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  Great Quote From Everything about God Wrong

  by stillajwexelder in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  as you know i recommended a new book - here is an excerpt from my original post .

  everything you know about god is wrong - the disinformation guide to religion.

  new book recommend edited by russ kick published 2007 this is a new book just arrived isbn-10 1-932857-59-1. it is 387 a4?

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  Yes!!!
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  Terms used by witnesses that are unique

  by Shawn10538 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i want to compile a list of terms that jws use that are different from known meanings of these terms.

  here's a few easy ones to get us started: .

  pioneer .

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  I want to compile a list of terms that JWs use that are different from known meanings of these terms. Here's a few easy ones to get us started:
  
  pioneer
  study
  generation
  truth
  cult
  service
  the society
  the brothers
  the sisters
  the friends
  KM
  PO
  MS
  GB
  meeting
  auxillary pioneer
  elder
  annointed
  FDS
  Judicial committee
  reproof/reproved
  DFd
  DAd...
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  Bethel Tour-long sorry

  by samiam2b in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i'm new as a member but have watched the site for a while.

  one of my kids, who lives in another part of the country, came for a summer visit from another state and asked to go on a bethel tour.

  she lives with her jw mother and is surrounded by jws and they even baptized her recently.

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  Don't you know? Holy spirit directs the appointments in all cases.
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  Bethel Tour-long sorry

  by samiam2b in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i'm new as a member but have watched the site for a while.

  one of my kids, who lives in another part of the country, came for a summer visit from another state and asked to go on a bethel tour.

  she lives with her jw mother and is surrounded by jws and they even baptized her recently.

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  Shawn10538

  As for tour guide training, all there is to it is that you shadow another experienced tour guide for a tour or two. You have a step by step outline that corresponds with the tour route, so it's a no-brainer. There may have been a thing or two that I forgot about it, but no, it is not extensive training. In fact, if you have family visiting you can get a fast pass and give them their tour yourself regardless of what department you are in. Only certain departments are "on the list" of depts. that contribute tour guides. If you are in construction for example, you are usually not trained to give tours. I was in mailing at first, so I got to give tours in both English and Spanish. As for money, YES. There was almost always the green handshake at thew end of the tour. I've gotten up to 100 dollars for a tour before. You are allowed to keep the money too. I figured out once how much I was averaging per month on tours and it was about 70 dollars per month. Considering that out reimbursement was only 90 dollars a month this was a considerable sum.
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  I have another XJW advice article if anyone could use it

  by IsaacJS2 in

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  2. friends

  http://www.atheistgeeknews.com/xjw04whytheyactweird.shtml.

  i tried to explain some of the bizarre behavior and conversations that exxers like us have to go through with wt friends and family.

  a lot of us find it hard to stand up to the parents, the elders, and all that, especially because we tend to see them as innocently "doing what they think is right" or "meaning well.

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  Great article! Good reminders.
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  NAME JUST ONE thing....ONE THING...revealed by God....

  by Terry in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  somebody is always insisting they have an invisible and mysterious source of divine information and selling it like hotcakes and syrup.

  but, why are you still buying?

  when will you ever learn that this is a scam among many scams.

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  The whole "world being round thing has been debunked for thousands of years. Actually, for one, the church used to use the scripture in question, in Isaiah, to prove that the world is FLAT! That's right FLAT. It was suppoed to be a flat circle. The other thing is that it is a MYTH that ancient peoples believed that the world is flat. Most cultures knew from ancient times that the world was a sphere. It was only SOME cultures, particularly European cultures that thought the world was flat, and these people got their belief from non other than THE BIBLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Summerian, Egytian and many other cultures had a tradition of a spherical earth and moon etc.
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  Is Being A Jehovah's Witness a Mental Disorder?

  by Amber Rose in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  frequently i have seen the subject of borderlind personallity disorder mentioned on this board.

  many people here feel that friends or relatives display many of the charactaristics of the disorder.

  people with histories of abuse seem to be drawn to this religion.

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  I think it is inability to synthesize information and to think critically. There may be emotional blocks that cause the inability to think critically. There is a theorist who describes different levels of knowledge synthesis, I can't remember his name but the final level is critical thought. JWs are not at that level. Even the so-called educated ones. I have known many many people who have advanced degrees but who can not be self-critical.
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  Rev Climax page 119

  by Uncertain in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  the box says that interpretations belong to god, uses genesis 40:8 and romans 15:4. must be so, the fds published it.

  then why are they printing all these trees of paper providing interpretation?

  i'm just sayin ... .

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  that kind of thinking will get you in trouble
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  Atheists, Agnostics: Do you still pray?

  by Eh in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  for people who left, not only the organization, but also the canaanite/judaic/christian/islamic/bahai god, do you still pray?

  before we left the group we (my wife and i) were questioning the bible and the existence of god.

  being witnesses, we were uneducated and never heard of things like pascal's wager, but we (my wife especially) had come to a similar idea - even if the whole thing were ballocks, there was little harm in continuing.

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  I'm from a religion where prayer is always in the form of a person banging their heads against a wall and scratching fingernails on a chalkboard. I figure I want to hedge my bets, so I just keep banging my head against the wall. I figure it can't hurt any, right?
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  Atheist joke

  by MadTiger in

  1. social
  2. humour

  > an atheist in the woods .

  > an atheist was walking through the woods.

  > "what majestic trees"!

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  Shawn10538

  hillarious! I like how it shows what an asshole monster the christian god really is.