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  Child dies because he did not want to go to the meeting

  by VanillaMocha73 in

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  2. child-abuse

  http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/16252892.htm

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  yaddayadda

  The mother is not totally irreprehensible. She must have really upset her autistic son to cause him to be so violent that the police were needed. This probably means it was an ongoing battle between her and him and finally things came to a head and erupted. She had probably been nagging him and dragging him for months. She probably got no help from the congregation except platitudes from the elders that she must keep bringing him.
  
  Some JW parents can get pretty nutty when their child starts rebelling and refusing to go to meetings etc. I remember my mother taking to me and my sister with a piece of skipping rope when we were badly playing up once. The JW world creates that kind of frantic, pressure-cooker mentality with all their meetings, talk of the end of the world, etc.
  
  It's very sad and highlights the real situation in the organisation, ie, full of unhappy, stressed out families.
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  Supplement letter to Witchtower Babble study next Sunday 17th

  by hamsterbait in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  at the end of today's witchtower, the elder taking it said that next weeks meeting was about appreciating and showing respect for the meetings, and that a letter with "guidelines" - no don't laugh - from the society about this would be read out.. is this why this week was all about being obedient drones and not questioning anything (except for the question "what does the wtbts currently teach on this for me to parrot robotically while maintaining a rictus smile of fake joy?").

  anybody see this letter yet?.

  hb.

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  Frikken control freaks.
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  Is your avatar you?

  by Swamboozled in

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  2. friends

  i always assume that people with real pics for their avatars are pics of that poster.

  obviously that's not always the case.

  i'm curious about whose pic is really them.

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  Nope, it's my pet Meerkat.
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  Puzzled - why are they objecting?

  by ozziepost in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  yep, i'm puzzled.. i checked the jw-media site (well, it doesn't hurt to see what they're up to now, eh?

  ) and i came across this item:.

  armenia's unresolved issue of conscientious objection to military service.

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  The UN charter refers to the UN using armed force if necessary. The Society agreed to uphold that charter when it signed up with UN in 1991.
  
  <br><br>Yet they can't see that alternative service, whether or not it is organised by the military, in no way conflicts with Jesus command to put away the sword.
  
  Hypocrites!
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  Original 1914 comments compared with what the WTS claims it said

  by jwfacts in

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  2. bible

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  Yes, but all that matters in the mind of the JW is that World War 1 started in 1914 and Russell predicted something global and terrible would happen in 1914! That's got to be more than just coincidence!!
  
  That's what I used to think, even knowing that the WTS has changed the spin on its history.
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  Sunday's public talk about 1914 mentioned 586

  by GBSJG in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the public talk of last sunday was about 1914, the last days and the prophecy of daniel.. so the speaker explains how we get to the 2520 years and that jerusalem fell in 607. but after that he must have talked about the 586 date for 5 minutes.

  he said that some say the jerusalem fell in 586 instead of 607. but then you would not get to 1914 but 1934 and nothing special happened then.

  then he says that jw have published convincing material about why the date must be 607 without mentioning what that material exactly is (he actually said this several times).

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  I can't recall ever hearing 586 mentioned from the platform.
  
  It's great the speaker mentioned it though because it may plant seeds of doubt. Some may think "Heck, I didn't know there was an alternative date for the fall of Jerusalem....I think I'll hop on the internet when I get home and check it out!"
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  Judical Committee/ Plea for Reinstatement help

  by livingalie in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  hello to all it has been awhile since my last post but i have been lurking .i just wanted to be careful since i have been trying to be reinstated.

  to give you a little background in short after i left bethel (1993-1999) in 1999 i got married to a local sister from new york city ( brooklyn).i worked at different jobs but the last job i had was with the city of ny after 9/11 i lost the job .i told my wife about a job down south ,i told her that i would go down try the job out and if it looks like a good fit and it would work out she should move down in a few months .the job was going great things were looking up i told her to moved down but she hated the town said it was to small nothing to do but the great thing about it was that her job was in the town also all she would have to do was just transfer no job hunting at all .

  my wife would not move this went on for the next 2 years she said she was coming down then she said she need to finish up something at work .

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  I find it incredible that you were going to all the meetings for a whole year but you are not allowed to be reinstated because you are not making any attempt at reconciliation with your wife. That is ridiculous. Since when does trying to repair an obviously broken marriage have anything to do with being accepted as a Christian again, especially since it is your wife that is refusing to move to your new town? You are supposed to show works befitting repentance of your adultery, not works showing you still love your wife, which you obviously don't. What on earth do the elders expect you to do? I suspect that either you are not telling us the full story about why the elders are not reinstating you. Are you still secretly fooling around with women?
  
  I'd give the elders the big finger. Find another church. Find a new family.
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  Irish Court Says No To Jehovah's Witnesses

  by Kenneson in

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  2. friends

  see "congregation of jehovah's witnesses denied part in ms. k case".

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  http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/breaking-news/national/article2055415.ece.

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  Interesting. Thanks for posting that link.
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  High propaganda Dec 15th WT study articles - the end is nigh!!

  by yaddayadda in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  (could someone kindly format this for me into paragraphs where i have put a [ as i use mozilla firefox).

  probably already been threads about these, but major puke alert with the first and third study articles in the dec 15th 2006. the society are really ramping up the doomsday rhetoric with these.

  [the first study article is entitled "the great day of jehovah is near".

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  Ok, Thanks Kudra. I'll test it out with this post.
  <br><br>Testing Testing...
  <br><br>New Para
  
  Hey it works. Geez why didn't I think of that before...doh.
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  High propaganda Dec 15th WT study articles - the end is nigh!!

  by yaddayadda in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  (could someone kindly format this for me into paragraphs where i have put a [ as i use mozilla firefox).

  probably already been threads about these, but major puke alert with the first and third study articles in the dec 15th 2006. the society are really ramping up the doomsday rhetoric with these.

  [the first study article is entitled "the great day of jehovah is near".

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  yaddayadda

  Thanks Mary :-) (I made a few changes to my original post after you reformatted it, but that's cool. I should do my double-checking before posting.)