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My Explanation of Why They Got it Wrong About Blood Using Only the NWT
by cofty in
1. watchtower
2. medical
10 " any israelite or any alien living among them who eats any bloodi will set my face against that person who eats blood and will cut him off from his people.

12 therefore i say to the israelites, "none of you may eat blood, nor may an alien living among you eat blood.

15 'anyone, whether native-born or alien, who eats anything found dead or torn by wild animals must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be ceremonially unclean till evening; then he will be clean.
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Suicide - How many do you know within the JWs
by Lady Lee in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
thw wts likes to play games with their statistics.

one interesting but truly tragic is the number of jwhovah's witnesses who commit suicie.. now i suspect that if a person commits suicide shortly before or after they are disfellowshipped then the elders would say that person wasn't a witness or that they had done something so terrible that they were too guilty to admit it and by their action of committing suicide they pretty much declared they were no longer a jw.. yup fancy talk to make sure any crap didn't fall on them.. so my question.. do you know of cases like this?

if so then can you answer a few more questions.. had this person been dfed or in real danger of being dfed or whatever the equivalent is if they were never baptized?.
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What Did You Imagine Jehovah To Look Like?
by pale.emperor in
1. jw
2. experiences
what did you imagine jehovah to look like?

i always pictured him like this:.

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You Know You're Starting To Wake Up When...
by pale.emperor in
1. jw
2. experiences
you start listening to music deemed "unsuitable for christians".

you pretend to knock on the doors.

you explain a jw teaching to someone and realize how ridiculous it sounds.
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The secret fears - did you have any?
by days of future passed in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i think many jw's have secret fears in common, but don't often voice them.

it's too bad because then they might wonder why?.

for instance, one day at work while i was talking to one of the witness ladies, (on her belief of some bible proof of the last days) she suddenly lowered her voice.
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suicide
by zeb in
1. jw
2. friends
who among us has known a jw who has committed suicide.

i believe this as a separate subject has not been covered..
36
What phobias do you have?
by stuckinarut2 in
1. jw
2. friends
so this is just a general question.

call it curiosity.. what sort of phobias do we have?

heights?
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A WTF Moment While In the WTS
by Searching in
1. jw
2. experiences
has anyone else had a moment, while still within the organization (and before learning ttatt) that caused them to stop and go, "this is kind of messed up.".

for instance, back i believe in the early 2000's, i was attending a dc with my family.

it was announced at the beginning of the convention that there was going to be a special announcement at the end, so for everyone to please try to remain until the very end of the meeting.
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Outside JW World They Barely Exist
by Farmer Jim1 in
1. jw
2. friends
is anyone else staggered by the fact that outside of the organization most of the general public seem to know very little or nothing about jw’s?

when i was in i was led to believe that 99% of the worlds population had been giving sufficient warning, knew what it was all about and were stubbornly sticking to their immoral ways.

the reality seems to be that the entire jw universe is barely noticeable to the masses.
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January 2018 Watchtower
by Listener in
1. watchtower
2. bible
the cover page shows a photo jws loading a small plane with watchtower literature to take to a remote area in bolivia.the first study article introduces the 2018 year text isa.

40:31 "those hoping in jehovah will regain power".

according to them, you may leave home to do field service or attend a meeting feeling exhausted but you return home refreshed and 'jesus' yoke is kindly indeed!