OlderTom
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Disturbing trend in WT magazines...
by TheApostleAK inthis may be obvious to some but has anybody noticed the lack of doctrinal based watchtower study articles in wts for the last 2 years?.
lately we've been just getting either "pep talk" articles or articles that are only based on subjects.. the only new light lately is mainly the daniel and isaiah books.
and any new light in wt's is mainly just clarification (usually in the q's from readers page).. from ak
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Going to heaven and all that
by OlderTom ini've asked many times but still can't get an answer.. all these billions of people who are going to heaven.. where is it?.
what you gonna do all day?.
how long before an eternity will seem like an eternity and you gonna get bored sh!tless?.
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Im going to heaven to do what ever.
by Tin Man inyou may ask how do i know i am going to heaven, well some kind of spirit bears witness with me," then i feel funny inside, i feel this over wealming feeling that i can look inside you and know things about people i don't want to know,i eat my bread and drink my wine alone so as to not stumble anyone; cause i am a masive sinner in my eyes i am lible for gehenia.
but like eddies in time i am sweep towareds gods love for reasons i can not fathom, i just roll with the flow of it all, i know its real much like the smell of a rain storm is so real and is.
( now isn't this heavey ).
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This Year's Memorial Talk Outline
by Kent indo you want to read this year's memorial talk outline?
of course you can, and you can naturally find it on the watchtower observer :).
yachyd da.
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Prince & another known JWs
by rekless indewayne blackwell & his co-writer of the song "i got friends in low places" sung by garth brooks .
he also wrote "mr. blue" #1 hit in 1959. he was in my cong.
in northern california.. larry graham's manager ron woodmansee is too...at lease he was in the seventies.he wqas also in my cong.
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HELP PLEASE!
by TheStar ini'm a newbie around here.
i have only posted once but i've come in here almost every day to read for about the past month.
this place has been therapeutic for me as i'm currently trying to make my exit out of the borg.
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Beth Sarim
by larc inhow many of you knew about beth sarim when you were a jehovah's witness?
our most frequent poster, waiting, did not know about it until she left the religion.
i happen to know about it because my aunt berta lived there after rutherford's death.
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Freeness of speech
by ozziepost inas we read the many expressions here on the board it is plain for all to see that the actions and beliefs of the wts have caused great hurt and distress.
why, even blind freddie can see it!
in short, for many, many jws the organisation with its elder arrangement just doesn't work.
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WTBTS prints one thing preaches another
by hungry4life ini was talking to a friend and she told me that at her hall they gave a special part (i beleive it was during the meeting where they use the km)(man my memory is fading fast.
any way it is late and i am rambling.
my point is that they came out with a pretty balanced awake that made it sound as though a college education wa ok with them.
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CO says 35% inactive
by target inthe co visiting a congregation in madison wisconsin told them that 35% are inactive.
i wonder if this is the pattern with most other congregations.
that was about what it was in the last congregation i was in.