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  Memorial 2014: Wrong date?

  by AnnOMaly in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  this was meant to have nice inserted pictures and tidy hyperlinks but the forum's being glitchy today.

  so unfortunately it's going to be a messy post where you're going to have to exercise your tapping fingers and click on the links to the pics to see what i'm referring to.

  sorry about that.. in the article recently studied "do this in remembrance of me" (w13 12/15), there is a box on p. 23 giving the date of this year's memorial and how that date is arrived at.. http://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/2013926.

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  First Post...Hi everyone! Thanks for all of your help over the years!

  by stuckinarut2 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  well... as they say on talk back radio "i'm a long time listener, first time caller"(poster in this case!).

  i have been a "lurker" for several years, but never had the courage to take the step and join up...until now.. i really want to thank everyone for their insights and comments throughout the forum.

  although i have not contibuted to discussions, i have benefitted very much from all of your comments and observations on all topics.

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  This is my first post

  by Make Lemonade in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  i wanted to express appreciation to the members of this forum.

  there are resources here that are deep.

  like we heard from the stage, "what is your depth and breadth of bible knowledge?

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  Avoid Going back to the JW's - Educate Yourself about Mind Control

  by flipper in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i've talked with some good friends on the board about this before and we seem to be in agreement : one reason ( among many ) that some disfellowshipped jw's go back and return to the wt organization is because they are full of uneeded guilt or uneeded fear because they haven't educated themselves about how the wt society uses mind control tactics to deceive them into thinking they have " nowhere else to go " .

  i understand that some dfed ones may go back to the organization for family and friends- however- it's an exrecise in futility because once you learn the truth about the truth you cannot undo what you heard.

  so some may just go back and live a fake jw life to appease family- but just think of how that can damage a person's emotional and mental health playing the fake jw game the rest of their lives !

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  What are you reading right now??

  by DATA-DOG in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i am reading "stranger in a strange land" by robert a. heinlein.

  i read it over 20 years ago.

  now i am reading it from a completely different perspective.

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  A Time to Heal.....even when we caused the wound

  by donny in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  1991 was the last full year i was an active jw.

  when i formally resigned in september 1992 my now ex-wife had already pretty much took all of the bound volumes and other society literature.. .

  the only thing i was left with was a few copies of the nwt and the 1991 bound volumes the watchtower and awake!

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  True Stories from the Tower - Part 1 "From Anointed to Pedophile to Bethelite"

  by BluePill2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  before i dive into the actual write-up of this experience, let me put some things straight.. i have thought long and hard if i should write more about my experiences during the 10+ years at different branches.

  during these years i worked from financial department, service department, home office and different it assignments.

  as you can imagine one sees and hears and reads a lot of stuff going through different stations in different countries.

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  Does the WBT$ Train JW`s to be SocioPaths?!..

  by OUTLAW in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  profile of the sociopath .

  this website summarizes some of the common features of descriptions of the behavior of sociopaths.. glibness and superficial charmmanipulative and conning .

  they never recognize the rights of others and see their self-serving behaviors as permissible.

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  Bethel Doctor on radio station WBBR speaks about the "Abrams Treatment" (1924)

  by VM44 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the following information might be of interest to some.. the watchtower used to own the wbbr radio station located on staten island, new york.. dr. mae work was an osteopath who worked at bethel during the 1920s and '30s.. in 1902 she received her do diploma after attending a two year course given by the bolles institute of osteopathy located in denver, colorado.. she was also a proponent of the abrams method of diagnosing and treatment of disease.. in 1924 she gave a radio presentation on wbbr about the "abramstreatment" this was followed a few years later in 1928 by a presentation on "osteopathy".

  from the "new york times".

  radio programs scheduled for the coming week.

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  Published life story of Australian ex-Witness. An absorbing read.

  by MrMonroe in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  there are a number of books available on amazon giving the life stories of ex-witnesses.

  i've always been intrigued by one called "i'm perfect, you're doomed" by kyria abrahams, which sounds like a witty read.

  one day i'll buy it!.

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