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  No more district assemblies in Tri-Cities. News article

  by Indian Larry in

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  2. beliefs

  for years the christian congregation of jehovah's witnesses has held a regional convention in the tri-cities, attracting about 16,000 of the faithful who spend an estimated $8.6 million while in town.. .

  but they won't be coming in 2014.. "what they told me is the decision has been made nationally to downsize the number of conventions from 400 to 100. they're simply consolidating," said kris watkins, president and ceo of the tri-cities visitor & convention bureau in kennewick.. .

  read more here: http://www.tri-cityherald.com/2013/08/01/2500842/jehovahs-witnesses-convention.html#storylink=cpy .

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  Ahhh, my old stomping grounds. I was born and raised in Kennewick WA. I lived there for 19 years I don’t remember exactly which year it was, but we used to attend the conventions in Tacoma WA. Then when I was a pre or early teen they switched to Kennewick. Washington does have an Assembly hall not far from Tacoma in Puyallup. I have wondered why they didn’t make everyone just travel to Puyallup to save money. Either way, it was nice having the convention only 5 min away.

  Someone commented at the end of the article… “The witnesses are holding many extra large international conventions in 2014 -thus fewer smaller district conventions.”
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  Personality types and religious adherence

  by EdenOne in

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  2. friends

  i was going through the personality types of the briggs-myers test (take the free test here) and noticed how some types are naturally inclined to follow rules and expect order, while others are inclined towards feelings and emotional appeals, other are naturally inclined to help out others ... what do you think?

  are there certain basic personality types that pre-dispose the individual to adhere to a certain type of religion ?.

  eden.

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  Londo - LOL. I just finished the test and then read your post. My personality type is an ESFJ.
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  Let's Hate on TV

  by Satanus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  perhaps, you're a fan of tv, perhaps, you're not.

  maybe, you like some aspects of it and not others.. my favorite tv hates are 'news', and commercials.

  i always mute the commercials.

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  I have always had a love hate relationship with TV. Then the DVR came out so I could skip the commercials. In the last year or more I noticed I didn’t really watch anything but local channels and HBO/SHOWTIME when certain series were on. I figured why pay 65 to 100+ a month for local channels and the occasional Dexter or Boardwalk Empire. I canceled satellite and picked up HULU Plus and Netflix. And I discovered VUDU which have all the series for me to buy at $2 an episode or $23 a season. Dexter and all the other series I’d watch are there on VUDU.
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  An official Jw.org YouTube channel.

  by His Excellency in

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  2. friends

  an official jw.org youtube channel.

  https://www.youtube.com/user/jehovahswitnessesen/videos,

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  sooner -

  lol
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  An official Jw.org YouTube channel.

  by His Excellency in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  an official jw.org youtube channel.

  https://www.youtube.com/user/jehovahswitnessesen/videos,

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  oops. and I was signed in with my real name.
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  An official Jw.org YouTube channel.

  by His Excellency in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  an official jw.org youtube channel.

  https://www.youtube.com/user/jehovahswitnessesen/videos,

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  I'm already banned from that channel for asking about their shunning policy...

  LOL. I may get banned too. I just commented: Yep. This "religion" is really a cult.
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  Zimmerman Not guilty

  by mouthy in

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  good
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  Bitter apostates

  by Laika in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  witnesses often go on about apostates being spiteful and bitter.

  when you get cut off, shunned, or threatened with shunning just for the audacity of thinking differently, it's not surprising that getting angry at the witnesses is the reaction - it's like a self fulfilling prophecy.. but also, i recently posted an email from a 'friend' on this board who told me that everyone he'd spoken to about me said i had changed, become like another person.

  it didn't occur to him that the day before i told my parents i'd quit the religion just 3 weeks ago, i met him for lunch, we had a good time and he didn't know anything was up.

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  Looking back, it seems so arrogant to think only “we” have the truth. Any religion that thinks this is so delusional.
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  Since leaving watchtower what has been your biggest act of rebellion?

  by 3rdgen in

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  2. friends

  i'm in a pissy mood and would love to hear your stories.

  personally, i'm thinking of getting a tatoo on my rear end saying wbt$ kiss this!.

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  Grew a goatee.

  Voted.

  Tattoo.

  Smoke Cigars.

  Celebrate Halloween and other holidays and birthdays.

  Soon I will donate blood and/or plasma.
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  im new here and need help

  by mtudor54 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  hi my name is sarah and im a psychiatric patient.

  i know that many people look down on me and see me as a freak, a demon,hideous...whatever.

  but im asking anyone here if they have any information from the watchtower or any other jw writing on serious psychiatric illnesses and what the bible has to say about it.

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