Beth Sarim

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  The Appeal and Draw of the Watchtower

  by Saved_JW in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  when i first left the watchtower organization in 2008, a flood of emotions came back to me.

  betrayal, anger, resentment, deep depression from the relationships lost.

  emotions seemed to guide my viewpoint of others as well.

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  Beth Sarim

  The emotional control of being shunned by pretty much all of your friends and family can easily over power anyone.
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  JAMES WOODS is in the hospital (heart related)

  by Terry in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  james woods has been a long time regular on this discussion group in all of its incarnations.. he had some kind of "heart-attack" and has been in dallas' emergency ward for several days.

  he also has a blood clot doctors are working to break up.. 972-261-4412 is his cell number.. he was in a talking mood yesterday afternoon.. i bet it wouldn't kill him to get some well-wishes.. james goes back a long way as an ex-jw.

  he knows where the bodies are buried :).

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  Beth Sarim

  Good Luck James on a full recovery!!!!!!
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  Elder On Tablet During Prayer

  by jw07 in

  1. watchtower
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  during a prayer in the kh all our eyes are supposed to be closed, right?

  i've never been one to fully my eyes during prayers.

  i'll close them down, but just enough that i can still peep around at what's happening without being noticed.. there's something i've noticed a certain elder doing for the second time now.

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  Yes, it's many of the hypocritical ways of the elders.
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  Now you don't even have to go to the Kingdom Hall - ALL meetings to be recorded & available on jw.org (if you have a password)

  by sir82 in

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  2. friends

  latest boe letter:.

  october 22, 2015. to all bodies of eldersre: use of jw stream.

  dear brothers:we are writing to inform you that arrangements are being made for video recordings ofcongregation meetings, circuit assemblies, and conventions to be uploaded to jw stream (accessibleat http://stream.jw.org) in various languages.

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  Beth Sarim

  Maybe they have no choice but to go this route with meetings only streamlined due to the influx of ''child abuse'' cases and lawsuits because of those. Could be a liability issue perhaps.
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  Other Religious Groups Critical of Higher Education

  by Wild_Thing in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i was reading an essay online about how witnesses are critical of higher education and discourage it.

  the editor's note said there are other conservative religious groups that hold the same view towards education.. there are?

  do any of you know of any religious group that works as hard as the jws at keeping their members stupid?.

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  Beth Sarim

  There will always be high control groups to keep members stupid to squash their ability to develop ''critical thinking'' skills. Nuff said.
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  Promoting Hate & Shunning of their own people, how does Watchtower do it?

  by clarity in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  short clip from pbs presentation the brain.. fascinating studies of the brain & its function.

  watch as people become mind controlled to hate & kill their own people ....people they loved.

  propaganda from watchtower literature, convention battering accomplishes the same thing as seen on this clip.

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  Various avenues are used by the Borg to induce fear into members, or just plain in general who see it.
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  Are Jehovah's Witnesses marriages even legit?

  by Joliette in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i ask this because of the circumstances behind why they get married and who they get married by.

  i know people say that they are really in love, they love jehovah, etc, but are these marriages even legit.

  i've talked to older jw's sister who are now widowed, some of them say that they were trapped in a marriages.

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  Beth Sarim

  ''I must also add the third-party sister/brother that watches over you at every of these dates - or you have automatically had sex in the eyes of elders. Now that I think about it, it's so ridiculous...''

  I know, ludicrous. Looney tune rules.
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  Make your predictions!

  by Coded Logic in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the more specific the better :) here are mine:.

  i predict that within the next two to three years (2017-2018) we will start seeing negative numbers in growth.. i predict that within the next thirteen to fifteen years (2027-2030) the number of jws will be less than 4million.. and i predict that by the time the first person sets foot on mars there will already have been a major split in the organization with either one of the gb or a branch overseer starting a new religion..

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  I think that in the years to come all printing will cease and all of the talks, both midweek and Sunday, will be via video set-up at the KH.

  All brochures, magazines etc. will only be accessible through tablet or smartphone. When/if people still go in field service I think the publisher will only be able to show the householder a link on their smartphone and the householder will scan the Q.R. code.
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  Are Jehovah's Witnesses marriages even legit?

  by Joliette in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i ask this because of the circumstances behind why they get married and who they get married by.

  i know people say that they are really in love, they love jehovah, etc, but are these marriages even legit.

  i've talked to older jw's sister who are now widowed, some of them say that they were trapped in a marriages.

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  JW's do have it tough when it comes to marriage. Times change, the Borg and it's narrow-minded ways don't. Living together and being with someone 24/7 is the way to get to know someone. Dating someone for a few months getting to see someone for a few hours at a time then marrying is taking a huge leap of faith.
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  No more printing of WT and Awake in my country.. Shit just got real

  by cognitivedizzy in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  guys .

  a letter was just read in out kh stating that all printing of wt and awake is ceased for the coming year and we will just place tracts on fs, countries which were cared by our branch will be cared by other countries...along with this they read the new fs form and stuff about reporting links of videos wtf..lol.

  i can't tell which country perhaps that will give away a lot, any one with a similar information.

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  Beth Sarim

  Just a few weeks ago it was announced after the Sunday WT that the Awake and Watchtower were going to be cut down to bimonthly editions.

  Should what's happening in India come to be all over the Earth, and when it's announced at the meetings worldwide, I wonder how the rank and file will absorb it. Surely the hard core ones will just quietly absorb it. I'm 100% sure of that.