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They dared !
by coalize in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
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i can't believe they had the cheek to come out with that explanation.. it's no more "new light" it's "new scam"!!

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Did anyone in the congregation discourage you from going to college?
by Trapped in JW land in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i remember being out on service with an elder when i was 17. he asked me what i plan on doing after high school.

i told him i was thinking of going to college to be a teacher.

he then asked me, "do you think this system is going to be around that long"?
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The Apostasy Within
by Ultimate Axiom in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
in the latest watchtower (july 15, 2014, page 14, paragraph 10) it says; today, jehovahs people are not often confronted with apostasy within the congregation.

still, when exposed to unscriptural teachings, regardless of the source, we must decisively reject them.. so, not often, but occasionally jws are exposed to apostasy within the congregation, and they are instructed to decisively reject it.

as we all know, the vast majority of the apostasy they are exposed to comes from the governing body.. i am meeting up soon with an old friend from the 1970s who i havent seen for decades, who is still an active jw, and who would really like to hear what i think about things.
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Lot's last word to his wife
by bamse in
1. social
2. humour
does anyone come after us?.
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I came home yesterday...
by sooner7nc in
1. jw
2. friends
...from a school nurse clinical day in my nursing program and asked my wife "how was your day?".

she replies "good, i'm tired though because i was cleaning out the spare room and threw away a bunch of books.".

my ears perked up because she has a habit of trying to decide whether or not i 'need' what i have or should throw it away so i asked "which books?
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Had a reply for job...
by snare&racket in
1. jw
2. friends
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got a cool job, surgery and emergency medicine in a nice holiday town, super happy :d. .
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Why do I bother to wake up in the morning?
by punkofnice in
1. jw
2. friends
i'm not suicidal just fed up.. i did think of suicide (briefly), but as there is no painless way and it's not something i would willingly do just in case things would have been better the day after.

i do have a slight grain of hope.. money problems.....problems at home (that's another matter with a son up court for something he is adamant he didn't do.

first offence but the pigs police and the cps have got charges made.
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I don't find this stuff amusing anymore
by sparrowdown in
1. jw
2. friends
i would just like to get this off my chest.. during the public talk last sunday the speaker (bro holden m'groin) said in public talk: .

" if you ask any 16yr old girl what she wants out of life, she would probably say a home, a family etc etc" (because obviously this is still 1955).. anyway that got my attention i thought " hmm....where is he going with this?"..

bro holden m'groin goes on .
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The watchtowers biggest mistake
by Truthexplorer in
1. jw
2. experiences
the moment the leadership of the wt (a publishing company whose purpose was originally to produce pamphlets and books to edify christians) first made the claim to be gods sole channel of communication for dispensing biblical truth here on earth.

that not so discreet assumption has now left them wide open to 'everything they teach as truth'.

as a result, every time an error is exposed or a teaching is changed, their credibility will continue to be affected.
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Is this new donation arrangement for real?
by nugget in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
just read a post on jwsurvey about the new donation arrangement.

congregations are to pledge a monthly amount to be sent to the society to fund the building of assembly halls and kingdom halls.

congregations who already have a loan from the society will no longer have to pay back the loan but the amount pledged should not be less than the current monthly repayments to the society.