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SAD news about OOMPA......
by redredrose in
1. jw
2. friends
our friend, oompa, has passed away.

just recieved the news a couple of hours ago, and have almost no details.

it happened today or yesterday, he took his own life.
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Apostasy Trial - Part 4
by RayPublisher in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
the second 45 minute video is now online:.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zcvocgamqg&feature=youtu.be.
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Should i tell him what is really going on with me? I care about him so much.
by make yourself in
1. social
2. relationships
for some reason the doubts came lurking back again.

i know this religion is messed up because a person should not be having creeping doubts surface up like this.

i have not posted or logged on to this site in a very long time.
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My experience at the District Convention today - Appreciate your comments
by BonaFide in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i know i am the one to constantly harp on this board how the organization has lost its "swagger" and the baptism and attendance is going down, and people are waking up.. not so fast.. the audience cried, i mean a lot of people cried when they played some of the songs from the new songbook.

some had bethel singers who sounded pretty good singing them.

so many after the program were saying how touched they were.. then the new release of the book showing how the book of acts prefigures the organization today.
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2008 Generation Change
by cognac in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i don't pay to much attention to jw stuff and so i don't know what this change was.

can anybody inform me?.
16
JW friend wants to tell me about Christ's return in 1914....Advice needed!
by whyizit in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
my long time friend recently took the plunge (baptized) and is now trying to recruit me.

one of the first things she told me is how all the "other religions" should be carefully inspected, because they are all wrong, in a nut shell.

so, i asked the obvious: i'm not concerned with all the others, i'm here to talk about your's.
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Why is it so - is it a social virus - or a stop-gap for a certain need ?
by A Paduan in
1. watchtower
2. bible
the org advertises, recruits, controls and damages it's own hosts in a mission of self-replication - utilising bent speech and lies to exist in the lives of others - having no life of it's own, but rather, a design to use others, without a self-awareness - what is that?.
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Was a GB memeber deleted for molestation?
by Albert Einstein in
1. watchtower
2. child-abuse
some time ago, i read on the internet, that in late 70s there was a gb member (his name should be leo greenslee) who was accused of molestation of a little boy - son of a witness family.

after this was revealed, he was supposed to be removed from bethel to serve as a special pioneer out of new york and have died in 80s.. have you heard about it?.

albert.
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70 years = 607?
by allelsefails in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
70 years of captivity?.

i myself have always believed that when archaeology disagreed with the bible the bible must be right.

that is how i dismissed the idea that jerusalem was destroyed in 586/587 bce.
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607--1914 chronology origin and modifications summarised
by jeandeau in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i am interested in summarising how rutherford and the wts originally set forth the 607 (606) -1914 chronology.

this is hidden from witnesses today and only a sanitized "trimmed for easy consumption" version is taught to avoid "confusing" the faithful.

for thirty years the questions ate a larger and larger hole in my gut as a jw as it became more evident that the full truth was not being revealed to us for ulterior motives.