JustVisting

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  Does anyone remember the article which mentioned that many non-jws would survive armageddon?

  by cultBgone in

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  i seem to think it was a november wt issue but can't remember precisely, but it was probably printed within the last three years.

  after being told for years and years that everyone not a jw would be destroyed, this was amazing to see in print!

  yet when i pointed it out to others, they just shrugged it off and left me wondering what i was missing.... does this ring a bell with anyone?.

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  JustVisting

  Is that the one where Black Beard is shown sitting down having a Bible study, ruffled shirt, beard and all? In the next frame he is shown sans beard, sword and is giving his life experience. Is that the one?
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  Appeal Against Elders Decision... Can Anyone Advise..

  by Almond in

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  i meet a 6 years baptised jw girl.

  we planned to marry here in philippines ( no divorce here }.

  judge told me he can do the marriage so we livived together to be married.

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  JustVisting

  Live your life, don't waste your precious life fiddling with this group of meddling men
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  Baptism

  by Vindico in

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  is there a scripture that states that our salvation is based on getting baptised?.

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  1 Peter 3:21

  "That which corresponds to this is also now saving YOU, namely, baptism..."
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  How did you find the truth about the truth (TTATT)

  by Maat13 in

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  2. beliefs

  i am sure there has been a post about this subject, however being a recent addition to the network i don't know how to do a search.

  and i'm sure new folks have joined since then.

  i am really curious of how others came to know ttatt.. for me is was a real bad experience with one elder after another.

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  JustVisting

  One word: INTERNET!
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  Is it common for Jehovah's Witnesses to turn to alcohol when they realize the Watchtower is a scam

  by Watchtower-Free in

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  because they don't know what to do and they want to numb the pain .

  especially for bornins..

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  JustVisting

  A MS in our hall used to give parts/talks drunk. People who knew him could tell he was blitzed.
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  Attn faders/lurkers re donations

  by Skinnedsheep in

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  when you get your anonymous survey pledge an exorbitant amount.

  the elders will make the resolution based on the fake pledge and it will create conflict between the branch and the cong....when the donations don't come in the branch be like "pay the man".

  the local body will have to have several local needs parts which will highlight the branches focus on money.

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  JustVisting

  when are these pledge slips going out?
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  Literature Cost

  by Kool Jo in

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  hello folks:.

  just curious....back when they institutued the voluntary donation arrangement for the literature rather than specifying a cost....was the reason related to avoid paying taxes....i heared this somewhere, but checking to see if there's real proof or some letter from the borg.. thanks.

  kool jo.

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  JustVisting

  @Obliette

  Yes, the WT filed an "amicus curiare" or "friend of the court" on that one didn't they. So much for being no part of the world when you are Swaggart's bed-fellow, well only in a legal sense.
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  I came home yesterday...

  by sooner7nc in

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  ...from a school nurse clinical day in my nursing program and asked my wife "how was your day?".

  she replies "good, i'm tired though because i was cleaning out the spare room and threw away a bunch of books.".

  my ears perked up because she has a habit of trying to decide whether or not i 'need' what i have or should throw it away so i asked "which books?

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  JustVisting

  SOONER7NC, what brought that on? Spring Cleaning?

  "NWT and a songbook" you sound like a "newly interested one", JK!
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  Is this new donation arrangement for real?

  by nugget in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  just read a post on jwsurvey about the new donation arrangement.

  congregations are to pledge a monthly amount to be sent to the society to fund the building of assembly halls and kingdom halls.

  congregations who already have a loan from the society will no longer have to pay back the loan but the amount pledged should not be less than the current monthly repayments to the society.

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  JustVisting

  Nugget,

  I agree, this is quite disturbing. If this new arrangement is in fact put in effect, the congos will be indefinetely on the hook for the pledged amount in lieu

  of their monthly mortgage payment. One can just imagine that they have studied the possibility of some congos "defaulting" on their pledges, so I am

  sure that they have contingencies. It is my understanding that remodels are all mandated by the RBCs and more so now that they have a centralized "RBC" arrangement. Sounds like Communism to me.
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  I Heard A Longtime Elder, Recently Deleted, Announced To Congregation That He Was Publicly Disassociating Himself!

  by minimus in

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  i heard that it happened a couple of days ago.

  he's in his 60's, was a prominent bethelite from a long line of bible student/jw family.. another one bites the dust..

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  JustVisting

  Prologos, a well-seasoned public talk-giver would easily overcome the sound being turned down b/c he would have

  mastered counsel point #17 "use of microphones"