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Prescribed walking times @ Conventions?
by nativenyr23 ini just read this off another thread that was on the jwzone.... "at my dc, i sit in my seat for the entire teaching program.
i sing, i take notes, i enjoy it, i feel moved, encouraged, blessed.
i dutifully walk only at prescribed walking times.".
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memorial season
by sleepy inwell memorial season is upon us again.
(the witnesses like to think of one day as a season).
the jehovahs witnesses have by and large bypassed crazy ceremonies, but something that started off as almost sane has turned to the bizarre.. on the 28 march around the world groups of witnesses will be passing a glass of red wine , and a plate of unlevened bread amongst each and every person in attendance .if you are lucky, you may spot a witness nervously sip the wine and nibble the bread, but most likely the wine and bread will be left untouched.. what a crazy thing to do.. does the bead and wine really need to be passed between all people present (sometimes numbering into the hundreds) when the witness belief is that only 1444,00 have ever been able to partake?.
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There's as many inactive JW's as actives....
by TheApostleAK injoelbear said:.
the news report posted in the news section indicates about 1% of americans identify as jehovah's witnesses, that is about 3 million just in the us.
so even though they are inactive, 2 million people still adhere to the beliefs enough to identify it as their religious affiliation.. in australia we just had a consensus and the number of people in this country that say they're jw's is 95,000 (can't remember the number exactly).....the only trouble is that there is only about 58,000 active jw's according to the wt..... anyone know their countries story??.
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TO BROTHERS ASSIGNED BY THE CONGREGATION TO GIVE P
by Kent inwhat do the watchtower tell "brothers assigned by the congregation to give public talks"?
here is a letter from the british branch office:.
http://watchtower.observer.org/apps/pbcs.dll/artikkel?nocache=1&dato=20011029&kategori=jwandsociety10&lopenr=110290003&ref=ar.
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2010 Examining the scriptures daily
by bobld inforeword: "secular education is shortsighted.true a good education is a basic need,it can be the difference between deing able to provide for your family or not.benefits of secular education is limited.education cannot guarantee life" just some wise council for the gb/fds of the wbts.. "there is a type of education that can benefit us eternally.
(study god's word and the wbts, wt/a, publications) will guarantee life (bs).divine education helps us to pursue what is good and avoid what is bad.
" i know many good educated people who do good and avoid bad.also i know many who lack a good education who do good things and do bad things.education has nothing to do with being good or bad(look out santa clus knows).
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1999 Service year report of JWs worldwide
by Dan B ini have, in my hands, a copy of the service report from the 2000 wt bound volume.
it's very interesting to note that, although there was an average of a 2% increase worldwide, the majority of developed countries actually had a decrease.
the usa gained 432 publishers after devoting 174,594,349 hours to recruiting, i mean preaching.
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Earthquake Shakes Silentlambs Country
by mikepence inclearly, jehovah is displeased with the handling of abuse.. http://pasadena.wr.usgs.gov/shake/cus/.
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Channel One--please help
by VeniceIT inok starting about 10 years ago channel one was and is a newstation that is for jr, high and high school students.
i remmeber watching the gulf war on it, bosnia and a lot of differnt events.
it was a 15 min news program that we watched everyday.. lisa ling was on it before she left to join 'the view'.
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Special Local Needs Part -- Re: Dateline
by NotBlind inby means of a phone conversation with my sister this morning, i have learned that a congregation very near to bill bowen, the m__w__ congregation, gave a local needs service meeting part last night on the subject of "protecting your children from pedophiles".. although i wasn't there, here's what my sister said was included in the talk:.
1. when a man is a pedophile, he won't ever be a ms or elder again.. 2. wt doesn't shield offenders from 'caesar's laws'.
note: never said that they turn them in to the authorities, just that they don't 'shield them'.