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  It doesn't seem like 5 years....

  by Open mind in

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  ...but 5 years ago today, i made my first post here on jwn.. .

  i was an elder, had a true-believing jw wife and our unbaptized publisher children were beginning to feel pressure from other jws to take the plunge.. .

  amazing how much can happen in 5 trips around the sun.. .

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  Doubting Bro

  That's awesome OM!! Glad to see things are going so well for you.
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  News article: Watchtower buys another parcel

  by AndersonsInfo in

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  http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?aid=/20110825/news/108250327/-1/sitemapwatchtower buys another parceljehovah's witnesses to exit brooklyn for orange county this is the former international nickel co. site in warwick that the watchtower bible and tract society purchased two years ago to be the site of its new world headquarters.

  the former international nickel property is about six miles from the society's latest purchase, the one-time international paper property in tuxedo.by alyssa sunkintimes herald-recordpublished: 2:00 am - 08/25/11 .

  the jehovah's witnesses organization is moving forward with its plans to move its world headquarters to the town of warwick.

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  Doubting Bro

  Wrong Orange County. Not CA but NY.

  Not shocked at all about the purchase. They've made no secret about their move to this area and move out of Brooklyn. They flipped the expensive real estate for cheaper digs in the country. Build the new buildings with "volunteer" labor and lock in an instant profit. This has been their game plan for years.
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  Judge dismisses Jehovah's Witness' "wrongful life" lawsuit - Dr. saved live with a blood transfusion

  by Elsewhere in

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  no, this is not satire or a joke.

  a jw seriously sued a dr. for "wrongful life" after the dr. saved her life with a blood transfusion.. .

  http://www.silive.com/news/index.ssf/2011/08/judge_dismisses_wrongful_life.html.

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  Doubting Bro

  And kudos to the husband for making the decision to allow his kids go grow up with their mother as opposed to sacrificing her life for an ever changing religious doctrine! I'm not sure if he was a JW or not. If he was, I wonder what sanctions the congregation took against him?
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  Email exchange between myself (MS) and Elder...getting myself in hot water?

  by Lied2NoMore in

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  Doubting Bro

  Honestly you've probably given them enough already to start down the df'ing road. If you were looking to fly under the radar, those responses aren't going to do it.
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  How Many on JWNet are still JWs?

  by RayPublisher in

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  i've been wondering about this for some time.

  if there are 60,000+ registered users on here, what percentage are actual non-dfed or non-daed witnesses?

  if it was 1/3, that would be over 20,000 active/inactive witnesses that post and read these pages- and that's huge.

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  Doubting Bro

  Mentally free, physically trapped. flying under the radar for the moment.
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  JW's who remain in the organisation but try to reform it - pissing against the wind

  by jambon1 in

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  i came across a website that presents decent argumentation against three main areas of jw doctrine.. http://jwreform.org/index.html.

  who do these people think they are?

  do they really believe that the wts will sit up and take notice of their objections?

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  Doubting Bro

  Evolve to survive, yes. Reform for good, no.

  DB - of the "thought I could make a differance than sadly realized I was a naive idoit" class
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  What was something that you loved but were denied as a JW?

  by Chemical Emotions in

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  i could go on and on about all the things i loved, but i'll keep it brief and just mention one, rather trivial thing: music.

  i love grunge and punk, and occasionally heavy metal, and can't listen to a lot of it as a witness..

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  Doubting Bro

  Let's see: playing school sports, going to college (even though I now have a degree), not being the odd kid out on every damn thing! Otherwise, nothing!

  It certainly could have been worse. My folks are not bad people and I know they thought they were doing what they though was right. My childhood was most definately better than theirs and I'm grateful to them.
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  Another story you won't see in "Watching the World" - Poverty is being rapidly & radically eliminated

  by sir82 in

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  "oh woe oh woe, how bad the world is getting!".

  that's the theme of the first 5 pages of every issue of the watchtower and awake for the past 80 years, and the opening 5-10 minutes of every "public" sunday talk for the past 80 years.. but is it really true?

  are things just continually getting worse and worse?.

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  Doubting Bro

  BTW - watching the world was one of my favorite columns the WTS ever produced! Holy cow, I used to think I was so up on current events by reading that!!!

  You're point is well taken. The fact is, less people are dying of disease, hunger, etc percentage wise than anytime in human history. Granted, we still have major problems but things are way better now than they were even 100 years ago.
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  Bethelites - heavy pressure to auxiliary pioneer this past April?

  by sir82 in

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  forgot to mention this as a "highlight" of the dc i recently attended.. the speaker was giving details of how many jws served as auxiliary pioneers in april (when the hour requirement was temporarily reduced to 30).. something like 2.5 or 2.7 million of the worldwide population of jws ap'ed that month.. the really surprising thing was, 83% of the us bethel "family" pioneered that month!

  57% of the worldwide bethel "family' ap'ed in april.. can you imagine?

  40+, maybe 50+ hours of work per week, "family" wt study, the congregation you attend probably 45-60 minutes away...and 83% "volunteered" their services to get 30+ hours of field serve-us in?.

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  Doubting Bro

  It seems around here, the CO put a huge amount of pressure on local servant bodies (both elders and ms and their wives) to pioneer in April. I have to believe that the Bethelites got even more pressure. I was told by one of the local servant's that said the CO told them during his Friday evening servant meeting that he would be following up with those who didn't a/p in April to find out why!
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  dc talk outlines YKnot

  by JWFreak in

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  cant seem to contact dear yknot.

  does anyone else want to host some 2011 dc outlines.

  cheers.

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  Doubting Bro

  BTTT - Anyone willing to help JWF out here?? Atlantis??