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You Will Know By The Love They Have Among Themselves
by Corvin in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
the organization of jehovah's witnesses boasts of having true brotherly love for one another.

i always believed they did, although i never felt it growing up in it.

i reckoned that there was something wrong with me since i never felt that "joy" and "spirit of love" that supposedly permeated the congregations.
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Do you REALLY know how crazy J. Rutherford was?
by gumby in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
below is an interview with the drunken, pipe-dreamin, selfish, psychopathic bastard back in 1930.. the interview with j.f.

rutherford that appeared in the sun diego sun, march 15, 1930. .

"but how will you identify king david or any of the other representatives from god?
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Brainwashing
by Lady Lee in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
brainwashing

from perfect victim by christine mcguire and carla norton.

in the book perfect victim a man kidnaps a grown woman and keeps her in his home as his slave.
15
The Awakening
by darkuncle29 in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i don't remember where i found this, could have even found it here.

i don't remember reading it before, and i know i didn't write this.

i still think it is profound though.
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Whats the dumbest reason youve been counseled?
by avishai in
1. jw
2. experiences
my friend was counseled for having a bad attitude because he wore white socks w/ his suit.
83
CULT CULT CULT
by minimus in
1. watchtower
2. bible
i have read many opinions about jw's being a cult.a dictionary describes cult as a system of religious beliefs and ritual .. some have viewed even major religions as a cult, such as the roman catholic church.based upon webster almost anybody or anything that is viewed as ritualistic could be said to be cultic.when someone tries to negate jehovah's witnesses by using.

the "cult" word, i believe they are not seeing that many others could legitimately be regarded as a cult or at least "cultic".therefore the word loses alot of meaning.

some have said that the watchtower is a cult because of the control factor.
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Elder John Doe-Able to handle anything!
by D8TA in
1. jw
2. friends
(start the d8ta ironic, sarcasm machine).

yep...elder john doe, you know him, we all know him.. in my lifetime i would have to say i know about ooooh 30 some odd elders, and a dozen co's and maybe 1, 2, do's.

and ms's...can't even put a count on those.. and i reflect back, and look presently, as to who these people are.. now, i know this isn't every single "elders" story, but from my experience...these are the one's i knew:.
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The Man With the Big Nose
by TMS in
1. jw
2. friends
no offense intended for the anointed ones on this board, but ive always compared such professed ones to martin jensen, who professed nothing for himself except that he wasnt good for much.. this iowa corn farmer became a jw in the 40s, was promptly divorced by his wife, and moved to the southern tip of texas, the end of the world.

by default he became the presiding overseer of the english unit, although he never gave a public talk.

there were many unsuccessful attempts over the years to replace him with a more suitable shepherd.
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Do you practice incest?
by Norm in
1. watchtower
2. child-abuse
comfort for those with a stricken spirit.

*** w95 11/1 25-6 "comfort for those with a "stricken spirit" ***.

*** w95 11/1 26 "comfort for those with a "stricken spirit" ***.
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What is the WT afraid of???????????????????
by Zep in
1. jw
2. friends
ok, since it was so easy to get on here i'm assuming that this place is also over run by wts critics...but anyway!.

i've read a plenty of wt mags and got sucked in enough by the whole thing to go to a few meetings and do a bible study( which i wouldn't really call a study, since we just read one of their books).i soon broke of the whole thing and didn't even read another mag for about 6 years...6 months ago i wandered into h20 out of curiosity and ended up reading up on the arguments against the wts.. i have a simple question, and its probably very naive to ask this...but why is wts so afraid of debate?...there are plenty of sites arguing against the wts...but none for, apart the official site which doesn't address the issues raised by so called "apostates" anyway.. if the wt has the the truth why dont they just refute the the arguments against them instead of shutting up shop and labelling anyone who questions them an "apostate?

" or from satan or something.. i'm really beginning to think that all this wt business is just waste of time, that if i were to go to kh and ask questions that i have, i'm more likely to be labelled a trouble making agent of satan rather than be taken at face value as someone with serious questions.