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Women Apostles in New Testament Times
by Athanasius in
1. watchtower
2. bible
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Poll: Who Left Whilst Still Believing?
by brinjen in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
this is for an upcoming youtube project.

i would love to do this on a mass scale... think there might be something "big" in the results.. 1. were you a born-in (including those who's parents converted while they were still children) or did you convert as an adult?.

2. when you left, did you still (a) fully believe in the truthtm, (b) partially believe or (c) realise it was all a load of crap?.
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Inference and what jehovahs witnesses fail to see wrt. 607, evolution, the ark, etc.
by bohm in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
"hey guys, last summer i spend 3 days in the stomach of a live sperm whale".

the imediate reaction when you hear that is to think im lying.

if i had written that in a book called "the things i did last summer", everyone would tend to treat that rest of the material in that book with sceptisism.
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Disfellowshipping reasons
by GapingMouth in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i grew up as a dub, and i was taught that there weren't specific reasons why people got disfellowshipped.

i was taught they didn't announce what the wrong was as they were df'd because they were 'unrepentant'.

now i know the wts is full of **** and i see a few posts about tattoos and piercings etc being cause for df'ing.
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Need Questions
by ufo1 in
1. watchtower
2. bible
i used to post here a while back as 2112 and i am posting again.

i have continued to read but have just been too busy to post.. anyhow, over to past few years my jw wife has aced if the elders could "talk" to me.

i have always said no, only because i didn't want to bother.
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Cost cutting! The New world Translation is now a soft cover paperback! Mormon style!
by Witness 007 in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
calanders have been shrunk to half {less room for hours} awake is now monthly, the watchtower has a "witness only" edition and now.....the bibles are soft cover like the "book of mormon".......less cash out i guess..
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"Pioneer Syndrome" - Pioneers from the 1990's are getting very sick in 2009! Theories?
by Witness 007 in
1. jw
2. experiences
just heard sister g______ is very ill and not looking good at all.

shes in her 40's and looks like an old lady!

very tired she can barely manage to work a day or two because she has to...i myself crashed with glanduar fever and was tired for 4 years...still others have developed "pioneer syndrome" tired, always ill with no cure, increased need for sleep.
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i don't eat...
by highdose in
1. jw
2. friends
as i tuck into some very nice birthday cake today i'm reminded at my many attempts at entertaining jw's over the years.

eventualy i stopped because whenever i invited someone i got told " i don't eat..." wheat, dairy, sugar, etc.

it made catering almost impossible and that was the rare poliet ones.
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How many people in prison are JW's?
by Gadget in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
i've been reading the topic about how garrido met his wife while in prison, and the discussion about how prison inmates are preached to by jw's.. has anyone done any research into how many people claiming to be jw's there are in prison?

in the uk it should be quite easy to find out because of the freedom of information act.

it could even be broken down to how many are in dispersal prisons (and so for much more serious offences), and how many are covered by rule 43 (segregated for their own protection), and how this measures as a total of the prison population.. the last time i looked it up, there was 1 jw to approx 300 people in the uk.
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Have you called your mother lately?
by beksbks in
1. jw
2. friends
my mom is pretty cool.

81 years old and still going fairly strong.

my older sister was the first one to leave the dubs in our 3rd gen jw family.