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  Do most people become Jehovah's Witnesses out of fear they might be destroyed at Armageddon ?

  by Finkelstein in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  a practical question concerning human psychology .

  it very well be that it was the jws who were.

  responsible for first approaching this posing question to people to incite their interest and concern.. i can confidently say it was for my 20 something year old mother back in the early 50's.. unfortunately people who did so, weren't completely discerning the probable commercial .

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  My parents became JWs in the late 50's and during these years there was a lot of political unrest. There was also the cold war between the US and USSR. I remember listening the the news on our old black and white TV being scared that the end was near. I am sure this was one of the motivators for my parents to join. Also, my mom had just lost her dad and because he hated the Catholic church he didn't want a religious funeral service. Because my mom and her older sister had started studying with the JW, their whole family blamed them for "corrupting" their father's mind. Of course, at the viewing the funeral parlour was full of JWs - love bombing played a major role in my mom's conversion and she didn't have to make peace with her whole family now that she had all these new brothers and sisters to support her. Then a few years later, her older sister and her husband and children suddenly left the "truth" with no explanation...mom never questionned why and we shunned them completely. My mom never had a relationship with her very large family and we grew up knowing just a few amongst dozens of cousins.

  Things haven't changed much today...some become witnesses because they think our world is threatened and something is about to happen and others find comfort within the congregation which fills a void in their life....
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  Watchtower desperation and Mind Control...

  by DATA-DOG in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  notice the latest " biblical " view of education promulgated by the governing body/ slave.

  this is from the september 15, 2012 study edition.

  paragraph 16 of the " learn from the patience of jehovah and jesus ", had this to say.. 16 something that interferes with our manifesting godly patience is a wait and see attitude.

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  Whitney Heichel - first hand account from congregation member on Facebook

  by sir82 in

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  why, he even has gone to some meetings at their kingdom hall!

  someone calls with a large wedding tent that they would like to donate and set up in the kingdom hall parking lot for the public memorial on friday.

  i was amazed how people who came that didnt even know whitney, but simply felt a need to be here and comfort the family.

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  Instead of guiding the brothers in their search or holding back the rain on the day of the memorial service wouldn't it had made more sense for the almighty Jehovah to spare this young woman from this awful end. I guess her death serves as a witness for such a loving god...
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  Has the rescent change in the identity of the FDS been released in print yet

  by A.M. Number 1 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  just wondering what wt issue has actually put it down in print.

  i know that some of my jw frineds already know about it, but they didn't tell me if it was an announcement at the hall or actually in the wt..

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  Like the new light on the "generation" this change on who is the F&DS will occupy 4 printed lines in one of the study articles...lines that will be read in the final talk at the next district convention. People will bob their heads in approbation and soon after the final prayer say: Wasn't this the best convention yet? Jehovah gave us what we need at the appropriate time! That's it.
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  Disfellowshipped for reading "apostate literature"?

  by Vanderhoven7 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  is reading apostate literature a disfellowshipping offense?.

  do you know of people being disfellowshipped for this or for receiving apostate literature?.

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  JW's would never consider the old WT publications as apostate even when they contain teachings that have long been replaced by "new light". Over a year ago I moved to a newer house and while we were unpacking boxes I told my wife that I no longer needed all the WT and Awake bound volumes because I had all of them in my PC...she didn't want me to part with the books until I told her that the information they contained was partly why I no longer go to the meetings...I told her that I would be labelled an apostate if I still held to some of the teaching of the past...She then agreed to let me dispose of the books as long as I kept the most recent study books...so 40 years of WT bound volumes found their way to the dumpster...so now I have fewer apostate literature on my bookshelves!
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  Do the elders have "clear direction" that it's ok to use an ipad at meetings?

  by nochoice in

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  2. friends

  i read this post more than a year ago: http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/212313/1/watchtower-publications-for-ipad.

  since i saw it, i've been waiting for the first brother or sister to show up at the hall with an ipad to see what happens.

  a little here and there at the conventions and assemblies.

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  In my congregation a brother I'm close to was using a small portable device to take notes and to access preloaded WT material including the NWT. He was told not use it because it distracted others and that scriptures should be read from the bible directly.
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  My letter to elders. Just drafted... PLEASE tell me what you think... Greybeard

  by Greybeard in

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  to: all elders in the grover beach congregation of jehovah witnesses, the watchtower corporation and governing body of "jehovah witnesses" .

  from: gregg blasingame.

  cc: watchtower inc.. dear brothers,.

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  Thanks Greybeard for quoting the Watchtower articles on identifying "false prophets"...and how it applied perfectly to them. I know that at some point I will be in the same position as you are and elders will want to meet with me. If this happens, I will use your approach.
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  What are your favourite TV series or mini-series that you cant wait to see the next episode

  by smiddy in

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  some of mine are :.

  boardwalk empire , deadwood , the borgias , game of thrones , homeland , vegas , political animal , the good wife, to name a few .

  smiddy.

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  Breaking Bad, Sons of Anarchy and Boardwalk Empire...
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  Random question

  by tigoyo1 in

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  is it possible to being active in a cong.

  that is not the one where someone resides ?.

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  In my congregation there was an elder who didn't live in the assigned territory. He was assigned by the CO to help because of a shortage of elders. He never moved to our area and eventually returned to his congregation after new elders were nominated. As for the regular publisher, going to a congregation were you are not assigned is seen as a lack of obedience to the society's arrangement. Brothers cannot expect to be given special service privileges if they are not in the congregation where they reside.
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  Poor homeless Bro. Larry Jackson

  by ShirleyW in

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  theres a story in the ny daily news today that says this jw is homeless and was denied shelter after having a brief conversation with the woman who helped him with his application after he mentioned he was a jw.

  her reasoning of why she denied his application was that she thought he would go door to door in the 45-unit facility!

  i myself find that hilarious, he just mightve done that to get his time in!

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  He will eventually find refuge in a shelter sponsered by a church that Jehovah hates for helping the poor materially and not spiritually..