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  Dissenters in Watchtower History: Differing Departures

  by slimboyfat in

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  i'm reading an excellent book about defectors from the mormon church called differing visions: dissenters in mormon history.

  through a collection of essays from many academic authors it looks at the life stories of dissenters and reasons for departure, as well as analysing the impact of their dissent on the church itself.

  fascinating stuff and makes me wish there was a similar volume looking at the key dissenters from jws/watchtower and the impact they had.

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  Quite early in the 20th century, in the southeast part of Africa, Joseph Booth and Elliott Kamwana, began to teach from Watch Tower literature, but incorporated their own ideas into the mix, advocating social change, which produced a lot of unrest among the native Africans. These Watch Tower movements were sometimes known as Kitawala and were particularly active in S. Africa, Nyasaland (now Malawi) and the Belgian Congo, (now Zaire). Of course, the Watch Tower Society, out of New York, had to scramble to distance themselves from these groups. For many years the bad reputation of these groups caused obstacles to the work of the Watch Tower Society.
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  POLL: Will You Be Attending The Memorial & If You Are---Why?

  by minimus in

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  i was just invited.

  i thanked my old elder friend and he left.

  (i'm not going).

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  Kenneson

  I left Jehovah's Witnesses in 1966. Haven't set foot in a Kingdom Hall since and don't intend to. I know I haven't missed anything. Can you imagine inviting a number of people to your house for an "evening meal" and only one or 2 partook? How insulting!
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  Do you know any books written by Jehovah's Witnesses?

  by paradisebeauty in

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  i found once a list on the internet on novels about the new world written by jehovah's witnesses.

  don't seam to find it anymore.

  does any of you happen to know any novels about the new world?

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  Here are a few books written by Jehovah's Witnesses:

  "Jehovah's Witnesses, the New World Society" by Marley Cole; he also wrote "Triumphant Kingdom"

  "Faith on the March" by A.H. MacMillan

  "Jehovah's Witnesses: The African Connection: Unprecedented Preaching" by Firpo Carr; he also wrote some other books

  "Facing the Lion: Memoirs of a Young Girl in Nazi Europe" by Simone Arnold Liebster

  "Cotton: A lambs tail (Cotton for Jehovah's Witnesses children) Book 1 by Mary Rucker

  "O'er the ramparts they watched" by Victor V. Blackwell

  There are other books besides these.
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  mosquitos, and vampire bats.

  by brandnew in

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  since everything in life is supposed to be created by god, why did he create mosquitos, and vampire bats?.

  mosquitos and vpbats live by taking in blood from other animals, and well humans too.

  so my question is.....why would he forbid blood transfusions , when he made creatures who live off of others blood?

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  Some JW's would claim that before the Flood mosquitoes and vampire bats lived off of green plants or vegetation. They weren't always blood suckers.   And sharks and whales, etc. lived off plants like  seaweed.  Gen. 1:30
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  mosquitos, and vampire bats.

  by brandnew in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  since everything in life is supposed to be created by god, why did he create mosquitos, and vampire bats?.

  mosquitos and vpbats live by taking in blood from other animals, and well humans too.

  so my question is.....why would he forbid blood transfusions , when he made creatures who live off of others blood?

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  I asked a JW on one of the forums why there are carnivorous pitcher plants in some areas of the world, like in the Philippines.  The answer was that when the ground was cursed certain areas lack ingredients that are normally found in good soil and the plants had to find what was lacking in small rodents, etc.  but in paradise they will go back again  to living off the soil only.  But I was never told why God had created the pitchers in the first place.  And if the pitchers didn't exist in the beginning, then are they the result of evolution?  
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  Moved to Florida panhandle

  by MissMyHarley in

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  anybody live in this area.

  we have just moved here.

  just wondering.

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  I'm in Tallahassee--about 2 hours away.  Love the emerald waters at Panama City.
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  Canada's MACLEANS article "Against their will: Inside Canada’s forced marriages." The main subject in the story is an XJW we all know.

  by AndersonsInfo in

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  2. scandals

  http://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/against-their-will/.

  forced marriage is one of the last taboos to break.

  a new law could make it a crime.

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  I think the Watchtower Society prefers its young people to engage in witnessing rather than marrying or going to college.
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  Moved to Florida panhandle

  by MissMyHarley in

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  anybody live in this area.

  we have just moved here.

  just wondering.

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  Where in the Panhandle?
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  The EBOLA conspiracy...

  by gopher123 in

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  hey guys.

  there has been a ton of illuminati hollywood mind control pre-programming about this virus outbreak before it actually happened.

  conspiracy people of the world... unite.. .

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  The claim that Ebola had its origins in a U.S. laboratory makes no sense. Why would that weapon have been used in Zaire in 1976 when the U.S.

  was not in war with that country? It makes more sense that it had its origins in non-human primates as did Aids and somehow crossed over into

  humans. If the U.S. came to have it as a biological weapon it was not because they created it.

  The Belgian Congo (another African country) is where H.I.V. or Aids began in non-human primates in the 1920s and sometime after

  crossed over into humans. The scientific consensus certainly doesn't agree that it had its origins in a U.S. laboratory.

  http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/17/health/17aids.html?Pagewanted=2&_r=0

  See "Precursor to H.I.V. Was in Monkeys for Millenniums"
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  The EBOLA conspiracy...

  by gopher123 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  hey guys.

  there has been a ton of illuminati hollywood mind control pre-programming about this virus outbreak before it actually happened.

  conspiracy people of the world... unite.. .

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  Kenneson

  Would those who think it's a patent inspired conspiracy please tell us why Zaire was the chosen nation to first experience an outbreak in 1976.

  And, why did it take so long for the vaccine to show up?