Topics Started by Grout

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What were the key articles that helped you leave (or articles you love)?
by jwfacts in
1. watchtower
2. bible
i am looking for "best-of" articles about jws and the watchtower society.

what were the best articles that you remember reading.

any topic will do.
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Watchtower Library CD - available?
by Grout in
1. watchtower
2. bible
i've been looking for a watchtower library cd, any vintage, via ebay etc.

can't seem to find one anywhere.

has the society stopped making them?
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Please don't take offence at this ...
by Joe Grundy in
1. jw
2. friends
i'm not a jw, never have been, and in no danger of becoming one.. having read several of the wt mags and publications (and many more extracts on this and other sites) they come across to me as being very patronising in tone and full of pseudo-scholarship, misquoted (or unnamed) sources, references taken out of context, mis-translations, etc.

i'm aware of jw 'teaching' on the subject of higher education for its members (i.e.

not a good or necessary thing) so i can understand why many jws raised in it may not challenge the publications.
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Slack Off!
by Grout in
1. social
2. humour
the church of the subgenius is a worthy replacement for the wtbts.

in fact, sometimes i have a hard time telling them apart!

jehovah kills those who drudge their lives away without knowing who he is, but he rewards the ones who recognize his stark fist and carry out his seemingly immoral plans while slacking off every chance they get.. .
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Oslo hypothesis vs. Jonsson hypothesis
by scholar in
1. watchtower
2. bible
it has been announced that two forthcoming volumes examing the secular and biblical ecidence for bible chronology are due for publication in the spring, 2003. rolf furuli a semitic language scholar provides a new approach to the many problems associated with current chronology.

it should be interesting to see how this book will be reviewed in the scholarly literature and compare this material with jonsson's gentile times reconsidered.

to date i am unaware of any scholarly review of the jonsson hypothesis.
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So, where DID the 1914 timeline go awry?
by Xander in
1. watchtower
2. bible
okay, i know that historical evidence is that jerusalem fell in 586/7 instead of 607 - as the wtbts would have.

however, that is not compelling enough to show a hypothetical jw.

they (generally) must not only be show that the opposition is correct, but that the wtbts is wrong.
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What Was the Most Unbelievable Thing You've Heard?
by minimus in
1. jw
2. friends
what's the most unbelievable thing you've ever heard while you were a witness?

one thing that stands out for me is being told that i would never go thru junior or high school because the end was right around the corner.....what about you??

?
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Ted Jaracz - the accused
by Nathan Natas in
1. jw
2. experiences
at the silentlambs march in brooklyn ny on september 27, 2002 a woman made a public statement which began, .

i'm pat garza, and i'm here today because i was raped by theodore jaracz when i was a little girl, in the city of los angeles, he was district servant.

there are two boys; their initials are "m.v.
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Do you feel guilty about bringing people. . .
by StinkyPantz in
1. jw
2. friends
into the borg?.

i fortunately was never able to have a bible study grow all the way to the point of baptism.

but for those of you who did, do you feel guilty about bringing another person into what i think of as a cult?
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Theme song for Silentlambs movement...?
by TheApostleAK in
1. jw
2. friends
hiding, in the shade,.

hiding, in the shade,.

hiding, in the shade,.