Thanks for your speedy response Hope4Others - I just found it strange (have never received anything 'pro' before), and am wondering how our emails have been obtained by this 'group'
MidwichCuckoo
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Our Paradise Lost
by MidwichCuckoo indon't know if i'm posting this on correct forum, but has anyone else received an email enititled 'watchtower!
' - i have zero idea how they obtained my email address, as i've only subscribed to ex-jw sites (even then, my email address would only be available to admin?
)- this and one other - (and this appears to be pro, indeed casting aspersions on 'conference call')?.
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Our Paradise Lost
by MidwichCuckoo indon't know if i'm posting this on correct forum, but has anyone else received an email enititled 'watchtower!
' - i have zero idea how they obtained my email address, as i've only subscribed to ex-jw sites (even then, my email address would only be available to admin?
)- this and one other - (and this appears to be pro, indeed casting aspersions on 'conference call')?.
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MidwichCuckoo
Don't know if I'm posting this on correct forum, but has anyone else received an email enititled 'Watchtower! Where do we go from here?' - I have zero idea how they obtained my email address, as I've only subscribed to ex-JW sites (even then, my email address would only be available to admin?)- this and one other - (and this appears to be pro, indeed casting aspersions on 'conference call')?
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No One Should Be Made to Choose ..LIES from July 09 Awake
by Hopscotch inthe following quote is taken from the article is it wrong to change your religion?
in the july 2009 awake p29:
no one should be forced to worship in a way that he finds unacceptable or be made to choose between his beliefs and his family.
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MidwichCuckoo
WuzLovesDubs - you MADE me look, lol...
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The meetings at the Kingdom Hall now are positively scary
by BonaFide inwhat was i thinking my entire life?
during the first part about submission, everyone gave the same comments about being obedient to the elders even though you may not agree with them.
and they talked about submission to the organization no matter what.. no one, i mean no one raised the possibility that the counsel or instructions might be wrong, or harmful.
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MidwichCuckoo
Your experience, Mr Flipper, brought to mind the Milgram Experiment - obedience to what you BELIEVE to be authority beyond what you'd find personally acceptable.
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The meetings at the Kingdom Hall now are positively scary
by BonaFide inwhat was i thinking my entire life?
during the first part about submission, everyone gave the same comments about being obedient to the elders even though you may not agree with them.
and they talked about submission to the organization no matter what.. no one, i mean no one raised the possibility that the counsel or instructions might be wrong, or harmful.
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MidwichCuckoo
Maybe they couldn't understand your comment, BonaFide - far too 'deep' lol. Well done for having the nerve to speak up - keep us up to speed on your punishment
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How do you feel when you see groups of Jehovah's Witnesses in the ministry?
by nicolaou inregret, anger, frustration?
how about sadness, sorrow, sympathy, understanding, even compassion!.
it can be quite confusing at times, especially if some of those witnesses were your friends.
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MidwichCuckoo
When I see them now, I always think they look braindead and unhappy - just acting out a role, anxious to scuttle away.
However..She still has`nt answered my Questions on the Oral Sex Public Talk Thread........Reniaa..I`m Waiting!!...................LOL!!...OUTLAW
Lol Outlaw - the only questions JWs are confident of 'knowing' the answers to are those at the bottom of a Watctower page - as the answer is in the above text
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JW urban legends
by kurtbethel ini scraped these off of a jw message group, and they are too over the top to not pass along.
it is interesting to see that jws pass along these yarns just as their worldly friends do.
most of them have that vague "friend of a friend" quality that urban legends are well know for having.
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MidwichCuckoo
Bonafide - I heard the ''angels'' either side of the JW woman over 30 years ago - is it STILL doing the rounds? lol...
...I also heard the one about the car advertised for sale for about 5 quid, and no one enquired after it believing it to be a misprint - except for a poor pioneer who needed a car for the service (and, of course, it wasn't a misprint, and the young pioneer was now able to preach more effeciently)
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JW urban legends
by kurtbethel ini scraped these off of a jw message group, and they are too over the top to not pass along.
it is interesting to see that jws pass along these yarns just as their worldly friends do.
most of them have that vague "friend of a friend" quality that urban legends are well know for having.
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MidwichCuckoo
Lol - JWs LIVE for this stuff. If the bulldozer chap (number 3) misheard his boss, thinking he said 'Hall', that could mean too many places and would need clarifying. It's very clever that the dubs know what passed between this worker and his boss after said (imaginary) job was done, lol.
Even in their urban legends they manage to focus on cost/money (''The job was done at no expense to the brothers'' etc).
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No One Should Be Made to Choose ..LIES from July 09 Awake
by Hopscotch inthe following quote is taken from the article is it wrong to change your religion?
in the july 2009 awake p29:
no one should be forced to worship in a way that he finds unacceptable or be made to choose between his beliefs and his family.
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MidwichCuckoo
I'm gobsmacked - nevertheless, I don't think active JWs actually 'take anything in', whatever is printed in a WT/Awake is unquestionable fact. And as another poster pointed out - this does not apply to them, as they have the Truth - but only to false religion (which is every other religion in existence, as any good JW knows, lol)
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What did you think about "apostates" when you were JW?
by Albert Einstein ini spent 17 years in jws, first 11 were very zealous.
i feel very stupid now to admitt - but until several months ago i really believed "apostates" and all people who left jws were kind of arogant, nasty, agresive, proud and i was afraid of getting in touch with them.. i remember finding coc book in a bookstore and (since i was very curious...) i touched it (with a great guilt feeling), opend it, and read it for maybe 2 minutes.... i was so afraid it will affect me somehow badly .... and that i will displease god by doing it .... i felt so bad by sining this way .... now i see there are more kind people among those who left, than in wtbs..... i started meeting some "apostates" in my town, i see they are more reasonable and often more spiritual than jws ... it is like coming out of the darkness ...... could you believe i was such an idiot?.
what about your experience?.
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MidwichCuckoo
I never saw any 'apostates' outside conventions - maybe they were there, but I'm not the most observant person in the world, lol. I always believed they were stupid, bitter and angry people (with no Christian qualities, anti-Christs). Now, of course, I think it's admirable that they give up their time etc trying to warn people about a dangerous cult.