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  What is the motives of the GB?

  by sweet pea in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  ok guys and dolls, want your input here.

  a friend of mine has a question...... .

  "the brothers in bethel/headquarters seem very sincere and loving - what possible motive would they have in trying to deceive people, what do they get out of it?

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  Jenlet

  They want the organization to perpetuate itself.

  Their livelihoods depend on it.
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  Dating a JW and how to get her off the cult or becoming a member myself

  by svennibenni in

  1. social
  2. relationships

  i'm sorry if i'm totally wrong here but i have a serious problem.. i met a woman in the company i work in via intranet.

  it is a very big company with offices all over the world.

  she moved to the united kingdom just a few month before we met.

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  Jenlet

  "I asked her if she will trust in the bible or in the company"

  I thought this was a very interesting question on your part.

  JWs always put the company first. But they are taught to hide this from others. They are told to tell people "The Bible says ...", rather than "The Society says ...", so as not to tip their hand as to the real source of the rules they are expected to live by.

  I don't have much advice except to parrot what others have mentioned about baptism - don't do it. Joining the JWs leads to misery and mental illness.
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  Attn: All Non-Yankee JWDers! Did the U.S. origin of JWs irritate you?

  by Open mind in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  just curious.

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  open mind.

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  Jenlet

  It didn't "irritate" me, but I always wondered why God chose the U.S.A. to start his religion of choice.

  I also always wondered why the "anointed" were mostly made up of Americans.

  Why did Jesus want Americans as his co-rulers?

  No offence to Americans.
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  Mr. Flippers Son makes Best Reply yet to Witness Mom's 4th E-Mail

  by flipper in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so is this witness mother of my son a glutton for punishment or what ?

  to avoid boring you all ( as if this isn't getting a bit redundant already ) i have edited bits and pieces of the best parts of her first e-mail , and his return e-mail, and her last e-mail after his reply so you can see what went down in conversation .

  thanks for reading, here is his mom on sunday night .

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  "You won't die ! As a matter of fact, you will be like God ! Does that sound familiar ?"

  As a matter of fact, it does sound familiar, as in "Millions now living will never die". I find it interesting, and more than a little coincidental, that the Watchtower Society co-opts the language of the devil when it comes to their eternal life carrot.

  The devil told Eve that she would not die, just like the Watchtower Society told their followers in the 1920s that they would not die. But Eve did die, as did the millions that were fooled by Rutherford's unfounded claims.

  Does this help us identify who the "evil slave" really is?
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  How do the JW's justify selling old Kindom Halls to Christendom?

  by oppgirl63 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  in a town near where i live the kh was sold and i noticed a couple of weeks ago a sign was put up...church of god in christ.

  i know it's all about money....but it just seems hypocritical to me.

  i mentioned it to my rommie...she didn't even bat an eye, like it was no big deal..

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  Jenlet

  This has been mentioned already, but I thought I would add that it never made sense to me that:

  1) It's okay for a congregation of JWs to sell a Kingdom Hall to another church.

  2) It's not okay for an individual JW to sell services to a church.

  A JW can get in serious trouble for fixing the roof on a church, for example.

  The WTS refuses to discriminate based on religion when it comes to selling its buildings, since it doesn't want to get hauled into court. However, it expects its members to discriminate based on religion when deciding who should be a customer. If individual Witnesses get taken to court for religious discrimination, the WTS couldn't care less. It's not going to hurt their bottom line.
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  Did you mind if a JW worked where you worked ?

  by JH in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  if you had the choice, when you were an active good jw, would you have prefered to work with a jw in your work place or not to have any around ?.

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  When I was a teenager I worked with another Witness. I was in Accounts Receivable and he was supposed to be in Sales. He was useless at his Sales job and at the Kingdom Hall as well. He never got a promotion at either place.

  He was constantly trying to get some kind of dirt on me. He would listen in on my phone conversations as much as he could. He would ask the girl I sat next to (who was not a Witness), "Who was she talking to?", and "Was she talking to her mother?" I guess he wanted to know if I had "worldly" friends.

  It was like his life's work was to get some dirt on me. He never did.
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  Would the blood ban be lifted if more men were dying of blood loss?

  by Gill in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  the watchtower did not wait too long to make factor viii a conscience matter for haemophiliac men.

  i believe it happened inthe late 1970's but i'm sure someone would correct me if i am wrong on the date.. but, the blanket blood ban continues and women are still dying in childbirth unncecessarily around the world because they are jws.

  if the boot were on the other foot, would blood transfusion be a conscience matter by now to keep jw men safe?.

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  I think there is some truth to the idea that the blood ban primarily affects women, and therefore it doesn't make much different where the organization is concerned.

  The Watchtower has little use for women. There are already far too many of them, as many as 70% of the rank and file in some independent studies.

  Evidence of sex-based treatment can be seen in the relative ease in which a woman can fade. A woman can disappear and never be bothered again, but a man who fades will get plenty of attention from the elders. Sometimes an inactive male will even be offered "privileges" in order to come back.
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  What is with the JW hate towards the depressed?

  by 5go in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  why do they treat the like the have sinned a great sin ( oh wait i might of answered it doh!

  ) when they are just down a bit..

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  Depressed people bring down the monthly averages.
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  Can't have it both ways

  by loosie in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i just thought about something today.

  the jw's logic or lack there of.. when you are in the "truth" and bad things happen.. satan is persucuting you.

  and when good thing happen to you it's jah's blessing.. when you are out of the "truth" or free as i like to call it.

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  I remember this reasoning when I was a kid.

  1) If you leave the Jehovah's Witnesses, and you ARE NOT successful, it proves that Jehovah has withdrawn his blessing from you, and the Jehovah's Witnesses are right.

  2) If you leave the Jehovah's Witnesses, and you ARE successful, it proves that Satan is blessing you in attempt to keep you away from the one true religion, and the Jehovah's Witnesses are right.

  You can see that they never developed a testable hypothesis, and therefore I was forced to reject it.
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  Disgusting comment re: education from Tacoma 2007 District Convention

  by Justitia Themis in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  this is from saturday afternoon program.

  the speaker first starts with what he called the "alphabet soup" of degrees....a.a., b.a., m.a., ph.d., etc.

  ; he said they were nothing more than "sheepskins on the wall.

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  Does this mean that Shane Brady will be destroyed at Armageddon?