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  Hello everyone. New here looking for info and friends

  by Harvard Illiterate 411 in

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  i sometimes was redirected to this page from reddit or another ex-jw site but never bothered to sign up.

  i wanted to stay off the radar but since i'm getting dis-fellowshipped anyways and have no plans to come back what the hell.

  been 22 years in the truth........... ahhhh i hate to use that expression...... bad habit but you know what i mean.

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  Village Idiot

  Hi there!
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  When Did Higher Education Become Taboo?

  by Wild_Thing in

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  i have been reading about the early history of russelites/jws and in the beginning, it seems the organization was formed and headed by quite a few educated people.

  lawyers, doctors, businessman.

  you could buy voting rights within the organization for $1000, which by today's standard would be somewhere between $15,000 and $20,000, something most of us do not have on hand, unless you are highly educated and/or wealthy.

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  Village Idiot

  If their anti-higher education stand didn't exist during Russell's tenure then it definitely must have come during Rutherford's. The main motivation would have been to have the young generation pioneer indefinitely. Remember the book Children where two youths in love forego marriage? They would have foregone an education based on their same logic.
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  Are you an agronomist or a farmer? If so, I need your help. Related to Miracle Wheat

  by ILoveTTATT2 in

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  i am doing some investigation on the miracle wheat episode, and i have a question that i don't know the answer to, and i can't find the answer online.. it seems that, from what i have learnt online, that wheat is a self-pollinating, "perfect flower".

  this means that once there is a strain that has a quality that's desirable, all you have to do is plant it, and that feature will remain "forever".

  essentially the new plants are all clones.given that information, this statement by penton does not make sense:.

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  "...It soon lost its outstanding vitality..."
  

  That is probably a reference to the fact that the wheat would not keep it's attributes after a 2nd generation.
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  So Long Palmyra NY Hall

  by mrquik in

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  ah just more evidence of the work "speeding up during the time of the end".

  i helped build this hall.

  was appointed as an ms & elder there.

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  Village Idiot

  I wonder what would happen if those in a similar position were to simply say no to the Watchtower. Mass disfellowshipping?
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  How many killed by the 5 Cholera pandemics during the 1800's?

  by redpilltwice in

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  you all know jwfacts (run by paul grundy).

  on this website, under “did the last days start 1914” ---> “pestilence”, it says:“during the 1800's five cholera pandemics killed around 100 million people.” .

  there is no link to any source of info, so i emailed paul and asked where i can verify that total number?

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  I remember reading about the Cholera pandemics, with those figures, in one of the "apostate" books. I think, If I'm not mistaken, that it was Sign Of The Last Days - When? by Carl O. Jonsson, If you don't have that book it's highly recommended that you get it; it's a treasure trove of information tailored to rebut the Watchtower.

  The book included primary sources in the footnotes which might help you to track the original book that made the statement.
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  Interlinear bible removed from the JW app?

  by nmthinker in

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  my iphone doesn't have the interlinear bible anymore, the one with the greek and translated english together.

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  did they remove it?

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  Most JWs won't even miss it or know that it was there to begin with. Only the intellectually minded would have bothered to have read it.
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  Again: Where is Jesus?

  by Wonderment in

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  the watchtower of december 2015 reports the following reaction of a family with four teenagers in the country of rwanda with the publication of the nwt, and how grateful they were for it.

  the wt magazine said: .

  things changed when the new world translation in their language became available.

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  Jesus is a cardboard figure for the Witnesses. Jehovah is just a sounding board for the organization, echoing anything the Watchtower wishes. For every finger they point at the sky there are three more pointing right back at them.

  .........................................................................Watchtower Jesus

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  Should I get babtized?

  by BlackWolf in

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  i know this sounds like a ridiculous question but i was talking with my mom in the car today and of course we got on the topic of getting babtized again.

  she told me that jehovah holds me accountable for my sins regardless of wether i am babtized or not so i have no reason to be holding back because it won't change anything.

  my parents are the type of super strict jw who will shun you just for not being a witness.

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  Don't get baptize and don't give them the pleasure of a disassociation letter.
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  Freddy Franz, One of the smartest men of his day????

  by DwainBowman in

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  back in my teen years this story swept through jw land, that according to, the guinness book of records , freddy franz, was listed as one of the seven, most intelligent , men in the world.

  dose anyone else remember this?

  i remember trying to look it up, but never found anything in print, and ii point that out once or twice , and was told a co, had told about it, and he wouldn't lie!

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  Village Idiot

  Freddie, as others in Bethel used to call him, might have been somewhat smart (along with Charles Russell) but it was imagination that he excelled in.
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  EXCERPT from Science Fiction novel about Watchtower religion (21 pages)

  by Terry in

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  so many of you have sent me e-mails and messages asking how in the world.

  it was possible to write a science fiction novel about the watchtower religion.. i decided to share the first 21 pages to answer this question.. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1upmawzi8yyzs18rlfw41qxzfcuaus-yynhqium9r0wo/edit?usp=sharing.

  i endeavored, as far as possible, to stay historically accurate.

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  slimboyfat: "...I have often thought JWs would make a great subject for a futuristic or sci-fi novel."

  Why give JWs a future?