The funniest thing I can remember was interviewing my best mate (who I have just got back after he finally saw the light 13 years after I told him ) on the service meeting and asking him why he had decided to regular pioneer. He said he had decided to because he wanted to serve Jehovah while he was full of youthful virility, quickly correcting this to youthful vitality! But it was too late - I was crying laughing so much that I couldn't breathe.
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What's The STRANGEST Thing You've Seen At A Kingdom Hall?
by minimus ini saw a fight break out on the platform between an elder and a unbelieving husband who accused the elder of f---ing his wife.
he then threw the lectern on the floor and pushed the elder.
it was cool.......
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New Rumor - Watchtower and Awake in one magazine only?
by TJ Curioso inhi folks!.
someone told me that there is a rumor that soon the watchtower and awake's magazines will be only one (fusion).. anybody knows something concrete about that, or is only rumor instead?.
tj curioso.
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They'd still claim they printed the same amount of 'separate' magazines even if they merged them into one.
It's only like them claiming for years that they had 5 meetings a week when it was actually only 3.
They still go to 5 meetings a week when it's now only 2.
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The self-made PARADOX of "witnessing" without Television or Radio
by Terry inwhat if i asserted the following as true?
the watchtower bible and tract society has no interest in an effective evangelical program of conversion.. .
would that sound silly?
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Spot on JWfacts.
And totally agree Terry
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Who left or got stumbled over the 1995 generation thing?
by Julia Orwell inor the 2000's generation thing?.
how did you feel?
how did it help you wake up?
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That I obviously missed
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Who left or got stumbled over the 1995 generation thing?
by Julia Orwell inor the 2000's generation thing?.
how did you feel?
how did it help you wake up?
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What apology was that?!
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Who left or got stumbled over the 1995 generation thing?
by Julia Orwell inor the 2000's generation thing?.
how did you feel?
how did it help you wake up?
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Yep me.
Saw the flaw in the reasoning behind the '95 generation change. Was another 4 years before I got directed to Crisis of Conscience and then everything here and at Freeminds. It was the Generation change that opened my eyes though and the rest was confirmation.
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New Magazine says birthdays will kill you
by RayPublisher innew july 2013 awake says this on page 3:.
"there is a 14 percent greater probability that a person over 60 years of age will die on his birthday rather than on other days.".
wow, they have now proven that birthdays are pagan and not fit for christians!.
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Interestingly enough . . .
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-18626157
900 out of 2.5m
I make that 0.036%
So statistically true but I reckon driving your car is much more dangerous than celebrating your birthday
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List of UK Travelling Overseers in 2013
by soiledumpling inhi pepeep am attempting to get a current list of uk travelling overseers.
left 4 years ago and have heard rumours of many new ones.
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Tijkmo!!
Bloody hell how ya doing?!!!
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Jehovah's Witnesses and spiritual healers top complaints to Charity Commission
by iamwhoiam injehovah's witnesses and spiritual healers top complaints to charity commissionby ian griggs, third sector online, 7 january 2013. charity commission.
the rspca and national trust are also in top 10 most-complained about charities, the regulator has revealedthe central body for jehovahs witnesses in britain and a spiritual healers organisation were the charities about which the charity commission received the most complaints in the two years to march 2012.. the regulator said it had received 13 complaints about both the watch tower bible and tract society of britain and the nfsh charitable trust during the period.. the figures were revealed in response to a request under the freedom of information act, made by the conservative mp simon hart in july, for a list of the ten charities about which the commission received most complaints.. the rspca and jnf charitable trust, which is concerned with israel, were the next most complained about, with 12 complaints to the commission over two years.. hart, a former chief executive of the pro-hunting charity the countryside alliance, was one of a group of cross-party group of politicians that has called on the commission to investigate the rspca after it spent more than 320,000 on a successful private prosecution of the heythrop hunt.. the commission's list does not include complaints made to charities themselves or to other regulators such as the advertising standards authority and the fundraising standards board.. the commission said none of the complaints against charities in the top 10 resulted in any formal action against those organisations.
it also said the number of complaints would not necessarily mean that a charity had acted wrongly or contrary to its charitable purpose.. begin ad tag c501 end ad tag c501 "an internal dispute within a membership body could result in several letters of complaint or dissatisfaction, but may not be be a fair indication of the level of service that is being received by beneficiaries," said liam carroll, the commissions complaints manager.. .
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Fair to say that Brits don't complain that much
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For Ethos: The Basis of Christian Unity
by Londo111 incontinued from: http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/241969/3/greetings-from-an-existent-jw.
a repost from re: greetings!
from an existent jw.
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Ethos said
"Unity is a recurring scriptural mandate and a lack thereof can be greatly distributed to the varying denominations and sects in Christendom"
This is just repeating the totally incorrect impression that the Watchtower paints of 'Christendom' and is certainly not based on any actual research, investigation or accurate information. They make sweeping statements about the different denominations which create the image of a constantly squabbling group of different churches at loggerheads with each other because of their differing interpretations which they jealously guard in isolation from each other for fear of contamination. They base these statements on historical origins of some denominations with their schisms from another but totally fail to consider hundreds of years of dialogue and reconciliation which have brought about the state of love and unity that Londo describes. Many JWs, certainly in the UK, think that Henry VIII is responsible for the Protestant Reformation!
As is usual, unity is confused by uniformity. And the assumption is that unity cannot exist while different interpretations and traditions are tolerated.