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DATELINE: BLACK ART OF PROPAGANDA
by You Know in
1. social
2. current
hardly anyone has an honest opinion about anything of importance that wasnt craftily pre-packaged and handed to them by someone else whose job it is to craft public opinion.

the intention of the media is to present the illusion of impartially informing, all the while pandering to prejudice and ignorance in order to persuade to a particular point of view.

datelines presentation of the watchtowers child abuse issue was a case study in the black art of media propaganda.. from the very beginning of the presentation dateline was intent on giving the public a negative impression of jehovahs witnesses by portraying us all as oddball crackpots whose religion revolves around the doctrine that we dont celebrate birthdays and that all non-believers are possessed by the devil and that we want them all to die.
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JWs' Letter to Dateline
by jschwehm in
1. watchtower
2. child-abuse
i just got a copy of the society's letter to dateline as to why they would not agree to an on-camera interview.. they said that since dateline told them that most of the people that they were interviewing considered themselves active jws, that for the headquarters to make a statement that it would make it appear as though "brother" was speaking out against "brother".

and that a nationally televised program was not the appropriate forum for them to work out their differences.

(this is interesting since the pandelos and barb have been dfed, haven't they?).
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Barbara Anderson Disfellowshipped
by silentlambs in
1. jw
2. friends
as of 1 pm today barb anderson was notified that she has been disfellowshipped in writing by the judicial committee in her congregation.

barb was df in absentia at a second hearing that was declared after she successfully defended herself against charges in the first hearing.

home office came back with further instructions to make it stick the second time around.
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Preparation for Dateline & online interest
by Kismet in
1. social
2. current
dateline is just 24 hours (give or take) away.

i really do expect to see a great deal of online activity as people search for more information.

jwd is likely going to be one of the most visited due to the large amount of information posted here on the subject, much by silentlambs themselves.. i also expect to see people visiting randy's excellent site as well as watchtower observer for copies of documentation,news articles, etc.
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**PLEASE WELCOME-MY SISTER TO THE BOARD**
by zev in
1. jw
2. friends
she tells me she registered as "shunned".

please give her the big warm apostate .

j w d style!!!.
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sorry if i freaked you guys out...
by airwlk149 in
1. jw
2. friends
well last night finally did it for me.. i was over at stephanie's house, just as friends, and i was on the net while she was doing homework and was in the chat room and she got on the phone.

it sounded like it was mandy.

ooh my god did i freak.
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ANOTHER TENNESSEAN EXPOSE' - DISFELLOWSHIPPING
by AngryXJW in
1. social
2. current
http://www.tennessean.com/local/archives/02/05/17731339.shtml?element_id=17731339.

monday, 05/20/02 .

disfellowshipping described as 'worse than death' .
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JW Thinking
by silentlambs in
1. jw
2. friends
the following was posted in my guestbook today.

rather than offer a comment i think the words speak for themselves.. silentlambs.

time: .
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What do you believe in after "The Truth&qu...
by Atreyu in
1. jw
2. experiences
an invitation:.

i would like to see a short description of your personal beliefs or religion today, after you lost faith in "the truth", from anyone here that feels for it.
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Antichrist: The archangel Michael
by illuminati in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
a long time ago, the watchtower used to teach that the archangel michael is the antichrist.

does anyone here know in which watchtower edition they printed this information before changing michael to jesus christ?.

thanx a mil!.