Rescripting_myself

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  Is Watchman guilty of the same "sin"?

  by Schizm in

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  as many of you likely know, the owner of the e-watchman website constantly charges the wts with having committed spiritual fornication with the united nations organization (the so-called ngo affair).

  i would like to ask you all a question in order to find out your opinion as to whether or not watchman has done a near equivalent thing that he charges the wts with having done.

  most of you were probably aware that watchman once advertised the e-watchman site on this site here (jw.com).

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  I agree with u Schizm. Any self-professing JW and especially one professing to b of the "anointed" wud never use what he wud consider an "apostate" site to advertise his own site or for any other purpose for that matter. So either e-watchman is not a true-believing JW or he is an extremely hypocritical one. It could also be that he is very mentally sick and in need of psychiatric/psychological attention in which case we need to empathise/sympathise with him instead of condemning him.

  As to Corvin, I would leave him alone. No need to quarrel. It does not contribute to ua qn.
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  US Christian fundamentalists are driving Bush's Middle East policy

  by Bryan in

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  it's all about texas!.

  their beliefs are bonkers, but they are at the heart of power .

  us christian fundamentalists are driving bush's middle east policy .

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  This sounds very wacky almost beyond belief. It's down-hearting to imagine that some of the most powerful men on earth ascribe to such wacky beliefs and views.
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  The colour of grey

  by beaker in

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  g,day all from sydney.

  i've been dropping in to the board since being d'fd a month ago and have been very encouraged by the posts and they way everyone has been able to move on since leaving the collective.. being a 5th generation, it was always very hard for me to imagine life life outside the truman show bubble.

  having a huge extended family who are all believers means that i now have virtually nil social contacts.. soon to be divorced, the only contact i have with my past life is weekend visits from my 7 year old boy and 9 year old girl.

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  Welcome Beaker! Seeing what u have seen as reflected in ua poem was very painful 4 me.But three and a half years down the line my life is much richer and much more normal than when I came to "my senses" ( using wbts terminology). By the way have u been to Timothy Campbell's web-site? I found it very useful when I was at the stage u r in now.
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  the most inconseqvent rule among JWs

  by happy man in

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  i can take one exampel.. we all now about the polyci to convickt sexabuser ot pedofiles,you must have two wittneses to what happend if not we must putt it i n jehovas hand,.

  but if you sleep over together before you are married, you dont need any wittneses att al to be dfd or reeprofed, even if it is a third person ther it is an dfd thing says the elder book.enen if it is an third person ther.. why it is so important widh two wittneses to judge sexabuser, but when it comes to peopel as doing nothing only sleep over in the same department it need no wittneses att al to bad things happend to dfd them.. so you can be harder judged if you only sleep in a bed than if you rape chilrden, or sex abuse them in any way,this is not so unusal, i have among my family peopel as have been judged fore this minor thing, sleeping over widhuot doing anything, the punishment was totaly reeprof.. i have also exampel from elder as have use girls under 15 fore porniea, and the punishment was only steep down as an elder.. some very hard things to deal widh fore mee and some alse as now this.. i can also ask one more qestion, wt have told us to tell evrythnig bad we do at once, but if we hide it fore a long time, how will it effeckt the puishment?.

  softer or harder , intresting to see what your answer on this is, i new it and will tell later.. ..

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  Beli, I can't agree more with you. I find it a waste of time and emotion to try and make sense of some of the wbts rules. They simply do not make any. The only (of course not the only!) way to look at them is what Beli has said, -they are manmade.
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  crisis of conscience....please help

  by boa in

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  allo folks.... .

  please tell me if you think a jehovah's witness could read crisis of concience and continue to be a jw after finishing it?

  since i have heard vague stories that there are some who have continued to be a jw, please relate the story and how you think this could be.

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  It is difficult to comprehend how one read c of c and remain a JW from the heart. One can of course remain in the org for other reasons such as family but in their heart not be a JW which I find understable. Such a person would just be going through the motions devoid of conviction and dedication until such a time as they can comfortably cut links with wbts.
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  research article on Jehovah's Witnesses

  by Stephen Cox in

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  dear friends,.

  this is to announce a long research article that i have published in the latest (sept-oct) issue of "liberty" magazine.

  ("liberty" is a libertarian intellectual journal and is available at barnes and noble, borders, etc., or from po box 1181, port townsend wa 98368. its price is $5.

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  Any chance of having the article on the web soon so those of us in the third world who cannot access Barnes ... can get a chance of reading it? I live in Nairobi, Kenya.

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  My dilemma

  by eyeslice in

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  i have been associated with the jws all my life, recently turning 50 years old.

  i was a true believer, a hard working elder, very zealous for the truth, a pillar in the congregation, and a fine speaker and teacher.

  i even served in an extremely difficult foreign land for a while with my family.. i always knew we had our problems, but felt that it was my responsibility to effect change from within.

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  I empathize with your dilemma. Have u read Amazing's account of how he handled his situation which is very similar to yours? If not, I suggest that you do so. It might give you a perspective to refer to.Wish you the best in this struggle that all those of us who have been true believers have to face.I was brought up a JW from age 6 and realized who WTS really is only 2 years ago at age 37.

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  SHOULD CHRISTIAN wear thong undies??

  by QUEENIE in

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  they got a thread should christians wear sandals --- i want to know should they wear thong undies -- well is it unchristian??

  which is more important and should a body worry about it day and night until one gets an ulcer ...queenie

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  The GB has no business in what one chooses to wear! When one thinks about without the JW blinkers, the whole thing looks so silly one is ashamed at oneself 4 ever having alloed oneself to be so controlled by others.
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  Keep Sirona in your thoughts, Surgery today

  by Cassiline in

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  sirona is going back into the hospital today for more surgery.

  she will be going under general anesthesia to have more biopsies done.. i know its always scary to "go under.

  " lets send warm thoughts her way and hope for the best with the outcome of the biopsies .. .

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  Hoping for the best for Sirona. Hugs!
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  Help - WTS magazine donations VS. Sold & price

  by Cappuccino OC in

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  does anyone know in which countries the wts asks for donations & in which countries the wts sells them?.

  if the wts changed from selling to donations, what year was it?.

  us - donations (from 1990 ?

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  Rescripting_myself

  I'm not sure of this information but I think that beginning January 1, 2000, WTS directed that all its literature be distributed thru the "donation" arrangement. I'm from a third world African country where this change was implemented on the date I have stated. I remember the PO saying that this was going to be the arrangement throughout the world and not just in the developed countries as had previously been the case.

  RM