I certainly don't enjoy reading that crap, but I force myself to. The family that I love is in the WT cult, and I need to know what's going on in their lives.
hybridous
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Do you still read the magazines?
by Pleasuredome ini was speaking to a lady today who isnt a witness.
she's a very intellegent, well educated and well travelled girl, and she tells me how much she enjoys reading the watchtower and awake.
i said to her that she has to be joking, and she tells me that she she likes them a lot.
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Why do animals die?
by ezekiel3 inas an animal lover, i have some questions jws have never dared to breach (according to a search of jw publications).
if humans die because of inheriting adam and eve's sin, why do animals die?
were animals created imperfect?.
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hybridous
I always figured that animals died, simply because, nature needs them to.
If humans lived forever or grew old and died, nature would still need complex biomolecules fed into the ecosystem to sustain itself. Plants need nutrients from soil, and these must be continuously be replenished. The answer: dead animals.
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Looks like e-Watchman is loosening up a bit....
by Dogpatch ine-watchman has finally gone public with letter writing to the governing body and posting a new message on his site that shows he wants the gb to say they are sorry and clean up their act.
http://www.e-watchman.com/.
a sampling:.
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hybridous
I've always felt that e-watchman (and others like him) are an important phenomenon within the WT.
Just consider what he represents. He's an active JW who is publicly refuting and disagreeing with a large amount of official WT doctrine. This is a dymanic that the WT is not used to dealing with. I am quite interested in what becomes of him.
How many JWs will actually read what he writes, simply on the basis that he claims to be annointed and is NOT (yet) disfellowshipped? For many witnesses, that is a simple litmus test of e-watchman.
And still the WT has not chosen to dispose of him. This tells me that they've taken note of him and are worried about what to do.
If the order comes down to disfellowship him, the WT runs the risk of alienating him and his fans. For e-watchman's fans, a DFing will only confirm that the WT has further aposticized itself.
If they let him hang around...well, you know how they feel about dissent. His essays about the UN relationship and child molestasion are as damning as anything, and this is from an active, annointed witness. To let him remain an active witness while running his website completely contradicts WT policy up to this point in time. The WT is ultimately going to be forced down one path or the other.
At times, I think he's a complete nut. Other times, I feel that he's simply a brainwashed JW with a conscience and a set of brass stones. Either way, he's an apostate's best weapon. He's a man on the inside.
Go for it, Watchman. Help us tear down this despicable tower. You've only just realized what many of us have known for a long time...that the WT is no less of a trashy whore than ANY OTHER RELIGION ON THIS EARTH.
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what is the weirdest counsel you ever received?
by nb-dfed inmy husband and i had a committee meeting because of underage drinking.
when he was being counseled, the p.o.
told my husband that he needed to make me wear different clothes to the meeting because it made some of the brothers unable to concentrate.
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When I was a kid (maybe 12 or 13 years old), there was a small party at my house. Just a few families from the hall. Adults sat & talked & drank coffee, the kids played video games and watched movies.
We watched 'Iron Eagle', for those who are lucky enough to not know, it's a low-calibre 80's movie about fighter jets and such...very dumb, very harmless.
As everyone was leaving, my buddie's elder dad pulled me aside and said something to the effect of...
'Maybe next time watch something that's no so violent.'
It wasn't until much later that I realized the irony of such council when it comes from a man who is well-known throughout the Kingdom Hall to greatly enjoy real-live violence on Autumn Sundays in the form of American Football.
As a kid, all I had to say was 'uh..OK'. Even now, I doubt I'd call him out, I just like the guy too much.
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'Beast' Movie
by hybridous innot too long ago, someone posted a link to a website advertising a movie called 'the beast' or something like that.... the premise being the fraud of christianity, the movie looked like something i'd like to see.
i cant find the post anymore.
hybridous
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Not too long ago, someone posted a link to a website advertising a movie called 'The Beast' or something like that...
The premise being the fraud of Christianity, the movie looked like something I'd like to see. I cant find the post anymore. Can someone help me out?
Thanx,
HYBRIDOUS
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What caused you to get out?
by Country Girl in.
for me it was that i knew it was lie from a young age.. cg
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hybridous
'for me it was that I knew it was lie from a young age.'
It was the same way for me. Even as a young child, the pieces never seemed to fit the puzzle, so-to-speak. It needed an uncomfortable amount of force to make it work, and somehow, I inherently knew that 'truth' needed no external force to manifest itself or make plain sense. After that, it was only a matter of time. I remember actually praying to God to help me. I pleaded with Him to make it as plain as day, for a simple, stubborn mind as mine. He never answered....or maybe he did in a way. It no way could I imagine a God of truth requiring me to swallow lies.
In my early years, I always seemed to know I would never follow the cult as an adult. It was only a matter of me waiting to make my move.
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Watchtower Opts to Make Service Meetings Even Worse
by metatron inthe recent august kingdom ministry contains instructions on deepening the ennui.
and sophorific potential of service meetings.
they are ordering that before the circuit.
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'Ministerial Training School'...
can anyone comment on what exactly this is? Is this a new thing?
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I need to have my head examined!
by TrailBlazer04 in.
well, i've finally gone off the edge...after getting an aas degree in 2 years while working full time, i went and enrolled today to start working on a 4 year bs degree in engineering...i hope to get into the aerospace engineering masters program...heaven help me!!!.
tb
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Hats off to you!!
It's great to see people move ahead. A degree is no small task...and an engineering degree at that!! This is one thing you will not regret. Keep posting your progress...it helps inspire those of us in the same boat.
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July 15 Watchtower article on Blood
by XBEHERE inin the 7/15 wt i dont recall the exact page, i dont have the magazine here at work but there is a chart that lists blood, what components are up to you and which ones are not allowed at all.
anyway its very odd because they list which ones christians should avoid from left to right, i.e.
red blood cells, white blood cells, plasma, etc.
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We all know how the WT likes to condition JWs to defend their beliefs about blood transfusions (or anything else for that matter) by saying 'it's a personal decision', when it's really not...
Why then, write this article which, in no uncertain terms, tells dubs that blood and its 4 primary components are hands down UNACCEPTABLE? It seems likely that in a court case, when a dub tries to pass off their no blood decision as a 'personal choice', this article flies in the face of such a claim.
Why would the WT give ammo to its enemies? Is it that stupid? Maybe the need for some comprehensive revisitation of doctrine outweighed legal needs for a moment?
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I don't date because I'm a Jehover's Witness
by Elsewhere inhttp://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/06/04/1086203613032.html?oneclick=true#.
the princess and the showgirljune 6, 2004. .
anywhere i go they say, 'oh my god, you're number one, aren't you?
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Maybe I'm the only one to think this....
I believe the WT absolutely loves the Williams sisters. The society needs high-profile, successful people to at least claim to be JWs. It helps to negate the (accurate) perception that this is a cult. The Williams sisters lend public credibility to this thing.
That's why the WT will tolerate the flag-wrapping, and probably a whole lot more from these two - for the sake of the JW image. It's quite interesting to see how much these two can flout the typical dub lifestyle. I'd love to see the WT backed into a corner and have to do someting about the Williams girls. They'd be so reluctant to make any negative move. Venus and Serena do more for the WT public image than a thousand lawyers or spokesmen could.