Quirky1
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Knocking on doors.....How successful is it?
by Quirky1 ini found this to be pretty unsuccessful during my time since i was a jw.
i actually had my interest sparked with the jw's by family members and freinds that were jw's.. were you a statistic of the knock at the door?.
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HI! I am one of the 63% who have left
by outofservice inhello everyone hope there is room for another newbie.. i feel like i know all of you from reading your posts over the last months.. and i must thank you all for your great and very informative posts.
it has really reinforced all the things that i had been feeling for years.
my husband and i were both raised in the "truth".
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Witnesses increase by 44% in 7 years Study Finds: 2001-2008
by Joker10 ina more detailed look at the just released american religious identification survey (aris) shows witnesses have increased from 1,331,000 in 1991 to 1,914,000in 2008. that is 583,000 more people, or a whopping 43.8 percent growth.
they now make up 0.8 percent of the u.s. population.. who says jws are in the decline?.
(http://b27.cc.trincoll.edu/weblogs/americanreligionsurvey-aris/reports/aris_report_2008.pdf).
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Apostates: Weeds in the Garden
by cameo-d inmatthew 13:30. let them come up together till the getting in of the grain; and then i will say to the workers, take up first the evil plants, and put them together for burning: but put the grain into my store-house.. .
this does not refer to jws only.
it refers to all who may have dropped out of the churches; it includes all who do not bow to the controlling man-made religions.. .
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Does anyone have a HOT TUB/SPA at home?
by AWAKE&WATCHING inis it inside or outside?
any tips on one that is outside?
i may look for a "hot tubs for dummies" but in the meantime are there things that you wish you had known before you put it outside or before you got one in general?.
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The best prank to pull off at a Kindum Hell
by Iwonder17 inso i'm sitting there tonight cuz my wife makes me go ( for now ) and i had a great idea.
you know how some times they have those boring slide shows ?
wouldn't it be incredible to get some glow in the dark paint and write on the walls some funny messages so that once they turn the lights out, everyone would see the messages.. i'm 10000% sure they would cancel the slide show and go right into the wt study.
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Where are the WTS "codes of conduct" for each member written?
by RULES & REGULATIONS in.
i choose not to drink,smoke,gamble for my health and well being.
but i never understood why i couldn't grow a beard,attend another church to be just an observer for a wedding or funeral,or why i couldn't work or do work at another church.. is there a book or manuel where it states that members of jehovah's witnesses can't get drunk,smoke,gamble,join the military,work or enter another church,grow a beard,have long hair,have to wear a suit to the meetings,woman can't give talks, can't become a policeman,or is everything implied?.
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Did you have to miss sex ed class?
by rebel8 ini had to sit out sex ed classes and also evolution classes (yep, pretty much all science classes).. oh, and i wasn't allowed to participate in music class several times.....besides the usual holiday music, once we had to do a play [oklahoma i think] and my character was supposed to say i had a flat chest.
funny, because the youth book is much racier than that.. oh, and gym class when we did yoga stretching.
satan sure is tricky.. did you have to sit out certain classes?.
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Required Reading (Before you become a JW)
by sacolton inthere would be no jws if these books were read first .... .
another gospel.
ruth a. tucker.