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  still a lil scared but definately leaving

  by OklaXwitness in

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  im leaving guys thank you "apostates" lol witnesses are a messed up cult i wish i had known about this sooner ive been raised in "the truth" im 16 im leaveing tomorrow

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  melmac

  Man, I wish I had half of your courage when I was a teenager! Whatever you do, I hope it ends well.
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  Must Read!

  by Non-JW in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  as a jehovah's witness you have been taught from the bible and the watchtower organization.

  instead, you must trust what it tells you about its own false prophecies.

  the watchtower organization tells you what to think and what to do.

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  melmac

  ROFL at quotes...
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  The Watchtower Views Its Followers As Good For Nothing Slaves!!!

  by frankiespeakin in

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  2. friends

  does the governing body have any love for thier followers?

  looking at the latest wt study articles the message loud and clear: .

  "get to work you good for nothing slaves,, and sell our books".

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  melmac

  Blondie, that was a kick in the groin. Said elder must've been scared of you ever since!
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  Do Jehovah Witnesses Believe in the Trinity?

  by researcher1 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  hello, my name is brian jackson.

  i am a seventh-day adventist and i am doing a bible project for my 11th grade religion class and i chose the topic of the trinity and decided to compare that of the seventh-day adventist teachings with that of your teachings.. what do you believe about the trinity?.

  also, a little off the topic, but why don't you believe in having an american flag in your sanctuary?.

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  melmac

  HEY! I just had a great idea: I will go to a Jehovah's Witnesses' board and say I have some doubts about their religion... then I will show them some verses to prove how wrong they are!!

  How come no one has ever thought of this before??

  Well, FYI...

  1. Many, many people have done that before.

  2. All of them did not take the time to realize that this is an EX-Winessess board.

  Good luck to you!
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  U2, Denver... Last night...

  by upside/down in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  wow, what a great band- u2!.

  they played to a packed house and did an awesome job.

  they played a lot of the less "pop" songs ie.bullet the blue sky.

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  melmac

  U2 rocks (or used to, until "Pop").

  Way to go, U/D... better late than never!
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  I'm searching for answers....

  by nedryerson in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i have been studying your faith and i understand that you believe in the bible?

  1. in revelation 1:8, it says, ?

  ?i am the alpha and the omega,?

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  melmac

  Gongratulations! You are the 1,000,000th poster who tries to start a discussion without the slightest clue of what this board is about.

  Go RTFM... or the F**king posts...

  Other than that... welcome...
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  How Do You Discern If Someone Is Telling The Truth or Lying?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  what signs do you look for in determining whether someone is really telling the truth, outright lying or possibly using "theocratic strategy"??

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  So How Do You Spot a Liar? ; Would You Have Been Duped by 'Comedy Terrorist' Aaron Barschak When He Gatecrashed William's Party? Dr Raj Persaud, Consultant Psychiatrist at the Maudsley Hospital, Examines Why the Truth Can Be So Hard to See ...
  Evening Standard - London - July 15, 2003
  LIE detection is crucial for most people who come into contact with the public. That includes police, social workers, customs officers, judges, lawyers, immigration officials and many working in Government offices such as benefit agencies.

  But the latest psychological research suggests we are not as good at spotting deception as we think we are. The average rate of lie detection is just 44 per cent, which is a worse result than we would get if we based decisions on the toss of a coin.

  In an experiment, officers were shown TV broadcasts of people asking for help in finding missing relatives, or the murderers of their relatives. In fact, they were lying and were subsequently convicted of killing their relatives themselves. The officers, who did not know the background to the videotapes, were asked whether they could spot any deceit. They did not perform better than could be expected by chance.

  Psychologist Professor Aldert Vrij, from the University of Portsmouth, who conducted this experiment, found that only one profession did better than the public in spotting lies - officers who work for the US Secret Service and the FBI. But this could be partly because these agents seem to adopt a powerful but simple strategy: trust no one.

  This approach might be good at spotting deception but it runs into trouble when it comes to identifying the truth, which is equally important.

  Another study, from the Department of Psychology at Williams College in Massachusetts, shows there are dangers in assuming you know whether someone is lying or not before interviewing them. Psychologist Dr Saul Kassim created a situation where suspects "guilty" or "innocent" of a mock theft were interrogated to establish the truth. The interrogators had been led to have a prior belief about the suspects' guilt or innocence, even though that bore no relation to their actual guilty status.

  Those who already believed they had a guilty suspect exerted more pressure and used more guilt-presumptive questions, resulting in a 23 per cent increase in guilty judgments by questioners.

  Even more fascinating was the finding that neutral observers were influenced by how defensive the suspect appeared. They were much more likely to conclude the defendant was guilty if they had seen the kind of interrogation carried out by those interrogators who were already convinced of the suspect's guilt.

  So interrogators trying to work out whether someone is lying or not need to take more account of the effect of their own behaviour on the subject and try to keep an open mind.

  This has vital implications for how a team of social workers on a suspected child abuse case might develop a conviction that someone is lying.

  If they rely on observing one team member conducting an interview where there is already a presumption of guilt, it is easy to see how a whole organisation can become convinced that someone is deceiving when they may not be.

  One problem is that many professionals do not understand how liars behave.

  The majority (75 per cent, says a survey) assume that liars avert their eyes.

  Research shows this is not usually true.

  Liars are having to manufacture reality, which requires a lot more intellectual effort than simply reporting the truth. They need to monitor how their story is coming across so as to know whether to modify their strategy or not: so they are likely to look closely at their interrogator.

  Truth-tellers are not so involved in monitoring the listener, so are more likely to look away.

  Also liars take longer to answer questions, pause more, are not as fluent in the flow of their answers and - if they are good liars - tend to make fewer gestures to try to ensure they don't "leak" body language clues to their lying.

  It is this body language which holds the real key to detecting lies. A change in body language as the sophisticated interviewer switches from a topic where it is known the interviewee is telling the truth to one where lying is possible can be a real giveaway.

  Dr Raj Persaud's book From The Edge Of The Couch is published by Bantam Press (12.99).

  Aaron Barschak: if you'd been on the gate would you have turned him away?

  (C) 2003 Evening Standard - London. via ProQuest Information and Learning Company; All Rights Reserved

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  This news story is not produced by the American Psychological Association and does not necessarily represent the opinions of the association.
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  My scale is demonized? -- warning fluff alert :) --

  by jeanniebeanz in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  lately, some of the strangest things have been happening in my home, and i need your help to figure it out.

  let me explain:.

  about a week ago, i noticed that my bathroom scale has been turning up in the strangest way and places.

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  melmac

  Shout "Jehovah", "Jehovah". It won't work, but the scale may possibly accept some literature...
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  POLL----

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  how many here have been a jw since the 70's or before?......80's on?

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  melmac

  Been in 86 to 89. Then inactive. Found the truth in 2004!
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  Jws or adventists?

  by melmac in

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  expanding on the topic about jws x mormons.... which one would you choose?

  adventists or jws?

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  melmac

  Yes, the reason I asked is that CT Russel took a lot from adventists. The similarities are striking. Even now some adventists are trying to introduce non-trinitarianism into the religion, something that can have interesting consequences.

  In a nutshell, however, not much difference.