I get that you are talking about an uncomfortable discussion and the "sisters" are shown ready to comment. Beyond that, I am not sure what point you are driving.
I am kind of fascinated at the use of tablets in the photo. "Stop using our ink and bring your tablet." WOW!
OnTheWayOut
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pictures for or of pimos
by waton ina picture so embarrassing, even wtbts inc does not want to describe it?
this week's study, no 52, march 1 2020 wt dec 1919. picture description (on page 27) for pages 23 and 26 but not for the one on page 24, too embarrassing?
picture it, page 24. the wt lady, with a head volume ~8 times that of the gentlemen sitting behind her, eager to have her voice boom in the kingdom hall, raising arms with 3 other "sisters", whereas all 4 males are abstaining.
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Where is the best comprehensive NWT error list?
by Jake101 inhi.
while there are many excellent web sites that explain a few jw nwt bible translation problems, are there any comprehensive lists of nwt scripture errors online please?.
thanks .
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are there any comprehensive lists of NWT scripture errors online
The problem is much different than listing NWT errors. Translating ancient texts from the copies of copies of copies (etc.) allows for many errors to be unproven as such. The error is mostly in interpretation and application of your version.
Plus, one could list the same type of errors about any translation of the Bible.
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Amber Scorah on cults
by dozy inamber gives a superb talk here.
i couldn't help but contrast her delivery - fluent , articulate , without any notes - not even a rostrum or podium to hide behind - with the numerous talks and items i heard when i was a jw.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7wfpaqcqcw.
i am reading her book " leaving the witness " just now - it is superb - i just can't put it down.
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Its a great book, thats a great TED talk.
The biggest part of Amber's book being a thorn is it being a mainstream published book and her getting interviews such as one on the Daily Show.
Many great ex-JW books are barely known except to those that are already ex-JW's.
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Would You Ever Go Back To The Witnesses??
by minimus inevery once in a while you hear people say they actually “miss” their old witness friends and or family.
some would have even stayed in the organization if they became a bit more liberal and open minded.
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I wanted to say some clever "They couldn't pay me enough to go back" thing.
But, if I could be high on marijuana or mushrooms each meeting, and be totally inactive and not even comment except in silly ways that I find amusing, and I was free to laugh out loud at anything anytime, then I might attend for some amount of pay, but it would be a mighty sum.
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I am now 73 and the road has been filled with wonders
by Terry ini appreciate all my friends who stop to read what i write and post.
you help me more than you know simply by being there as a sense of 'family of friends' for me to talk to and 'share' thoughts with.i guess if i didn't have stories left to tell or people to listen, i could pack it in and join elon musk in a colony on mars.january 15, 2020. .
which world is this?_________________when the doctor pulled my screaming body out of mom all those 7 decades ago, i landed in a post-wwii world.it was--compared to today's world--an alien planet.the world i live in today has nothing in common with the world in which i grew up.there were no cell phones back then--there were black telephones with a dial-tone and an operator who placed your call.everywhere you found telephone booths!
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I'm glad I'm on the way out, frankly.
Steal my forum name and you are glad about it. To avoid confusion, you get the "glad I'm" as part of it. GIOTWO for short.
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I am now 73 and the road has been filled with wonders
by Terry ini appreciate all my friends who stop to read what i write and post.
you help me more than you know simply by being there as a sense of 'family of friends' for me to talk to and 'share' thoughts with.i guess if i didn't have stories left to tell or people to listen, i could pack it in and join elon musk in a colony on mars.january 15, 2020. .
which world is this?_________________when the doctor pulled my screaming body out of mom all those 7 decades ago, i landed in a post-wwii world.it was--compared to today's world--an alien planet.the world i live in today has nothing in common with the world in which i grew up.there were no cell phones back then--there were black telephones with a dial-tone and an operator who placed your call.everywhere you found telephone booths!
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When the doctor pulled my screaming body out of mom all those 7 decades ago...
Always the dramatic story-teller. Hey, we were all "born" one way or another, most of us similarly.
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What Books Have You Read That Been Critical Of The Jehovah's Witnesses?
by The Bethelite inplease rate your top choices .
1. crises of conscience.
ray franz.
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EXITING THE JW CULT: A HEALING HANDBOOK by Bonnie Zieman
COMBATTING CULT MIND CONTROL by Steven Hassan
CRISIS OF CONSCIENCE by Raymond Franz
I'M PERFECT, YOU'RE DOOMED by Kyria Abrahams
CAPTIVES OF A CONCEPT by Don Cameron
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Don Adams has passed away
by RubaDub ini received a call from a friend in new york city that don adams passed away late last evening (30 dec 2019).
many of you bethelites know him and he was the president of the society for a number of years after the gb got out of the corporate structure business.
from what i understand, he was generally liked by many there.. some in my family knew him.
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Don Adams has passed away,and he missed his
heavenly calling by just that much !Would you believe ....the new sytem is perhaps just days away?
-I find that hard to believe.
Would you believe ....it is within the lifetime of a group of people now alive whose lives overlapped with people alive in 1914.
-I would say that is ridiculous.
Would you believe ....around the next corner?
-No.
How about ....we made the whole thing up?
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Are JW's unknowingly part of a CULT?
by The Fall Guy insome points for awakening jw's to consider in 2020: .
"joining a cult: religious choice or psychological aberration" by dena s. davis.
some of the following characteristics are listed:.
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The vast majority of people in the JW cult say "It's not a cult."
But they are very much in a cult.
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Has Anything Really Changed For JWs In The Last 10 Years?
by minimus in2020 is days away.
has anything really changed for the witnesses or the religion?
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The organization was fairly stable when I joined it in 1988. They were past the Ray Franz thing and 1975 was already dropped.
So when they changed the generation doctrine in a major way, it really was a surprise to me. But older JW's said "They change things sometimes" and treated it like no big deal.
So since then, I learned that the organization constantly has to change things according to their needs on the calendar or the wallet.
I want to say that the more things change, the less important and meaningless those changes are. But that is only doctrine. Their big changes already mentioned like just standing by a cart for hours, sanitizing the talks at the hall and assemblies to remove personality and liveliness, using JW videos more....many more things...it all adds up to seeing them disappear down the road due to lack of real retention and recruitment. Members are dying off.
Add in the biggest change- bigtime lawsuits over child abuse and other money woes. And the atrophy will continue.