his appearance with supposed revelations in 1822.. .
1872: the jehovah's witness church was developed by charles russell.. .
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dogisgod
No.
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dogisgod
A teeny bit at first because I didn't want anyone to smack my mom in the face with it. Now she is gone and they have no power at all...really, they never did....it was all in MY head.
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You are W.A.W.
by designs inthe latest moniker to describe us is making the rounds at a circuit assembly near you: w.a.w.
wicked apostate worldlings.. sat through a saturday circuit assembly, haven't been to one in years, stunningly it was a mix of deja vu and cloistered brainwashing.
deja vu in that the talks could have come from 1966, nothing has changed about the end being near, and harsher with respect to family who are not jws.
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dogisgod
If they wore burquas it would put value villiage out of business.
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Perpetual Cognitive Dissonance
by sabastious inrevelation 7:9nwt - after these things i saw, and, look!
a great crowd, which no man was able to number, out of allnations and tribes and peoples and tongues, standing before the throne and before the lamb, dressed in white robes; and there were palm branches in their hands.. every year, as an adolescent witness, i would eagerly await the arrival of the annual "watchtower world report" issue to come out.
it had always bugged me that we were not in all the lands even though purporting to be the one and only "great crowd" decribed in the verse above.
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dogisgod
I think that anyone who "believes" anything without fact has CD.
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Question, Mormon temples.
by jam inthe mormon temples will build five temples in cities.
worlwide.
the church, with it,s 14.1 million members.
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dogisgod
There was a new Moron Temple built in Seattle. When done people were invited to take the tour. Afterwards it was gutted and rebuilt because non-Morons had defiled it. The temples have the golden angel Maccaroni oops I met Maroni on top a the worship of the penis based spire.
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Don't make the same mistake I did
by Terry inin 1974 i had moved to california from texas and my nowhere jw janitor job to a real career in a field i loved.
(art).
i had packed my jw wife and 3 kids in my 1970 ford maverick and drove into the unknown.. mind you, this was on the very eve of a very "important date in human history".
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dogisgod
Terry, I don't mean to be insensitive but "shit happens". Go out and get the movie, "The Butterfly Effect" with Ashton what=ever-his-name is. I go where you are sometimes. If only I had done this or that. You don't know what would have cascaded from one thing done differently and it may have gone even worse. Your wive was released from her personal demons. What ever happens in an after-this-life whether it is some other level of just the return of her energy she is free. I hope you can release this self imposed weight. It is totally human to feel as you do but it continues to drag you down and I'm sure your wife wouldn't want that. Live as much as you can. It's easy for me to say since I too beat myself up overa lot of past decisions and how unaware I was being a JW. You did the best you could have done with what you had. Pretty shitty to use a 4yr old as a control mechinism.
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Shocked at what my 3 year old just asked me
by jwfacts inme - jehovah?
who is jehovah?.
me - oh.. zac - are you happy with me dad for remembering jehovah.
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dogisgod
Your MIL is a babysitter. Period. She does not have the position or authority to "indoctrinate" your kid into anything.