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  Thoughts on Sunning and blood Doctrines.

  by Phizzy in

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  i have a couple of thoughts on the blood and shunning doctrines, both of which have been covered well before.

  here, and on j.w facts.com and elsewhere.. but i would like to point out the following, the only scriptures they can use in reality for their blood doctrine are the verses from acts chapter 15. o.t verse are really out of the question, and dishonest to use on their part, as they do not follow most of the injunctions in there!.

  the context of acts 15 is a council of the apostles and others in the jerusalem congregation, to decide what they should ask of gentile christians in the way of behaviours and practices etc, as jewish christians were demanding they comply with the mosaic law, or were, at the very least offended if they did not.

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  Rub is a funny guy,I like his/ her posts
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  NY Tribunal Rejects Fuel Tax Refund For Religious Group

  by Rattigan350 in

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  2. scandals

  https://www.law360.com/tax-authority/articles/1292663/ny-tribunal-rejects-fuel-tax-refund-for-religious-group.

  ny tribunal rejects fuel tax refund for religious group.

  by abraham gross

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  Good news . Now if only the New York Tax Tribunal could also see that the WTB&TS is really a Real Estate Enterprise first and foremost posing as a religion to claim Tax Exemptions .

  Isn`t this a Tax scam of some sort ?

  Taking into consideration their Kingdom Hall Trust Funds where Congregations hand over deeds and titles in exchange for waivering loans owing only to have the same congregations vote to continue to dedicate the same amount of $$$$ to the Organization in a Resolution indefinitely.
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  Watchtower June 2020 Article, '' Return to Me''

  by RULES & REGULATIONS in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  the watchtower—study edition | june 2020. .

  study article 26.

  6 who can share in the search for inactive ones?

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  Its been a few years now since my niece and her two boys visited my wife and I as they were leaving the town we are living in to go where the need is great? They never even visited her mother or stepfather when leaving.

  And we never hear anything more from her when these articles about returning to the Borg come out.I`m sure while she lived here she let the Elders know we were JW`s and that I was an MS and just don`t attend anymore.

  However we have never had a shepherding call from any of the Elders in the 14 years we have been living here.

  I might add that in the mid 70`s we did live here for a year and attended this congregation before we moved interstate and joined another congregation.

  Do you ever get the feeling , what`s wrong with me ? Why haven`t they tried to get me back in ? LOL
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  Where Is BLONDIE?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i might have missed this but blondie was always one of the best posters here.

  her analysis and commentary was spot on.. is everything ok with her?

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  Distancing herself from the Watchtower and wanting nothing more to do with it I can fully understand .

  However cutting herself off from so many here who consider her a true friend I find a bit disappointing.

  Its like Blondie is shunning all of us without any explanation that I find so sad.
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  Where Is BLONDIE?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
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  i might have missed this but blondie was always one of the best posters here.

  her analysis and commentary was spot on.. is everything ok with her?

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  I too wonder where the lady is ,I hope all is well ?
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  Honest assessment of my life

  by silent3 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  my old account was silent and i had to create a new account which kind of bums me, but here i am.. over the years i've really experienced some rough times emotionally and spiritually which led me down many paths.

  being angry most all of time with a few outbursts really started to make me take stock of what was wrong with me.

  further i started really going back and trying to figure out where i went wrong.. so i revisted all my previous posts on here.

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  I feel sorry for his wife and /or children if he`s got any with that grovelling as a display of his spiritual headship .
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  Why are UK Chiropodists not allowed to treat patients?

  by BoogerMan in

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  because there will be only 2 feet between them and the patients!.

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  A friend of mine told me his wife had just given birth by caesarean,I told him they could always boast about their child being a cut above the rest .
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  Hello Guys

  by KW13 in

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  2. friends

  well its been a while since i posted and i wanted to ask what latest 'new light' has been revealed so i can keep up.

  just also wanted to say rest in peace dansk and mouthy amongst others, long time members here and great people.. minimus if you see this good to see you're still active, gumby & uncle bruce also if you stumble on this i wish you both well.

  gumby i know you made many sacrfices mate, i hope you're happy.

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  Well Jehovah`s Celestial Chariot has bogged down ,so there is not that much Nu-lite floating around now.

  Jesus Christ has been ruling in Heaven since 1914 and we are all still wondering WTF has he been doing these past 106 years .?

  You an Aussie ? ( mate ) just wondering.

  Tony the turd bought a lot of top shelf whiskey . A couple hundred bucks worth.

  Dress up for meetings in your own home with a badge I.D. for Zoom meetings ?? WTF ?

  If you haven`t checked out the videos of the ARC into Institutions of Child Sex Abuse case`s 29 and 54 relating to Jehovah`s witnesses do yourself a favor and watch it.

  That`s just for starters.

  Take care buddy.
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  Just wanting confirmation on an unofficial JW experience

  by joe134cd in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  just wondering if anyone can confirm or deny this unofficial jw experience that my father received by email.

  i’ve told him that it against wt rules to forward unofficial accounts.

  but of course he just puts that down to apostate driven lies.

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  I think I`m pretty safe in not believing anything the WT /JW religion says about anything.Theocratic Warfare anybody ?
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  All Memorial Attendance Data

  by hipolito in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  hi friend.. i want to ask you to do me the next favor.. if any of you have the following data or file on the following topic: "all memorial attendance data from 1896 to 2016".. if one of you knows about it or has the file in excel, i will really appreciate it.. thank you..

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  I`m curious Hipolito what the reason is why are you requesting this Memorial Attendance Data for all of these years ?

  My thinking is along the lines of ,that for so many decades the WT society was teaching that the numbers of those who claimed to be of the Anointed would decrease year by year until there would only be a few Anointed left on the earth when the GT and Armageddon finally came .

  But Lo and Behold ,the opposite has been the case with the numbers of those claiming to be of the Anointed going up in leaps and bounds.

  I think the lowest it ever got was about 8,000 for a few years some time ago and at last count it had jumped up to over 20,000 .

  Of course I could be completely wrong LOL .