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  List of Sexual Offenders

  by ButtLight in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  after watching "the fifth estate" and knowing that the legal department at bethel has a list of offenders, by law, cant someone demand a copy of that list?

  this probably was talked about years ago, but i just saw it, so im a little behind.

  hasnt the law just changed, that all clergy have to report these situations?

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  DevonMcBride

  I'd be very surprised if the list the WT claimed to have wasn't "accidentally" shredded or burned.
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  Halloween

  by bikerchic in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i'm excited this year about halloween!

  in the years past i've decorated my front door so it would look inviting for the trick-or-treaters to come to but never got really involved beyond handing out candy.

  last year i had totally forgotten about it we were moving so i ran out and got some candy and put up a door decoration, left the porch light on and no one came!!!

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  DevonMcBride

  Halloween falls on a Monday, a business day. Every year our office has an "all day long" Halloween Party that begins when we open up in the morning and ends when we close up in the evening. It's a lot of fun and the office is completely decorated. There is lots of food and non-alcoholic drinks.

  We have customers and employees that come in all day long to join us and most of the staff dress in costume. This year I'm a pirate.
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  Hi everyone I am new here

  by acuragirl in

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  this is a new thread started from the one my husband left yesterday............ hi everyone,this is gringojjs wife.i thankyou all for your comments and your help,really makes me feel better about my situation especially since i see that most of what im going through alot of you have been through the exact same thing.it makes me realize im not the only one and that i can get through this tough time like most of you have.i can really identify with the poster who made the comments about being scared after leaving,not realizing if it was the right decision or not.i am really scared of armagedon,of invisible wicked forces the wts teaches you to turn away from,just like the poster i watched a horror film a couple nights ago and it was about demonism,i was extremely scared i was going to be bothered by the demons for getting involved in watching those kinds of movies.its ridiculus how scared i was,just believing in satan and his demons,and what they could or could not do.something my husband doesnt really understand because he doesnt believe in satan or jehovah or a god at all,but when you do believe its scary to think you are upseting god or on the side of satan.i dont know where i am at right now i do know that im confused,the witnesses coming to the door,halloween coming up......which btw i celebrated last year but my concience is really doing me in this time.........i dont know what to do with the kids !

  do they celebrate do they not?i dont know, when the time comes mabe i will but i know one thing i have to make a choice, for my husbands sake,for my sanity,and for our children.i am glad i have people to share my pain and suffering with,my mother says i dont want to suffer at all because im afraid of losing my husband if i become baptized,she says thats what you have to do for the truth....suffer....im not going to be happy suffering through life and for what?mabe nothing.i am not afraid of losing my husband i am afraid of dissapointing my mom but im not going to stay in a religon that makes me totally screwed up in the head.i used to have panic attacks when i was attending meetings i havent had one since not attending,i still have exterme anxiety from worry and fear but no panic attacks....hm....go figure!last thing,the other day a born again christian approched me by my local post office and asked me if i was interested in attending his church.i simply told him no thankyou my children are already screwed up enough from the jws.

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  DevonMcBride

  Hi acuragirl and welcome.

  My suggestion would be to read the book Combating Cult Mind Control by Steven Hassan.
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  What's next Watchtower gonna sue Ebay ???

  by run dont walk in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  i find it funny and sad that the watchtower is pursuing internet sites to be shut down and to stop showing their articles, due to copyright laws.. i thought the goal of the watchtower was to preach the good news of the kingdom in all the inhabited earth and then the end will come.. apparentll not, with the recent lawsuit against the quotes site, i'm wondering if ebay is on their list, you can buy just about any publication from 1900-1950, and buy it fairly cheap i might add.

  hhhhhhhhhmmmmm, maybe they will sue them to for distributing old publications for people to read.. what's next ????????.

  any thoughts .........

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  DevonMcBride

  SHHHHH!!! Don't givem any ideas.
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  Chatrooms--How Can I Avoid The Dangers? 10/22/05 Awake Highlights

  by blondie in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  curiosity might prompt you to viisit a chat room that claims to be a place where witness youths from around the world can make new friends.. harbor insidious dangers for christians.

  some of these people started disparaging our beliefs..they were really apostates..deliberately tried to undermine the morals.

  false brothers.

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  DevonMcBride

  The JW youth aren't listening. Just go to Myspace and there are plenty of "JW Only" chat rooms. The Watchtower is trying to scare off the youth but it is only working minimally.

  The moderator of one of the JW groups I'm on was threatened by his elders to drop his myspace account. What he ended up doing was change his name, picture and took off all personal information so the elders "think" he canceled his account.
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  From Jw to born again .................

  by vitty in

  1. jw
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  when i was "in" the borg ( i love that word) i really , really believed that when ppl left it, they became like the undead.

  with no direction in life and no religion, i felt sorry for them.. i never thought that they became ............born again or heaven forbid catholic !!!!!!.

  when i first started looking at sites on the internet i came across www.jwinfoline.com what an eye opener !

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  DevonMcBride

  I met an ex-Born Again Preacher who was studying to become an Orthodox Jewish Rabbi. Oddly enough, he said there was an ex-Mormon in his Rabbinical school who was also studying to be a Rabbi.
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  Google Earth

  by JH in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  http://kh.google.com/download/earth/index.html

  install this "google earth" program, and enjoy .

  you can zoom in on cities and more

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  DevonMcBride

  I installed the program a few weeks ago and I'm hooked. It's very addictive.
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  Would You Go To New Orleans' Mardi Gras This Year If You Could?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the french quarter's supposed to be open.

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  DevonMcBride

  Yes. It'll probably be a lot less crowded this year than the average.
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  JW Literature-why not public?

  by AllAlongTheWatchtower in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  this might be old hat to those of you with more experience in the wts/witness life, but it struck me as very odd, perhaps even a bit sinister.

  i started coming here so i could find out just what my wife was getting herself into.

  on my first day here, i learned about the blood doctrine, and that was enough to convince me.

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  DevonMcBride

  If the WT sold their books in a book store, too many people would read them alone, think about it, and see through their bogus teachings without an indoctrination process. Right now they only read them as part of a bible study or book study with JW's who use brainwashing techniques as they study them.
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  If anyone's curious...

  by troucul in

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  just to let you know, the recent storms in the gulf coast of the southern us are well known in iraq.

  in fact, mosque messages in town are saying that the storms are punishment from god for the occupation of iraq.

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  DevonMcBride

  Ah, yes. And the tsunami was god's "punishment" for... ?

  Good point. Indonesia is the largest Muslim country outside of the Middle East and they had the most deaths and damage from the Tsunami.