'It was the 13-year-old girl's fault.'
berrygerry
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Another UK Jehovah's Witness Elder Off to Prison
by berrygerry in'it was the 13-year-old girl's fault.'.
http://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/disgraced-jehovah-s-witness-elder-jailed-for-sexually-abusing-a-girl/story-29528336-detail/story.html.
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Animals not meant to eat meat
by Carl injw don't believe in evolution .
how come animals teeth are designed to chew meat?
sharks for instance have razor sharp pointy teeth these are not to eat vegetation .
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Don't have sexual fantasies! Today's watchtower...
by purrpurr inthe watchtower today says not to think of sex, or to have sexual fantasies.
i'm just wondering... how many people in the hall hearing this watchtower today would be having sexual fantasies?
sitting there thinking about sister hottie or brother hunky ?.
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berrygerry
Is it a bad sexual fantasy if you are thinking about your spouse?
Cannot locate the article, but was within a few years, and worded to the effect that 'No fantasizing about someone not your spouse.'
Fairly big breakthrough, IMO.
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Finally "they" have reinstated me! that was easy!!!
by Prometheus init was rather quick one.
in just few months and after attending all of their meetings and giving them a nice show, i'm back to the org!!!
(what a relief-sarcastic laugh) .
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berrygerry
"Hopefully I will follow the plan and in few months I will start to miss meetings, and become inactive again"
Change congos, even into foreign language, and disappear.
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We Cannot Understand Because We Are Not Perfect
by berrygerry instarting this thread because of katewild's post.
(from where came god?).
the unanswerable questions of life are usually attributed to: "we are imperfect, so cannot understand.
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berrygerry
Starting this thread because of KateWild's post. (From where came God?)
The unanswerable questions of life are usually attributed to: "We are imperfect, so cannot understand. We only use, at most, only 10% of our brain, and more likely, only 1%. Once restored to perfection, then we will be able to understand."
Adam, however, was perfect, and therefore had 100% brain function. Which would be better, 1% to 10% of a genius, or 100% of a perfect man?
So, perfect Adam with 100% brain function, allowed his little head to outmanoeuvre his unparalleled perfect brain (even though they never actually had had sex yet)?
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If God is the Creator, who created God or how did he evolve?
by KateWild inif god is the creator, who created god or how did he evolve?.
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berrygerry
Glad you asked.
LP book, page 80:
Consequently, all evidence points to a source of life that is itself alive. The Bible says of Jehovah God: “With you is the source of life.” (Psalm 36:9) Someone may ask, ‘If life must exist to beget life, who created God?’ But this is merely pushing the answer farther away—a form of evasion in facing up to the question.
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exposed 3 jw's in front of my jw dad
by JunkYardDog inon a road trip with my jw dad and stopped at the rest stop.
this jw lady walked up to me with a craptower.
big mistake.
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berrygerry
Username not "lapdog." He has no alternative. Ruff.
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come on people stop slacking
by pepperheart income on cart people stop slacking,of four carts that i went past today all four had many copies of the same version of a teaching book that was printed ten years ago,i got 14 copies myself and put them in the trash .
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berrygerry
Are the Silver S-Words stored at the back of the casts?
They are never on display, but in the bunker videos, they're loading up a bunch for their cart witnessing. Time is 11:30
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Marley Cole's "Jehovah's Witnesses - The New World Society"
by witnessgirl inwell, i just finished reading marley cole's "jehovah's witnesses - the new world society" book from 1955. i'll provide a few quotes to introduce it in case you aren't familiar with the book.
ray franz in crisis of conscience, p74, 2004 hc edition: cole wrote the book as if he were a non-witness writing an objective account.
the idea was that by having the book published by an outside publishing firm it might reach persons who normally would not take society literature.
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berrygerry
Page 51 about Pastor Russell:
He was Millen- nium's foremost prophet. His successor, J. F. Rutherford, declared: "He did a greater work for the cause of Messiah's Kingdom than did any other man that ever lived on the earth." {The Watch Tower, December 1, 1916, p. 374.) -
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Seeking support ... Where can a Christian go
by Sevan inhey all, .
so i recently posted for the first time and introduced myself.. i have been spending time reading various posts.
some informative, some not so much.. since i've been reading on here, i've read a lot from atheists.
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berrygerry
My two cents.
I am a theist.
This forum has a number of Christians, open to debunk WT, and obtain converts.
The majority here are extremely respectful, AFA internet behaviour goes.
I do believe that WT philosophy benefits a small proportion of their membership. However, other high-control religions (Mormons, Scientology, Moonies, many Islam, extreme Christian), or groups (AA, etc.) would provide the same structure and discipline that substance abusers, etc. have been lacking in their lives.
Does this allow WT to exploit this structural control to manipulate the lives of these ones, and, more importantly, to effectively destroy the relationships of their members' friends and family?
No sane person would come to the conclusion that WT's alleged ends justifies the means.
As for feelings of those waking up:
To understand why we all feel so messed up, take a look here:
http://www.exitingthejwcult.com/p/if-you-are-going-to-see-mental-health.html
Bonnie's book is a MUST-READ for recovery.
http://www.amazon.com/EXiting-JW-Cult-Handbook-Witnesses/dp/1508477132