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  Would you pose as an "interested one" and "study" to help free my family?

  by Essan in

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  ...in return for someone else doing the same with your friends or family?.

  this is a hypothetical question to see how many would be interested in something like this and if it could work.

  (i created another thread about this but the title and op wasn't clear enough.

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  Streets76, I don't think this is a trivial matter.

  Agreed. but it seems like a time-consuming proposition with little if any chance of success (just MHO). Some people just cannot be reasoned with. They live in their little worlds and are happy with it. I'd love to "rescue" my older brother from the clutches of the WTS, but it ain't gonna happen, no matter what I say or what anyone says. If he ever leaves, it will be of his own accord, for his own reasons, and not because Indiana Jones swooped in and showed him the light. Leaving will have to be his idea. And at the end of the day, to be perfectly honest, I've come to the viewpoint of not giving a rat's ass. I'm only responsible for myself. I'm sad that he's pissed away his entire life so far for no good reason, but so be it.
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  Would you pose as an "interested one" and "study" to help free my family?

  by Essan in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  ...in return for someone else doing the same with your friends or family?.

  this is a hypothetical question to see how many would be interested in something like this and if it could work.

  (i created another thread about this but the title and op wasn't clear enough.

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  streets76

  This seems like a good career opportunity -- for $100,000 a pop (plus expenses), I'll go anywhere you wish for six months and de-program the JW of your choice. No guarantees.

  [ business card logo: Have NWT, will travel. ]
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  THE FLOOD - What's Jehovah's problem now?

  by sizemik in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  this question has been bugging me for a while now .

  since the last thread on the biblical flood.. it's like this .

  .. immediately prior to the flood, jehovah had deemed the earth full of badness, totally wicked and "ruined" .

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  streets76

  So THREE total Armageddon events just to clean up a mess that HE created in the first place with a ridiculous command not to eat a particular type of fruit.

  Three Armageddons just ain't enough, in my opinion. Personally, I'd feel better with seven, it's a biblical number. Make that ten or twelve.
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  Are JWs Who Join This Forum Expected to Tow the Accepted Line of

  by believingxjw in

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  can those prominent in the "apostate" world be criticized?

  we expect that jws be willing to read and swallow what is written here about their leaders and i agree with this.

  but...do we also allow criticism of those taking the lead among us?

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  streets76

  If you're spending more time here than you ever did going to meetings, well, maybe you need a new hobby. I'm getting dangerously close.
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  Are JWs Who Join This Forum Expected to Tow the Accepted Line of

  by believingxjw in

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  can those prominent in the "apostate" world be criticized?

  we expect that jws be willing to read and swallow what is written here about their leaders and i agree with this.

  but...do we also allow criticism of those taking the lead among us?

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  streets76

  "Don't follow leaders, watch the parking meters." -- Dylan 3:16
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  What If The Bible Had Never Existed???

  by ziddina in

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  i'm thinking way outside the box here.... i looked up my thread title before starting this thread and guess what??.

  no one appears to have ever considered this question before.... i've seen far, far, far too many people of european/british isles/african/american extraction defending this regional middle-eastern 'god', without realizing that their ancestors would never have willingly consented to give up their own deities to worship this interloper thrust upon them, usually at the point of a roman sword... or occasionally for trading advantages, as in the case of many of the heathen viking - norsemen.... so.

  what if the bible had never existed?.

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  streets76

  If the bible had never existed, most people would still be full of shit -- different shit, but shit just the same.
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  Will there be sex in paradise

  by beenthere26yr in

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  streets76

  Will I be allowed to accompany myself, so to speak?
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  Sex at 14?

  by headisspinning in

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  2. friends

  hello all.... some of you have been following our story from the beginning - and even those of you who haven't should be able to relate to my quandary.... last week my 14 year old son told me he no longer wants to be a jw.

  we laboured over telling his jw dad all week.

  well, on friday night he finally came clean.. but in a bizarre and unexpected twist, after having sex with his girlfriend for the very first time - in his father's home that very afternoon.

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  streets76

  I think it is important to ask him why he choose to have sex .

  It's in his DNA. He is hardwired to propagate his genes. His sex organs have matured and nature wants to get on with it.
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  The Great Day of Jehovah - the War to End All Wars

  by sabastious in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  for most of my life i was taught that everything we experience in our lives is a build up to the great day of jehovah: armageddon.

  i was informed, regularly, that this war would be when jehovah finally gets his vengeance from his advasary the devil.

  as jehovah's witnesses were were taught that war is the solution, so long as the kingdom set up afterwards is eternally prosperous.

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  streets76

  thetrueone, wow, that "From House to House Samba" over the closing credits was dope! I'd pay good money to get all the old "Singing And Accompanying Yourselves..." songs in samba on vinyl.

  Speaking of "Accompanying Yourselves," that's a great euphemism for "self-abuse."

  Concerned parent: Little Johnny, what have you been doing up in your room by yourself all day with the door locked?

  Little Johnny: Ummm... accompanying myself, that's all.
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  1975???

  by 21stcenturywoman in

  1. social
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  i have a few questions about 1975. i was born after 1975, so i don't know too much about the armageddon prediction.

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  I never believed I would survive Armageddon. Just being human was sin enough. ... My terror was real.

  Band on the Run, we are brothers separated at birth.