Topics Started by saltyoldlady

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I fell & Guess What???
by mouthy in
1. jw
2. friends
i moved on sat...fell & fractured my wrist..... it is in a caste,thank god it is the ,left one.... i am all settles in with the help of my daughter ,sonin law,grandkids.. i was at the hospital for hours....was able to talk to doc,nurse,why.

they must not shut the door on the jw's as they have been doing.. they were very interesting took my card to give the ones they have.

been listening to.....so i feel good came out of bad....
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Where do you think the US is headed?
by 2pink in
1. social
2. current
since you all are a critical thinking bunch...i thought i'd put this question to you.. i'm a born and raised us citizen as is my husband.

ever since we left the borg almost 2 years ago (wow, time flies when you're finally having fun!

), we've paid more attention to politics.
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Why don't Christians believe in the book of Jashar?
by avatar in
1. jw
2. friends
the bible refers to the book of jashar at joshua 10:13. this is when the sun stood still and the moon stopped.. it is also referred to in the 2nd book of samuel 1:18 where it says: "behold it is written in the book of jasher.".

why did they leave it out of the bible yet quote from it as an authority?.
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the most gobbledegook answer i have read in a long time! WT 1/15/1953
by Aussie Oz in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
what does solomon mean when he says he found a true man in a thousand, but never a true woman?j.k.,new.

this can hardly be taken to mean that men are better than women.

he is the one true, perfect man, and the only one that ever lived on the earth.
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Sex at 14?
by headisspinning in
1. jw
2. friends
hello all.... some of you have been following our story from the beginning - and even those of you who haven't should be able to relate to my quandary.... last week my 14 year old son told me he no longer wants to be a jw.

we laboured over telling his jw dad all week.

well, on friday night he finally came clean.. but in a bizarre and unexpected twist, after having sex with his girlfriend for the very first time - in his father's home that very afternoon.
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Time demands of the Jehovah's Witness religion compared with other religions?
by stapler99 in
1. jw
2. friends
i've been wondering how other religions, such as other christian denominations, would compare to the jw's in their time demands.. .

i'll lay out the approximate hours per week below.

(i know some of the meeting lengths have changed in recent years, and the bookstudy has been abolished.
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New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures
by Quendi in
1. watchtower
2. bible
i know this has been discussed before, but i want to reopen the topic.

i am currently reading ray franz's memoir crisis of conscience and ran across this footnote with respect to the new world translation of the holy scriptures:.

"the new world translation bears no translator's name and is presented as the anonymous work of the "new world translation committee.
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How the Watchtower corporation really works (beginning to end)
by Terry in
1. jw
2. friends
in 1925, judge rutherford penned an article of extreme controversy titled the birth of the nation.. the editorial committee (russell had created) would not approve it.. .

ruthford moved swiftly to remove them!

he then hid his massacre cleverly:.
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607 wrong using ONLY the bible (and some common sense)
by Witness My Fury in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
if this has been covered before i apologise in advance.

using only the bible and a bit of common sense.. ok, here goes:.

do the "seventy years" count from jerusalems destruction or not?
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This stopped me in my tracks. Sad but inspiring, please read...
by unshackled in
1. jw
2. friends
this is sad but also quite inspiring...thought i'd share it.. .

a gentleman named derek miller passed away yesterday from cancer.

he was loved and admired by many in the vancouver area (and beyond).