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Curious about beliefs ...Looking for friends
by KeeganAKat inhi,i'm simon,i'm 23 years old and reside in nc.anyways,i'm very new to all of this.basically what happened was at work one day a jw came in and handed me a copy of watchtower and awake!
magazines.i've just contacted the watchtower for the home bible study..right now my g/f and i are looking for a church and have been checking out many denominations.any information anyone could send me about your organization would be greatly appreciated.i'd also love to converse with anyone online (feel free to im me...my sn is [email protected]) thanx!
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Deep Impact
by the_classicist in.
apparently, nasa is going to blow a stadium sized hole in a comet on the 4th of july.
the spacecraft doing this will be named "deep impact"; apparently the fact that it has the same name as a dooms-day movie is only a "coincidence".
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New here.....kinda
by lola28 inhey everyone, this is my first post and i'am terrefied.
i have been lurking for over a year and finally decided that it was time to post.
i feel like i know all of you and feel more at home here than at the kingdom hall.
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How Does the Governing Body Extend its Control Over the Many Organizations?
by frankiespeakin inhow does the governing body extend its control over the many organizations that they made back in the year 2000 ?.
i think they have some type of by-laws in these corparations where they are to be in subjection to the wishes of the gb.. also thier may be some stipulations that the controlling members of each seperate corperation must be in good standing and can not function in any capacity if they are disfellowshipped.
thus the gb can alway use thier unlimited power to df to bring members in line or remove them if the gb feel threated.. i would think that the by-laws of these seperate entities are somewhat similar to the by-laws that form the congregation corperations in order for the congregation to be a legal corperation that can own property, where the by-laws state that they must remain in subjection to the gb.
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2005 "Godly Obedience" District Convention Report
by CyrusThePersian ini don't post much and this is the first thread i've ever started so please bear with me.
i wanted to give my obsevations on the 2005 "godly obedience" district convention.if the things i say are redundant, i apologize.
anyways, i was coerced into going by my daughter.
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When Old Saul Dies!! GB Rumor Going Around Bethel
by frankiespeakin ini don't have ray franz's book so could somebody tell me about that rumor that got the gb all upset at bethel back in 1980???
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I was wrong, CT Russell was something of a prophet after all...
by jaffacake ini am reading studies in the scriptures (1911) thy kingdom come..on page 145 ct russell describes what is wrong with religions of his day and their sunday schools & bible studies, ie people belong to earthly religions or organisations.
was he describing other sects of his day, or did he forsee what his bible students would eventually become?
methods hinder real growth in knowledge of truth...guarded, pointed questions, with prepared answers and no time left for the bible hungry student...bible study, skilfully directed, so that he may get no new ideas...brief sessions [one hour] more agreeable than bible study...they are led to feel they have performed a duty, and a sacrifice.
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what proves jw's aren't true?
by jwfacts ini am inactive and it took years of doubt to convince myself the jw's arent true.
i started doubting because i hated the idea that jehovah would kill 6 billion non-jw's.
the thing now that is the most important proof for me is that until 1954 jw's worshipped jesus and it is still in the watchtower charter, even though you now get disfellowshipped for worshipping jesus.
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Bethany Hughes case - www.cp24.com
by Toronto_Guy inhttp://www.pulse24.com/news/top_story/20050624-021/page.asp
bethany hughes had a choice to make and it cost her her life.
the 17-year-old alberta resident was a devout jehovahs witness who was diagnosed with leukemia.
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Mothers Doubts: Latest Update
by diamondblue1974 infurther to my previous thread i thought i would share an update with you on the situation with my mother... .
essentially my mother has been a jw for 30 years and we had a long conversation which involved me running through my reasons for no longer going to the meetings; she seemed quite receptive and agreed for me to send the documents and articles relating to the un.
well that very evening she went to see her elders without actually seeing the documents and asked about the un saga....apparently the elder told her that 'this was all sorted out ages ago and yes this has come from the apostates' 'the society has never been a member of the un and that this just a hoax designed to stumble people....' hmmn.