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  VERY IMPORTANT QUESTION!!!!

  by brotherdan in

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  so i was talking to one of my "apologist" friends, and he just got back from a mormon outreach mission in utah.

  he was able to help a 17 year old mormon girl to begin to see the truth and was really excited about it.

  he goes to these temple conventions and temple openings all the time to preach jesus to them.. so he was interested in doing that at a jw convention.

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  Rutherford Interviews about Beth Sarim

  by brotherdan in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  but i thought it was very insightful as to the craziness of rutherford.

  in these articles, he is interviewed by the san diego sun and time magazine.

  i'd like to know what everyone thinks!

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  Schnell and The Watchtowers everchanging "truth"

  by brotherdan in

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  i guess that's not the most interesting sounding topic, but i've been reading william schnells book "into the light of christianity" and came across something that i thought was totally profound.

  "i now know that all cults...interpose an intermediary center for salvation.

  in this way they sidetrack the true purpose of christianity, which is, to give the image and likeness of jesus christ full play for growth in the individual.

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  Sexism and the Organization

  by brotherdan in

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  2. beliefs

  i know this may be a touchy subject, but it's something that i think has been so obvious for the last few weeks at the meetings.

  let me start by saying that i do understand the "headship" arrangement, and agree that it is biblical.. but it seems that the tendency is to take it way too far.

  whenever speaking about training children, i've noticed that the boys are told to be trained by their fathers in various types of work, including trades.

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  Studies in the Scriptures

  by brotherdan in

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  2. friends

  so for s&gs i started reading russells early works beginning today.

  i started with the 1886 "plan of the ages" book.

  already going through paragraph 1 i am seeing some huge signposts for what would happen later in the religion.. in his explanation of a beginning of an examination into the scriptures he says that there are only 2 ways open to us.

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  New Drama

  by brotherdan in

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  i just can't win!

  about a year ago when i began to have doubts i talked to one of my old friends about what i was feeling.

  her and her husband actually did a ton of research and left the organization quietly and quickly.

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  Ray Franz Emails: Part 3 - Final

  by brotherdan in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  here is the final email i received from ray prior to his death.. [if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>normal</w:view> <w:zoom>0</w:zoom> <w:trackmoves /> <w:trackformatting /> <w:punctuationkerning /> <w:validateagainstschemas /> <w:saveifxmlinvalid>false</w:saveifxmlinvalid> <w:ignoremixedcontent>false</w:ignoremixedcontent> <w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext>false</w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext> <w:donotpromoteqf /> <w:lidthemeother>en-us</w:lidthemeother> <w:lidthemeasian>x-none</w:lidthemeasian> <w:lidthemecomplexscript>x-none</w:lidthemecomplexscript> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables /> <w:snaptogridincell /> <w:wraptextwithpunct /> <w:useasianbreakrules /> <w:dontgrowautofit /> <w:splitpgbreakandparamark /> <w:dontvertaligncellwithsp /> <w:dontbreakconstrainedforcedtables /> <w:dontvertalignintxbx /> <w:word11kerningpairs /> <w:cachedcolbalance /> </w:compatibility> <w:browserlevel>microsoftinternetexplorer4</w:browserlevel> <m:mathpr> <m:mathfont m:val="cambria math" /> <m:brkbin m:val="before" /> <m:brkbinsub m:val="&#45;-" /> <m:smallfrac m:val="off" /> <m:dispdef /> <m:lmargin m:val="0" /> <m:rmargin m:val="0" /> <m:defjc m:val="centergroup" /> <m:wrapindent m:val="1440" /> <m:intlim m:val="subsup" /> <m:narylim m:val="undovr" /> </m:mathpr></w:worddocument> </xml><!

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  dear daniel,.

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  Ray Franz Emails: Part 2

  by brotherdan in

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  here is a second email from ray sent just a few months before he passed away:.

  dear daniel,.

  i can sympathize with you in the feeling of a measure of uncertainty that you experience.

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  Ray Franz emails: Part 1

  by brotherdan in

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  not just in 3his works2 but in 3all things2 or in 3everything2 god is able.

  if people were simply to read the same text in a variety of translations.. they would then at least see that where translation is concerned, dogmatism.

  life.

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  My sucky situation

  by brotherdan in

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  hi guys,.

  sadly some of them had been in bethel for 5 - 10 years and were still cleaning toilets.. after about 2 years of it i couldn't do it anymore.

  i always knew something wasn't quite right with this organization.

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