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How Have you Counted your time for Pioneering?
by jehu or jehonadab injust woundering how have you counted your time in field service especially if you were pioneering?.
would like to see if any of you were on the same page as i was.
with so much to do, like reading all the watchtower and awake each month and the bible reading each week.
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Further proof of no real message in OCCUPY
by free2beme ini went by a protest today.
someone was holding a sign to "stop big banks now," basically saying they agree with the government taking control of the banks and what they do.
next to this person, was a person holding a sign that said, "make marijuana legal!
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Sad situation unfolding on FB
by Mickey mouse inthere are reports on one of the facebook ex jw groups that a 19 year old girl who disassociated herself last week was physically attacked by her family and so she tried to commit sucide by shooting herself.
she's in a critical state in hospital.
i don't know all the details but it would appear that she had endured sexual abuse.. please keep her in your thoughts.. .
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Do you feel moved or obligated to check in on JW family?
by mamalove inif you are being shunned, do you ever feel out of obligation that you should be the bigger person and check in on parents or siblings who are still jw's and have nothing to do with you?
i have reached out to my sibling and get zero back.
it hurts, and i am angry about it, yet from time to time i still feel a tenderness in my heart and let it be known that the love and care and concern is there.
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What Was Nathan Knorr Like Compared To The Other Presidents?
by AvocadoJake inbrother knorr is rarely mentioned in the awake or watchtower and i don't really know much about him.
is there a reason why brother knorr does not receive as much mention as brother russell, rutherford or even frantz?
can you help me understand why he was like?
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Watchtower and Apostasy Then and Now
by Marvin Shilmer inwatchtower and apostasy then and now.
today i uploaded a new article to my blog addressing watchtowers historical and contemporary doctrinal position on individuals holding views divergent from those taught by their religion.
my article is titled watchtower and apostasy then and now and is available at: http://marvinshilmer.blogspot.com/2011/10/watchtower-and-apostasy-then-and-now.html.
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Smiling Depression
by George inshe was such a nice sister.
i was particularly impressed by the way she read from the psalms.
her strong emotional attachment to god was obvious by the inflection in her voice when she read.
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JW Molesting a Boy is seen as nothing more than 'homosexual behaviour'
by iknowall558 inhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-11575733.
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I Don't Understand The November Watchtower About Apostates Being Insane And The Evils Of Blogging.
by AvocadoJake inhello, i am new and sighed up last night!
please, would anyone like to tell me, what this magazine is trying to say?
what about the men and women in the halls that have mental illness?