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  Will the Book Study ever be dropped from the weekly meetings?

  by RULES & REGULATIONS in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the book study is one of the most useless meetings.

  the same books have been studied 3 or 4 times.the meeting takes only an hour but takes up most of your evening.

  and, it is one of the least attended meetings.. why haven't they combined the watchtower study with just question and answer and then follow with the book study with just question and answer?

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  The big 3 from the late 1800's

  by Gregor in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the latter day saints have their own state for crying out loud.

  they also established one of the most prestigous universities in the country, byu.. the seventh day adventists operate the best teaching hospitals in the world and crank out world class doctors.. the jehovah's witnesses are best known through being the butt of jokes in comedy skits.

  they are at present scrambling to get their financial act together..

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  Struggling....

  by sweet pea in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  hi guys .

  just feeling really crappy tonight.

  my old best friend sent me back my spare house keys this week together with a present for my little one with a note addressed to him.

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  How much control does the WTS really have?

  by dozy in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  a theme regularly running through ex-jw / apostate posts is their conviction that the worship of jws is at best of a high control basis or at worst exhibits cult-like tendencies , so they often delight in the freedom that they now enjoy.. but in reality , how much control is exhibited on the average witness?

  to take one example , at least 40k are dfd in an average year , and one would assume 3 - 5x this figure are reproved privately or publicly.

  that means that over a 10 year period 20% - 25% of jws are seriously flouting the strongest moral code of jws , usually for immorality , emphasized in wt after wt , meeting after meeting.

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  Is Faith Dangerous? A Question for Believers...

  by AllTimeJeff in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i hope this will be as respectful a debate as possible.

  here is the premise: many of us (most) seem to be ex jw's on this board.

  that means, whatever your motivation, for a time you bought into the theology of jw to one degree or another.

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  Revelation Climax, page 52, Kindly Respond

  by compound complex in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  dear readers of revelation,.

  i have been reminded that a simple question is more effective than an elaborate presentation.

  i have become very careful about what i say and how much i say to most people.

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  worst Bookstudy book

  by darth frosty in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  what is the book you liked the least studying at the bookstudy?

  for me it was the isaiah books.

  side question which book did you like the best?

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  My life ... and how JWD came to be - Part 2

  by Simon in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  previous: my life ... and how jwd came to be - part 1. .

  how many times have people said ?if i knew then what i know now??

  what a difference that would have made to my life.

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  Kaytee & Twink's "Resignation" letter

  by twinkletoes in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  this was the second letter given to elders that turned out to be a "resignation" letter.

  this was, as you will see, because they chose not to answer any of our questions.

  the reason we are posting our letter, is because it is now obvious (by personal experiences) that ones who we thought were our friends are now choosing to shun us.

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  WTBTS & OSCE etc.

  by Kent in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  it would be hard for the wtbts to deny their open connections to osce and other political forums.. http://www.jw-georgia.org/eng/rights/00octoscehrwf.htm.

  this link is from an official jw website, and i believe those interested in such connections should take a long and hard look at the russiand and other jw sites.

  it seems they are more "open" as to admit, and not least - use - their un connections as a tool of the trade.. i have reasons to believe the wtbts will try to use as defence that "human right issues are non-political" - and as such say the un connection is really a non-issue.

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