Topics Started by martinwellborne

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SHOULD JWS DRINK CAPPUCHINO?
by badboy in
1. jw
2. friends
it is named after an order of monks.. therefore should a jw drink cappuchino in view of its connection with a part of babylon the great?.
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Who dirtied God's name the most ?
by JH in
1. jw
2. friends
put yourself in a jw frame of mind for a moment..... lets see now, who dirtied god's name most, the jw pedofiles, the watchtower sweeping this under the carpet, or jwd exposing this ?.
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The RUSSELL PARADOX
by Terry in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
predestination was jehovah's plan for man.

to heaven or to hell you were assigned.. how troubling this must be!.

wondering where in wise jehovah's plan your mother spent eternity; a bright and sensitive lad might ruminate at night on matters weighing heavy on his heart; why babies died and mothers went away and what might be your destiny in god's grand scheme of things.. the ironies in life!
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How I handled Child Abuse cases when I was an Elder (1996-2006)
by slmdf in
1. watchtower
2. child-abuse
hey ya'll.

i know there is a lot of buzz due to the nbc story.

i thought i'd share my experience as an elder dealing with abuse.. i attended 23 different congregations in my life and served as an elder or ms in 9 of them.
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JW involved in Maddie's kidnapping?
by behemot in
1. jw
2. friends
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23422086-details/murat's+lover:+'i+was+at+jehovah's+witness+meeting+when+madeleine+was+snatched'/article.do.

strange story though: this witness lady shares a flat with her "estranged husband" and has a "lover"???.

anybody knows about her current status?.
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"Where's your jacket brother"
by jambon1 in
1. jw
2. friends
i remember an elder walking in the hall and it was the 1st thing he said to me as he saw me dealing with the sound dept.

"where is your jacket"!!!!

nice greeting!!
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Pedophile in the hall
by martinwellborne in
1. watchtower
2. child-abuse
there's a pedophile in our hall i aint going back, i've had enough.

why wont the elders disfellowship him, or tell him he aint welcome anymore?
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Recession Coming?
by new boy in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
every year john mitchell (the head economist for u.s.bank) gives a talk to us realtors, in portland or.

he talks first about the world economy, then the u.s.a. and ends up with oregon's economy ....he usually is right on.

he perdicted housing prices peeking the third quarter of "06" he this came to pass.
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Keeping in touch/making a clean break
by B_Deserter in
1. jw
2. experiences
i wanted to get your opinion on something.

how do you all feel about getting in touch with long-lost ex-jws?

there are a couple of people i used to know that i would love to hang out with again.
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Barbara Anderson's Paedophilia CD: The Watchtowers Chocolate Cake Defence
by Duncan in
1. watchtower
2. child-abuse
i received my copy of barbara andersons cd paedophilia in an american religion a month or two ago, and i have been reading through it since.. what follows, although i have called this a review, is in no sense a scholarly consideration of the legal merits of the cases described, a task for which i am wholly unqualified.

these are, rather, my subjective reflections on the material presented, the impressions i gathered while reading the legal filings, my untrained, common-man appraisal of the cases laid out in those documents.

ill also admit to being swayed by tone of voice adopted, and to using my own common-sense yardstick in determining the reasonableness of the statements made, the responses given and the arguments put forward.