Topics Started by HoChiMin

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Just leave us alone!
by HoChiMin in
1. jw
2. friends
has anyone ever heard of or used the angle against the wt that a minor never actually made their own choice to join the cult?

( has not attended for 5 years since the age of 18) the reason i'm looking into it is i recently had a visit by a snake elder.

he came to my home at 7:10am as my friend (ha) to encourage me to return to the meetings.
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Help my friend
by HoChiMin in
1. jw
2. friends
i received this e-mail by an elder and friend that is very perplexed.

so here is his requested post any thoughts?

i was just reading the 4/1/01 wt p. 21--article: do you feel misunderstand?.
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Who controls R&F Witnesses?
by HoChiMin in
1. jw
2. friends
call it one of my pet peeves, but when i see the org.

write about control of ones thinking as quoted below i get steamed .

the statements such as: "consider, too, the fact that jehovah's organization alone, in all the earth, is directed by god's holy spirit or active force.
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GUNS???
by Jimmer in
1. jw
2. friends
i've always wondered, what does that organization of stiff shirts teach and/or believe about hunting?

target shooting?

gun ownership?.
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Thirty Years a Watch Tower Slave
by JAVA in
1. jw
2. friends
perhaps the first widely distributed book written by a former witness about the watchtower society is, thirty years a watch tower slave by william j. schnell, baker book house, grand rapids, mi, 1956. its been out of print for several years, and very few libraries still have the book.

schnell was born in 1905, and was part of the watchtower movement from 1921 to 1954. .

in part, the foreword reads: by the lords grace i am a christian.
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What I Observed Last Night At The Kingdom Hall
by stevieb1 in
1. jw
2. friends
i am still one of jehovah's witnesses and i still attend meetings at the kingdom hall though i am quite disgruntled over many of the society's teachings and the practices that go on in the congregation.

i have read everything about jw's both pro and con, (i have one of the largest collections of material related to jw's in europe) and i have contributed scholarly articles to the society on many occasions.

i could talk about many things but i'll just talk about what i observed last night.
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JW Practices
by patio34 in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
maybe this irked you in the past?

i had a hard time convincing--nay, believing--that we lived in such baaaad times.

jws have the belief that times are bad, so we had the task of convincing the householders of that.
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Describe JW/ A mind altering cult/ Dangerous Cult
by nojw86 in
1. jw
2. friends
i am sort of interested to your responces if someone might ask a ?

about the jw how might you describe the jw?

would they to your personal opinion be a mind altering cult or a dangerous cult?
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What did you do?
by StiLLinTruth in
1. jw
2. friends
to all those who have in some way left the organization (be it disfellowshipping, disassociating, dis-whatever):.

come now, i know the amount of people who "realized that wt doctrine was in serious error" and politely handed in their letter of resignation has to be very small.

the level of bitterness and hostility towards the closest-to-what's-biblical organization has to develop some other way.. what did you do?
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JW Decline
by larc in
1. jw
2. friends
i found some interesting statistics, some of which you may know, that indicate that the wtbts is in decline.. 1. in the twenty years from 1970 to 1990, the rate of yearly increase dropped from 10% to 6%.

in the last 10 years it has dropped from 6% to about 2%.

since the world population growth is about 1.5% they are only growing at about 1/2 of 1% faster than the population.. 2. in 1999, there were 21 large countries that showed a decline.