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  Why a JC if the adulterous mate is forgiven?

  by snugglebunny in

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  2. beliefs

  supposing a man's wife has had an affair, confessed all and genuinely regrets what's happened.

  the husband, after much soul searching and agonising, realises how much he still loves her and how much both of them want to rebuild their shattered relationship.. why should that woman then have to sit in front of a judicial men-only committee and give a blow-by-blow account of her affair?.

  how would that make her husband feel, knowing that his wife is sharing intensely private stuff about her affair with several other guys?.

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  The Salem witch trials comes to mind. Same mentality.

  Men have been doing this sort of thing to women for centuries.

  The borg's intrusive policies regarding this sort of thing may just bring it down ...one day.
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  Why do religious people make claims and then refuse to back them up?

  by Viviane in

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  2. beliefs

  several times over the past few months i have had conversations, both here and in real life, with religious people making all sorts of interesting and conflicting claims.

  i like to know how things work, so generally i will ask questions to net out what i am being told and see if it can be explained and make sense.. for instance, if someone said 2+2=4 and i asked how, there are a variety of ways that could be shown to me, a number line, physical objects being put together, counting on fingers and toes, etc.

  indeed, in my personal life, i often have to explain how certain technologies work, sometimes planned, sometimes off the cuff, from a variety of group sizes to a varying degree of technical expertise.

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  I just figure it's a face saving thing. They figure they can't in one breath claim the bible has all the answers and in the next breath admit there are some things they just don't know. As soon as you claim one book has all the answers of the universe contained within it's pages ( an impossibity) anything not covered in the book has to be either false or not worth knowing in order to maintain your original claim that you have all the answers.

  It's becomes frustratingly circular.
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  Epic Discussion ( Confrontation ) with JW Cart People about WT Child Abuse

  by flipper in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  so i had about had enough of reading jw's excuses online about wt child abuse and the candace conti nightline abc video about her case.

  this is a really deep burning topic to me as i'm sure it is to many of you.

  so today the gloves came off.

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  Bravo Mr Flipper. Their head-in-ass attitude is both telling and appalling and scarily reminiscent of the RCC's attitude towards abuse victims that JW's have been so critical of for decades.

  People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.
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  Do Jehovah Witnesses give out mis-information deliberately?

  by smiddy in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  do you think it is possible that the g.b.is deliberately giving out mis-information to confuse either apostates or media that might be investigating them for one reason or another ?

  speak out of both corners of their mouth .

  and the reason they do so ?

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  Remember what George Costanza said "if you believe it, it's not lying."

  I think they believe what they say, that makes them poor, sad, deluded bastards.
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  Spin off Watchtower cart industry

  by Esse quam videri in

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  2. beliefs

  new posters for each new magazine edition.

  someone is going to make some moola.. http://kingdomprintsllc.org/products/literature-cart-poster-print-2-separate-prints-march-watchtower-and-awake-2015.

  literature cart poster prints- 2 separate prints- march watchtower and awake 2015.

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  A motorized trolley would be popular - like the pope-mobile or something.
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  Shorter meetings for field service

  by hoser in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  march kingdom ministry insert is about how the field service meetings will be shortened from 10 to 15 minutes down to 5 to 7 minutes.

  they want the publishers to report more hours.

  in my experience the problem isn't the length of the meeting for service but pioneers and publishers dogging it after the service arrangement.

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  How much instruction does one need for shoving a tract about a website into some householders hand, and then running away before they have a chance to ask a question??
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  Looking for examples of Witnesses physically harmed during field service

  by Indian Larry in

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  2. scandals

  i am looking for any examples, preferably with independent news sources of any witnesses that have ever been:.

  mugged.

  raped.

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  I had a scary experience when a male householder followed me from house to house around the territory all the way back to car.

  And yep, I encountered the occasional naked guy at the door.
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  What backlash could you expect by telling everyone you 'hate the Caleb cartoons'?

  by Esse quam videri in

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  2. beliefs

  what kind of response could you expect if you let everyone in your congregation know that.

  "... i hate those stupid caleb cartoons.

  i hate his crazy mother.

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  Caleb's mother is like the scary mom from Coraline with the creepy button eyes. Shudder😲😲
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  jwtalk...wow. just...wow.

  by HeyThere in

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  2. beliefs

  so i was lurking on jwtalk after trying to read the thread on there about the broadcast about the conti case...and holy moly there are some bat ish crazy talk on that site!

  they also blocked the thread about the broadcast, lol!

  they are scuuuuured (scared).

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  JWs talking = batshit crazy talk😨
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  ABCNews Nightline: Segment on JW absuse cases here......

  by WingCommander in

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  2. friends

  here is the segment on the conti abuse case in california and jehovah's witness's response as reported on by the abcnews nightline broadcast which was shown early this morning.

  it really displays some absolutely shocking behavior from not only her abuser and his (supportive) wife, but also the jw attorneys and elders via video.

  i am just blown away by the audacity displayed by these monsters.. we can now understand why governing body member stephen lett slipped in his comments a couple of weeks ago about "untrue reports of child abuse" in one of his talks which can viewed on the cult's website.

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  Wishful thinking I know but, boy, it would be nice to think that one day the WT's house of cards will come tumbling down.