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  Salvation Army--is it a high control group?

  by rebel8 in

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  interesting.

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  http://cultprevention.blogspot.com/2011/12/salvation-army-is-it-high-control-group.html.

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  jws on facebook talking of getting drunk , and being very nasty about a nice person on tv ! how i miss the "christianity " in that cult !

  by looloo in

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  DO YOU BELIEVE JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES "SHUNNING" OF MINORS IS CHILD ABUSE?

  by Balaamsass in

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  i have been reading countless heartbreaking accounts on this site of children of jehovah's witnesses being "disfellowshipped" and shunned by entire families, their congregations, basicly everyone they have ever known for simply questioning their parent's religion!!.

  some have been tossed out of family homes to live in cars!!!

  this is not christian.

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  Bonfire night, do you attend?

  by highdose in

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  when i was a child i used to watch the fireworks from afar at my bedroom window.

  all while hearing a healthy dose of how it was a sinster pagan filled ritual!...

  but i secrectly always wanted to be there.. i'm happy to say i just attended my 2nd bonfire night in two years!

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  when you were a jw did you believe in cavemen ?

  by looloo in

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  i was wandering round the natural history museum in london last week and saw the early man skeltons and learned about how they lived and what they ate etc and thought about the adam and eve who i was taught about at the kingdom hall that seemed to just ignore the fact that people lived many thousands of years ago and not just 6000 .

  as a jehovahs witness how did you feel about early man skeltons being found and the dinosaurs etc and how did you manage to explain it in your own mind never mind to anyone else ?

  i was told by an elder that if your given a plate of food and dont like something on the plate do you just leave it all ?

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  New Mentality

  by EmptyInside in

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  no,i am not talking about being "mentally diseased",lol.

  it's just wonderful to allow myself to have my own thoughts and opinions.. i'm still around family and some acquaintances who are witnesses.

  and i cringe every time i hear a phrase or belief ,that now i realize is totally wacky.. for example: relatives talking about a newly reinstated man's unbelieving wife.

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  A question for current/former elders

  by Mickey mouse in

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  when you had to deal judicially with cases of apostasy, did it ever pique yout curiousity?

  did anyone ever tell you about something they had learned that shocked you and made you investigate for yourself?.

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  I've lurked a long time: JW's produce some of the most paranoid humans

  by Unlearn in

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  i'll keep this brief for now.. long time lurker (4 years or so).. born-in, elder, used on district level (last talk i gave before i left was the baptisimal talk), and lots of hard time put in...before i finally made the move to split.

  it's a long stoy, much like many of yours...but with it's own little interesting twists.

  more details in the future, perhaps.. as i said, ive lurked here for a while.. its funny: for a long time i'd only come on late at night.

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  when someone "gos back " to meetings why arnt they treated like the "prodigal son " ?

  by looloo in

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  if jws claim to live by the bible then why do they not welcome back repentent ones straight away ?

  is there anything in the bible about still ignoring people despite their "heartfelt " repentence and making them sit at the back of meetings etc.. feeling isolated and so sad , if its not in the bible to do this then why do they do it ?

  its not what jesus would have done it is cruel , cult like and controlling !

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  Is a child up for adoption supposed to promise love & respect to the potential father?

  by discreetslave in

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  tuesday, october 4. offer your very selves to him: a living sacrifice, dedicated and fit for his acceptance.rom.

  12:1, the new english bible.. before someone who is alienated from god can become a member of gods family of approved servants, he first needs to make a solemn promise to jehovah.

  to understand why, imagine a respectable father who shows kind interest in an orphaned youth and wishes to adopt him as a member of his own family.

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