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What if you were a member of the GB and you woke up
by enigma1863 in
1. watchtower
2. child-abuse
what if you were a member of the gb and you woke up and realized it's all bs.

what would you do?

i would try to change the org from within..
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China To Be Number 1 This Year ! OMG!
by metatron in
1. jw
2. friends
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/d79ffff8-cfb7-11e3-9b2b-00144feabdc0.html#axzz30n0eglxv.

i nearly dropped my coffee on the floor!

this ain't some goofy conspiracy site.. let the scots vote themselves independence and finish off "anglo-america".. .
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Matt. 24:15 - WTS membership in UN
by berrygerry in
1. watchtower
2. bible
has anyone offered the theory that wts membership in the un was fulfilling matt.

24:15, and that consequently the fds began to turn into the evil slave?.
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WHAT IS GOING ON IN RUSSIA??
by DATA-DOG in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i hear a lot of stories circulating about jws in russia.

the government is raiding houses for literature, just like the old days.

an eldub was rambling during the wt study about jws in russia.
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Letter to BOE: Adjustment in process for appointing elders and ministerial servants
by pixel in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
hello, you read it here first!.

governing body of jehovah's witnesses.

to all congregations.
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The Garden of Eden, plan B
by stillin in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
this is the part i don't get.

the universe is a huge place.

plenty of room to let satan and adam and eve have their shot at "being like god" without contaminating "the heavens.
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Doesn't the ARMAGEDDON teaching foster a MORBID view of the future?
by Black Man in
1. jw
2. friends
even when i was dyed-in-the-wool j-dub, i felt the armageddon teaching was one of the most morbid concepts to be hammered into the psyches of jws.

think about it, only jws would survive this catastrophe, which translates to roughly .001 percent of the population would survive while everyone else would die a horrible death.

that includes people who do good things and are good people, but are just not jws.
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Something occurred to me
by Vidiot in
1. watchtower
2. child-abuse
the conti case is a game-changer; that much is certain.. its also pretty certain (to a lot of us at jwn, anyway) that the wts:.

believes they have the moral high ground and thusly are in the right.... arent going to significantly change their child abuse-related policies any time soon.... dont really think theyll actually lose their appeal.. .

it should be obvious to anyone by now that one of the most significant and unavoidable characteristics of hierarchal, authoritarian religions (no matter what faith template they subscribe to) is a deeply entrenched problem of sexual victimization, especially of children and young people.
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"We don't believe only JWs will survive Armageddon, only Jehovah can read hearts" - Logic Fallacies by JWs (or us)?
by cognisonance in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
recently i talked to someone i care about who is in the jw group and stated i feel that believing billions of people are going to die when armegedon comes and only a jws will survive would be unloving of a god.

the response is one that i've also noticed others have experienced.

in short the answer is something like the following: "we don't believe that, only jehovah can read hearts.
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Zone Overseers (does anyone know the details?)
by slimboyfat in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i would like to know a bit more about zone overseers, the office and its power.

they seem to visit various branches (presumably each oversees 3 to 4 branches) to make sure everything is in order.

the famous visit of jack barr to ireland in the wake of the ray franz induced apostasy in that branch is an example of how a zone visit works.