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  How Many Here Used To Sneak Looking At "apostate" Material?

  by minimus in

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  i did!

  even when i was in junior high school i would go to the library and look for anything that was about charles taze russell or millenial dawn or jehovah's witnesses..... maybe i was an "apostate " in the making..

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  NikL

  Funny you ask.

  I am sneaking this during a meeting 😆
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  Last of the big conventions?

  by NikL in

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  had lunch with some friends during today's waste of time convention.

  they spoke of the rumor floating around that the jws will move away from these big regional conventions and have them at assembly halls and tie them in to kingdom halls.. they seemed to believe it was a pretty reliable source.. i think it would be too good to be true but who knows?.

  anyone else heard this rumor?.

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  NikL

  Had lunch with some friends during today's waste of time convention.

  They spoke of the rumor floating around that the JWs will move away from these big regional conventions and have them at assembly halls and tie them in to kingdom halls.

  They seemed to believe it was a pretty reliable source.

  I think it would be too good to be true but who knows?

  What say you? Anyone else heard this rumor?
  
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  Broadcasting live from the belly of the beast

  by NikL in

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  well unfortunately i was unable to get out of today gracefully so here i am in sacramento california at what i fear may be the most boring convention to date.. heck there aren't even any entertaining apostates to watch .

  anyway,i am just posting as a quiet f.u.

  to the org..

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  Well I wasn't able to get a number baptized as I was able to talk my wife into skipping out during last talk targeted at kids which we ain't :-)

  It looked like 20 to 30 though. Quite a few.
  
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  Broadcasting live from the belly of the beast

  by NikL in

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  well unfortunately i was unable to get out of today gracefully so here i am in sacramento california at what i fear may be the most boring convention to date.. heck there aren't even any entertaining apostates to watch .

  anyway,i am just posting as a quiet f.u.

  to the org..

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  NikL

  5252 in attendance

  Haven't heard how many baptized
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  Broadcasting live from the belly of the beast

  by NikL in

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  well unfortunately i was unable to get out of today gracefully so here i am in sacramento california at what i fear may be the most boring convention to date.. heck there aren't even any entertaining apostates to watch .

  anyway,i am just posting as a quiet f.u.

  to the org..

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  NikL

  Pretty good crowd.

  Nothing​ too cultish yet.

  Only mentioned Jesus once so far. During talk about protecting kids. Used it as an example how Jah protected his kid Jesus.

  Baptism talk is just starting.

  I'll check in again this afternoon and report on baptism numbers.
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  Broadcasting live from the belly of the beast

  by NikL in

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  well unfortunately i was unable to get out of today gracefully so here i am in sacramento california at what i fear may be the most boring convention to date.. heck there aren't even any entertaining apostates to watch .

  anyway,i am just posting as a quiet f.u.

  to the org..

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  NikL

  Well unfortunately I was unable to get out of today gracefully so here I am in Sacramento California at what I fear may be the most boring convention to date.

  Heck there aren't even any entertaining apostates to watch

  Anyway,I am just posting as a quiet F.U. to the org.
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  So I just downloaded the videos of the 2017 regional convention and the size on my PC is 6.66GB!

  by NikL in

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  just thought it was funny..

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  Just thought it was funny.
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  How Long Out Before They leave You Alone

  by tepidpoultry in

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  many years ago i met an older man in the ministry who told me he was a baptized jw years ago, when i met him he was an alchoholic and had girlfriends, i told the elders, two came by and they told me to treat him as a regular worldly guy, my question is (i know this is a fuzzy area) about how much time needs to go by before someone (me for instance) would be looked upon as a non jw worldly person?.

  :0).

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  I sometimes wonder if it has to do with when you were baptized. Pre or post 1985 when they changed it to a vow to follow the organization.
  
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  And the dumbing down continues...

  by NikL in

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  2. bible

  maybe it's complete in light of this sundays wt study...“what you vow, pay”.

  it is all about paying your vows and especially focuses on three types.. 1 your dedication vow (baptism).

  2 your marriage vow.

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  Maybe it's complete in light of this Sundays WT study...“What You Vow, Pay”

  It is all about paying your vows and especially focuses on three types.

  1 Your dedication vow (baptism)

  2 Your marriage vow

  3 The Vow of Special Full-Time Servants

  Here's where the dumbing down part comes in, the theme scripture.

  The article quotes Matt 5:33 as “You must pay your vows to Jehovah.”

  Remember that one friends?

  Hmmm me either!

  Let's turn to that in Gods holy word shall we?

  What's that? You only have the NWT? No problem for this one.

  Matt 5:33

  Oh it's Jesus speaking here! Our king and master. Lets see what he says.
  

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  33 “Again you heard that it was said to those of ancient times: ‘You must not swear without performing,t but you must pay your vows to Jehovah.’

  Wow. That's not quite the same thing as they indicate in the article. Why didn't they quote the rest of the scripture?

  Lets continue in verses 34-37 to finish our Lords thought...
  
  34 However, I say to you: Do not swear at all, neither by heaven, for it is God’s throne;35 nor by earth, for it is the footstool of his feet; nor by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great King.36 Do not swear by your head, since you cannot turn one hair white or black.37 Just let your word ‘Yes’ mean yes, your ‘No,’ no, for what goes beyond these is from the wicked one.

  Say what?!

  "Do NOT swear at all? Anything else comes from Satan"?

  Well then doesn't that just nullify the whole point of this article?

  C'mon Watchtower! Do you really think the rank and file are that stupid as to not see this one? A scripture that we all know so well? It's from the sermon on the mount.
  I guess come Sunday we will find out.
  
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  Are Jehovah's Witnesses Mind Numbingly Boring To You?

  by minimus in

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  i honestly think they are the most boring people on earth!

  even when they produce their so called "new light", there's no excitement.

  jws just do their thing and refuse to think about their useless lives.

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  Yes.

  Try to have a decent conversation about the bible.

  All the JWs want to talk about is "the slave" this and "the slave" that and "Aren't we glad to be a part of Jahs org.?"

  "You can sure feel it. The end is so close".

  Yes freaking boring boring BORING!