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  What is having the biggest impact on the watchtower Bible and tract society?

  by UnshackleTheChains in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  hi all.. this is a reasonable question and would love to know what you think is having the biggest impact on watchtower.

  there is a plethora of websites talking negatively of watchtower.

  there are the never ending court cases regarding child abuse allegations.

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  Jehovah's Witnesses built in .........................EXCUSE!
  
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  This is What I Would Need in Order to Believe

  by cofty in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  sometimes theists challenge atheists about what evidence would be required before they would believe.

  various unlikely scenarios are offered in reply.

  i have taken the bait myself in the past.. i think the correct answer is much more ordinary.

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  I agree with Cofty and Noam Chomsky. Why do Christian apologists ignore the obvious facts in order to defend the invisible fables?
  
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  Restless Days and Nights

  by compound complex in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  it is a bad time to be awake;.

  i see things i do not wish to see.. i have feelings i do not wish to feel.. if i could return to sleep, the deception.

  of sweet slumber would assure that even a. nightmare might offer an escape, escape from.

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  http://youtu.be/EaSvJZE3dCI

  Even a non-believer can draw comfort and inspiration from the works of Bach.
  
  
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  What is it like at Warwick Bethel?

  by nevermind in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  from reading about people's first and second hand experiences about working at wt world headquarters back in the 70s and 80s era, the hypocrisy and lovelessness caused many bethelites to quit even before their term ended, some even leaving to never again return to a kingdom hall.

  that, coupled with open access back then at bethel to the literature of watchtower's early days can easily open the eyes of any rank and file jw to the society's occultish beginnings.

  fast forward to the warwick bethel today.

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  NEW ADDRESS: Same Attitude!

  
  "Wherever you go, there you are."
  
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  Shunning - Are Mothers Most Fanatical?

  by Lostandfound in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  on many posts by those with experience of df or da shunning, it look to me that the most fanatical observers of the shunning practise are mothers, and when a person approached parents about their own doubts or intentions, approaching the mother the most daunting prospect .

  odd that visiting warwick leaflet has a picture of a meeting of some sort with a room comprising men only, given the subordinate role given to women, one might think they would be more liberal over shunning close ones, but not so.. what drives this, is it grabbing an opportunity to be more visible by their loyalty, or low level of education of a lot of dubs so that the sisters blindly accept direction or authority.

  i might have expected some kick back against the shunning practise by sisters giving evidence to their independence of thought.. our real thinkers here will be able to explain this fanaticism of loyalty better.

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  Shunning a disfellowshipped child is a very odd and extremely dysfunctional family dynamic: "I will deny my earthly, fleshly child real, warm human love so that I can gain the spiritual love of my heavenly, invisible father." That is one twisted way to look at life!
  
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  When Our Calendars Were Something Else

  by compound complex in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  remember this?

  it was one of my first assignments, at bethel:.

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  My all time favorite 'Theocratic Calendar'! Sam Van Sipma told me that Rutherford finally got disgusted with the time taken away from editing the Golden Age magazine by C.J. Woodworth. Sam told me that Rutherford finally told Woodworth: 'Stop wasting time on that god damned calendar and get back to doing your job!' C.C., do you remember Sam?
  
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  Best statement a householder made to get you to leave them alone.

  by Esse quam videri in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  knocked on a door on a saturday morning.

  a window opened on the floor above me.

  a grizzled old man stuck his head out and said, " we're all heathens here!

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  I am not interested and apparently my dog isn't either. Good luck getting off my porch.

  And then they closed the door on me and left me trapped on their porch.
  
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  new strategy to turn in your time in Japan

  by yoko N in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  jw.org stickers are passed around among publishers.one brother says "hey you can just turn in your time just driving around streets with this sticker on your car.

  " the other side of this car ,(photo) there is a qr code sticker on it.. .

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  "Everything old is new again!" Except the JW.Org stickers are a little less obvious.
  
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  I Saw 2 JWs Doing Nothing With Their Cart Today

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  my girlfriend and i were walking along a seaside boulevard and lo and behold!

  2 jws were standing by the pathway.

  they made eye contact and said hello.

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  "I saw 2 JWs doing nothing with their cart today" - minimus

  In other words, BUSINESS AS USUAL!
  
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  Didn't G. Jackson tell the ARC that JW's don't smack their kids?

  by Splash in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  the wt book "family life" (1978) had something to say on this topic:.

  *** fl chap.

  10 pp.

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  Dr. James Dobson, author of The Strong Willed Child is an Evangelical Christian. At one time, the New York Times called him: 'the nation's most influential evangelical leader." You are in good company, Governing Body (tm) of Jehovah's Witnesses. Keep making asses of yourselves by quoting on the one hand and then condemning with the other hand members of mainstream Christianity.