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Disfellowshipped for Being Raped!
by UnDisfellowshipped in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
march 8th 1974 issue, pages 13-16:.

"scream!

scream!
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Holocaust Denier
by Kenneson in
1. jw
2. friends
at the beginning of the week i watched a documentary on the libel.

suit brought against penguin books and deborah lipstadt but lost by.

holocaust denier david irving?
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Me and my brother.
by nicolaou in
1. jw
2. friends
an earlier discussion has been highlighting the differences between da'ing and df'ing.

xena said:i am sorry qadreena but i have never in the 20 some odd years i have been a jw ever heard of an unbaptised publisher being d/aed...marked as bad association yes..but d/a...no...but i guess stranger things can happen.... well that brought it all back.. actually xena the exact same thing happened to my brother in the early 80's.

he was only 14. he'd carried on associating with a friend of his who'd been disfellowshipped.
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Evolution Tree has no Trunk
by Escargot in
1. jw
2. friends
simon: last post on this topic for the week!

hope all have enjoyed this information!.

"""""missing trunk .
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BEAT that Child!
by Farkel in
1. jw
2. friends
this is sort of a continuation of threads on dubs and how they are conditioned to discipline their children.

someone questioned whether the society actually encouraged dubs to whup their children.

i only had enough time to dig up a few salient quotes from the wt magazine.
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Reasons To Believe (Dr. Hugh Ross)
by stevieb1 in
1. jw
2. experiences
is everyone familiar with dr. hugh ross and his organization reasons to believe?

i have learned much from this ministry.. hugh ross is a trained scientist and pastor who specialises in marrying the bible with science (both of which are records of truth).

he has an msc and phd in astronomy and was a post-doctoral fellow with the california institute of technology.
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Why No Disfellowshipping Before 1952?
by blondie in
1. jw
2. friends
why was there no official arrangement before 1952 to disfellowship people?

was there a different procedure with a different name?

was no one committing disfellowshipping offenses?
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The Watchtower and the Masons
by ozziepost in
1. jw
2. friends
the latest edition of the free in christ ministries journal contains a very interesting article entitled the watchtower and masons.. drawing upon material from the book the watchtower & the masons by fritz springmeier, it gives the following parallels between the things that c t russell believed and those taught by the masons:.

* both believe jehovah is the most important word being the basis of their dogma, and the name of their god.

* both believe god yielded power to a lesser god.
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ANOINTING - How JWs really know!
by Amazing in
1. jw
2. friends
anointing - how jws really know!

[note: this is a 7 page post in case you may want to print it out and read it later.

i hope that i do provide clarity on this topic, but i accept that i may have muddied the waters as much as i have tried to clear them up.
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"He who loves me will OBEY my commandments...
by AGuest in
1. watchtower
2. bible
to the household of god, israel, that is on jw.com, and all those who 'got with' them:.

may you have peace!.

because israel has, at this 'season' fallen asleep with regard to many 'things' that our lord, the son of god, jah-eshua mischa-jah ("jah saves"; messiah - "chosen of jah"), 'commanded' us to teach others (matthew 28:20), i am compelled by the spirit of my father, the holy one of israel, jah of armies (psalm 68:4), that is in me, by means of my lord, to remind israel of one of such commandments.. on the night that he was put to death in the flesh, our lord gave a commandment, to which he stated "keep doing this in remembrance of me.