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  Doomsday Cults.. Hidden in America

  by Tater-T in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1z7cegbroz4.

  i'm surprised there wasn't a thread on this already... so i' guess i'll start it.. new series on discovery channel .. " hidden in america" first episode.

  " doomsday cults" ... it aired about a month ago, did anyone else see it?

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  Mad Sweeney

  I think it's hilarious how the JWs think they're so well-known in the USA and around the world. Since I left I've had to explain so much to so many people who have NO CLUE about the WT or JWs despite their "global witnessing work." Hidden in America, indeed. LOL.
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  "The Truth Changes" with the text from the "Simplified" Edition WT

  by Doug Mason in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  the text i used in my analysis, "the truth changes: watchtower july 15, 2013" comes from the "study" edition of that magazine.. it is still available at: http://www.jwstudies.com/the_truth_changes.pdf.

  i have now used the text from the "simplified" edition, and it is available at:.

  http://www.jwstudies.com/the_truth_changes_in_the_simplified_watchtower.pdf.

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  Mad Sweeney

  What JeffT said.

  If Christ hasn't approved them yet, why should anyone listen to and obey them? How are they any different from any other self-appointed authority?

  They don't have answers to those questions, I don't believe.
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  Under construction but live - FREEMINDS 2.0

  by Dogpatch in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  check out the new freeminds 2.0 currently at:.

  http://freeminds2.org.

  so the old and new will be combined all in one site shortly at freeminds.org.

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  Mad Sweeney

  Awesome!
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  The Faithful & Discreet Slave Gets World Wide Notoriety In For The America's BIGGEST Payout In A Child Abuse Case 28,000,000 Leaving Jesus With No Choice Except To Find A Replacement

  by frankiespeakin in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  i know this has been posted before anyhow i thought this a good title to post it under:.

  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2160605/candance-conti-molested-jehovahs-witnesses-member-age-nine-wins-28milion.html.

  woman molested by jehovah's witnesses member at age nine wins $28million in america's biggest religious sex abuse payout .

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  Mad Sweeney

  You've got it, metatron.

  Which makes me wonder just how they're going to spin an answer to those who ask the inevitable question: since you have not yet been appointed over all his belongings, why exactly should anyone listen to you? (I haven't read the entire July WT, only excerpts, so maybe they addressed this already.)
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  The Faithful & Discreet Slave Gets World Wide Notoriety In For The America's BIGGEST Payout In A Child Abuse Case 28,000,000 Leaving Jesus With No Choice Except To Find A Replacement

  by frankiespeakin in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  i know this has been posted before anyhow i thought this a good title to post it under:.

  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2160605/candance-conti-molested-jehovahs-witnesses-member-age-nine-wins-28milion.html.

  woman molested by jehovah's witnesses member at age nine wins $28million in america's biggest religious sex abuse payout .

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  Mad Sweeney

  17:15 in the video to get to the Borg trial section.
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  Why did you stop believing in God?

  by The Quiet One in

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  Mad Sweeney

  I stopped believing in everything.

  There are things with a preponderance of evidence, enough evidence for me to proceed through life as if they are true.

  There are things with a lack of evidence, such a lack that it is only practical for me to proceed through life as if they are false. Bible god is one of these.

  There are A LOT of things I simply don't know enough about to make an informed decision. These things are waiting for me to learn them. :)
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  Build it and Make Them Come

  by OnTheWayOut in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  it's the same old story with watchtower, even at the local level.. my mother has to drive a slightly uncomfortable distance to her kingdom hall in affluent suburbia.

  she doesn't mind because the neighborhoods are nice and she sticks to main streets, but she is coming home by herself late on thursday night.

  (she is married to an unbeliever.

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  Mad Sweeney

  This thread wasn't about what I had hoped.

  But yeah, it's a shame how the Borg railroads the local congregations into keeping their Regional Building Racket going.
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  Who has experienced a REAL demonic incident?

  by Monsieur in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  has anybody here experienced a bonafide, real, true incident in whicy 'demons' actually interacted with you or did something 'supernatural' that left you convinced beyond a shadow of a doubt that satan and his demons exist??.

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  Mad Sweeney

  Freshman psych class taught me that eyewitness testimony is among the most unreliable forms of evidence around. My psych teacher would get out of jury duty every time just by saying he's a psychologist whose research focuses on the unreliability of eyewitness testimony.

  Just because you experience something doesn't mean you're qualified to interpret the experience.

  That said, just because something happens in your head doesn't mean it isn't real.

  But what does "real" mean? There is no evidence for actual invisible beings walking around our planet nor is there any testable hypothesis I know of for how such an invisible being could even be possible. (If there is, I think that would be cool to read about, so post a link. )
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  BUILD IT AND THEY WILL COME.....let's rebuild!

  by Terry in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  okay we've all beat our chest, lamented and throttled the dead horse of aawa.. time to move on!.

  i suggest those of us on j-w.n who care about creating something the right way take the trouble to get the framework going.. let's do the grunt work and get the nattering, debates, naming and organizing already pre-approved so that "others" who have the talent, ability, motivation and resources can move in and turn the key!.

  because it was not done before.. there is more wisdom on this discussion board in our vast numbers than there could possibly be in a virtual boardroom with 8 people brain-storming.. that isn't an insult--it is just a statistical fact!.

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  Mad Sweeney

  Of course the letters won't be read after the first dozen or so, Las Malvinas son Argentinas, but if they get hundreds of them on the same day it's sure to get the attention of the people who usually check the mail. Maybe it helps just one person there in the mail room to start wondering. That's worth more than a paper/stamp/envelope.
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  BUILD IT AND THEY WILL COME.....let's rebuild!

  by Terry in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  okay we've all beat our chest, lamented and throttled the dead horse of aawa.. time to move on!.

  i suggest those of us on j-w.n who care about creating something the right way take the trouble to get the framework going.. let's do the grunt work and get the nattering, debates, naming and organizing already pre-approved so that "others" who have the talent, ability, motivation and resources can move in and turn the key!.

  because it was not done before.. there is more wisdom on this discussion board in our vast numbers than there could possibly be in a virtual boardroom with 8 people brain-storming.. that isn't an insult--it is just a statistical fact!.

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  Mad Sweeney

  Terry, you rock, bro.