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  Starting my story...very long

  by Synergy in

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  [the watchtower, july 15, 1961 issue, page 420: .

  [the watchtower, july 1, 1963 issue, page 413: .

  [the watchtower, july 15, 1974 issue, page 442: .

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  If Jehovah isn't the true God then who is?

  by unbaptized in

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  if jehovah isn't the true god then who is?

  if the jehovah's witnesses aren't god's people then who is?.

  please let me know and i need current information, not outdated information regarding the origin of the organization.

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  Christianity did NOT borrow from pagan "Dying-Rising" God motifs

  by yaddayadda in

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  it is a fallacy that the early christians weaved the tale of a dying and rising god-man on the loom of mystery religions.

  the idea of the dying-rising god as a parallel to the christian concept of the death and resurrection of christ was popularized by james frazer in the golden bough, first published in 1906. scholar edwin yamauchi (1974; easter: myth, hallucination, or history?

  ) has observed that, although frazer marshaled many parallels, the foundation was very fragile and has been discredited by a host of scholars since frazers ideas were at the height of their popularity in the 1960s.

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  Is the Watchtower beginning to lose its grip on its members?

  by Gill in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i have seen a counsellor on and off since leaving watchtower land.

  she has made efforts to find out more about jehovah's witnesses.. we were discussing why my jw family (not my husbands' they shun us as if we smell bad!!!!

  ) are beginning to spend more time with us.

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  Is anyone familiar with how the attorneys are compensated at Brooklyn?

  by restrangled in

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  2. friends

  i'm curious because after working for attorneys i know how they bill.

  by the 10 minute increment, per document etc.. i can't believe they would have enough qualified attorneys volunteering time and labor to cover every aspect of their various legal problems.

  is this perhaps where all the money is going?.

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

  by Seeker4 in

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  2. friends

  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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  The status of women in early Christianity

  by Leolaia in

  1. watchtower
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  the watchtower society maintains a very strict gender dichotomy in its organization.

  this is news to no one.

  although men -- in many cases, unqualified men -- are expected to reach for advancement within local congregations (e.g.

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  Daniel Made Simple!

  by Leolaia in

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  the large horn on the goat is the first king of greece (8:21), obviously alexander the great.

  after his death, alexander?s kingdom was divided among four of his generals (8:22).

  the high priest), and further causes the daily sacrifices to cease, and the sanctuary to be defiled (8:11).

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  Bethel is Cannanite god

  by peacefulpete in

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  the choice to name the headquarters "bethel" is a reflection of the shallow scholarship that plagues the religion as a whole.

  while insisting the name choice is because of the story of jacob resting his head on a sacred stone and having visions of a "ladder" (ziggurat) and thereafter piling stones for el (cannanite chief deity) to reside in, hence the name "bet-el", it seemed they were unaware that the same word "bethel" is the name of a deity possibly equated with chemosh.

  of all the names to call the wt headquarters they chose a pagan deity's name.

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  Going out with a bang

  by LittleToe in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  after much deliberation, i decided to go "out" at the end of a public talk.

  it didn't go down too well, but at least i was able to give some of my reasons for leaving.. i've put some of the details on my homepage.

  i'll update it more when i get the time and the strength.

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