Topics Started by monkeyman

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A New Term
by monkeyman in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
jw identify any who cease to attend meetings as those were stumbled fell away drifted away or not of our sort.. .

this is grossly unfair and blatantly untrue in most cases.

in my case, i have 2 family members that no longer attend because they were abused by several elders.
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Compare Bethel with the LDS HQ in Salt Lake City
by POs Son in
1. jw
2. friends
i have been to both, bethel (all 3 complexes: brooklyn, walkill, paterson plus the jersey city stanley theater) as a teenager, and to tour the lds (mormon) complex in salt lake city as an adult.

i did bethel as a "witness" child, and slc as a totally non-jw adult.

the lds complex seemed more open to the public, inviting and comfortable.
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New Changes the WT Society should make next
by monkeyman in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
ok, here are some things to think about for fun since they wont ever be enacted.

but its fun to fantasize.

please input your thoughts and suggestions!.
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Why is the US so afraid of Social Health Care?
by eyeslice in
1. jw
2. friends
i just don't get why the us is so afraid of social health care, and is so opposed to the canadian and british models.

the plain fact is that there are far more americans without access to health care than the combined populations of sweden, norway, denmark and finland.. a measure of the maturity of any society has to be how it sees fit to re-apportion its wealth.. we are quick to criticise african leaders who line their own pockets but leave the masses in poverty but cannot see that blindly following capitalist principles is much the same.

if we live in a wealthy society then part of that wealth has to be put back into society as a whole.. .
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Mental Illness with Jehovah's Witnesses
by Hope4Others in
1. watchtower
2. medical
this presentation goes over jerry bergman's research on mental illness with jehovah's witnesses.

this includes over 8 different research projects conducted by different doctors.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urbxtvuat1g.
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I can't take this pain anymore...my life at dead end
by JustHuman14 in
1. jw
2. experiences
my life has reached to a dead end...i'm stuck and there is no way out.

i was inactive for 6 years and i'm disfellowshiped for the past 3. i would never think that my life would have been in this terrible mess.. .

i wasn't planned to be disfellowshiped by my "wife" turned me in to the elders for apostasy 2 times!!!
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Public Talk Outlines
by Lady Lee in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i have been collecting the public talk outlines.

i have almost all of them but there are a few missing.

i have tiles for some but just numbers for others.
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Changes to the Kingdom Interlinear
by PanzerZauberei in
1. watchtower
2. bible
in the 1969 kit the society used a book by bible scholar justus lipsius as source material for their upright stake "stauros" doctrine of the death of christ.

they used an image of a man hung on an upright stake with no crossbeam attached to it.

then they placed a caption under it saying that the illustration came from lipsius.
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The 12-Member Governing Body - Pics, info and analysis on the new additions
by Neo in
1. jw
2. friends
guy pierce samuel herd gerrit losch david splane.

"no more additions!".

"no, no more additions!
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CANCER and spankin' de monkey...
by ninecharger in
1. jw
2. friends
i read a report in a science mag recently,.

it said that males who ejaculated more than six times a week in their teens to late 20s were less likely to get prostate cancer.

godalmighty - does this mean that being good boys now puts us at risk??.