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  Shunning (again!)

  by link in

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  elswhere recently started a thread about shunning and i noted that at least ninety per cent of the posters to the thread were from the u.s.of a. and canada and they had had some bad experiences with the problem.. why should this be significant ?.

  well it seems to me that the shunning problem in america is far worse than here in the u.k. i know of several persons who have been dissed but i am not aware that shunning is a serious issue for them.

  can anyone tell me if shunning causes less of a problem here in the u.k. than it does other places in the world, and if so why?.

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  Elswhere recently started a thread about shunning and I noted that at least ninety per cent of the posters to the thread were from the U.S.of A. and Canada and they had had some bad experiences with the problem.

  Why should this be significant ?

  Well it seems to me that the shunning problem in America is far worse than here in the U.K. I know of several persons who have been dissed but I am not aware that shunning is a serious issue for them. Can anyone tell me if shunning causes less of a problem here in the U.K. than it does other places in the world, and if so why?

  Just curious

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  Ted Jaracz - the accused

  by Nathan Natas in

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  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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  Sorry Nathan I didn't but I will look it up now I know it exists somewhere on the board.

  Thanks.

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  The WT's Greatest Blasphemy

  by blackguard in

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  hi guys, this belongs with the original post on or about nov 24th, 'watchtower roots'.. the watch tower's greatest blasphemy.

  since his corporate coup d'etat after russell's demise.

  rutherford had been busily fine tuning his fifth columnist mystical machinery.

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  This is, and will be, my only post.

  Promises, promises.

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  Multi-level selling traps and JWs

  by Debz in

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  why is it that jw`s get `hooked` into the latest multi-level marketing ploys

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  Can I provide info on the exception that proves the rule?

  I personally know a brother in our local congregation who receives a monthly cheque from the Neways MLM outfit which is never less than UK3,000.00. He has not worked for four years.

  He says that he just happened to be in the right place at the right time.

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  everone is in confusion

  by zolensky in

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  i joined this site last week hoping to meet people that would steer me back to the organization.

  instead the people i have talked to her are all trying to tell me too see the light and get out of the organization.

  in my opinion, not that it matters, i really think that if a person had the truth deeply ingrained in them, they would never leave the truth.

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  Boy! Have they done a good job on you????????

  Welcome and hope you recover soon.

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  Ted Jaracz - the accused

  by Nathan Natas in

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  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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  I must admit that this subject is one that I personally do not feel comfortable with. ("so stay out of it" I hear you say). Bu.........t.

  I would like to ask if Pat is accusing Ted Jaracz of being her molester on a personal basis or if she is accusing him as the one being in control of the organisation that enabled it to happen to her at the hands of someone else.

  I can't really understand this aspect and if someone could explain I would be really grateful.

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  Internet banned?

  by gilwarrior in

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  i know that this subject has been talked about many times, but i am convinced that if the wts gets more fanatical, they will eventually ban witnesses from going on the internet.

  yeah, i know it sounds goofy, but there are so many witnesses who are leaving as a result of what they have found on the net that the wts will have no choice, but to do it.

  they will probably find some "new light" and probably sight some bible scripture.

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  Xander,

  With all due respect, I dont see how filters will help because it is not sites with negative information on JWs that are the problem. It is those everyday sites that contain factual information that contradicts what the Watchtower preaches.

  It is the history sites that show beyond doubt that Jerusalem was not destroyed in 607 BCE and the sites that give information on share dealing etc. I confirmed the NGO status of the Watchtower from the UN web site and you cant filter these types of site or you will have nothing left.

  I believe that they will control it by demonising it and I already see advanced signs of this happening in my area.

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  Internet banned?

  by gilwarrior in

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  i know that this subject has been talked about many times, but i am convinced that if the wts gets more fanatical, they will eventually ban witnesses from going on the internet.

  yeah, i know it sounds goofy, but there are so many witnesses who are leaving as a result of what they have found on the net that the wts will have no choice, but to do it.

  they will probably find some "new light" and probably sight some bible scripture.

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  I go along with those who believe that the WTS has a hidden agenda for demonising the internet and it has nothing to do with pornography of apostate web sites.

  The vast majority of active JWs that I know would never believe anything that appeared on an apostate web site if they accidentally logged on to one. BUT....put the exact same information on a site giving factual information such as an educational history site or one publishing a membership list such as the UN site and their eyes pop.

  This is the real problem for the Society, the easy access to real and factual information that they would much rather the R & F never got to hear about in a million years. Apostate lies will always be apostate lies but this is something else and much harder to combat.

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  Piercing Your Genitals Can Save Many Lives

  by Funchback in

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  not only can it end diseases but it is also endorsed by god.... numbers 25:8: "then he went after the man of israel into the vaulted tent and pierced both of them through, the man of israel and the woman through her genital parts.

  at that the scourge was halted from upon the sons of israel.

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  I dont know if this counts but I once had a friend who was shot in the penis with a shotgun. The doctor sent him to see a piccolo player. The thinking was that if the piccolo player could not mend it at least he could show my friend how to hold it.

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  GB disassociates itself!!

  by lulu in

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  dear brothers:

  as you have admitted, the watch tower bible & tract society did join the united nations as a non government organization in 1992 ending in 2001, and according to the following watch tower this means that by their own actions they disassociated them selves from jehovahs organization which means that we must treat them like disfellowshiped ones.

  in other words they are no longer jehovahs witnesses or have any right to that name.

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  Yardif,

  You, and everyone else who comes to this discussion board, will fully realise that there is no way in which I or anyone else could obtain access to the private mail of a congregation Elder. You, and everyone else, will also know that nobody with a grain of intelligence would post information which gave names, places, times and dates on a forum like this. I must therefore admit that your ploy has been entirely successful.

  This leaves me very disappointed because I originally invited you to obtain information from the Society and the UN yourself so that you could not claim that it was false. If the information provided to me through the local congregation was in fact false, you could have then demonstrated this to me and made me look as foolish as those who provided the information to me in the first place. Apostates would also have been stopped in their tracks if you could have proven that the information that they were bandying about was a pack of lies.

  The thing that disappoints me most however is that you have the necessary skill, all of the resources, and the perfect opportunity to completely vindicate the reputation of the Organisation that you represent, if this were possible. The fact that you have chosen not to do so provides myself and others who read your contribution with the obvious conclusion that vindication of the name of the Organisation to which you claim to belong is not possible.

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  edited by link for grammar.

  Edited by - link on 9 December 2002 7:13:20

  Edited by - link on 9 December 2002 7:42:47