Mrs. Fiorini

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  Does the Governing Body require a minimum number of members/quorum?

  by yadda yadda 2 in

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  the governing body presently comprises nine members.

  some decades ago it was up to about 18 members, i think.

  how low can the number go?

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  Mrs. Fiorini

  Very good questions. I don't know any answers though.
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  the A-word.....are you a threat?....do you try not to be???

  by oompa in

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  and that means to your wife/family/friends/congo??

  ?.........and if you are...... don't you think maybe it is best if you just go away anyway?....either df...da...di or disappear?.

  funny how they all start with d..........oompa.

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  Mrs. Fiorini

  Lets take that one step further. Jehovah's Witnesses are an apostate recruiting machine. They insist that before baptism one writes a letter officially resigning from their former faith, in effect, making them on the record apostates.

  I wonder if they do that to break the bonds and make it difficult psychologically for ex-JWs to return to their original faith. Or is it just a way to try to insult "Christendom" to their face. I see no real reason for it. People change religions all the time simply by deciding to attend and join a new church.
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  Blondie and Witchtower study death threats.

  by hamsterbait in

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  i now find the dub only koolaid edition so awful i can only read so much.. blondie does a great job of proxy-studying for us all, we owe her a great debt of gratitude.. i vote that when her task finally drives her barking mad we all club together to pay for her electro-shock therapy, just to help get her back here real soon.. anyway, i digress.. an interesting feature of the studies is the number of death threats, or threats of initiatory force, that are being put in the studies nowadays.

  even in titles such as "what will you give to continue living?".

  do you think it would be worth posting a "death threat" count for each week?

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  Mrs. Fiorini

  That's an interesting idea. I like it. It just makes clear how much manipulation is in every issue.
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  It's not fair

  by Luo bou to in

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  cut off from my family rejected by my wife ( spiritual endangerment ) and there was and still is not a damn thing i can do about it.

  pisses me off.... no justice.

  hey i am not looking for sympathy my life is pretty good its just frustrating to have family that are not dead yet might as well be..

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  Mrs. Fiorini

  You're right. It's not fair, just, or right in any way. Nor is it loving, though they say that is the mark of true Christians.

  I hope and pray that some day this is healed, both for you and your family personally, as well as for JWs across the board.

  In the mean time, may you have peace about it.
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  Former fundamentalist 'debunks' Bible

  by insearchoftruth in

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  http://www.cnn.com/2009/living/05/15/bible.critic/index.html.

  he was also interviewed about a month or so ago on npr..

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  Mrs. Fiorini

  I have one of his books. It's quite good.

  IMO spirituality is a journey. He has certainly been on one. And so have most of us on this board.
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  Growing up in a communist country ...

  by Albert Einstein in

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  i lived for the first 20 years of my life in a communist country.. .

  great .... .

  we were told we lived in the best regime, had best medical care, best election system, best goverment, no criminality like in the western countries, no unemploymence like in the western countries, not all the problems like people in the west ..... .

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  Mrs. Fiorini

  Interesting comparison with the WT. High-control, authoritarian groups seem to use the same techniques, whether they are communist countries or cults.
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  JW "view" on organ transplants

  by SnakesInTheTower in

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  last year when i renewed my driver's license i was asked if i wanted to register to be an organ donor.

  of course, in the past, i never did.

  joking with the driver's license employee, i asked if they wanted the arm and leg now... they had good humor and responded equally joking that it was ok, they would wait until i died.

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  Mrs. Fiorini

  Interesting. Thanks for posting.
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  Can I have your advice before leaping into a project...

  by Tuesday in

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  hey folks,.

  a possible sequel for tough questions for jehovah's witnesses... well sort of.

  i sporadically get messages from people in other religions asking me to do a series about their religion or former religion.

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  Mrs. Fiorini

  You might try getting advice from a lawyer on what things are liable for a lawsuit.
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  Austria recognizes WT

  by diamondiiz in

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  http://www.etaiwannews.com/etn/news_content.php?id=942508&lang=eng_news.

  austria recognizes jehovah's witnessesassociated press .

  2009-05-07 10:16 pm fonts size:e-mail this printer-friendly austria on thursday officially recognized the jehovah's witnesses as the country's 14th official religion, ending a decades-long struggle over its status.

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  Mrs. Fiorini

  BTTT
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  If you were offered the position to run the Watchtower....

  by BurnTheShips in

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  what would you do?.

  bts.

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  Mrs. Fiorini

  Would you feel any responsiblility to the millions of psychologically, emotionally, spiritually dependent members al around the world?

  Would you consider all the lives built around and centered on the bOrg?

  Would you break the truth gradually, gently and point everyone in a new direction over a period of time? Or would you tear down the BethelGod fast and videotape the bridge jumpers?

  BTS

  Burn,

  These are good questions. They are why, IMO, it is best that the WT reform, not crash and burn.