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  Emailed Talk From Governing Body Member Last Weekend

  by tryingtoexit in

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  what's good a-ebody??

  just thought i'd share this email with yall real quick.

  it still amazes me that i was a jehovah's witness for 27 years and never thought twice about these types of talks other than i need to make sure my act is together when the end comes, and now i can't even read/hear it without getting mad.

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  scotinsw

  would that be the same credit card to make a donation with?
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  WOW...shades of Susan Boyle

  by tenyearsafter in

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  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2w-ocljuhra .

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  scotinsw

  He wasn't that good to be honest...

  There was a young guy on this year who had hardly left his house for a few years. They didn't put him through even though which was probably wise after the Subo situation earlier in the year.
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  For those who joined as adults

  by brainwashed-from-birth in

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  i was raised one of jw.

  before i was born my dad joined when two jws came to our house around the same time my grandpa (my dad's dad) died.

  i remember my mom telling me that my dad took this very hard.

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  scotinsw

  I've even heard witnesses say that personal selfishness is why they join. They are initially attracted because of the hope of seeing dead loved ones again.

  You've got to admit - its a pretty good way of hooking people into the cult! Unfortunately if you want to leave - you can't.
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  JW Discussion Board Lifts Another Story from Another Religion

  by blondie in

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  http://ohr.edu/yhiy/article.php/3956/html/rss/.

  several years ago a rabbi from out-of-state accepted a call to a community in houston, texas.

  some weeks after he arrived he had an occasion to ride the bus from his home to the downtown area.

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  scotinsw

  reminds me this past week of something i saw on facebook

  a facebook friend wrote about a text (sms) message she had received about 22 missionaries that had been killed somewhere (didn't give the location). Cue a discussion starting among a few witnesses about how they had received it and it wasn't true as no missionaries are in that country and that the rumour was started by apostates!

  I googled this 22 christian thing and surprise surprise what I found! a load of articles about various rumours of Christians being given the death penalty in Afghanistan.

  To think they were blaming this on apostates! As if we would make up rumours - we tell the real truth about "the truth".
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  J.W.'s and swine flu question

  by hubert in

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  my daughter told me that she refused the swine flu vaccine, even though she is in a risk category and could receive it.. since we know that the watchtower society banned small pox vaccinations for years when it first became available, i am curious to know if the watchtower society is doing this again, with the swine flu vaccine.. has anyone heard of this happening now?

  's being discouraged into getting the swine flu vaccine by orders of the w.t.

  society?.

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  scotinsw

  Might be something to do with an email going around that the vaccination contains blood.
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  a "Blood" experience...

  by AwSnap in

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  2. medical

  i was speaking with a lady today & found out she's been a nurse in the blood transfusion unit at our hospital for the past 15 years.

  i said, "i have an off-the-wall question for you...i was having a discussion with somebody about jehovah's witnesses.

  i know they're not allowed to get blood transfusions but they can get fractions, right?

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  Creativ - that sounds a bit like a talk my parents heard a few years ago by someone who was on the HLC at London Bethel and gave a "special" talk at their congregation one Saturday evening.

  His illustration was that fractions would be like to taking a gun (a thing that kill) and taking it all apart and then reusing the screws, individual components etc. Even though I was still active at the time it just didn't make sense to me then and makes even less sense now!
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  Pink Songbooks - Green Bibles

  by nicolaou in

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  those of us who've been around long enough will understand the title.

  what we are looking for here are examples of the society's lack of taste.. for example, i'm sure our kingdom hall wasn't the only one in the 70's with dark brown carpeting that rose halfway up the walls and a nice trendy rubber plant in the corner of the platform!.

  nic'.

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  yes i remember those. they were the year books that included the days text before they separated them in the 80s.
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  U K 2009 Part service report

  by alanv in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  just had sight of the december 2009 kingdom ministry.

  it seems people in u k have definitely had enough of jws.

  average publishers for the year is around 128374. this is a 1% increase on last year.

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  A lot of the increase in the UK over the past couple of years has been from the Eastern European immigrants particularly from Poland.

  I'm just so happy that this is the first year I'm not included in any of that report!
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  Anyone from London?

  by tim3015 in

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  hi just wondering if anyones local to me?

  i've recently left the truth!.

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  I'm from Bristol
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  WEIRD TALKS BY DOs

  by badboy in

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  what weird talks did tthey give?.

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  scotinsw

  badboy - no stranger really than elders and cos at least, that was the ones i heard.

  i really don't get your questions...