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  In 2020 In Your Country or State Are Race Relations Better or Worse Than Before?

  by minimus in

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  archie bunker from all in the family was considered by many as a racist.

  there are still many people who think and act like him.

  of course, in today’s world, there are many extremes.

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  Better or worse than before WHAT ?

  Most of my life i have lived in dominately white neighbourhoods ,however in the past 15 years or so I have lived in a mixed race of indigenous people and white people at a guess maybe 75% white 25 % indigenous.

  I have a couple of indigenous associates yet more white friends ,and i know some shitheads that are black and also know some arseholes who are white .

  Overall I think a little bit of racism is from both sides here ,however its certainly not a big problem that I know about.

  I`m in Australia.
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  Watchtower August 2020 Are they introducing new light?

  by Listener in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  the latest watchtower is now out and they make this statement -.

  7 during the thousand year rule of christ, all of jehovah’s earthly children will have to make changes to please him.

  so all of them will have true fellow feeling as they help the resurrected ones to combat sinful tendencies and to live by jehovah’s standards.

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  How can anyone keep up with the flip flops double speak and contradictions JW`s make ? Its got to the stage where even the writers of the publications cant keep up with what they currently beleive as truth ?

  Come to think of it ,maybe its a good thing ,surely someones going to throw up there hand in despair and say enoughs enough? I can`t take it anymore ! Let me outa here .

  Next thing you know they are here
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  Why Do You Think People Become Jehovah’s Witnesses?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  besides growing up in the religion, why do you think people turn to jehovah’s witnesses?

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  what made you become a witness?

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  I can agree with Biblical ignorance being a factor.And beleiving from outside influencers that the Bible is the word of God.
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  Voting and JWs

  by Davros in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  with the upcoming elections, the campaigns and political rhetoric are ramping up.

  (ramping up is an understatement lol) .

  i remember a few years ago, gb member brother herd mentioned during one of his talks that several witnesses were either reproved or disfellowshipped for voting for a certain presidential candidate who won...twice.

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  This was a thing that came up early in my conversion days actually twice .One was in a new hall we had obtained a vote was taken in the congregation as to what colour the drapes were to be made .

  In the other example I should have learned an important message.:

  In the Theocratic/Ministry School meetings that were held on a thursday night a vote was taken as to what time the sunday meeting was to be held in the morning or the Afternoon.Which I attended and voted for the morning.In my mind the rest of the sunday was for you to do whatever you wanted to do .

  Apparently everybody else thought much the same .

  The next week this vote came up again ? I thought why are we having another vote on this same issue ?

  Again apparently the vote went the same way .The next week i missed going to the MS/SM ,and apparently the Elders got the vote they wanted to have the meetings on a sunday afternoon so that JW`s could go out witnessing on the Sunday morning .

  And there was never another vote on that subject again .

  Apparently if the meetings were held in the mornings very few would go out witnessing in the Afternoon.

  However if the meetings were held in the Afternoon many more people would go out witnessing in the mornings.

  So the Elders actually in effect rigged the vote in their favour.

  So the voting issue isnt with voting itself its what you are voting for .Politics a no no. because you are supposedly "voting" for Christ Jesus kingdom.
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  How do you feel about identifying roughly where you are from ? Country, Region,State ?

  by smiddy3 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  hi friends ,.

  is it just me or do others on this forum like to know where posters are from ?

  what country state or region you are from ?

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  Hi friends ,

  Is it just me or do others on this forum like to know where posters are from ? What country state or region you are from ?

  Of course i can understand pimi may not want to divulge such information for fear they could be identified ,but even then maybe just the country ?

  I`m always curious as to what part of the world so and so is posting from some of us are quite open about it and others are a bit more cautious for obvious reasons .

  But for all of us who have no objection to it ,would you like to be more or less specific as you feel comfortable with in identifying where you are from ?

  And of course I will start :

  I live in Lakes Entrance in East Gippsland Victoria, Australia.,Google it.

  I look forward to where many of you live even if its just the country .

  But for those who are uncomfortable with this don`t do it.
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  How have Jehovah`s Witnesses ever gotten away with being a Tax Exempt Religion ?

  by smiddy3 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i can never get my head around this one ?

  don`t the powers that be ever really investigate religions that claim exemption from paying taxes because they claim they are a not for profit religion ?.

  you would have to be a brain dead imbecile not to see that the religion known as the" watchtower bible and tract society" otherwise known as "jehovah`s witnesses" are nothing more than a religious publishing house that have made x amount of $$$$$ over the years since their inception in the late 1800`s to this day.

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  I can never get my head around this one ? Don`t the powers that be ever really investigate religions that claim exemption from paying taxes because they claim they are a Not For Profit Religion ?

  You would have to be a brain dead imbecile not to see that the religion known as the" Watchtower Bible and Tract Society" otherwise known as "Jehovah`s Witnesses" are nothing more than a Religious Publishing House that have made x amount of $$$$$ over the years since their inception in the late 1800`s to this day. And at the same time a massive Real Estate Enterprise that has amassed Billions of $$$$ in Real Estate Deals over this same period of time .

  How in the world they can be classed as a Not For Profit Religion beggars belief .

  Now don`t get me started on how they have been classed as a Charitable organization ,a charity ?

  When they do no charitable works whatsoever ? They in fact pass over their old and infirm over to the religious organizations they condemn as False religions and the governments ,who they don`t supprt , to look after them.

  They do nothing to help and support any of there members passing them off as merely volunteers who they have no obligation to look after .

  Many members who have served in the religion for 40,50,60 and more years are cast off without any assistance ,no financial help from the religion and told the Govts and religious institutions are what they can take advantage of .
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  Has Robert Ciranko replaced Don Adams as president of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania ?

  by EdenOne in

  1. social
  2. current

  robert ciranko has been a "helper" of the governing body in the writing department.. don adams (born 1925, presumably 91 years old now) has been president of the wtbts since 2000. .

  however, in recent official posts (april 2016), robert ciranko is identified as "president of the watch tower".

  does anybody know what happened and if this is an official change?.

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  Fake news ,no verification from any source after what 3-4 weeks now ? And the video that says WT denies it as being true.
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  Bible canon conundrums

  by joey jojo in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  this is a topic that i find really interesting- how the bible, in particular, the new testament was compiled and how the jw organisation strives to negate, scoff at and diminish the influence of the catholic church in its development.. here is the official stance of the org: .

  https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/library/r1/lp-e/all-publications/watchtower/the-watchtower-1963/april-15.

  'the roman catholic church claims responsibility for the decision as to which books should be included in the canon, and reference is made to the councils of hippo (a.d. 393) and carthage (a.d. 397), where catalogues of books were formulated.

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  Drearyweather , do you have any evidence they were not ? please provide it if you have.?
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  Jehovah’s Witnesses President Robert Ciranko dies of coronavirus

  by Balaamsass2 in

  1. social
  2. current

  fyi.

  this showed up on my google feed.

  i couldn't find an earlier story in the search box.

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  Giving that this particular news article has been found to be fake news ,I would be very surprised if no JW`s in New York or New York state have contracted Covid-19 where some have died.

  And this applies to Jehovah`s Witness HeadQuarters as well .After all their new residence is less than 60 miles from where they were in Brooklyn right ?

  Covid-19 is not restricted by boundarys is it ,nor by what faith you profess.

  Do you think the Governing Body of Jehovah`s Witnesses are incapable of lying ? being deceptive in matters that protect WT interests ?

  Do you believe they would hold back from giving a truthful answer to someone who they believed didn`t deserve to hear the truth ?

  In Jehovah`s Witness speak : How do they define "Theocratic Warfare " isnt it justified deception ? on there part ?

  Have Jehovah`s Witnesses been guilty of lying and/or being deceptive in the past ? Yes / No ?
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  Field service national average - what do you think it is now?

  by BourneIdentity in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  it’s always been 10 hours when door to door was active.

  i’m curious of how it’s changed with only letter writing and phone witnessing approved.. i’m curious if they are able to do it for 3 hours like a typical door to door morning.

  i would be surprised.

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  Watching them from a vantage point in my house I think all of the r&f who do D2D work have adopted the" Pioneer crawl" and for some reason I can`t understand is when they get to a corner there is always ,well nearly always a conflab ? before moving on again ?

  Gotta stretch out the time I guess.