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  how elders chase faders

  by leftchica in

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  Mickey mouse

  Try using firefox or Google chrome to post.

  Compatibility with IE would be a really great development IMO.
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  My Husband's Kids Have Cut Him Off

  by headisspinning in

  1. social
  2. family

  well, my husband's worst fear has happened.

  he told his kids, ages 15 and 10 that he was coming to visit them over the holidays.

  his ex-wife limits his telephone contact to one call per week, so when he called them last week to arrange the specific days he would see them, his son told him that he got baptized back in september and would no longer be willing to see his father.. this came as a complete shock.

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  he could insist on his right to see them but what may be more effective is showing them unconditional love. Telling them his door will always be open to them. As teenagers they are bound to go through periods of questioning and doubt.
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  JW's and Chronic Fatigue Syndrone!

  by cornish in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  chronic fatigue syndrone, m e, yuppie flu.

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  i dont know if anyone else has noticed the alarming number of jws who claim to suffer from chronic fatigue syndrone,i mean hear in cornwall there tend to be several sufferers in every congregation,outside the jws out of the many people i know i dont know anyone,although there are obviosly many outside the jws who suffer this illness,percentage wise it seems that jws have a much,much larger occorance of the illness.. for example my brother in law has not worked and been living on invalidity benefits for more than 10 years since his mid twenties,his brother is also in the same boat, an m.e sufferer.. i wonder if anyone has looked into this a bit more?

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  Fibromyalgia is now a recognised condition in the UK. M.E is myalgic encephalomyelitis, basically the same as CFS (chronic fatigue).
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  Victoria, Australia: If you want information about Steven Unthank's December 6th court hearing...

  by AndersonsInfo in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  please call richard rawe's "dialogue" program (a special conference call program), monday, december 5th at 8 p.m. est in the us, or 7 p.m. cst, etc.. the phone number is 712-432-8710, pin #9925. .

  richard told me that if steven unthank is no longer prosecutor, being that the "crown" took over the filed criminal cases against five watch tower entities, he, steven, might be on the phone discussing the latest hearing and the indictments.

  if steven does not call in, someone else will report on what took place in court which in australia will be on tuesday, dec. 6th.. hopefully, this special conference program will take place without any snafu.. barbara.

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  Richard told me that if Steven Unthank is no longer prosecutor, being that the "Crown" took over the filed criminal cases against five Watch Tower entities, he, Steven, might be on the phone discussing the latest hearing and the indictments.

  Not sure if I'm reading this correctly but has the Crown taken the cases over or not?
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  Recent C.O. visit: Bad news re: U.S. English meeting attendance

  by Open mind in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  visiting a nearby town during his thursday night service talk mentioned how poor meeting attendance is in the english-speaking u.s. congregations.

  he said that when the gb reduced the weekly meetings from 3 to 2, there was a brief surge in meeting attendance percentages.

  after a few months it began to slide and it hasn't stopped sliding.

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  LOL3rdgen. When I was a child our family would have blazing rows on the way to the hall, usually due to a combination of the pressure of everyone being forced to rush around and do something they didn't really want to. The funniest part is that as soon as the car door opened in the KH call park, we would be all smiles and sweetness and light. At the end of the meeting, we'd all pile back in the car and the row would recommence exactly where we had left off 2+ hours before.
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  Will the Governing Body Ever Make a Big Enough Mistake?

  by What Now? in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

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  i am not scared of armageddon anymore.

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  I think the real test will be the next major blunder during the internet age. If 1975 or even the generation change of '95 had occurred after 2000, the impact would have been far greater IMO.
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  Journal of Philosophical Psychology cites JWs as an example of a self-validating belief system

  by slimboyfat in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  a recent article in the journal of philosophical psychology titled: 'how convenient!

  the epistemic rationale of self-validating belief systems' by maarten boudry says that one of the defense mechanisms of self-validating belief systems is "multiple endpoints and moving targets" and cites jws to illustrate the point.

  here are the sections that discuss jws:.

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  Interesting! Thanks for sharing that sbf.
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  Salvation Army--is it a high control group?

  by rebel8 in

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  2. friends

  interesting.

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

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  I knew someone on a parenting site who was raised in the Sally army...let's just say we had a lot in common.
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  While the world stood still with tears and sorrow....

  by Terry in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  on friday, november 22, 1963, i was in high school in the cafeteria in fort worth, texas sitting at a table filled with school chums.. my jehovah's witness buddy, johnny, was back from shaking john f. kennedy's hand in front of his hotel earlier that morning.. he and his family were (oddly) big fans of jfk.

  go figure.... .

  not less than ten minutes later the speakers in the cafeteria crackled to life and the principle, g.b.trimble announced that president kennedy.

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  Mickey mouse

  I was a believing JW on 9/11 but I was deeply troubled by the reaction of my 'brothers and sisters'. We went to the book study on the evening of 9/11 and people were talking about how nice the weather was for September/the price of beans...you get the picture. Anything except the shocking things we had seen on the TV. The ONLY mention made was when the study conductor mentioned 'our brothers in New York' in his prayer. I was quietly disgusted that these people were so wrapped up in day to day stuff that something like 9/11 had barely registered with them.
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  UK charity "Refuge" gives response to WT article on domestic abuse

  by cedars in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i'm sure by now you are all aware of the feb 15th, 2012 study edition of the watchtower, and its outrageous experience depicting domestic violence.. as you may know, i have been looking into the matter in some detail.

  i decided to contact the uk domestic abuse charity "refuge".

  they indicated their concern towards the article and offered to help in any way they could.

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  including one member of the GB who beat up his former wife (please don't ask me his name)