Posts by mavie

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Crisis of Conscience

by mavie in

jw
friends

before i am criticized for this, please understand the difficulty of having this book in the house while still a jw.

i was hoping to find this book or portions of it online.

please pm me if you have any details.

mavie

Before I am criticized for this, please understand the difficulty of having this book in the house while still a jw.

I was hoping to find this book or portions of it online. Please PM me if you have any details.

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Do you feel you were trapped in a destructive cult?

by mavie in

i'm interested in knowing your thoughts on this matter.

do you think the wtbts is a destructive cult?

a destructive cult is defined as "a group which violates the rights of its members and damages them through the abusive techniques of unethical mind control.

I'm interested in knowing your thoughts on this matter. Do you think the WTBTS is a destructive cult? A destructive cult is defined as "a group which violates the rights of its members and damages them through the abusive techniques of unethical mind control."

Mind control would involve a person's behavior, thoughts, emotions, and flow of information.

I can see some of these in the JW religion, but they are not as overt when compared to a group like the Moonies.

Thoughts?

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OFFICIAL WORLD CUP THREAD! "here we go, here we go, here we go"!

by nicolaou in

less than 2 hours before it all starts and a quarter of the earth's population will be watching!

- c'mon you americans, get on board.

germany kick-off against costa rica at 5pm to be followed by poland v ecuador at 8pm (bst)

mavie

Since the Socceroos were robbed of a win against Italy I guess this makes Australia the winner. Yeeeeh

sheesh, robbed!?!? The Australian defender shouldn't have went down like that in the box.

Here is one of the best moments of the tournament:

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and the celebration, dedicated to his little baby....

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Disgusting comment regarding the baptism at the DC

by under_believer in

jw
friends

at the service meeting the other day the "friends" were given an opportunity to discuss the district convention (portland, or, june 30-july 2).

) people baptized at that convention.

a bigger number than i remember for at least a decade.

mavie

"how many young people are choosing to dedicate their lives to Jehovah..." Yeah, right. "Choosing." As if they had much choice in the matter. I remember the comments about how old I was getting to be, and "oh, my goodness, still not baptized?" the dirty looks, the hints, the talks about how we wouldn't be under the parents' umbrella of protection if Armageddon came right now, better hurry and get in the protection program, lol.
I was pretty much told, I had better get signed up for the questions and baptized at the next circus ass-embly. Reminded I was old enough to take my stand for Jehoopla, and if I wasn't for him, I was against him. Comments and dark looks about being old enough to move out... yes, free choice here!

Exactly. I was baptised at the age of 17, rather old for my congregation as most were baptised from 13 to 15. I remember feeling guilty that I couldn't qualify to run microphones because I wasn't baptised! I also wanted to eventually date and get married, so I decided to get baptised. I really tried hard for a few years...fell into a slum...got married...tried really hard again and made MS. Now I'm fading.

I remember talking to one CO about this, it bothered him that ones as young as 10 were getting baptised. Yet he chalked this up to kids maturing faster nowadays.

In case anyone missed me, I was at Thom's for a few weeks.

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