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  Question about 9/11 and the WT.

  by Hecce in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

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  some friends familiar with wt gossip have told me that the decision to move out of ny was in part accelerated by the tragic events of 9/11.. my take on this is that decision to relocate was made a long time before, however they counter that a move was planned but not the total detachment that is occurring.. i wonder if anyone here has an opinion or information on this.. thanks.

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  ldrnomo

  If they wanted to turn the equity value of their buildings into liquidity they could have brought in their teams of slave labor to remodel the buildings into full blown 1, 2, and three bedroom apartments they could have become one of the largest landloards in Brooklyn Heights. That's what I would have done if I was running things.

  They could have sold some of the factory property to fund the new shang-ri-la they're buiding on the lake and they could claim most of the money they recieve without substanstial taxes. They could have a small work force of their slave labor managing the property.
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  Have you noticed the JW child who........?

  by Phizzy in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  have you seen the jw child who grows up to be the ideal product of the cult from its point of view, and presumably from its indoctrinated parent's point of view?.

  that young person is a weirdo !!!.

  i can think of a number like this, still a minority fortunately, in that most of the ones i watched grow up either left or did not embrace the thing anywhere near 100%.. but those one-hundred-percenter kids are something to behold !.

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  ldrnomo

  I remember a talk givin in the hall I used to go to. The guy who gave it told all the children sitting in the hall that they were weird. His point was that the world sees them as weird but that was a good thing.

  It's just weird
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  Letter About Blood Fractions

  by Bangalore in

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  2. medical

  letter about blood fractions.. .

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  bangalore.

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  ldrnomo

  That letter was written to me. I first sent a letter to the bORG with my concerns and it took several months before recieving this response.

  When the CO came to visit I was removed as an elder and shortly after that ordered COC and within a couple of months of my removal stopped going to meetings.

  The whole uncomfortable process was one of the best things that ever happened to me.
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  10 Signs Religious Fundamentalism is Going Down

  by Emma in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  good news, found on salon.com.

  i particularly like points three and four.. http://www.nps.gov/wori/index.htm.

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  ldrnomo

  Good article, thanks for posting.
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  What's Your New Years Resolution?

  by minimus in

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  2. friends

  i never make one.

  i couldn't keep any..

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  ldrnomo

  To live another year doing what I want
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  Graphic violence against a Jehovah's Witness in the name of entertainment

  by Debbie Klick in

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  2. entertainment

  a so called friend of mine sent me this link to a music video.. the song seems to be ridiculing jehovah's witness's and their practise.. but more disconcerting is the visual content, which actually shows the assault and murder of a jehovah's witness.. i can appreciate there is an element of humour involved, but find it in pretty poor taste.. and in no way a positive message to the populace and for the safety of jehovah's witness's in general.. .

  http://youtu.be/huzs3c9wf98.

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  ldrnomo

  The makers of this video must really hate Jehovah's Witnesses. I hate the organization but not the people they're just puppets. I would have enjoyed the violence if they would have done something to the GB instead.
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  If You Were Still "In The Truth" What Type of Life Would You Have?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  do you think you would be just going thru the motions?

  would you be an elder, ms, or pioneer?.

  i think there are many that stay in the religion simply because of family/friends considerations.

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  ldrnomo

  I would not be living my AUTHENTIC LIFE I would be a puppet elder saying what the Watchtower B t and S society would want me to say and I would be (now that I'm retired) guilted into some kind of pioneering.
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  Just out of curiosity, how many elders (current & ex) do we have here?

  by mrquik in

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  me.

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  ldrnomo

  I was an elder but no more

  ldrnomo
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  The packages will arrive today... What do you think will happen?

  by Faithful Witness in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i have decided that ignoring my niece and nephew during the holidays, is the most unloving thing i could possibly do.

  they stopped celebrating christmas and birthdays, after my sister began studying with jw's about 6-7 years ago.

  we did not celebrate either, until 3 years ago, when my son was 2 and my daughter was 4, and we'd figured out that the jw's are wrong about this decision.

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  ldrnomo

  I think you will be OK sending these gifts. And they should be OK accepting them.

  Just tell them that they're just Christmas Fractions
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  The civil trial in Japan

  by japanesegirl in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  finally in japan, there happened a civil trial which is by a brother who was unfairly deleted his status by a body of elders of his congregation.

  he has sued them for religious and power harassment.

  although the brother's name and details are not told, the trial is progressing to the middle stage.

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  ldrnomo

  The movement is growing.