Posts by jamiebowers

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Thank you very much Zid!
by factfinder in
1. jw
2. friends
it was a very nice surprise and a big help!.

have a good weekend,.

ff.
jamiebowers

I looked back at FactFinder's posts, and s/he similarly thanked Zid two days before he thanked you, Granny.
http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/225881/1/Thank-you-very-much-Zid
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Washington Post article by Director of Jehovah's Witness PBS Documentary "Knocking". 3 years later.
by Balaamsass in
1. social
2. current
the director of the famous pbs film "knocking", is the gay son of a jw.

he is currently running for supervisor in san francisco.

good read from 2010 washington post ;.
jamiebowers

Unless there's significant proof that this guy has changed his ways, I wouldn't trust him as far as I could throw him. Aside from directing that so-called documentary, he had several apologist videos on Youtube where comments weren't permitted. Apparently he can only stand his point of view. From the interview you posted it seems he's made some progress in understanding the truth about the "truth". But if he's so concerned about gay jw kids, why doesn't he do another documentary about how they're treated by their family and friends due to the hatefulness of the Watch Tower?
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New YouTube video: Candace Conti tells her story
by cedars in
1. watchtower
2. child-abuse
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfhsewwd3wa.

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cedars.
jamiebowers

Is there anymore?
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Judah Ben Schroeder - where is he now????
by dreamgolfer in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
did he ever get his law degree (old thread) does he practice law?.

or did he take over his in-laws sell cars to the wtbts dealership?.

what happened to the book ?.
jamiebowers

Someone posted this a while ago, and I found on line again. It's from 2007.
http://fhc82.files.wordpress.com/2007/10/fhc-bio-book-11mb.pdf
Edited to add: Page 13 is Amber's synopsis of their life thus far.
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JW Guest on Humanist Views
by Shepherd Book in
1. jw
2. experiences
humanist views: how to talk to a jehovah's witness.

humanist views - august 2012.
jamiebowers

Very interesting to see a "worldly" person react to the truth about the "truth".
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No atheist in A fox hole.
by jam in
1. watchtower
2. child-abuse
first of all iam a agnostic.

i,am curious, you who are atheist.

what or how do you deal with a life or death situation.
jamiebowers

Jam, I do not mean any disrespect to you, especially since you prayed for your life while serving in Viet Nam. But what bothers me about prayer, and the reason I stopped doing it, is because I wonder why everyone's prayers aren't answered. For instance, why don''t all of the people fighting in wars survive? Another example is a good friend of mine who is a born again Christian. She's survived a little more than a year after being diagnosed with a cancer that kills 80% of the women her age who have it. Did God hate that 80%? She thinks Jesus spared her life.What makes her so special and the other 80% rotten enough to kill?
On November 22, 2010 my husband was dead for a full five minutes, (proven by data retrieved from his pacemaker). The only reason he didn't have brain damage was because the CPR we did kept enough blood circulated to his brain. He was revived by a defibulator, and thankfully, alive today. He saw no white light and wasn't greeted by his deceased parents, siblings, and friends. He remembered nothing of that terrible Monday morning or the weekend before it.
I didn't pray during that awful ordeal or during his two-week hospitalization and surgery to install a pacemaker and defibulator. Instead I spent the whole time, from beginning to end, begging him not to leave this earth and leave me behind. It never dawned on me to pray, yet I'm in the same situation as you. I call myself agnostic, because I don't have the balls to be atheist, and sometimes I'm not even sure of agnosticism.
I guess we just have to take life one moment at a time and learn from every experience.
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Watchtower Argues on Behalf of Jimmy Swaggart
by 144001 in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
the wtbts filed an amicus brief in the u.s. supreme court case of jimmy swaggart v. board of equalization of california, and actually argued that swaggart should win this case.

in response to numerious requests i have received, here it is: .

http://kvisit.com/snsujag.
jamiebowers

Yes that's true. If I correctly remember, the Watch Tower did that in hopes of not having to collect sales tx on their publications. They changed charging for "printing costs" to the donation arrangement when Swaggart lost his case.
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Informative Youtube video of Barbara Anderson and Husband Joe at Watchtower Society of Jehovah's Witnesses, New York.
by Scott77 in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkw0gp4uvyq&feature=related.
jamiebowers

Marked
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Youtube Video of Watchtower Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses who were Homosexuals
by Scott77 in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
most troubling are the sexual sins of the gb.

two of their number, ewart chitty and leo greenlees were both found to be homosexuals.

chitty was sent back to his native britain in 1979 and not disfellowshipped.
jamiebowers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uP7UftOMTI&feature=related
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Dubs badmouthing children
by rebel8 in
1. jw
2. friends
i was remembering the 1980s when it was in vogue to shun children.

they went through a fad when they'd call unbaptized excommunication as "disassociation".

within a short period of time, most of the teens and preteens were "disassociated" or disfellowshipped.
jamiebowers

I was in during the 80's, and being disassociated was the same as being df'd except it was for unbaptized people.