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  Link To Meetups With 2,590 Ex-Jehovah's Witness http://exjw.meetup.com/memb

  by jnomdeplume@yahoo in

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  http://exjw.meetup.com/members/

  friends to see

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  benext

  The last two NYC meetups were cancelled due to lack of interest. Last month 13 voted but only 3 confirmed. Puzzling.
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  Doing the wave

  by benext in

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  2. friends

  on my way home last night, just as i'd crossed the street and was on final approach here comes an elder and his son on the way to the meeting.

  as he spots me he gives me the wave, arm fully extended and moved left to right, back and forth, to and fro.

  i reciprocate with the same wave.. he looked like he wanted to come across the street and talk but didn't.

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  benext

  On my way home last night, just as I'd crossed the street and was on final approach here comes an elder and his son on the way to the meeting. As he spots me he gives me the wave, arm fully extended and moved left to right, back and forth, to and fro. I reciprocate with the same wave.

  He looked like he wanted to come across the street and talk but didn't. He was actually one of the decent ones who acknowledged my brief presence at the meetings. I'm sure he reported his sighting to the PO and maybe they'll get up the nerve to want to make a shepherding call.

  I can only hope so.
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  My Secret Email Campaign -or- "Dozens Now Living will Now Know"

  by joe_from_kokomo in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  well, after our baptismal nullification letter, most of the witnesses snub us when we bump into them.

  saw a snooty sister from my own book study, and she pretended i was the invisible man.. so, i decided to do a "maverick" and have launched a top secret email campaign to help raise the news iq of my former witness friends and family.. i have created a dummy email account at a major portal and i am bccing all my old witness friends and relatives (mostly relatives) hyperlinks to the juicy news articles on jws and the un, jws and child abuse, etc.

  i put a simple subject line and a simple one line "read this article" followed by a hyperlink to the newspaper article.. it has been very effective.

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  benext

  It's always good to keep the JW's up on current events. Excellent public service.
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  WT pays 1.55 million $

  by Hamas in

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  from watchtower observer org

  wt pays 1.55 million $.

  the largest settlement ever paid in the history of jehovah's witnesses occurred this past october, but no news outlet has yet reported it.. .

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  I would not be surprised to find these were insurance dollars.
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  In DOUBT THROW It OUT

  by BERNARD in

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  its been awhile since i've posted, i thought i'll drop in and say hello too all the newbies, but i've been reading the posts ocassionally and they have been encouraging to see people take the courage to change from the jw mindset and try too move on with there life.

  for those of you who don't know me i disassociated myself from the wt in june of 1999 with a big smile, have not looked back since.

  my wife was still going at the time with my two kids, this weekend was her convention to my surprise, she did go nor has she attended any meetings in the past six months, since we moved away from my loving mother in law who is still a devout jw, that just bring tears to my eyes, tears of joy cause she can't speak to me, that's a plus, lol.

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  Hey Bernard, I didn't know you posted here. How was Hersey Park?
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  What If Jehovah's Witnesses Are Right?

  by shamus in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  the "what if" thing comes to mind... no matter how much i strongly believe that they are not, what if armageddon happened tomorrow and they were correct?

  would you have any sorrow for being wrong???.

  i, personally would not.

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  If they're right then I guess I would be part of that generation that failed to mend its ways.

  I'd finally get to take a nice long nap and wouldn't burn.
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  Retractions in the Watchtower

  by Elsewhere in

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  every magazine, newspaper or other periodical i have ever read would from time to time print a retraction to correct mistakes in past articles.

  any reputable publishing house does this.. has anyone ever seen a retraction printed in the watchtower, awake, or any other wts publication?.

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  When I asked a Bethelite if the WT ever said they were wrong in print he told me they used "clarification" because it was a much stronger word.
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  Is there a statute of Limitation on serious sin

  by dancnfool_60 in

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  Serious sin would have to be dealt with once it became known or in the case of an inactive person when they sought to return to the congregation.
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  Comments You Will Not Hear at the 8-3-03 WT Study

  by blondie in

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  2. bible

  comments you will not hear at the 8-3-03 wt study

  reviewers comments are in black or parentheses ().

  (please see last weeks comments on this).

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  This information is presented continually. I've never seen it make one difference in the way "the friends" behaved. Another reason why it's not the "truth."
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  Rutherford - Watchtower Rewriting History Again?

  by Stephanus in

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  2. friends

  from an article in the july 8 awake!

  by a "ken payne", entitled i tried to serve two masters:.

  what interested me was phrasing of the footnote - that instead of being autocratic president of the tower, judge joe merely "took the lead"!

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  ...took the lead among Jehovah's Witnesses. Who would they say takes the lead among them today?