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Live within a lie.
by acolytes in
1. jw
2. friends
the main pillar of the watchtower sytem is living a lie.. i have concluded most jehovers witnesses live within a lie.

they need not accept the lie.

it is enough for them to have accepted their life with it and in it.. most witnesses are not even enthusiastic to aquaint the public with the life saving knowledge they claim to posess.
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Favourite Movie. (The Happiest Days Of My Life)
by acolytes in
1. jw
2. friends
there was recently a thread about nominating our most memorable movies.. i was lost from the the 20s 30s 40s 50s 60s 70s 80s 90s untill present.

(so i didnt contribute).

then today i looked at my favourite movie of all time.
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Did I commit the unforgivable sin?
by AlexHall in
1. jw
2. experiences
when i was ex-communicated by the jw s a couple of years ago one thought ran through my mind.

had i commited the unforgivable sin?.

i have willingly divorced my wife without a scriptual reason for it.
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Congregation "Bible Study" Comments - Week Commencing 7 September 2009
by LUKEWARM in
1. jw
2. friends
*** lv chap.

9 pp.

97-109 "flee from fornication" ***.
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Today I realized we are living in "the last days." Socks!
by Witness 007 in
1. jw
2. experiences
i went to my sock draw and for some reason i could not find two the same color...what the hell!

maybe a "tartarus" or "gehenna" for wicked socks.

i swear this is some demonized crap as i sit here at work with one grey one black sock!.
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Critical Times hard to deal with.....
by acolytes in
1. jw
2. friends
do you fear the jehovers witnesses and the organisation ?.

how is the watchtower still harassing you ?.

i must sat i certainly applied the scripture on" critical times hard to deal with" towards the society and its members when i left.. acolytes.
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Do You Have "Contempt" For The Witnesses?
by minimus in
1. jw
2. friends
i do.

i totally feel disdain for the organization.

they suck..
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The Sheep and the Shepherds.
by acolytes in
1. jw
2. friends
the shepherds have the "truth" and they hand down their version of "truth" and those shepherds sit at the top of the organisation.. the shepherds know everything about the organisation.

as you come down from the peak you meet more and more people who know less and less about how the organisation works.

the shepherdsensure that everyone lower down the organisation know only their own individual contribution to the organisation.
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Books that touch us.
by PSacramento in
1. jw
2. experiences
not sure if there was a thread like this before, but.... there are times that certain books touch us in our spirtual lives, sometimes in an emotional way, other times in a theocratical way.. the shack by william young touched me deeply and renewed my faith in jesus and god.. in search of christain freedom and crisis of conscience by raymond franz, made me aware that the issues i laways had with organized religion were not just mine.. question of consceince by charles davis, showed me the the issues that mr.franz faced in the wt were faced by other in the rcc far earlier and made me understand that we must truly server christ and not any man-made organization.. the jesus i never knew by philip yancey, which i read after the shack motivate dme to read the nt with new eyes.. the nrsv of the nt with greek interlinear, one of the best study interlinears i have.. the oxford bible commentary, a must for any student of the bible.. .
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WBTS -A MODERN-DAY 'NAZI PARTY'??
by Scott77 in
1. jw
2. friends
considering the way the wbts controls and manipulates people in its mental grip, is it logical to compare it to the the infamous german nazi party?

is this an exageration?

what parallel can be drawn between the two?