WCG's mainline tendency since the early 1990s and its abandonment of Armstrong's teachings has resulted in many fundamentalistic split offs (Church of God International, Philadelphia Church of God, Global Church of God, United Church of God, and many others) each of which considers itself the true heir of Armstrong's doctrines. The Philadelphia Church of God (http://www.pcog.org), for example, publishes a (free) magazine that is hardly distinguishable from Awake! - except from its ranting and raving against WCG's liberal course and its continous emphasis on Germany as a threat for world piece.
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Plain Truth Magazine plug: It is basically all anti-cult all the time!!!
by Check_Your_Premises ini got a free subscription from ptm.org for one year.
for those of you not familiar with the story of the world wide church of god, they were a cult remarkeably similar to the jw doctrinally.
it was founded by herbert armstrong.. after his death they went through a remarkeable and turbulent reformation.
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VERY INTERESTING ARTICLE
by Oroborus21 in.
don't know if anyone cited this previously here at jwd.. this is a very interesting, fair and accurate article summary of paper presented last june at a cesnur conference.. http://www.cesnur.org/2005/pa_brown.htm#_edn37.
simon and jwd were mentioned!.
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WTS and the mass media
by greendawn ingiven the extend of the abuse that the wts perpetrates on its members isn't it surprising that they don't get a lot more negative mass media coverage?
i wonder why that is, is it because they have helpful, powerful connections or because being so rich they can buy them off?
some extensive publicity in the mass media would cause them serious harm.
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The media are generally not interested in religion, unless it concerns associated issues such as fundamentalist Islamic terrorism, cult violence at the level of Waco/Jonestown, Tom Cruise who advertizes Scientology, or a dissenting Mormon polygamist in Colorado. And as for child abuse, they have the RC church. So who cares for the WTS?
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What's Your Favorite Sport?
by minimus inpersonally, i play tennis about 5 times per week , especially in the summertime.
what's your favorite sport to play or watch?
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running marathons
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Reply on some good things in the organisation...
by Do I Stand Alone? inmy motivation was not to "recruit" for the watchtower society.
i thought i made it clear when i stated that i am no longer one of jehovah's witnesses anymore and that i am on your side.
however, the impression i am getting is that no one is really understanding what i am getting at.
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Richard. Do not contact me again. YOU are unethical, misleading, underhanded and trying to exploit a support forum and those who might be vulnerable to your ruse.
odrade, you're not talking about me, i hope?
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Hilarious site: http://www.plug-pray.org/ENG/Home.html
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Courses
by the_classicist insince a pretty good number of you have been to university and since the arts academic advisors are always booked, i'll pose this question:.
what do you think of my course schedule for next year (keep in mind, my only real goal is learning; i'm not working towards a job):.
- latin (6 credits).
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Any chance you can add sociology of religion? Gives a good insight in meaning and functioning of religious institutions.
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What Kinds of Jobs Do JWs Have That You Know Of?
by minimus ini was thinking that most jws that i personally know have jobs that they really aren't happy with.
almost no one is a professional except for one cardiologist that got baptized a few years ago.
there's no one that's been raised in the "truth" that has a college education that i know of except one 22 year old young man who has done nothing to seek employment since he graduated.........any witnesses that you know of with great jobs?
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I know of two lawyers, a psychologist, a linguist, a medical researcher, and a historian. Agreed, they are rare ... btw, the linguist has left the WTS.
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Apostasy - A Racist Movement?
by slimboyfat infirpo carr argues that while many white apostates claim to highlight so-called 'racist' remarks and terminology in the watchtower literature, most such apostates are in fact white and have little real interest in black issues.
they are only interested in the issue in so far as they can use it to promote white anti-witness propaganda, whereas a high percentage of loyal witnesses are black.
i know that all the terms of my topic are debatable: apostacy is a witness term of derogation; apostates probably are mostly liberal and not racist (essentially); and they are not a 'movement' in any case.
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influential Black proponents: Edgar Foster and Firpo Carr
'Influential'? How so?
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2nd time - JW's experiencing persecution in Russia
by truthseeker inseems that pdf files have corrupted my original topic and now it's locked out, sorry.
if anyone can get the pdf file posted here, that would be great.
jw's are experiencing severe persecution in russia, link is from jw-media.org.
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Apart from the ethical problem of persecuting any religious minority - we are not talking about Al-Qaeda of Hamas - persecution of JWs will only confirm WTS doctrines. History has demonstrated that JWs persecution will lead to a more standfast position and increase of its membership.