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It is a dangerous thing to tell someone they may not pray with their family members if they are disfellowshipped.

My thought on this is this forum is much better moderated than a few other forums I've been to, Topix being the worst. I like it here.

On ‎1‎/‎6‎/‎2019 at 9:16 AM, Bible Speaks said:

Jehovah is with you wherever you go

9 "Have I not commanded you? Be courageous and strong. Do not be struck with terror or fear, for Jehovah your God is with you wherever you go.” (Joshua 1:9) 

JEHOVAH’S service brings us joy. Yet, we do face hardships common to mankind, and we may “suffer for the sake of righteousness.” (1 Pet. 3:14;5:8, 9; 1 Cor. 10:13) To cope with such trials successfully, we need faith and courage.

 Courage has been defined as “spiritual, emotional, and moral fortitude to speak and act without fear in the face of obstacles and dangers."

To have the courage needed to do God’s will, we must study and apply his Word. 

Jesus, early Christians courageously rendered worship only to Jehovah. (Matt. 4:8-10) 

 They refused to burn incense in honor of the Roman emperor. (See picture.) “Very few of the Christians recanted,” wrote Daniel P. Mannix, “although an altar with a fire burning on it was generally kept in the arena for their convenience.

All a prisoner had to do was scatter a pinch of incense on the flame and he was given a Certificate of Sacrifice and turned free. It was also carefully explained to him that he was not worshiping the emperor; merely acknowledging the divine character of the emperor as head of the Roman state. Still, almost no Christians availed themselves of the chance to escape.”—Those About to Die.

 Modern Christians held in Nazi concentration camps with possible death facing them were given repeated opportunities to gain their freedom by signing a declaration renouncing Jehovah. But few signed. 

 Risking death during a genocide in Rwanda in recent times, Tutsi and Hutu Witnesses protected one another. Such trials call for courage and faith.

It is challenging to pursue a godly course in the face of trials that beset us in this evil and troubled world. 

However, we are not alone. God is with us. So is his Son, the Head of the congregation. We also have over 8,579,909 fellow Witnesses of Jehovah worldwide. With them, let us keep on exercising faith and declaring the good news. jw.org 

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2018 Service Year * Report

Number of Jehovah’s Witnesses worldwide

8,579,909

Congregations

119,954

Lands where Jehovah’s Witnesses preach

240

Yet they found it quite alright to bribe government officials in Mexico to get a card like the victims were required in Malawi.

This unfortunate man isn't the only one this is happening to, worse is happening to other Christians as well.....https://www.persecution.com/

Too bad to let you down, it was common knowledge and still is that Jehovah hates birthday celebration and giving a gift to celebrate a birthday

13 hours ago, James Thomas Rook Jr. said:

TTH:

If you will be staying overnight at one of the Bethel Residence unassigned rooms, or in one of the VIP Guest Rooms .... make sure nobody sees your full length Crocodile Pillow .......

 least don't let them see you doing the nasty with it.

I feel like going dressed up as a smurf.

Everyone knows Jehovah is going to kill you for buying and giving a birthday present, Jehovah really hates birthdays.(according to jw dogma at least).

1. why the need to count the number of hours, there is no biblical mandate to do so, however there is a mandate about boasting about your works.

2. How many of those hours are just standing next to a cart and having your default witness as...'go to jw.org'.

3. How hard can it be just standing there next to a cart?

14 Accept the one whose faith is weak, without quarreling over disputable matters. ² One person’s faith allows them to eat anything, but another, whose faith is weak, eats only vegetables. ³ The one who eats everything must not treat with contempt the one who does not, and the one who does not eat everything must not judge the one who does, for God has accepted them. ⁴ Who are you to judge someone else’s servant? To their own master, servants stand or fall. And they will stand, for the Lord is able to make them stand.

I personally have never and will never do a black Friday shopping spree. But I don't think it's become a day of worship. Satan wants the world to think that and many of them do. But if a Christian shops on black Friday for the glory of themselves or someone else instead of God, or goes crazy and gets mean and nasty, then that Christian will be accountable to God for their actions and heart condition. But shopping at a store on black Friday doesn't disqualify someone from the love of God or means their impending destruction at Armageddon. If that would be the case I would be in deep doodoo because I shopped on Friday. And I celebrated the 327th day thanking God for all I have with my beautiful girlfriend and her beautiful girls.

I remember pioneering used to be real work, now you just stand there and tell people to go to the website, dead people can't read.:)

Plenty of watchtower publications show us all how we are going to die, I saw a movie on it.

Being naked makes it easier to squeeze in through the narrow gate.

Where do they come up with this stuff? experience? do the governing body, is that how they get their board meetings started?

On ‎10‎/‎11‎/‎2018 at 3:49 PM, Space Merchant said:

In a simple world, no, but in reality, yes. This is the case with those who practice vodou/black magic before tearing their victim to shreds for their blood. a Very disgusting and sick thing, but it is the reality in the Caribbean, for such consider black magic and any ritual pertaining to it as a religion and they have false gods and goddesses that they follow. Believe me, I had witness things, that you yourself would not want to see, for even to this day it is one of those memories that you cannot remove from your mind, especially when a relatives of your was victim.

In the US and EU, so called Christians who subjected themselves to the believe that taking the blood of the young [young blood transfusions], age range being 18 to 24, would enhance their life, prolong their life and so forth, hence we have people paying big money, anywhere between $6k-$8k+ for blood donations of the young to give to the older folks. And such ones who do these consider themselves as saints, they eat and they pray, as they are committed to such things. On the other side of the spectrum, you have those who get their blood from blacks and latinos of all ages, organs even, torn out of their bodies, replaced with things, for example, newspaper in one real life situation regarding a minor. People like this take, sell and use whatever they can pull from their victim and when it is Sunday they think they are saints.

There are things of this world that is not spoken of, and even it has been spoken off, not much of it gets out.

You really need to get a life, but I would love to see the proof that elderly Christians are paying for blood transfusions from younger people.

Would it be proper for a vampire to pray before their meal?

There are hypocrites in every religion.

It is bad form to vote only for one party or another solely just because of party affiliation, that is when your in danger of voting strictly for politics rather than substance. Voting also doesn't mean you are choosing party or person over God, that is absurd to think that way. If that were true my favorite color would mean more to me than God because I voted green my favorite color.

So much for Jehovah not being a God of confusion.

3 hours ago, James Thomas Rook Jr. said:

It is my considered analysis that the Egyptian Pyramids were constructed by persons having the ability to manipulate the Quantum states of matter, to circumvent the normal classical Physics of which we are familiar.

To this day, no one knows how the gigantic stones of the Great Pyramid were lifted into place, and placed.

The effort staggers the imagination, but it did happen.  I seriously doubt any engineering and construction company in the world could duplicate that effort. Make them use the tools seemingly in use then, and it would be impossible in less than a thousand years ( you pick a better number ...).

Likewise, although we can ACTUALLY manipulate the "Quantum World" now ... and can make entangled particles that can communicate with others instantaneously across ANY distance, and make tunneling diodes where electricity can get across gaps ... NOT ... traveling the distance between points, (color TVs have them), we cannot make something out of nothing.

Apparently SOME Egyptians had telekinetic, and transmutation skills we do not have today, whether it be Pyramids, or Snakes, or some other things, which seem to bypass physics as we now know it ... and so did Moses.

Remember ... he was part of the Egyptian ruling class ... and educated in Egypt!

Your analysis and results may vary.

Do not try this at home.

 

I did try that at home, and the results...who knew my Queensland Red Healer sounds like James Earl Jones when he talks

Donald Trump is a man just like me, he's a billionaire and I'm not, how is that fair? (tongue in check, not being serious).

1 hour ago, TrueTomHarley said:

I have figured out how to do it and I’ve taught them all.

Good you can edit out those certain pages of the Sears online catalog, (the ones with the bra's and what not).

I have heard several jw's say, 'that doesn't happen in Jehovah's organization, only in Christendom'.

Doing that would lead people to believe in God.