Topics Started by Wait For It

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Just curious - is apostasy grounds for divorce?
by LifesNotOver in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i know only adultery is supposed to be grounds for "scriptural" divorce.

i'm a wicked apostate in their eyes, but my believing husband and i still can't get a divorce that would allow him to remarry.

we currently are separated - i have left him.
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Campaign to invite people to meetings
by StarTrekAngel in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
just found out last night that our congo is starting a campaign to invite interested people to meetings.

the instructions for the campaign clear out that "interested" people are not just those whom we visit often or have bible studies with.

it includes and random stranger we may talk to and who may show a hint of interest on the religion.
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Counting time
by Emma in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
i may not have put this in the correct spot, but i do think it's scandalous the way time gets counted now.

i've seen a cart at the edge of our farmer's market, never anyone close enough to talk.

yesterday was a drizzly day and there were two carts set up, covered in plastic, "witnessing" on their own.
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Do any of the Governing Body members go door to door preaching?
by atomant in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
l was just wondering if they actually get off their fat plump bums (over fed) and set an example of door to door witnessing..
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What Happens to Adam and Eve?
by Cold Steel in
1. watchtower
2. bible
in jw theology, what happens to adam and eve?

are they resurrected and become heirs to paradise on earth?

or will they become two of the heavenly class?
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By Way of Announcement, Darlene Jefferson Has Been Disfellowshiped
by Cold Steel in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i was watching a jw video where the announcement was made of a young lady's being disfellowshiped, and it happened in a regular kh sunday meeting.

this struck me as being a bit...cold.

is this when the shunning begins?
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When you were fully in, did you believe that you would not die?
by TTWSYF in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i know that it must seem silly to ask, but my brother and his family think that the big a will arrive before they die.

i tried to explain to my brother that everyone else who has ever lived in the past has died and only jesus has [physically] rose from the dead.. it is amazing that anyone could buy that line.

what crazy cult culture that could make people believe such nonsense?!.
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The Biggest Mistake The GB Have Made In The Last 10 Years
by pale.emperor in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i think the single biggest mistake the governing body have made in the last 10 years has to be creating jw broadcasting and putting their gb members on there... on a weekly basis too.. when i was a kid, i had no idea who the governing body were, what their names were or what they looked like.

there was one or two long term pioneers that knew the names of two of them but that was about it.. when i was about 10yo i imagined they looked something like this:.

ahh.... those learned men with a lifetime of bible knowledge just oozing out of their very hearts.
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August 12, 2016 BOE Re: Obtaining Video Equipment for Displaying Spiritual Programs
by wifibandit in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
august 12, 2016 to all bodies of elders in the united states branch territory re: obtaining video equipment for displaying spiritual programs.

spiritual_programs_video_equipment_kits-e.
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TWO MEN who changed Watchtower History but YOU NEVER HEARD of them!
by TerryWalstrom in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
two men who changed watchtower history but you never heard of them!

cults are famous for control--especially controlling information about people, places and events which are embarrassing to their self-myths.. especially is this true for two important figures in watchtower history.. .

the first man is william f. hudgings.