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  Grand and Lesser Apostate Delusions

  by slimboyfat in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  what is it makes some of those wacky apostates appear from time to time claiming russell and the witnesses were/are all part of some great freemason/illuminati plot?

  i'll tell you what it is, and it may explain a few other things for you too!

  people who come up with these theories demonstrate a basic psychological insecurity stemming from their involvement and subsequent disentanglement from the witnesses.

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  slimboyfat

  The OP is clearly an idiot, but some of the responses are well worth reading, especially AlanF, Kid-A, LittleToe, Narkissos and so on.
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  Posters You Miss

  by minimus in

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  2. friends

  anyone that you miss from this site, dead or alive??.

  i miss farkel, blondie and a host of others!.

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  slimboyfat

  JCanon, not only gone, but his threads gone too, sadly, in an act of archival vandalism.
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  Active witnesses? Please help?

  by Ahava in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  hi,i'm lost and a little sad.

  i actually like the jw faith.

  some might call this faith cold, strict, dogmatic but they're just trying to follow rules and give back to god.

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  Listened to interesting presentation the other day on human origins by John Walton, Seventh Day Adventist preacher, and professor of chemistry at St Andrews University.

  http://www.crieffadventist.org.uk/mp3/2009/JohnWalton/091111_JohnWalton_ForbiddenScience32.mp3
  
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  Gonna read the new bible front to back

  by Jayk in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i'm gonna read the new light bible front to back.

  (see how far i make it).

  besides wanting to read more.

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  slimboyfat

  I don't expect to learn much, I just want to understand what I'm up against.

  I listen to “woman’s hour” on Radio 4 for similar reasons,
  
  
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  Borg nearly apologies child abuse victims in Finland

  by Festus in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  the attached picture is historical.

  the man on left is ari hakkarainen, representative of jw in finland.

  the woman in middle is reporter susanna päivärinta and the lady at right is josefina pakomaa who was abused by family friend - a jw - when she was 11. a vicious apostate today.

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  I think this is a hopeful sign that change is coming.
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  Today's Watchtowe Study, Child Baptism

  by BluesBrother in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  suffice to say that i fundamentally disagree with the point of this article, a cynical attempt to boost numbers.

  it goes against bible precedent and their own long standing practice.

  they timothy as an example of a youthfull christian, a young man.. sure but he was not baptized young .

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  slimboyfat

  The more children who get DFed, the more inheritance goes to WT inc. when the parents die.
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  Today's Watchtowe Study, Child Baptism

  by BluesBrother in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  suffice to say that i fundamentally disagree with the point of this article, a cynical attempt to boost numbers.

  it goes against bible precedent and their own long standing practice.

  they timothy as an example of a youthfull christian, a young man.. sure but he was not baptized young .

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  slimboyfat

  Yes I was told if I didn’t get baptised I’d die at Armageddon. My conductor basically said: “we can’t say for definite you need to get baptised or else killed, but if you ask me that’s how I understand it”.
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  Neanderthals - Meet Your Ancestors

  by Earnest in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  tonight (sunday, 13th may) at 20:00 on bbc 2 ... for neanderthal believers, agnostics and deniers.. this first programme in a two-part series investigates what neanderthals looked like and and how they lived in their ice age world.

  it turns out that almost everything we thought we knew about them is wrong.

  they weren't hunched, grunting, knuckle-dragging ape-men at all.

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  slimboyfat

  According to 23andme I’m 0.5% Neanderthal or something.
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  Gorgeous Politicians ...

  by LoveUniHateExams in

  1. social
  2. current

  there's a saying that says "politics is show-business for ugly people" ... well, they can't all be ugly.. so here are my favourite politicians .... .

  ^^^ caroline flint ^^^ .

  ^^^ liz kendall ^^^.

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  slimboyfat

  Good lord heaven help us
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  Overlapping Generations

  by JRK in

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  2. friends

  i remember when that came out, my mother didn't catch it in the original article in the wt.

  it was in one of the review "do you remember" thingies that she caught it.

  she asked me if it means what she thought it meant.

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  I’ve noticed that some JWs seem to take it almost as a badge of honour, display of loyalty, or high level spirituality, that they “believe” the overlapping teaching without questioning it. It reminds me of the high levels of Scientology, where belief in alien gods and planets or whatever is a sign of advanced understanding or maturity.

  I’ve never heard anyone even attempt a rational defence of it.