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  Cholesterol and heart disease myth or reality?

  by greendawn in

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  2. friends

  for the last 40 years the idea that cholesterol (and saturated fats) clog up the arteries and cause heart disease has predominated yet hundreds of scientists and doctors now doubt whether this is indeed the case e.g.

  half the people that suffer heart attacks have ?normal?

  cholesterol levels.

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  WTS wealth/assets how to be shared?

  by greendawn in

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  2. friends

  imagine a situation were the jw org is burst assunder with all the rank and file members leaving and then entering into a legal dispute with the wts over the assets issue: they want to claim most of it because they are the ones that really made it with their unpaid work and conributions in money or property.

  they want to have the wts and all its daughter corporations.

  on the other hand the wts the shareholders, the directors, will claim that the assets legally belong to them, they can boast of a legally protected ownership over them, they are registered in their name and they should keep everything.

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  The JWs worst aspects for you are?

  by greendawn in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  which jw doctrines, collective personality traits and general history do you find to be the most destructive or disagreeable?

  i personally found the doctrine of the other sheep which makes the christ inaccesible to most jws, the devilishly complicated moral code, and the hideously totalitarian behaviour of their leadership to be the worst things on a long list that i've prepared regarding what's unacceptable to me in that society.

  i remember when i was arguing with the elders about the fds and their claim to total spiritual supremacy and they were telling me that the idea of democracy departs completely from their way of thinking, here they have a theocracy and that even "talking about the right things at the wrong time" is basically a crime in other words sit and wait for the fds to reveal it at the so called right time, and i should accept things as they are and not as i want them to be otherwise i get thrown out.

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  As JWs, ever met any annointed ?

  by greendawn in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  in your time as jws did you ever meet any of the annointed?

  did they have good christian personalities and what did they think of the wts and its governing body ?

  i met one and he was very unhappy with the way the gb treated him and generally the way they run this society, he told me he wrote them two letters containing a long list of complaints with full scriptural support but he was ignored, first letter got a reply amounting to "no need to write to us" the second one no reply at all.

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  JWs and early christians.

  by greendawn in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  the jws claim that they are a faithful copy of the early christian apostolic church however there are numerous differences between the two eg in the way christ was perceived, the apostles thought of him as a lord to be worshipped and be invoked, something that the jws loath doing.

  and also all the baptised participated in the bread and wine ritual weekly, rather than a handful participating yearly .

  does anybody know of any other differences in belief or behaviour or overall structure?

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  A world for all of us

  by greendawn in

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  when people are with the jws one of the tactics they use to deter them from leaving is the fear of the world, with typical cunning they over-emphasize its negative things, down play or ignore its positive things, and make sweeping generalisations about its nature.

  in reality the world has everything and you can choose what you want to be or make out of life eg you can be a self denying saint or a sex crazed womaniser and nobody cares.

  that is the golden abundance of the world and it belongs to all and i reconnected with it after leaving the jws with that thought.

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  Smart JWs

  by greendawn in

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  most of us often talk about what we don't like in the jws and why we left but i think there are some smart persons/families/entire congs there who know how to play the system, they don't really give a toss about the wts ideology (or behaviour) but they stay there just to have a good social or family life in exchange for giving 5 or 7 hours to the org per week.

  to them it is a social club not a religion.

  have you seen or heard anything on this?

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  WTS financial secrets

  by greendawn in

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  2. friends

  does anyone know who is/are the ultimate insectors of the wt's finances?

  and is there any transparency in their finances and also accountability to the public?

  can we really know what they do with the profits?

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  Ruined marriages

  by greendawn in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i just wish to know does the wts have a deliberate policy of splitting married couples if one of the spouses leaves the org even if adultery is not involved?

  do they at least indirectly encourage this to happen?

  and if yes is this a fairly recent policy?

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  Taze Russell research

  by greendawn in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  i'm doing some research into early jw/bible student history.

  does anyone know where i can get the court transcripts of russell's divorce case, or other info about frauds he committed or his freemasonry connections?.

  isn't it a joke that god chose a man of such a dubious record to be his representative on earth?

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