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  Date for Regional Convention in Kansas City?

  by Wild_Thing in

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  can anyone tell me when the regional convention is being held in kansas city this summer?

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  Bump ...

  Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?
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  Date for Regional Convention in Kansas City?

  by Wild_Thing in

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  can anyone tell me when the regional convention is being held in kansas city this summer?

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  Can anyone tell me when the regional convention is being held in Kansas City this summer?
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  Ask a question

  by Mr.logic in

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  ask a question, and i will help with a simple answer, not an over referenced i'm smarter than you vent.

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  Explain why Jehovah's Witnesses insist Jerusalem fell in 607 BCE instead of 587 BCE, in one sentence or less.
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  Crazy Comments

  by humblepotato in

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  i love the people who go to my congregation.

  they are sweet, friendly, and lovable.

  (which is one of the things that makes being awake so much easier.

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  I will never forget when we were studying the Creation book at the book study. The reader kept pronouncing "organism" as "orgasm" over and over again throughout the same paragraph!
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  Does What We Say Here Or In Person Really Help JWs To Get Out Of The Religion?

  by minimus in

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  if we are in the congregation, do you think our comments or questions actually reach elders or others in the congregation?

  do our comments on this board affect witnesses to the point of questioning their faith?

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  I do not believe websites like this create doubt in lurkers, but I do think it definitely helps people who already have doubts get out. Having doubts and beginning to realize what the truth about the watchtower is a very lonely place to be. Forums like this give much needed support that help you sort out the real truth and then eventually leave.
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  God answers prayer of paralyzed little boy

  by Simon in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the answer was "no".

  http://www.theonion.com/article/god-answers-prayers-of-paralyzed-little-boy-475.

  obviously it's the onion so it's satirical but it got me thinking how the religious view prayer and god.

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  What always bothered me the most is that when zealots claim that God answered their prayers, it is always at the expense of someone else.

  If God "answered your prayers" and you won a game or award, it implies you are God's special chosen one over the other contenders.

  If God "answered your prayers" and saved your child from cancer, it implies God had the ability to save other children from cancer, also, but chose not to.

  I don't really think people understand what they are saying when they use that phrase. I think it's just become cliche` and something people say without thinking.
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  Stephen Lett: Crazy Old Kook or Just Really Bad Actor?

  by Wild_Thing in

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  so, i am reposting this video from wifibandit's thread since it is a bit off topic.

  i watched this video and i have to say that this guy really creeps me out.

  his slow and methodical gestures coupled with with his over-annuciation of every word makes him appear absolutely crazy!.

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  So, I am reposting this video from wifibandit's thread since it is a bit off topic.

  I watched this video and I have to say that this guy really creeps me out. His slow and methodical gestures coupled with with his over-annuciation of EVERY word makes him appear ABSOLUTELY CRAZY!

  Either that, or he is just a really bad actor, over-acting everything. Maybe both?

  He reminds me of Marshall Applewhite, that crazy cult leader of Heaven's Gate (the cult where everyone killed themselves while sporting terrible boy haircuts and new black tennis shoes). I have posted the Applewhite video below the Lett video for comparison.

  Maybe they just both went to the same "So You Want To Be a Cult Leader" seminar. The similarities in style are uncanny.

  Lett Video:

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3JvWvJdkxg

  Applewhite video:

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqSZhwu1Rwo
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  2015 Convention Releases

  by wifibandit in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  http://www.jw.org/en/publications/jw-convention-releases-2015/.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gc7cyswlvwg.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfmuamqiv4k.

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  When you click on the link, it asks if you have attended the convention yet. I clicked on yes so I could see the new releases. It was like the disclaimer you see when visiting liquor websites that say "Click to verify that you are over 21."

  So, what happens when you click on "No"? Anyone?
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  More Young Indoctrination

  by freemindfade in

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  2. beliefs

  not sure how wide spread this is, but from my social media land i saw 2 separate videos, from two halls in completely different towns featuring their kids having a demonstration on the service meeting (i am guessing last night as i didn't go).

  these kids are really young!

  maybe this was just a coincidence at first i thought it was the same video then realized theses people live hundreds of miles apart.

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  Of all the world's religions, the JWs have the lowest retention of members when it comes to "born-ins". It would make sense for them to kick it up a notch with the indoctrination of young ones. I have also noticed they are pushing for child baptism in a way that I have never seen before. I am guessing they think the threat of being disfellowshipped and disowned will keep them in the fold.
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  What triggered your doubts / awakening?

  by Tornintwo in

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  i am sort of new here, used a different username for a while but things got 'difficult' at home so i've since been lurking.... what i would be really interested to know, if you don't mind sharing, is what it was that triggered your doubts and initial research which led to awakening, was it a bad experience, injustice, changed doctrine?

  for me, it was seeing mistreatment of young ones in the congregation, they're under so much pressure and as soon as they go even slightly astray they are shunned, either informally (as bad associations which pushes them further into the 'world') or formally - with elders dying to throw the book at them so they even lose their family.... ...then reading about child abuse issues in the press.... ...which led me to silentlambs.

  ...then jw facts, this forum and coc, wham!

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  What woke me up ...

  My mother was married to my abusive father for 30 years. He was also an elder for most of those years. "Jehovah" didn't help us. The other elders didn't help us. Nobody helped us.

  When things got so bad that we were in crisis mode, it was only outside agencies and "worldly" people that helped us. Then, I woke up. I was sixteen.