Topics Started by navytownroger

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How many kids never buy into the JW B/S???
by navytownroger in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
at the conventions, there always seem to be parents gushing about how their kids are 'in the truth', pioneering, etc.

i'm wondering how many jw kids just flat-out reject all the jw b/s right from the start.

surely there are some kids who just say 'no way!
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'Paradise Earth' makes absolutely no sense!
by navytownroger in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
the jw idea of 'paradise earth' seems to be full of holes.

will babies of baptized jws also be in the new system?

if not, how could the child's parents consider it 'paradise' without their children?
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RECENT REVISIONS TO THE KH DRESS CODE?
by navytownroger in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i was told by my former book-study conductor recently that a new 'dress code' had been handed down by the wts, because people had been 'getting too casual' with their styles of clothing.

one item he mentioed was a new rule for women prohibiting denim skirts.

and, when a woman wore a denim jacket, she was also told this was not appropriate for the kh.
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Were the 'Annointed' ones the biggest dolts in the KH???
by navytownroger in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
in my former kh, there was one 'annointed' elder & man, was he a robotic idiot!!

he gave the memorial talk, to which 'everyone' was invted via a big tract-placing effort.

his talk was pure boredom, with lots of page-flipping through the bible.
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Is the JW Memorial meeting a Satanic denial of Christ
by passwordprotected in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
7 million jws.

all sat in their kingdom halls, their children at their side.

the date is nisan 14.. .
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How many Kingdom Halls are being built/closed?
by navytownroger in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
does anyone have any idea how many kingdom halls were built in the us during the last decade versus how many were closed?

what is the ratio in the area you live in?

with so many teenagers deserting the jws, i'd think that soon they'll be closing more khs than they are building, at least in the us and western europe.
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Tattoo
by heybaby in
1. jw
2. experiences
so, i need some opinions.

i have been thinking about getting a tattoo.

something small and classy.
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Limiting comments by kids during WT Study
by navytownroger in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i was told recently by a ministerial servant that the word had come down from above that from now on only two comments by children will be allowed during the wt study.

the reason: the meetings are geared to adults, not children.

has anyone else heard of this policy??
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"If you are Christian you are definately Trinitarian"
by Sirona in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
my jw mother thinks that all christians (non jws who call themselves christian) are all trinitarian.. i tried to point out that there are certain groups who are not trinitarian, but she seemed to think that all christian groups in babylon the great believe in the trinity.. is it true that only fringe groups reject the trinity?.

sorry for my ignorance but i don't know much about mainstream christianity.. i would like to email her (my mum) a list of religions which reject the trinity but are also christian.

i also heard of groups who believe and preach about jehovah as gods name.. sirona.
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Will the WTBTS ever become mainstream like the WWCG?
by donny in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
back during the 80's and 90's, i occasionally heard statements lumping the society in with the likes of the worldwide church of god who had very similar teachings and even believed in 1975 as being a year that god would act (1975 in prophecy!

by herbert w. armstrong).

clearly the roots of the wwcg were from the same as the societys and both groups were viewed as cults.