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  Jehovah’s Witnesses and Child Sex Abuse – A Brief Handbook for Attorneys

  by Watchtower-Free in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  free download.

  https://jwvictims.org/jehovahs-witnesses-and-child-sex-abuse-a-brief-handbook-for-attorneys/ .

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  Fernando

  Thank you, it looks like a lot of effort went into this document, great tool and idea.
  
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  Hi everyone, just signed up here

  by samj in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  hi, i just signed up.

  i'm 35, i've been baptized 20 years, married 15 years.

  it seems like the wife and i are going in opposite directions spiritually.

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  Fernando

  Hello and welcome samj.

  Please stay and take the time to get to know the locals who are all keen to share and support, and who come in a range of flavours and colours.
  

  Greetings

  Fernando
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  (A Childhood Memory) THE MYSTERY OF THE LOCKED CABINET

  by TerryWalstrom in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  the mystery of the locked cabinet.

  when i was about 10 years old, there was a tall, white handmade cabinet back in one of our storage sheds (a converted chicken house from back in the 30's, when my grandparents raised chickens in the great depression).

  affixed to its door, there was a big padlock on the cabinet.

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  Fernando

  "My grandfather came from Old School discipline tempered by Old Testament injunctions."

  What a grand and true turn of phrase Terry, you sure are a gifted master of language and story telling.
  
  
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  Bye and thanks for everything

  by LifesNotOver in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  we really went at it this weekend.

  pretty ugly!

  well at least now the air is cleared.

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  Fernando

  "There is no higher power than the truth."

  Wonderfully said Finkelstein.
  
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  But where else should we go? Can you answer this question?

  by purrpurr in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  having watched many jc youtube videos one question that gets asked is "where else would you go?".

  in other words if not jehovah's witnesses then what other religion or organisation would you go to?.

  it's one that i have trouble answering, what would you say?.

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  Fernando

  *** yb75 p. 225 Part 3—United States of America ***
  In 1951, advocates of true worship learned something significant about the term “religion.” Some of them could well recall 1938 when, at times, they carried the thought-provoking sign “Religion Is a Snare and a Racket.” From their standpoint then, all “religion” was unchristian, from the Devil. But The Watchtower of March 15, 1951, approved of using the adjectives “true” and “false” respecting religion.

  *** yb75 p. 161 Part 2—United States of America ***
  Ursula Serenco observes: “This was the time when we did not designate ‘true religion’ and ‘false religion’; all religion in totality was bad. The true we referred to as ‘worship,’ while the false was ‘religion.’”
  
  
  
  
  
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  But where else should we go? Can you answer this question?

  by purrpurr in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  having watched many jc youtube videos one question that gets asked is "where else would you go?".

  in other words if not jehovah's witnesses then what other religion or organisation would you go to?.

  it's one that i have trouble answering, what would you say?.

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  Fernando

  Did you know that until 1950 the Watchtower (correctly) taught that all "religion is a snare and a racket"?

  See the books "Enemies" (1937) and "Religion" (1940).

  You will not find the phrases "true religion" or "false religion" in these books - the concept was foreign to Rutherford.
  

  https://archive.org/details/EnemiesByJudgeRutherford1937

  http://ia601406.us.archive.org/23/items/WatchtowerLibrary/books/1940_rel_E.pdf
  
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  Graph of world population (from 10,001BC to 2015)

  by Fernando in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  what do you make of this graph?.

  http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=graph+population+of+earth.

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  What do you make of this graph?

  http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=graph+population+of+earth

  
  
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  What is the alternative to JW?

  by Formerbrother in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i mean this with all due respect, i would like to hear from genuine people who think jw have it wrong and then what is the truth?.

  im not talking about silly little quibbles here and there.. is jehovah real?

  the the bible is word?

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  https://escapetoreality.org/2016/07/07/8-signs-that-a-church-doesnt-get-grace/
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  What is the alternative to JW?

  by Formerbrother in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i mean this with all due respect, i would like to hear from genuine people who think jw have it wrong and then what is the truth?.

  im not talking about silly little quibbles here and there.. is jehovah real?

  the the bible is word?

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrLzYw6ULYw
  
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  What is the alternative to JW?

  by Formerbrother in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i mean this with all due respect, i would like to hear from genuine people who think jw have it wrong and then what is the truth?.

  im not talking about silly little quibbles here and there.. is jehovah real?

  the the bible is word?

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  Fernando

  "What is the alternative to JW?"

  As a believer I find the answer "simple".

  All religion is indeed a snare and a racket as the Watchtower taught up to 1950.

  Then they too became a religion.

  The alternative and antithesis to (any and all) religion is the liberating gospel of grace (aka the "good news").

  According to this message a right and clean standing with God is imputed and not earned, not deserved, nor paid for.

  To check this for oneself one can search for and mark every occurrence of the words righteous and righteousness by Paul in the Bible.