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  JW’s and Charity Organizations

  by longgone in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i was wondering if anyone is aware of the jw’s in general being involved financially and/or as volunteers in charity organizations?

  i was a born in jw for 56 years and left in 2016. as far as i remember there was never any encouragement to help in the community in any way.

  including soup kitchens, tutoring at schools, united way, etc.

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  smiddy3

  I have been in 7 congregations in my 32 years as an active JW in 3 States of Australia and I have never seen or heard from the Society as they used to be called, any assistance monetary or otherwise from the JW religion to any needy person ,widow or orphans that needed help or assistance .

  The onus was always put back on the individual members of the congregations to provide any assistance needed.

  Recently, when many old time workers / members were laid off ,they were just sent back to neighboring congregations who were to provide for their needs,with no assistance from the GB/JW religion.
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  Freaky, unsettling, unnerving comment from Losch in his AGM talk

  by FFGhost in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  did anybody else catch it?.

  he said that people who come back in the earthly resurrection would be given a body "reasonably similar" to the one they had prior to death.. what the almighty hootch?.

  "similar"?.

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  smiddy3

  And where in the world did this gem come from ? Out of his butt? They, the GB , have probably been pondering questions that XJW`s raise about the resurrection ,and this is the best answer they can come up with .

  I`m sure some little old sister / brother will be thrilled with this new light ?
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  AM III off topic remarks online @ jw.org

  by Gorb in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  am iiii off topic remarks at the anual meeting, are online at broadcasting.. he says in the early 70s he did not believe the end was near, and told his sons not to believe jw's who stating the end is near because the system could go on to 2020.. g..

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  smiddy3

  Would it surprise anyone on this forum if AM 111 played loose with the truth ?

  The WT/JW religion revise their history all the time so it shouldn`t surprise us that a GB member can do so ?
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  Gossip

  by Rattigan350 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  question for former elders:.

  how much of your time was spent quelling gossip and rumors floating around.

  i'm not talking about csa type stuff, just regular insignficant stuff that people occupied their time over..

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  smiddy3

  In my experience Elders wives were the principle gossip makers in a congregation where a lot of it started.

  In my 32 years as an active JW I attended 6 different congregations and was a friend of a few Elders and their wives,

  Nudge ,nudge ,wink wink.
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  Jehovah's Witnesses and logical fallacies

  by Vanderhoven7 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  giles gray writes.

  here is a brief list of the most common arguments (or statements used in the construction of their arguments) jehovah’s witnesses make that are fallacious in nature:-.

  --we are the true religion because we only teach what is written in the bible.

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  smiddy3

  -We are the true religion because we only teach what is written in the bible

  Do they teach that the God of the Bible is a genocidal , homicidal ,maniac , guilty of crimes against humanity , sanctioning slavery ,women as spoils of war , that children women and old men are worthy of death and not to feel sorry for them ?

  That according to the Bible, God is responsible for millions if not billions of deaths over the duration of time that the Bible spans.

  Whereas I think the Bible only accounts Satan as being responsible for about only 10 people`s death.

  And Jesus Christ stands firmly behind and in support of God his father.

  Read the Bible without pre-conceived religious ideas and beliefs.

  c
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  New Book - The Reluctant Prostate

  by Simon in

  1. social
  2. humour

  hey everyone, i'm writing a new book.. it's the entirely fictional story about a character called "roy devons", an obese clown who was kicked out of clown college because he couldn't stop touching himself.

  he launches his own youtube channel where he tells the world how wrong and unfunny clowns really are.

  the world already knows this, and never really had much todo with clowns anyway, although some other ex-clowns felt like they needed to be reminded regularly of their past lives.. he hits upon the idea of asking for donations to support efforts to convince ex-clowns to get their prostates checked.

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  smiddy3

  That was funny Simon ,have a beer or two on me.
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  Watchtower online religion.

  by asp59 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  should we refer watchtower as to a online religion now?

  i mean we could discuss if they ever return to kingdom hall's in the future.

  if most of them haven't been sold.

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  Sooner or later they will start to sell KH`s there is no rush .They made Millions of dollars $$$$$$ when the sold properties in Brooklyn NY ,and if every JW only donated one Dollar a week now they would have over 8 Million dollar $$$$$$ net every week .

  That`s the reality ,there is no hurry.
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  "A thousand years as one day"

  by Awakened07 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the scripture saying: "...one day is with the lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

  " (2. peter 3:8) is often used both by jehovah's witnesses and others, to show that a day can literally mean a thousand years in the eyes of god.

  this is then used especially for the creation story, and for the fall of adam and eve.

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  Day and night is only relative to the Earth because a point on it turns on it`s axis facing too the sun and away from it . There is no night and day in the Universe ,just as there is no up or down ,only out their .
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  SANG BLOOD

  by Marcial in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  courts of denmark all lands supreme court news and judicial summaries blood transfusion to a member of jehovah's witnesses was legal.

  01 feb 2022. .

  supreme court.

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  smiddy3

  An interesting story,I wonder how this will pan out ?
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  Suit, shirt and tie

  by JoenB75 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i always hated suit, shirt and tie and wondered why men of all walks of life should be forced to wear these uncomfortable clothes and spend the money on them.

  it should be remembered some of the worst people wear them, like creepy joe, putin, dirty corrupt frauds in business, law etc.

  and of course al capone.

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  smiddy3

  I haven`t worn a suit or tie since `93 and if i go to a funeral I wear casual clothes as does nearly every one else here in my neck of the woods.

  Did any of the first century Xia ever wear a suit and tie ? or did they wear their everyday clothes when they gathered together in a meeting.? They never had special clothes for special occasions back then.

  Just another controlling factor that the GB puts on their members.