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  Thanks WTBS for changing the Kingdom Songs, you freed me!

  by StephaneLaliberte in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  yesterday, i saw a picture of a family signing kingdom melodies together.

  it made me realize a fact that i am somewhat ashamed to admit:.

  for over a decade, i have been aware of the false prophecies, the deceptive statements, the lack of scriptural support for many core practices and other issues with the witnesses.

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  i felt like all the joy and life had been sucked out of the songs.

  Exactly. Many of them were bland and sounded like they'd been arranged and played by a robot.
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  Thanks WTBS for changing the Kingdom Songs, you freed me!

  by StephaneLaliberte in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  yesterday, i saw a picture of a family signing kingdom melodies together.

  it made me realize a fact that i am somewhat ashamed to admit:.

  for over a decade, i have been aware of the false prophecies, the deceptive statements, the lack of scriptural support for many core practices and other issues with the witnesses.

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  AnnOMaly

  My eventual exit resulted from a slow, gradual, 'death by a thousand cuts.' Singing Kingdom songs often helped make the meetings a little more tolerable for me. When they changed them and mangled the old favorites (even ones I wasn't particularly fond of personally but had been standard fare for as long as I'd been alive and longer), that was a significant 'cut.' Not only were statements from the stage and audience a source of irritation, but now so were the songs. No redeeming features left to want to attend for. I'm with you, ecan6.
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  "The gentile times reconsidered"

  by zebagain in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  have just finished the book by olofsson on this subject.

  anyone else read it.?

  it is extremely detailed and not an easy read at all.

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  AnnOMaly

  Anyone else read it.?

  Naturally.

  A very detailed and thoroughly researched work.
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  The Last BOE!

  by Atlantis in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  this is the last boe we will be able to provide.

  our informant or source, was caught, disfellowshipped, and thrown out of bethel.

  we knew that sooner or later the watchtower would find him out.

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  AnnOMaly

  Ah dammit!

  Thank you, 'Source,' for putting yourself at great risk in letting us know what's really going on behind the scenes. I can only imagine the frequent anxiety you experienced over the years, and now this storm you have had to weather with its far-reaching impact on your and your family's lives. I wish you all the best for the future.

  And thank you, Atlantis and team, for your tireless efforts in getting these documents out to us.
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  Well, it's March, and the College answers are coming in....

  by CaptainSchmideo in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  some of you may remember what i posted back in january:.

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/271786/1/my-son-has-had-two-very-big-university-interviews#.uyrnovldv2e.

  well, it's now march, and we have been getting answers:.

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  AnnOMaly

  Take that!, Gerritt Loesch!

  Ditto!
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  Regional Convention Program Posted

  by kneehighmiah in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  http://download.jw.org/files/media_books/b8/co-pgm14_e.pdf.

  i think i will want to kill myself during the friday afternoon symposium.

  it should be called "how to not enjoy life or have fun.".

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  Symposium: What Must Be Kept in Second Place?
  
  Recreation
  Eating and Drinking
  Concerns About Health
  Courtship and Weddings
  Family Ties
  Material Pursuits

  They can't all go in second place.
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  June Study WT Up and Bashing Uni Again

  by konceptual99 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  rehashed format but same ole' shite.. hypocritical article on viewing "weak" ones compassionately usign the example of a single mum arriving late yet the may km has a whole article on how rude it is not to be punctual.. read it and weep....

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  AnnOMaly

  I felt queasy then intensely irritated when I looked at the article - the illustrations particularly: a path with books, certificates, trophies and other signs of learning and accomplishments, compared with the alternative path where the only 'worthwhile' pursuits presented are (what looks like) Bethel service, preaching, preaching, conducting Bible studies, construction and more preaching.

  And Flavia's experience - as others have pointed out, she already had a degree when she got involved with the JWs. It was spun in such a way as to make her choice an 'either/or' situation, a false dichotomy: “While wanting Jehovah’s blessing, I also wanted satisfaction from my career in science. I had to choose.” Why was it one or the other? Why not both? Why not have God's blessing using the passion and talents He's given her? [Rhetorical questions - we all know the Org's demands on people's time and minds.] The camera may have caught her wrong, but her smile doesn't reach her eyes and I think that is noteworthy.

  I'm so glad my kids don't have to sit through that crap any more. They are talented; their hearts are in the subjects/activities they're gifted in; and they sure as hell are not letting those gifts be put on hold or wither away - which they would have to do otherwise because the Org. has little or no use for them.
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  Picking on Harold Camping- again

  by A.proclaimer in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible
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  AnnOMaly

  It is the Public edition. The writers are banking on the readers knowing next-to-nothing about JWs.

  Anyway, it's typical doublethink.

  "We're not like Harold Camping (even though we put our unique spin on Bible prophecy and predict specific events to occur very, very soon)."

  "We're not creationists (but we believe God created everything)."

  "We're not political (despite teaming up with UN-related organizations to lobby for religious freedoms)."

  "We believe in freedom of belief (but not for our own members)."

  "We obey the Bible's command to abstain from blood (even though we take blood in fractionated form)."

  Etc., etc.
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  BILLY THE KID! I'M A CALLIN YOU OUT!!

  by DATA-DOG in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  ok pardner...this is it, this is your chance to show how good you really are.. ( cue western music, tumble-weeds and whistling...".

  here are the ground rules, should you accept the challenge.. 1) choose one topic.. 2) strictly ahere to the "criteria for truth" presented at the "god's word is truth!

  " district convention.

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  I said so - 5 days ago! LOL.
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  Memorial compulsory for "respectful observers" ?

  by sparrowdown in

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  2. beliefs

  maybe i am ignorant but why why why pray tell.

  if i am not jewish and not of the 144k why is it necessary (compulsory even) for me to attend the memorial ?.

  what is the scriptural precedent?.

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  AnnOMaly

  There are lots of ceremonies you go to just observe but not participate in. Inaugurations, weddings, baptisms, graduations, etc.

  Sure, but what if you were specially invited to the wedding reception or the graduation party or whatever as a guest, and you were personally offered the food and drink but you were told that it wasn't meant for you?