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  There are only 4 ways to leave the Jehovah's Witnesses

  by new boy in

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  there are only four ways of leaving the jehovah’s witnesses.

  so there are four ways that could lead to shunning.

  i say “could” because options three and four has some loopholes.

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  2a) you takes sides in the affairs of the "world" and for legal/publicity reasons, wt does not dare to disfellowship you, they declare that you disassociated yourself. really

  1a) disfellowshipping by another name.
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  First Girlfriend first kiss

  by TerryWalstrom in

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  first girlfriend first kisswho was my 1st girlfriend?.

  the first girl i took notice of in any real sense of "notice" was a brunette named robbie.. i was in first grade, so i must have been six-years-old.. i had no idea why this particular girl caught my neurons and trapped them.

  adolescence was a thousand miles away so it couldn't have been a sex attraction.

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  A kiss that speaks volumes is seldom a first edition.

  The French kiss that is a first: In the 50s, I listened to a radio program teaching French to anglophones. He tried to get across the pronunciation of the "ue" sound like in "ueber". He said: try to say: "ui" but while kissing your girlfriend, --no. no. the way you kissed her the first time, with puckered lips. sorry Terry, off topic on your masterpiece.
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  There is always one!

  by Isambard Crater in

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  i am pimo but attended the r.c yesterday for family pressure reasons.

  a "sister" i've not seen for a while told me her husband is overjoyed because a man he called on recently in the field service suddenly told him he wanted to attend the r.c.

  the unusual thing is, this man is a millionaire having built a property portfolio.

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  portfolio? in some places just owning one run down shack makes you a millionaire.

  The meek will inherit the Earth, he wants more. The Earth will be owned by partakers. GC, OS will be only tenants,
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  Jupiter protects the earth... another example of intellectual dishonesty and an argument against design

  by cognisonance in

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  i'm taking a university astronomy course, and i must say it's really fun to read about this field.

  anyway, i remember the jws used to use jupiter (and probably still do) as an example for how unique and special our solar system is (and thus designed) -- namely, that jupiter protects the earth from astroids, comets, and meteors.

  convincing if one doesn't know any better, especially circa 1994 when jupiter stepped in front of a comet for us... but this isn't the full story!

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  Joshua miracle of the Sun standing still is occurring on Jupitir all the time. At morning, and evening on Jupiter, the Sun sets normally, but around noon The sun appears to be standing still, because as the planet moves forward the spin of the same speed, carries the observer standing on the "surface" an equal amount backward. Noon heat intensified.
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  JWs shunning other active JWs

  by Roger Kirkpatrick in

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  how many others have noticed how common it is for active jws to ostracize and shun other active jws?

  as far back as i can recall, jws have had an ongoing problem with cliques within congregations, and special needs talks would be given from time to time to address that trend.

  but, it seems to me that the practice has become even more pronounced with entire congregations actively shunning other congregations.

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  Only half of the dying want/have funerals at the hall here. perhaps they do not want their name desecrated by the attendees, and wt propaganda of course.
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  The most successful teaching of Jehovah's Witnesses and an amazing new book on the divine name

  by slimboyfat in

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  jehovah's witnesses have had to revise their chronology and various doctrinal interpretations due to events and scholarly corrections.

  but the one teaching where they have been consistently ahead of the curve is the importance of jehovah's name.. .

  i'm going to run through a (necessarily selective) timeline of jw events and scholarly publications that demonstrate the phenomenal success of this teaching in the last days.

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  Jehovah is such an ugly word.

  Albert Einstein used it to describe an ugly situation, when it become apparent in 1915, that "god" would not use his good offices to stop the useless slaughter on the front.
  
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  Why did Jesus not use God’s name Jehovah?

  by venus in

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  no one doubts jesus extensively spoke about god’s kingdom because he said: “i must proclaim the good news of the kingdom of god to the other towns also, because that is why i was sent.” (luke 4:43) yet christian sects are divided over the subject whether jesus used god’s name or not.. it is said that god’s name jehovah was revealed to moses.

  however jesus knew moses was not trustworthy.

  (mathew 19:8) moses born and brought up in egypt could have been influenced by egyptian knowledge.

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  Jesus, or what his biographers decades later wrote about him, was ignorant of creation reality. He too, was probably searching for the one that made it all. In deference to the great place he (and we) live, the enormity of the task of creation, ( he struggled to work with hard wood and primitive hand tools), He probably choose not to demean that possible person (like his possible father) by calling him names.
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  How old would Br. Franz be today if he overlapped himself?

  by waton in

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  `~39, and ~ 59+ years more to go .

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  jp: I have "hammered" away on this particular issue with more effort and effect than you'll ever know!.

  Great!...can you share some? with this thread I tried to roll back time, show that in 1939*** Franz was 36 years away from 1975, 53 years away from his death, as a under lapper, a latter day Franz II would take us into 2070 to 2075 again. so:

  "If I had a hammer Id hammer in the morning--evening." next blow please.

  If witnesses would be confronted with this issue in the H2H, "work" ...They would dread "not giving up" even more.

  *** 1939 corresponds to 2017 in the overlapping franzes
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  How old would Br. Franz be today if he overlapped himself?

  by waton in

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  `~39, and ~ 59+ years more to go .

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  SBF, jp1692, The generation question is the one uniquely problematic for the WTBTS. and for that reason it deserves to be hammered.

  I have done more than 86 laps around the sun, passed the baton to the next generation and the next. overlapping twice already. so, sorry, it is not the last time you will see generation threads generated. , if it annoying, hopefully more so for wt writers, lurkers.

  rub it in.
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  How old would Br. Franz be today if he overlapped himself?

  by waton in

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  `~39, and ~ 59+ years more to go .

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  waton

  Discussing current wt doctrinal dilemmas is the service we wish we had rendered to us when we were young.