Village Idiot

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  Major changes to convention security beginning in 2017

  by Edison Trent in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  short info on interesting changes to the major conventions this year: there will be a new security concept that will be implemented at all regional conventions in 2017.. similar to other major events (e.g.

  festivals, concerts), there will be admittance controls in stadiums.. - at each entrance, there will be a massive presence of attendants that look at each visitor.. - there will be pocket checks at the entrance.. - suspicious persons are no longer left on the convention grounds.. - suppliers to the stadium will be intensively inspected by attendants.. - there will be a special sign for attendants that must enter the stadium before 7.30 am.

  all others (even all attendants) can only enter after 7.30 am..

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  Village Idiot

  Such security will give them the illusion of persecution. We evil 'apostates' are out to kill them.
  
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  Which Watchtower publications did you keep?

  by Schnufti in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i'm currently cleaning up our bookcase and need to decide what goes into the trash.

  i'll keep the watchtower books that are not available online anymore (e.g.

  the brown "reasoning" book).

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  I live in a small house, we've just been under our stairs (storage place) and pulled out decades of bound volumes. I'm all for throwing them away but my husband says keep them. But why? I'm not going to use them again - ever. So bit by bit I'm throwing them away but I'm keeping my pink paradise book.
  

  !!!!!!!!!!DON'T!!!!!!!!!! Give them away to one of us. We'll gladly take them off your hands. I'd offer to buy them but I've got no money.
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  Handmaids tale

  by enigma1863 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  have you seen the handmaids tale?

  or possibly read the book?

  do you think the story would impact jws?.

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  Village Idiot

  Sorry jp1692, I was thinking about the OP who apparently watched it.
  
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  Does The Watchtower Corporation's Teachings Of Black White Thinking Induce Borderling Personality Disorder In Many Cult member?

  by Brokeback Watchtower in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i think the disfellowshipping abandonement arrangement in human relationships also to be a heavy contributor to this malady:.

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/borderline_personality_disorder.

  borderline personality disorder (bpd), also known as emotionally unstable personality disorder, is a long-term pattern of abnormal behavior characterized by unstable relationships with other people, unstable sense of self, and unstable emotions.

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  Village Idiot

  Jp1692,

  Wikipedia is not a reliable source
  

  Wikipedia is as good (or bad) as its primary sources cited in its footnotes.
  
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  Which Watchtower publications did you keep?

  by Schnufti in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i'm currently cleaning up our bookcase and need to decide what goes into the trash.

  i'll keep the watchtower books that are not available online anymore (e.g.

  the brown "reasoning" book).

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  Village Idiot

  schnufti," I'm currently cleaning up our bookcase and need to decide what goes into the trash."

  Don't trash whatever you've got! Box them and offer them to anyone who would like them. Have them pay the postage and I'm sure they'll be gone before you can say apostate.
  
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  Handmaids tale

  by enigma1863 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  have you seen the handmaids tale?

  or possibly read the book?

  do you think the story would impact jws?.

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  Village Idiot

  I read the book and saw the movie starring Robert Duvall (As the general.). The movie's ending was better than the book [removed]

  As for impacting the JWs I doubt it since the premise of the book - mass sterility and surrogate mother slavery - has no equivalence in our times.
  
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  Which Watchtower publications did you keep?

  by Schnufti in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i'm currently cleaning up our bookcase and need to decide what goes into the trash.

  i'll keep the watchtower books that are not available online anymore (e.g.

  the brown "reasoning" book).

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  Village Idiot

  If you got books from the 1960s and before keep them! I sold all my old (1950s) books to a brother for $5 bucks. I wish I had not.

  I kept the Aid to Bible Understanding; the Concordance; the Large print bible and a couple of others including the red 'pocket' version.

  I also have a 1950s book - title forgotten, which is a Jewel. It has a massive contradiction within the book itself where in one page it says that Charles Russell never had a biography made of him but, a few pages later, has an image of his biography book!
  
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  Would You EVER Go Back To Being A Jehovah's Witness?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i could never understand why some people who know the truth about the "truth" ever go back.

  once you understand all the hypocrisy and negatives, i would think it's almost impossible to go back!.

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  I once had a day dream of what would happen if I were to suffer from amnesia and forgotten about my past disfellowshipping. Would I in my ignorance return to the JWs if that's the last thing I remember? Maybe I would but I would soon leave even if I didn't remember the TTATT.
  
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  Met JWs today - they lied about who they were

  by Xanthippe in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  so a couple came into the library where i work today and the woman said she was from the british sign language association and asked if i would display a leaflet for her.

  when she handed me the leaflet the jw website logo jumped out at me as did the words 'would you like to study the bible with jehovah's witnesses?

  ' there was a small picture that had someone conversing in sign language but the other pictures were typical jw leaflet pictures.

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  Village Idiot

  It was a small leaflet on my door that got me in at the vulnerable age of 14.

  I used to go to different laundromats on my route between work and home to do my magazine purge.

  On one occasion the owner confronted me and said that he wanted me to leave the magazines so that the customers would have some reading material. Of course, he had no clue as to what that implied and, being an introvert, I did not tell him why I was doing it.
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  Met JWs today - they lied about who they were

  by Xanthippe in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  so a couple came into the library where i work today and the woman said she was from the british sign language association and asked if i would display a leaflet for her.

  when she handed me the leaflet the jw website logo jumped out at me as did the words 'would you like to study the bible with jehovah's witnesses?

  ' there was a small picture that had someone conversing in sign language but the other pictures were typical jw leaflet pictures.

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  Village Idiot

  @Xanthippe. Next they come by tell them that you're on to them and that they could get arrested for misrepresenting themselves. I don't think they'll want to come back.