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Awake and Watchtower - Top 10 Most Popular Magazines of 2013

by jw07 in

the washtowel and asleep magazines made the list.

an over-zealous dub just posted this link to my facebook wall.

http://www.clicktop10.com/2013/07/top-10-most-popular-magazines-of-2013/.

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These magazines are like junk mail .

Stuff left in peoples doors are counted as circulation of a publication .

What a dishonest joke .

Do the guys sending out junk mail get to count their crap as of any value ?

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Another story... possibly final story

by confusedandalone in

this is the exchange of text messages i had with my super spiritual brother.

it is sad... it is pathetic... it has helped me realize that i have no connection to these people anymore.

i feel free today.

The final chapter in the confusedandalone story...

by confusedandalone in

this morning i get a frantic call from my sister (who has been baptized 1 year and one month and never attends meetings anymore).

in tears she tells me that this morning my father picked her up in the car and told her that i was am apostate.

that i no longer loved jehovah and that i was going to be disfellowshipped.

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I am so confused I thought ALL former JWs were kicked out for unrepentent sins .

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Jehovah's Witnesses explore new way of witnessing

by Watchtower-Free in

jw
friends

lets educate this reporter.

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/life/faith/witnesses-explore-new-way-of-witnessing-220914021.html.

witnesses explore new way of witnessing.

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Lets educate this reporter

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/life/faith/witnesses-explore-new-way-of-witnessing-220914021.html

Witnesses explore new way of witnessing
By: John Longhurst
Posted: 08/24/2013 1:00 AM | Comments: 0

If you work or ride transit through downtown, you've seen them -- standing quietly and politely in pairs on the sidewalk, nodding pleasant hellos to passersby.

They are Jehovah's Witnesses, and they are no longer just coming to a door near you.
"People are not at home more than ever before," says Mark Ruge, director of public information for Jehovah's Witnesses in Canada, explaining why members of the church are now standing on sidewalks downtown.

"We still do door-to-door, but downtown is where the people are."
Although members of the church have been doing downtown witnessing for a few years in the U.S., this is the first time they are doing it in Canada.

They started in Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver in spring, followed by Winnipeg, Calgary, Edmonton and Halifax in summer. Ruge says they will soon be doing it in other communities as well.

In Winnipeg, members of the church can be found on Portage and Graham avenues, standing on each side of a portable literature rack filled with magazines.

"We're doing it to be more visible (as a church)," says Ruge. "But we don't want to be in people's faces."
They are on the street as early as 7 a.m. some mornings. I have stopped to talk with a few of them; they told me they do it as part of their service to the church, and that a number of people stop by to talk, ask questions or take a magazine.

One of the magazines they give away is The Watchtower, the church's official publication. With a print run of 43 million copies of every issue, it is the most widely-circulated magazine in the world. What also makes The Watchtower unique is that it is published in 190 languages and distributed in 237 countries -- something no other publication can likely match.

Some of those translations are available in Winnipeg, which makes it very appealing to immigrants.
"People from other countries are happy to find something in their language," says Ruge.

Is the street witnessing making a difference? According to the National Council of Churches Yearbook of American & Canadian Churches, in 2010 the church grew by 1.85 per cent to 1,184,249 members. Only the Mormons and Assemblies of God added more members.
As for Manitoba, the church has 3,320 members, up from 3,232 in 2000. They belong to 47 congregations meeting in 35 Kingdom Halls, worshipping in English, Tagalog, Spanish, Chinese and American Sign Language.

Canada-wide, there are 114,792 Jehovah's Witnesses, up from 110,814 a decade ago.
About the same time I noticed Jehovah's Witnesses downtown, I came across an article in the Calgary Herald about the church's controversial stance on blood transfusions.

Citing the experience of doctors at a hospital in New Jersey, the article noted patients who refused transfusions during surgery on religious grounds recovered just as well as transfused patients--and in many cases, even better.
According to the article, they "suffered fewer post-surgery complications, spent less time on mechanical breathing machines and had shorter stays in intensive care."

Doctors at another hospital in Ohio found something similar; Jehovah's Witnesses who refused blood transfusions while undergoing cardiac surgery were "significantly less likely to need another operation for bleeding compared with non-Witnesses who were transfused," the article stated, adding that "they were also less likely to suffer a post-op attack or kidney failure."
Asked the reporter: "Are the Jehovah's Witnesses on to something?"

For Ruge, the answer is yes. "We've been saying that all along," he says, noting that while the church refuses blood transfusions for theological reasons, "now different organizations are seeing the benefit."

And if you don't believe me, you can read all about it in a Jehovah's Witness publication. All you have to do is ask one of the nice people downtown. They'll be happy to tell you all about it.
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Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition August 24, 2013 D15

Truth Be Told Documentry Screening in Portland Oregon Sept 17

by Watchtower-Free in

they need to sell more tickets for this.

https://www.facebook.com/events/549696098431020/?notif_t=plan_user_invited.

please reserve your tickets here:.

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They need to sell more tickets for this

https://www.facebook.com/events/549696098431020/?notif_t=plan_user_invited

Please reserve your tickets here:

http://www.tugg.com/events/5280

http://www.hereliesthetruth.com

Truth Be Told a new feature-length documentary - lifts the veil on the seemingly benign Jehovah's Witnesses religion
Presented by Gregorio Smith
Tuesday, September 17 7:30pm - 9:21pm
in Portland, OR at Century 16 Eastport Plaza $12.0

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Compilation of TTATT

by jaydoubleu in

is there a compilation of at least the top 10 doctrines/beliefs that clearly shows the watchtower does not have the truth?.

i do have on my list the false prophecies.

i know jwfacts have lot of info.

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http://www.jwfacts.com/watchtower/pamphlet.php

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What was YOUR wake-up call before you left the JW´s organization?

by Mr Fool in

what was your wake-up call(s) before you left the jw s organization?

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“overlapping generation”

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Some JWs are exhibiting signs of violence because of WT hate speech. Read the threat to me and others posted at Topix yesterday

by AndersonsInfo in

yesterday, i opened a topix account so i could post the information about watch tower representatives attending the political ocse meeting in poland for two weeks and the proof that they are an ngo.

one of the posters responded with these words: .

"barbs-info," eh?