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This Post Will Offend Current JWs: Annie Lennox should be avoided
by mtsgrad in
1. jw
2. friends
the language is leaving me.

the language is leaving me.

the language is leaving me in silence.
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Seems this Forum was started by Pro-Witness people, what say you?
by NotaNess in
1. jw
2. friends
if you go back to the original posts, it looks a whole bunch different than it does now.

the posts are like being at a sunday kingdom hall greeting session.. anyone care to comment?.
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Will I Be Breaking Any Laws?
by smellsgood in
1. jw
2. friends
i intend in the future (when i get a cam and can post all the hijinks online) to infiltrate a "meeting" of a certain religious organization which will remain anonymous (no guessing!).

now, i need to know if there are any laws governing the er "interruption" of a religious gathering?

for example, if i ask a bunch of akward hard to answer questions at inappropriate times?
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Assembly Headache
by WTWizard in
1. jw
2. experiences
have you ever noticed that at the end of the a$$emblies, you always seem to have a headache?

and this is above and beyond the one that you might get during a stressful day at work.

people seem to get them during the assemblies.
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How do you measure success compared to before?
by JH in
1. jw
2. friends
as a jw, success meant pioneering, commenting at the hall and book study, and going up the jw ladder.. how about now, how do you mesure success and happiness?.
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Throwing Good Music Away
by choosing life in
1. jw
2. friends
i went to a used cd store tonight.

i was like a kid in a candy store.

they had a lot of the old records that i threw away because of a cult, now on cd.
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NWT on Jeopardy- NOT
by OnTheWayOut in
1. jw
2. friends
so i get an email from a jw, good friend.

he sends a bulk mail that was sent to him and spread around.

notice the main content:.
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KNOCKING.ORG Trailer/ DVD Wreaks of Misrepresentations
by sf in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
excruciating to my sensibilities.. that is what it felt like watching this trailer.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oj4cs4n9zka.

it makes absolutely no sense that jws expend so much energy, in every way, to keep their very ill "loved one" alive (excluding transfusions and organ transplants).

then utter such insanity as "the 'thing' is we have the resurrection to look forward to if it doesn't "go well"".. if that is true, and you believe it wholeheartedly, why expend all the energy, in this wicked system of things that jehovah god is going to destroy...soon, so that you will inherite a "new system", to keep him alive in such a 'system'?.
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Specific banned shows, songs, etc...?
by AllAlongTheWatchtower in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i know the society tells people not to listen to rock n roll cause its from teh satan, not to watch r rated movies because they're "worldly", etc.

but i was wondering if folks had any specific instances where one song, one show, one movie, or whatever was singled out as being particularly 'evil', and banned on an individual basis?

i was never a jw, but was in the worldwide church of god...the two are rather similar, i've seen many (and made quite a few myself) comparisons on the board; and i can remember as a child that every once in a while certain things would get brought up as being more evil and worldly than others.. examples of specific bans:.
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JWs & "Creature Worship" -- Is I...
by BitterTruth in
1. watchtower
2. bible
jehovah's witnesses, creature worship and active practicers of idolatry.

jehovah's witnesses have long practiced idolatry and various forms of "creature worship," now for many years.

although the wts teaches and has stated many times in their publications that the world in general, by way of such things as "birthday" celebrations, christmas, and other annual events, actually eulogize and extol great glory upon man, the individual himself, and thus, by way of whats known as "creature worship," practice wholesale idolatry!.