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  need Mandarin chinese materials

  by Dogpatch in

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  2. friends

  does anyone know of anything counter-watchtower in mandarin chinese?

  i can't seem to find anything in chinese.

  randy.

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  Bodily Fluids, Crappy Real Estate & Goofy Stuff

  by Farkel in

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  2. beliefs

  before we get into bodily fluids and crappy real estate, let?s talk about some goofy bible stuff.. goofy stuff #1. we begin with satan?s challenge to god over that poor guy named job.

  job wasn?t even a jew.

  couldn?t god find any righteous jews to pick on?

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  Do you ever DEFEND Witnesses?

  by GetBusyLiving in

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  2. friends

  i know i come on here a lot and laugh at the crazy stuff i used to believe.. it's a terrific place to vent my frustration at the org.

  and share experiences with people who understand.

  but i find that when some people trash talk witnesses who were never part of it i end up sort of defending them usually.

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  The Social Structure in the Congregation

  by Mary in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  ever notice how the "happiest people on earth" are also the most class-oriented?

  to say that jesus said his followers should all be on equal footing, it's incredible how much the r&f witness is not on equal footing.

  the social structure in the congregation is more complex than the blueprints of a nuclear warhead, but just so that you "remember your place", see if you can find where your niche was/is:

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  Names given to children

  by the_classicist in

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  what i've noticed, is that there seems to be a lot of recent jw parents who make sure to name their kids by some hebrew/biblical name.

  so now you have kids running around w/names like ezekiel, reuben, isaiah, etc.

  there were also a few strange names that i'm sure some of these kids would've been made fun of because of it.. have any of you noticed this?

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  dubspeak follies

  by what_Truth? in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  what would you think if i told you "last thursday i went to the service meeting at the kingdom hall to hear the presiding overseer give a talk from the platform.

  most of us here know that to mean "last thursday i went to church to hear the head pastor give a sermon on the door to door ministry from the pulpit", a pretty common and straight forward event for a jehovah's witness.

  i asked my pennicostal wife what she thought the phrase meant and she guessed it had something to do with slavery and human sacrifice.

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  JW Underground

  by Hondo in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i recently read an article about jw's that, if had the choice, would probably leave because of the deceptions, lies, etc., but don't because of family, friends, prestige, whatever, and instead lead a make-believe life going through the motions of being a loyal and believing follower of the watchtower organization.

  most of those purported to be part of this non-believing/participating, but attending, jw population, are folks that have been associated with the jw's for a number of years, but, as many have, decided that the lies and constant changes (new light) just don't make sense anymore.

  i would suspect that identifying those who just "go through the motions" of being a good jw would be difficult.

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  Any former Witnesses here in Toronto or Southern Ontario?

  by Toronto_Guy in

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  2. experiences

  i was df'd last february, a year ago now, from my cong.

  in toronto.

  just wondering if anyone on this board is from toronto or the gta?

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  Why would you want to kill the org?

  by what_Truth? in

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  2. experiences

  i know that there's a lot of people here who have been deeply hurt by the jehovah's witnesses (i have as well).

  i also know that the gb are a bunch of lying bastards.

  still i have also met a lot of people who have made their lives much better by becoming jehovah's witnesses.

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  Funny FS experiences

  by Effervescent in

  1. social
  2. humour

  i was just watching an old rerun of "the nanny" where frans mom talks about trying to put spice into her marriage by meeting her husband at the door naked.

  fran makes a face and her mother says "meanwhile you'll never see jehovah's witnesses in the building again".

  i remember hearing funny stories about people coming to the door naked etc, but nothing quite that interesting happened to me.

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