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  Is the Higher/ Further Education still enemy number one?

  by Jerohobobonadad in

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  i went to university without any problems in the cong.

  two others in my hall went and no one made a public complaint.

  i was interviewed age 15 on the platform by my dad (elder) about whether i would pioneer when i left school or not.

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  If you could make and distribute a bumper stick to open minds.......

  by whyizit in

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  if you could make and distribute bumper stickers to use as a tool to open the minds of jws or cult members, what would you put on them?.

  keep in mind that you would like to open thier minds, yet not offend them.

  something that any person could stick on their bumper and the jws would not be able to find reason to label them as opposers or apostates.

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  How Much Do You Really Know???

  by mama1119 in

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  this is probably a question more for those who grew up in the truth, rather than those who studued and came in.

  i have found, i really know nothing when it come to the actual fundamentals of jw .

  i have learned more on this site than i did being a jw for 20 years.

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  How much influence did the internet have on you leaving the organization?

  by The wanderer in

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  untitled document <!-- .style1 {font-family: verdana} .style2 {font-family: verdana; font-style: italic; } --> discoveries about the organization on the internet admittedly, had it not been for the internet, and all of the dis-.

  coveries that were found on it; i would still be one of jehovah's .

  witnesses.

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  NEWBIES how many of you

  by plmkrzy in

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  have joined in the past month or two?.

  i can't keep up there seems to be so many so i wanted to start a welcome thread for new newbies.. sorry if this was already done recently.. note: the in-built search system is currently being redeveloped so i am not able to check for this topic without looking through tons of pages.. anyway...say hello!.

  plm.

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  If the UN dissolves...will the WTS recover?

  by AuldSoul in

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  there is a public groundswell of support within the united states of america, inc. for the us to withdraw from the un.

  while this departing of one-half of the seventh king (and the "king of the south") could be prophetically spun into a harmless twist and twang on an old saw, the general consensus seems to be that the un would have great difficulty maintaining orderliness within its ranks.

  also, there is a strong argument to be made that without us financial backing the un would fold due to a shortage of funding.. although it isn't particularly likely, it is certainly a possibility.

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  Say You're a Bethelite & Monitoring JWD - How Would You Feel About THESE??

  by Seeker4 in

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  i'm talking about the new posters, like kitten whiskers, who started posting today (hope this works: http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/120817/1.ashx).

  and it seems like we're getting a few like this nearly every day.

  people who were raised jws, really worry that they are doing the right thing in leaving, yet who have been made to feel not good enough by the wts, who felt they never measured up, who struggled with it, but came to realize that what they'd been brought up to believe was just not the truth.. the same stories are told over and over again, and they come from sincere, good people - not whiny, fault-finding apostates like the rest of us riffraff around here!

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  DECLARATION OF TRUTHFULNESS

  by tijkmo in

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  i was just at my sis for supper...it came up in conversation that when they (her and hubby) were on the last circuit assembly programme - relating an experience - he had to sign a declaration specifying that the experience was true.. i was completely taken aback by this...the irony etc...they were surprised that i was unaware of this.. funnily enough the reason it came up was that in a different talk an experience had been acted out that is almost certainly untrue..given that it happened to a girl who is seeing a psychiatrist for constant lieing...her father had the assembly part and must surely have also had to sign the declaration... had anyone else had to sign such a declaration or know someone who did.

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  The "Fade" - Evaluating A New Phenomenon

  by slimboyfat in

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  to what extent has the growth of the "fade" been facilitated by internet forums such as this?

  sure there were people who chose to fade in the pre-internet era, simply by withdrawing themselves, gradually involving themselves with non-witnesses to a greater extent, or getting in touch with other ex-witnesses covertly through the convention system/telephone and mailing support network that used to be more important before the advent of the internet.

  so the "fade" is not an invention of the internet era, not en entirely "new phenomenon".

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  What has Ray Franz said about the NGO thing?

  by yaddayadda in

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  2. scandals

  i e-d ray and asked him.

  he gave a nice reply (a lengthy stock reply with brief personal comments to me cut and pasted into it) saying that he commented on the ngo thing in the latest edition of crisis of conscience.

  unfortunately i have an older edition of coc so i'd be most grateful if someone could type up what he said in his latest edition...unless that is a breach of copyright?

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