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  Watch the new JW.ORG kids music video - GIVING makes you happy

  by bytheirworks in

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  sing along everybody.. i love the part where he says: "i like getting presents.".

  must have been huge a backlash from throwing away sparlock.. .

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  I started a thread about that very thing, yesterday.
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  Young man walks out of Glasgow convention and commits suicide

  by jambon1 in

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  last weekend.

  so unbelievably sad.

  rip.

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  This makes me terribly sad, and unbelievably furious at the same time.

  I remember how devastated I felt after The Memorial™ in 1994, in the throes of severe postpartum depression, having been refused the opportunity to pass the Emblems™. Here they were letting DFd people and complete strangers participate, but because I was suffering from a debilitating mental illness, some idiot Elder­™ decided that I might "partake unworthily" and so instucted the Attendants™ to make sure I was not allowed to handle the wine or the bread.

  It just topped off how horrible I felt at the time, and the next day I ended up in hospital on a suicide watch. I just wanted to spare Jehovah the bother of destroying me at Armageddon™. Thankfully, I had the help of a terrific physician and a skilled psychiatrist, and visiting nurses who restored my faith in humankind and helped me on the road to recovery.

  To know that this kind of mental browbeating is still allowed to happen makes my blood boil.
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  SURVEY QUESTIONs

  by Terry in

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  i'm on the brink of publishing my book.

  here are some survey questions that will help me make some important decisions.. if you were ever going to actually buy a book about an ex-jehovah's witness conscientious objector who went to prison, would you:.

  a. prefer the book to be 8 1/2 x 11 ?.

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  Scully

  Terry,

  I enjoy e-books, but even more, I love audiobooks. There's just something about having a book 'read to me' that makes the experience even better.
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  You Needed Me

  by compound complex in

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  heavy, heavy upon my failing heart weighs your aching.

  need for my full and loving devotion.. oh, how i spend myself willingly on your behalf as,.

  truly, your desires outstrip my own.. were i but a younger and wiry man, would i scale.

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  CoCo? Are you okay?

  It's excellent to see you!
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  "Giving Makes You Happy" jw.org video for kids

  by Scully in

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  giving makes you happy.

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  Get them while they're young, W.

  Empty that piggy bank into the Contribution Box™! You may not be able to buy anything with all those pennies anymore, but Jehovah can use them!!
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  "Giving Makes You Happy" jw.org video for kids

  by Scully in

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  giving makes you happy.

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  Giving Makes You Happy
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  Books used to study with JWs - what are they?

  by Scully in

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  i'm on the jw.org website, looking at the publications.. i'm curious as to the books being used with the 'new' studytm, and the order in which they are studiedtm.. anyone still on the inside, can you help me?.

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  Thanks, rip van winkle. I knew about "What Does the Bible Really Teach?"

  I was wondering about the next one in line, the one leading up to Baptism™ or just following Baptism™?

  I'm looking at "Come Be My Follower" (published 2007) and "Draw Close to Jehovah" (published 2002).
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  Books used to study with JWs - what are they?

  by Scully in

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  2. beliefs

  i'm on the jw.org website, looking at the publications.. i'm curious as to the books being used with the 'new' studytm, and the order in which they are studiedtm.. anyone still on the inside, can you help me?.

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  Scully

  I'm on the jw.org website, looking at the publications.

  I'm curious as to the books being used with the 'new' Study™, and the order in which they are Studied™.

  Anyone still on the inside, can you help me?
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  Newspaper Article: Press Telegram-JWS BRING MILLIONS OF DOLLARS TO LONG BEACH - (JW beliefs discussed including date setting)

  by AndersonsInfo in

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  http://www.presstelegram.com/social-affairs/20130829/jehovahs-witnesses-bring-millions-of-dollars-to-long-beach#comments.

  go to the website to read the comments by xjws.. jehovahs witnesses bring millions of dollars to long beach.

  jehovah's witnesses hold a series of regional conventions in long beach every summer, bringing some 150,000 witnesses from across the southland over the course of 15 weekends.

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  the organization boasts some 17 million participants internationally

  Really? They are using Memorial Attendance™ numbers to "boast" about non-existent growth now?
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  Encounter at McDonalds

  by jws in

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  so i was helping some friends move and it came time for a break, i took my kids to mcdonalds.

  we're sitting there and there's a family across from us, man, wife, 2 kids under 4. in the next booth is this older guy, maybe late 60's.. i'm not really paying attention, but then this older guy says something to the family about everybody being "me-first" these days.

  so that caught my ear.

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  He said it's a comfort to me. Me: "huh"? He repeated that it's been a comfort to him and that it's kept him faithful.

  Just like the sword of Damocles, I suppose. This guy looks pretty comfortable, doesn't he?