The Thinker
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Watchting the World: Ignoring useless information aids memory
by What-A-Coincidence inignoring useless information aids memory - study
23 nov 2005 19:47:08 gmt .
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/l23608850.htm
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Can disfellowshipping a person be harmful to their spirituality?
by JH inthe jw org wants us to be almost perfect.
the slightest fault that we do, we are treated as if we are entirely bad, then we get df'd.. it's an "all or nothing" way of thinking that can be spiritually dangerous.. example: if a jw is caught smoking, and becomes df'd because of this, that person may feel free to do even worse sins, because they can't be more df'd than they are right now.
so disfellowshipping a person for something as small as smoking or playing lotto, can be counter productive for the sinner.. it's like puting a person in jail for a petty crime.
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The Watchtower's Latest Stupid Annoucement
by metatron inas many of you are now aware, the watchtower society is presently triggering official.
disfellowshippings by announcing that 'so and so is no longer one of jehovah's witnesses'.. thereafter, friendships and real family ties with the individual are to be immediately severed.. what gets ignored in this eagerness to shun is what the apostle paul actually said about the.
matter.
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Stupid Analogies/Illustrations/examples you hear dubs say over and over
by doodle-v inwhat are some stupid analogies that you here dubs use all the time to explain their faulty, destructing teachings?
or maybe ones you've used in the past that when you think about them now, make you cringe?.
here are a few that come to mind:.
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How many people here are Faders?
by misspeaches inhow many people that come to this board are faders only?
i am interested to know the statistics on how many people have left the borg because they have discovered their untruths or become disillusioned.. thanks,.
miss peache
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Compling a list of JW Matchmaker web sites
by The Thinker ini now a good jw woman who is single and looking for a hubby, i am suggesting to her to try some of the jw match maker web sites, i know of 2 so far.
www.jwmatch.com www.jwconnections.com
anymore???
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please help with translation
by boydarwin ini have tried everywhere, searched the net, translation forums, googled.....you name it.. i am hoping that someone here might be able to help me or at least point me in the right direction.. i am looking for a translation of john 8:7. i am looking for the phrase "let the one among you without sin cast the first stone".
here is the catch, i want it in either aramaic or hebrew.
i love that verse, and it means a lot to me.
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A New Generation???????????
by RevFrank inaccording to the watchtower the generation that saw the beginning of the end began in 1914. as for the 144,000, that ended some where in the late 1970s.
i guess god changed his mind on ending the system.
why even up to the 1990s the awake kept saying it, yet it's changed.. as for the two witnesses......some jws say they already came....died....and are living now.
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Elder keeping real reason priveledges taken away from own daughter.
by wordlywife inmy step daughter had her pioneer priveledges taken away from her.
the elders involved did not tell my husband what the real reason was for it.
she had done something months prior and that is what elder discussed with him, but that wasn't the real reason, something else happened to make them remove her priveldges, which i won't go into here.
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Are You Still Stuck In The Moral Panic trap?
by Englishman injust curious..now that you're an exjw, do you think that the world is a good place or an evil place to be?.
or are you screwed up about asylum seekers and other perceived threats to your security?.
i tend to always err towards optimism generally.
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