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  How Does the Society Select Watchtower and Awake Agenda

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  who determines what issues to address in the watchtower and awake?

  i don't mean the actual writing.

  which topics get lead articles?

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  Writing Style of WTBTS

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  witness literature has never had a nice flow to it.

  a family member was a maoist and had these perfect english pamphlets prepared by a foreign government.

  the grammar was perfect.

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  PreAbrahamic God Followers

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  a friend and i were talking about some group that followed the judaeo/christian god before abraham.

  doesn't a priest come to minister to him?

  aren't there sacrifices?

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  Ancient Christian Prayer

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  when i was very ill with agonizing pain, near death, the christian writer madeleine l'engle copied this ancient christian prayer for me".

  from all ill dreams defend our eyes,.

  from mighty fears and phantasies.

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  Low SocioEconomic Stature of Most Jehovah's Witnesses

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  i am wary to post this.

  slaves can be extraordinary christians.

  a large part of my problem was being exposed to abject poverty through the witnesses.

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  DEMONS

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  growing up in the fifties and sixties, stories of demonic possession were prevalant in the watchtower and awake.

  i was terrified.

  we were told they would bother you if you were faithful, but also if you fell away.

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  What Brought You Into the Witnesses?

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  my family was enmeshed with the wtbts for generations before my birth.

  i'm certain it has been asked before but i am curious what brings others into the fold?

  what was the attraction?

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  1975, Freddie Franz and Eve's Menstrual Cycle

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  i was active back then and terrorized by armageddon.

  my basic temperament is introspective.

  i never felt worthy enough.

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  Father Severely Abused Me

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  my father severely abused me.

  several times i fought for my very life.

  i was the eldest and the scapegoat.

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  Untoward Rage towards The Watchtower Bible and Tract Society

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  my extended family were all jehovah's witnesses from the bible students day.

  my father was immense and chosen as a bodyguard to both judge (spurious title) and nathan knorr.

  bethel was very small then so he knew fred franz, covington, henshel well.

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