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  Coming to the Dark Side

  by Vita Nuova in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i believe with certainty that the critical point when my de-programming from the jw mind-set began was when i was hired by my former boss and present friend of 9 years.

  she was the most adorably human person i had ever met, yet she was a part of the world nonetheless.

  i believe that our specific friendship began to infiltrate my conceptions about the world in a way that wasnt wholly evident to me.

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  A question of culture

  by Adam in

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  2. friends

  last year my girl's daughter was in 3rd grade.

  we lived in cupertino, ca.

  this area has a lot of newly immigrated families from (mainly) the middle east, asia, and mexico.

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  What Does Your "Apostate Library" Look Like???

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

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  willyloman used that expression in a different thread.

  what publications do you have in your "theocratic"----i mean, "apostate library"?

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  Interesting quotes about belief in God

  by cruzanheart in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i'm reading dan brown's book "angels & demons," which is kind of a prequel to "the davinci code," and i'd like to see what you all think of these quotes:.

  "i did not ask if you believe what man says about god.

  i asked if you believed in god.

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  From Genesis to Revelation, what are the biggest misquotes by JW's ???

  by run dont walk in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  well, i will start this thread by saying, misquoting ("new light") on this generation will by no means pass away.

  til all these things occur.

  has to be the biggest one.. any stand out in your mind ???.

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  Having It Both Ways?--A Defining Characteristic

  by blondie in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i was reading on another website and found this post.

  the poster said i could post it here.

  it shows why it is hard to reason with anyone in the organization.. when individuals leave the organization for conscience reasons, it is evidence that god is shepherding and protecting the flock by doing a sifting work.

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  Run, Sir Clark, Run...

  by teejay in

  1. social
  2. current

  if he runs, he will be the most qualified of all those who now aspire to the office in 2004. if he runs, general wesley k. clark (ret.

  ) will be the second most qualified person to ever seek the presidency of the u.s. over the past 100 years, second only to the great william jefferson cliinton.

  what follows are excerpts from an article about him in a recent esquire magazine.. he is a remarkable man with an unassailable integrity -- the kind of man that has all the little bushites shaking in their boots.

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  ATTN: Where does the dough go?

  by Vita Nuova in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  the equation: voluntary workforce + minimal publication costs + minimal building costs + sweet crazy money - charity involvement = $????.

  i am seeking factual evidence or documented information on the watchtower society's accumulated financial wealth, which they apparently just seem to be sitting on.

  i have a jw coworker (a good guy) whose "kryptonite" may just prove to be his curiosity concerning the wbts's big fat juicy hoard of cash.

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  Guess what I just did

  by ignorance is strength in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  well, i told my parent that i didn't want to be a jw (having not gone to meetings for many years) and it went pretty well.

  i even disproved watchtower doctrines, but of course i was the one who was mistaken.. i aslo said that i would be going to other churches... i didn't specify because i didn't want to see the reaction to catholic.

  i also signed up to start the process to become catholic (unlike the jw's you can just learn about the faith without any obligation or harrassment) i went down to st. francis de sales church and i signed up for the rcia program.

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  The absurdity of petitionary prayer

  by logansrun in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  of all the neurotic and irrational ideas religion has come up with, the notion that god(s) intervenes in the flow of natural events due to a human's prayer has got to be one of the craziest.

  let us illustrate the lunacy of the situation.

  you have, in your possession, a serum that will either cure the child or at least lessen his pain.

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