Topics Started by Dixie

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Earthquakes in one place after another!
by YoungAmerican in
1. jw
2. friends
my mom just called me from back east to tell me that she just heard of a 3rd big earthquake within 24 hours, this time in peru.

samoa, indonesia..... she is freaking out..... we better all get ready .
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Did being JW help you cope with death?
by KDubbz in
1. jw
2. friends
i was thinking about this today.

i remember when i attended meetings and conventions with my parents when i was growing up, i would run into some jws who said they were able to cope with death of their loved ones better due to the fact that they will be resurrected in the "new world" which gave them hope.

i find this partially true because they were given a false hope of being in the "new world" and seeing their loved ones again.
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If you pray, do you say 'Jehovah'...?
by wantstoleave in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
just wondering of those that pray and who have left the organisation, do you still address god as jehovah?.

i think i'm currently in that awkward stage where i'm neither in or out, yet don't feel i should even address, or have the right, to talk to god (jehovah) until i decide where i sit.

so i'm wondering if it's hypocritical to pray and use his name.
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Other Religions Compatible to JWs
by greenie in
1. jw
2. friends
just wondering, are there any religions that exist that might be palatable to dubs?

i realize all of their teaching goes against this, but i'm wondering from an outside or neutral view, can you think of any that would work for someone who was/is a jw?

southern baptist?
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FRIENDS VS Theocratic FRIENDS - Gag Alert!
by Girlie in
1. jw
2. friends
a jw associate emailed this to me.

exudes of typical jw smugness towards "worldly" folks.

has this been your experience in the borg?.
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Polanski moral equivocation makes me sick...
by avishai in
1. watchtower
2. child-abuse
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joan-z-shore/polanskis-arrest-shame-on_b_301134.html.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postpartisan/2009/09/the_outrageous_arrest_of_roman.html.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/aleqm5jsliygp7jjrlsryfva5vj_hzhlsgd9b0f3503.
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Is Christianity a form of mental disorder?
by John Doe in
1. jw
2. friends
take the average born again.

they begin their day imagining a powerful imaginary friend, and then go around mocking rational people and daring them to disprove the imaginary friend exists.

some even hear voices from their imaginary friend and claim he exercises magic for their benefit.
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Ex-Wife of Canadian JW Attorney Speaks to NATIONAL POST about KIDNAPPING sick JW kids
by AndersonsInfo in
1. watchtower
2. medical
jwn poster, uzzah, posted a link to this article in one of his older posts which he brought to the top, but i think this excellent article deserves a thread of its own.

http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/members/private/178981/1/interesting-phone-call-media-the-blood-issuenational post http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=2041666sept.

28, 2009. a witness accountchurch denies moving children to avoid transfusions.
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Comments on JWD/JWN Bethel Comments just after 9/11/2001 attack on WTC
by blondie in
1. jw
2. friends
http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/11831/1/ashamed.

http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/11996/1.ashx.

http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/43241/1.ashx.
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Generation Change
by greenie in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
hi all,.

i've heard several reference to the "generation change.

" some of you have said they've revised this several times, including in 1995. onthewayout, i've heard you mention it a couple of times.. can anyone explain to me what this is, or where to find more information on it?.