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  Novella is done

  by JeffT in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the complete text of my novella "armageddon's slaves" is now posted on my blog.

  i created my own religion for this, as i want it to be about more than one religion.

  i'm sure you'll find a lot that feels familiar.

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  The Man Who Hated Paradise

  by compound complex in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  impressions after lost horizon, by james hilton.

  the valley of the blue moon, a verdant and slightly concave sprawling hollow at the foot of the largest snow-capped rock i ever laid eyes on, is not home to me, nor ever shall it be.

  had i entered paradise under my own steam -- not kidnapped -- i daresay my impressions of utopia would be immeasurably more favorable.. for a certainty, i long for the hustle, the bustle, the din of my dirty and lusty city by the bay, whose roots sink deep into the ancient mire of human folly and wanton avarice.

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  Damned If You Do, Damned If You Don't: Religious Shunning and the free exercise clause

  by defender of truth in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the following link is to a pdf file found on the penn law legal scholarship repository website.. " the penn law legal scholarship repository is the institutional repository of the university of pennsylvania law school.

  its purpose is to collect and preserve the scholarly output of penn law.

  http://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/.

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  A Novel Featuring the Millerites, Charles Taze Russell, and Their End Time Prophecies

  by DT in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i wanted to let you know that i'm giving away the ebook version of the great apocalypse on amazon until april 8th.

  http://www.amazon.com/great-apocalypse-sparlock-multiverse-book-ebook/dp/b011m755cc.

  this philosophical thriller deals with several themes that will be familiar to former jehovah's witnesses.

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  The Great Apocalypse (Sparlock #1) is Free for a Limited Time

  by DT in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i'm running a free giveaway for the ebook version of the great apocalypse (sparlock of the multiverse #1) on amazon until december 11th.. you can get your copy here:.

  http://www.amazon.com/great-apocalypse-sparlock-multiverse-book-ebook/dp/b011m755cc.

  although i wrote this book for a general audience, there are several features that should be of interest to former jehovah's witnesses.

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  If Jehovah's Witnesses were a cereal, what would they be?

  by Zoos in

  1. social
  2. humour

  cult flakes?.

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  (welcome to the height of intellectual thread topics.

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  Shunning legal since 1987

  by TheWonderofYou in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  legality[edit].

  in june 1987, the united states court of appeals for the 9th circuit upheld the witnesses' right to shun those who fail to live by the group's standards and doctrines, upholding the ruling of a lower court, finding that "shunning is a practice engaged in by jehovah's witnesses pursuant to their interpretation of canonical text, and we are not free to reinterpret that text ... the defendants are entitled to the free exercise of their religious beliefs ... the members of the church [she] decided to abandon have concluded that they no longer want to associate with her.

  we hold that they are free to make that choice."[99][100].

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  Mass disassociation pact...

  by freemindfade in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  any takers?

  we can pick a date and pull the plug?

  lol .

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  I participated in an author interview and answered questions about Jehovah's Witnesses.

  by DT in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  at first, i thought this interview might just involve some basic questions about my book, the great apocalypse.

  however, the interviewer was interested in my past and i ended up discussing jehovah's witnesses and the ex-jw experience.

  here is the link if you would like to take a look:.

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  The Context for the JW Articles About Child Abuse

  by DT in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  i watched the "expert" testimony of dr. monica applewhite last night for the royal commission in australia.. it was painful to watch.

  it appeared that she simply read some articles that were presented to her.

  at one point, she suggested that the watchtower society produced about four of these issues a year.

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