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WT Article: What Should Children Learn
by corpusdei in
1. watchtower
2. bible
i was just perusing the latest watchtower (available here) and noticed something that made me chuckle a little.

in one of the first articles talking about what children should learn, they quote exodus 22:22-24:.

what the bible teaches: you people must not affliict any... fatherless boy.
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I have just left my parents home and the JW's about six months ago and have found it hard to get over.
by StephanieH in
1. jw
2. experiences
i finally desided to leave the witnesses therefore my family and basicly everyone and everything i had ever known.

i was 19 about to be 20 and i had just finished my first semester at a community college.

i was shocked at the respons of my father and others about me attending college at first they were ok but behind my back they were pretty much betting on my failier.
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True Friendship Only Found In the Organization?
by What Now? in
1. jw
2. experiences
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often times, i read in the magazines that only among jehovahs people will you find true friendship.
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Lies about Suicides in Congregations
by EXMS in
1. jw
2. experiences
have you ever noticed what the elders say when a depressed person commits suicide?.

i unfortunately knew of two people in my area, one a guy about my age, the other was in his mid 40's that commited suicide.

both times, at their memorials, the elders from stage said that they were home alone and was cleaning their hand gun/ rifle when it accidently fired and killed them.
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[2nd attempt] "We missed you SO much at the meeting...."
by Duncan in
1. jw
2. friends
how do some people *effortlessly* control others?.

and then there comes that first meeting they miss.. .

naked baby!
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Analysis: Did God Condone the Slave Trade
by corpusdei in
1. watchtower
2. bible
this is an analysis of an article published by the watchtower bible and tract society, entitled "did god condone the slave trade".

of necessity (and partly because of my tendency to ramble) i do go beyond the article itself into a wider exploration of the subject matter in places.

the article itself can be found on the wtbts website, here, and a pdf version can be found here.
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Q for all Christians (not just JW) about the ransom.
by Anony Mous in
1. watchtower
2. bible
so this is the basic logical flaw in christianity i believe.

a brother identified it from the stage for me in a talk.

we all agree (as christians and jw's) that the ransom was necessary because adam lost his perfection and everlasting life.. this is a paraphrase from the talk:.
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Any sins you got away with?
by fade_away in
1. jw
2. experiences
i was reading a thread on here that got me thinking.. what is the purpose of confession if not another method of mind control?

back in ancient israel, confession was just this thing you did if you were a good jew.

just like observing sabbath, fasting.. you get the point.
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WT scars that run deep
by man in black in
1. jw
2. experiences
my son who is 26 yrs.

old recently confided in my wife and myself that he is having a rough time moving on past the jw mindset.. he was associated with the witnesses for the first 24 years of his life, and he really tried to do the whole witness thing correctly, yet he was and still is a shy person.

now that he has been out for two years, he is having a lot of anger toward people who believe in god.
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For Perry: the most distant known object in the Universe.
by BurnTheShips in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4274187/.

this object is 13 billion light-years away.. light travels 300,000 kilometers per second.. it took 13 billion years for us to receive the light that was recorded as the image in the article:.

buy a cheap telescope at a department store, and you can see the andromeda galaxy easily.