Topics Started by eyefell4it2

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Why are we so hard on JW's??
by James Mixon in
1. jw
2. friends
i was thinking about this last night.

what would happen if.

someone new check out this site, what would they think?.
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What's the mechanism?
by Half banana in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i am perpetually challenged by the fact that most jws are completely duped by the propaganda pumped out relentlessly by the borg.

even intelligent ones; they unwittingly grovel to the gb decisions and follow the party line.

they do this for a number of reasons..
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HOW EXACTLY does god communicate with or direct the GB?
by stuckinarut2 in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
we're all familiar with the organisations claims (and have seen the flow diagrams in books and mags) that the gb is "directed by god".

in turn, the local elders are "directed by god".

so, how exactly do they suppose this happens?
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Church of Almighty God in China
by southwest in
1. social
2. current
it's interesting to look at the beliefs of this cult in china from a jw perspective:.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/eastern_lightning.

and the response of the chinese government to the recent murder by members of the group:.
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Translating and deciphering witness expressions.
by stuckinarut2 in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i wanted to start a thread with correct explanations of what witnesses really mean when they say stuff... please add to it!.

"we missed you at the last meeting" = "where were you?

why did you miss a meeting!?".
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First Time Post - Long time reader
by Samaritan At the Well in
1. jw
2. experiences
today is my first post on jwd, i was one of jehovahs witness for almost 50 years of my life, i was born into the religion.

i was baptized at a young age and once i got married i was a very spiritual woman as they would call me.

my husband and i served as full time pioneers, we traveled abroad and went to international conventions, did some special pioneer service in other states in the us.
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Small (tiny) victories
by disposable hero of hypocrisy in
1. jw
2. friends
i had a conversation with my wife today about child abuse as it's in the news, and i managed to slip in the fact that wt (not an individual, but the .org itself) has just been ruled against in the states to the tune of 13 million or so.

she knows i'm opposed to the procedures we have in place, and she can definitely see that it makes sense to go straight to the police, and said she would do immediately if it were our children.

we had a fairly local case where the elders positively marched the offender to the station themselves, and good for them for doing so, but she most likely thinks everyone would do that out of common sense.
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JW making music videos now?
by adjusted knowledge in
1. jw
2. friends
i'm not sure if this is new since it is hard to keep up with the ever changing jw.

it is morphing so much.

i went to jw.org tv video for november and around 53 or 54 minutes into the broadcast the gb guy introduce a music video called "we won't forget you".
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newbie to site looking for fellow DF's and DA's (or anyone else who has good conversation to offer)
by eyefell4it2 in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i am new to the site.

i started perusing it this weekend and wish i had found it 10 years ago when i was on my way out.

anyways, long story short, was df'd for you guessed it...fornication or "loose conduct" even though i had been a pioneer with an elder father, grandfather and uncle and no previous issues.
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This is the man who made it all happen!
by Terry in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
william miller.. do you know how important this man has been to your life?

do you know your life would have been entirely different (without a doubt) had he not lived?.

read on!.