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My daughter has a JW friend at our home for a sleep-over tonight !! Help!
by moshe inman is this strange.
this is the family who told me to leave the two sisters alone who were doing our neighborhood a few months back.. http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/182204/1/moshe-unloads-on-jws.
the husband and wife always looked the other whenever they drive by my house.
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Why Would Someone Like me Leave the "Truth"? Part 1
by cantleave inthe title of this series of threads is rhetorical.
i am going to answer it with my own experience.
before i do that, i want to discuss what we are told through the literature and the instruction that is given during meetings, assemblies and conventions, for the reasons why people leave the truth.. the watchtower of 15 november 2008, in the article help them return without delay indicates people leave because of the following:.
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1975 For Deniers
by Farkel in1975 for deniers.
most of today's jws were not members in 1975 or in the 9 years prior to 1975, so they were not eyewitnesses to what really went on during that period.
i was a pioneer in that period, and i was an eyewitness to what went on.. those jws who are still active today and who were around in that period will typically say it was the "brothers" who "ran ahead of jehovah" and "read more into" the 1975 prediction than what was actually stated.
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How important are the US witnesses for the WTBTS survival?
by dgp ini understand the number of witnesses is not growing much, or is actually decreasing, in a few originally important countries.
i also understand that growth in the united states come from non-white and possibly non-american congregations, and that the wtbts' growth, as a whole, comes from developing countries (latin america, maybe africa).
i notice that the training school for missionaries, gilead, is in the united states.
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How do you feel about street people asking you for money
by I quit! inabout half of the freeway exits i get off at have someone there begging.
in the past i felt they were only hitting me up for money to by drugs or booze so i rarely handed them any.
in this economy i'm wondering if some of them aren't really in need of something to eat.
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Typical JW Response
by Magwitch inmy 76 year old mother and her 94 year old mother (my grandmother) are still regular pioneering.
if anyone should understand helping the less fortunate it should be these life time pioneers.
however, this is a conversation i had with my them yesterday.... me: mom, the girls (my 2 teenage daughters) and i have volunteered to serve breakfast and lunch at the soup kitchen new year's eve.
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Is Bethel the WTS equivalent of "wordly" military service?
by sinis init would seem that they both go hand in hand.
you devote your life to bethel, move up in the ranks, are considered more respected with time served, go, and do whatever you are told - even at times putting your life in jeopardy, etc.. .
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Is There Any TV Show That You Wished Was Still On?
by minimus ini know a lot of people were upset when mash ended.
i never was a big fan of the show, probably because it was on a meeting night, but it was a very popular show.. i loved hill street blues, taxi, all in the family, the rifleman, even superman!
i wished those shows never stopped!.
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Do JW's Really Believe That the End is Near?
by Sour Grapes inas i listened to the brother giving the public talk.
sunday, he mentioned several times how close we.
are to the end.
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A new type of shiraz
by ozziepost inwell-known amongst friends and acquaintances for my love of a shiraz, ive been given something new to try for christmas.
its a shiraz viognier, produced by the method of co-fermentation of red shiraz grapes mixed with white viognier grapes.
they are mixed before the wine is made when the addition of white grapes at this stage is thought to preserve the brightness of the red pigments during fermentation, as well as altering the development of some of the flavour compounds.. a typical shiraz viognier wine will contain between two and seven percent of the white variety.