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  This just tears too deep into my gut...

  by Van Gogh in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  as i am struggling with maintaining my own sanity and very fundaments of existence after recently swiftly cutting all ties with with whatever i held to be dear, sacred and true, for what will have been most of my life...; .

  after learning about some disturbing developments in someone else's life, i reconnected with somebody from my past through the amazing internet again, telling i had left for ever and for good.

  this is a former elder, somebody i considered to be very successful in life... despite the borg.

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  True Christians neutral in War?

  by Van Gogh in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  today i re-established contact with an older true - friend who is still a jw.

  in the fifty years that he has been baptized he invested a lot of time and effort in helping the needy and elderly, loyally taking up responsibilities in the org as an elder, organizer, speaker and shepherd.

  he is still out there as a lowly publisher, tirelessly going from door to door with only his bible.

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  WTS-UN Human Rights Connection?

  by Van Gogh in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  sorry to regurgitate some "old light" onto your keyboards folks, but i came across the following link: .

  http://www.unhchr.ch/huridocda/huridoca.nsf/0/66cf0523c6217c4b802567cc002f8b0e?opendocument .

  it shows how the wts was represented by three different observers from three different ngo's at the annual meeting of the human rights commission of the united nations in may 1999: .

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