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  Tightening of the Cult Handcuffs.

  by passwordprotected in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i've been saying for almost a year that the wts can only go one way, and that's to be come more hardline and more cultish by tightening their grip on the r&f.. if the recent rumours seen here (and one of them was actually banded about last year) are going to pan out, then the wts is well on it's way to become more cult-ish.. changes to the disfellowshipping arrangement.

  moving away from judicial action, leaning more towards the person disassociating themselves due to their actions, either of commission or ommission.

  or, and i think this is less likely, they have a stand-alone study edition meeting, perhaps later on a sunday?

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  Cadellin

  I agree--watch for a set (read: mandatory) program for FWN, presented of course, as a Loving Spiritual Provisions Just When We Need It!
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  Unusual "Experience" at the DC yesterday - Apostasy & Honor Killing

  by Ultimate Reality in

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  2. friends

  during the concluding part on sunday's dc at the stanley theater, a missionary was interviewed and asked to give an encouraging experience from his assignment in an african country.. he started off by saying his "experience was bitter-sweet".

  it was about a woman in her mid-20's that became a witness.

  but she was a muslim and her mother had her hunted down and murdered as an honor-killing.

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  Villa: Yikes! How's that for making you want to stay with such a warm, loving organization????
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  A question for the faders on here

  by JWinprotest in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  the other day our meeting was cancelled and we didn't even get a call from the elders to advise us.

  i take that as a sign that our fade is working.

  the next step i would like to implement is not turning in a field service report.

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  JW: I'm in the same boat, wondering the same thing.

  Only problem is (and maybe some of the ex elders can help me out here) I'm an elder's wife. Yup, that's right. And my wonderful husband (and he is, really) is still going strong. I'm worried that if I officially go inactive, it'll have repercussions on his and honestly, I'd hate for that to happen. He has to come to the truth about the "truth" on his own, though I have been sharing eye-opening nuggets for him here and there. I've been turning in an hour or two for about a year now, haven't been out in service for about a year and am slowly fading on the meetings. Down to just Sundays. I'd like to stop altogether but, like I said, I don't want to rock his boat. He's been super good and reasonable with my new perspective and we have an excellent marriage all round.

  Sorry if I hijacked your thread...
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  It's WT leaders, not elders, who are responsible for all the harm. My Geneva, Switz. lecture posted here for new ones & Sola Scriptura to read

  by AndersonsInfo in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  keep it secret has been wts child abuse policy for years.

  he said the policy that jehovah's witnesses have on how to handle cases of child abuse is without equal in the religious community.

  why keep these forms secret?.

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  Wow. Thank you for sharing this and thank you for taking the courageous action that you did. You have paid a very high price.
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  Besty Unplugged - My Life Story Part IV

  by besty in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  << part iii.

  part iv how to meet a wife in six weeks.

  i mentioned a while back my dad had a pretty bad accident when he was a kid.

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  Cadellin

  Okay, great story but PLEASE--can we see the wedding pic of all those kiltz????
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  Roll call - How many here fake being a "good Jehovah's Witness"....like me!

  by Witness 007 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  there is no truth...i know that.

  to please my mum while she's alive and wife i go to meetings and the 3 day convention coming up.

  i would rather go to the dentist.

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  It's a fine line to walk...I'm doing a slow fade and sometimes its fine and sometimes it's horrid. But the pain I'll be causing my family is horrid to think about...It's more about keeping one's mouth shut than being a hypocrite.
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  A Couple of Interesting Analyses of Jehovah's Witnesses

  by cabasilas in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  recently i received these files from others and thought i'd pass them on.. the first is a book simply entitled jehovah's witnesses by maurice barnett which contains both an historical and theological analysis.

  it's about 26 mb and can be downloaded from this filesharing site:.

  http://www.filesend.net/download.php?f=ffc24ebf8989755c7551557cede5988c.

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  Fascinating stuff--downloaded Rogerson's book and saw right away that it is--fascinating stuff! So, thank you!
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  What do you know "without googling" about the reputed mechanisms for evolution?

  by gubberningbody in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i see people take positions all day long and i rather suspect both sides are woefully ignorant.. i read and hear people speak of the volumes of data pro or con and when i ask for specific examples of what each may be referring to, i am often met with silence.. .

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  Gubberning: What exactly are you looking for? Maybe you could be more specific as to what you want because I thought Inkling did a pretty good job of answering your question.

  Inkling nicely stated three of the many forces that power evolution. Those forces work on the "raw material" of genetic mutation. And as Burntheships pointed out, there seems to be a predeliction in the universe toward complexity, not away from it. The evidence for evolution, which includes among other things transitional features, transition fossils, the record of change found in pseudogenes as well as observed speciation both in the wild and in the lab, is diverse, convergent and overwhelming.

  Here's a simplified illustration of genetic drift: A group of people leave their home and sail to another land. They meet with disaster at sea and only half of the people make it to the new land. By coincidence, all the survivors happen to have blue eyes. Therefore, while the proportion of blue eyes relative to other colors was only 50% of the original group, it is now 100% of the surviving group and therefore 100% of the genetic stock that will reproduce at the new land. As Inkling said, it's basically how chance, unencumbered by fitness, sexual selection or other factors, can affect the genetic "raw material" of a given population and, hence, their offspring.
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  Besty Unplugged - My Life Story Part II

  by besty in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  <<part i. i dont recall discussing the great disappointment of 1975 as a family.

  i was only 5 and my older and wiser brother was 8. what i can remember was the muted sense of excitement we both felt in 1977. shortly after elvis died my dad announced we were moving off the island back to the scottish mainland.

  i didnt connect the death of elvis with our big move, and rightly so.

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  Fascinating. Don't keep us waiting. By the way, how small ARE you anyway? You mention it a couple of times...
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  Hades and Tartarus in the NT. Pagan influences?

  by Piercingtheveil81 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  last night i was watching a program about greek mythology when the subject of hades and tartarus came up, hades referring to the greek god of death and tartarus referring to the place of the dead or what could be called hell.

  i began to wonder why would the bible writers use such words if they were trying to avoid paganism and convey different ideas.

  if hell were not a real place as witnesses say why would peter use tartarus, a word clearly known to be a place and not a condition of the dead.

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  Cadellin

  Okay, why isn't my link clickable? What did I do wrong????