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  child molester reinstated

  by EmptyInside in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  i'm rather sick inside right now.

  i just found out the sicko that molested my friend, his daughters, grand-daughter, and others just got reinstated.

  he's been disfellowshipped for awhile now.

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  doublelife

  I just went to the link. They have a list of towns but not congregations. My town is already on the list.
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  child molester reinstated

  by EmptyInside in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  i'm rather sick inside right now.

  i just found out the sicko that molested my friend, his daughters, grand-daughter, and others just got reinstated.

  he's been disfellowshipped for awhile now.

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  Thanks for posting that link. I didn't know about that. I have a congregation to report.
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  Who Will You Watch - Jay, Conan, Dave, or Jimmy?

  by LostGeneration in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  assuming conan gets a new show on fox, who will you watch and why?.

  personally, i'm with conan, love his style, his comedy, etc.

  i like jay too, so probably him next, even though i think he deserves much of the blame for this deal.. then jimmy for me, though he gets a bit stale at times.. then dave, i used to love him back when he was at nbc, but now i cant watch him at all......

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  Coco
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  Who invented marriage?

  by doublelife in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i made another thread that had nothing to do with this but other people's comments lead me to think about it so i made a new thread.

  the comment was from magwitch about sex without marriage not being wrong and i agree.

  i know that those who believe in the bible will say adam and eve were the first married couple but i no longer believe in the bible.

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  doublelife

  Found this at Wikipedia

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marriage

  Various cultures have had their own theories on the origin of marriage. One example may lie in a man's need for assurance as to paternity of his children. He might therefore be willing to pay a bride price or provide for a woman in exchange for exclusive sexual access.

  This would explain why woman have often been viewed as a possession.
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  Who invented marriage?

  by doublelife in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i made another thread that had nothing to do with this but other people's comments lead me to think about it so i made a new thread.

  the comment was from magwitch about sex without marriage not being wrong and i agree.

  i know that those who believe in the bible will say adam and eve were the first married couple but i no longer believe in the bible.

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  I agree with OTWO, "mating pairs" doesn't answer the question of how it turned into marriage. There are other species that mate for life but without the marriage institution.
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  Who invented marriage?

  by doublelife in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i made another thread that had nothing to do with this but other people's comments lead me to think about it so i made a new thread.

  the comment was from magwitch about sex without marriage not being wrong and i agree.

  i know that those who believe in the bible will say adam and eve were the first married couple but i no longer believe in the bible.

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  doublelife

  I made another thread that had nothing to do with this but other people's comments lead me to think about it so I made a new thread.

  The comment was from magwitch about sex without marriage not being wrong and I agree. I know that those who believe in the bible will say Adam and Eve were the first married couple but I no longer believe in the bible. I'm beginning to lean toward deism. And since I don't believe that there is any holy book from a creator, it made me wonder how marriage started. Humans are the only species that marry. Who invented it and why? Was it religion? Was it government with or without a religious agenda?

  It seems that the only people who still feel pre-marital sex is wrong are those who have a religion to base that belief on. So what came first? Marriage or religion? If it was religion, did it create marriage for the purpose of controlling when people can have sex? For the purpose of condemning people who have pre-marital sex and telling them they're sinners?

  Btw, I don't think marriage is bad. I don't want anyone to get that assumption from this post.
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  JWs don't leave the organization over doctrine

  by doublelife in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  can anyone help me with a quote from a publication studied in '09 that had a box that said jws leave over selfish reasons but not over doctrine?

  i think it was studied in the bs but i can't find it and i already tried the search feature.

  i remember someone posted about it at the time it was studied.

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  EndofMysteries, I can't speak for magwitch but my understanding of her point is that sex before marriage is no longer wrong if you don't believe in the bible anymore. But since you don't have to believe in the bible to believe in a creator, you don't have to be athiest to realize sex without marriage is not wrong. That brings up another thought. I think I'm going to make a different post about it.
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  Has anyone seen the 4/15/2010 Watchtower with their own eyes?

  by HappyGuy in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i haven't followed the generation change in the doctrine that closely, just read a few snippets of the overlapping generations doctrine.

  i find this hard to believe even for the pathological liars the governing body.. has anyone seen the 4/15/2010 watchtower with their own eyes?.

  can anyone validate that the wtbts really is saying this overlapping generation idea the way it is being quoted on the internet in a few places?

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  I haven't seen the hard copy but it's on their website, jw.org.
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  What Are Some Ridiculous Things JWs Have Said?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  ....either in publications, during talks or by individual witnesses?.

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  Reading the daily text can count as your daily bible reading.
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  JWs don't leave the organization over doctrine

  by doublelife in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  can anyone help me with a quote from a publication studied in '09 that had a box that said jws leave over selfish reasons but not over doctrine?

  i think it was studied in the bs but i can't find it and i already tried the search feature.

  i remember someone posted about it at the time it was studied.

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  SirNose586 and Magwitch, I hadn't thought of that before. Good point. I remember when I was still in and I would hear of those getting df'd over conduct. I wonder how many of them were already out mentally.

  jdhf, welcome to the board. I think a lot of us have those feelings after leaving. I hate the fact that I used to defend the cult and now that I know it's a cult, I'm very humbled. I've learned a big life lesson to not treat others and look at others as if I'm smarter or that my way is the only right way. I feel like there wasn't one correct teaching that I was taught, not even one. Everything was a lie and now I'm going through the process of trying to find out what I believe. It's kind of becoming an obsession; it's taking up a lot of my time. I have 27 years of indoctrination to undue.