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  Copy of Crisis of Conscience for Sale

  by Village Idiot in

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  i’ve run into hard financial times and have decided to sell my second copy of coc for a fair price.

  you’ll find them on amazon for ridiculous prices starting from $59.84 for a beat up used one to $294.96 and up for a new condition copy.

  i’m selling mine in new condition for $50.00 plus shipping which should not be more than $5.

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  Half banana

  Terrific algorithm Tepid
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  The true sign of a Cult-Like group is:

  by stuckinarut2 in

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  2. beliefs

  just thought we could have a concise thread listing the signs of a high control, or cult-like group:.

  feel free to add to the list:.

  the true sign of a cult-like group is:.

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  Half banana

  You are allowed to ridicule anything outside of the cult but you must never joke about the leaders or you will be punished.
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  I Found Something Better Than "The Truth"!

  by Divergent in

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  i often come across jw's using the "worldwide brotherhood" as one of the reasons to justify that jw's have "the truth.

  " such a brotherhood, they claim, would not exist outside the organisation because there is no way that people of different religions, nationalities, races, cultures, backgrounds, languages etc.

  can be united and associate together freely without "the truth!".

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  Well said Divergent.
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  Hello everyone

  by Lancashirelass in

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  i just wanted to add my name to the many number of people who have awakened from the cult.

  i have been lurking for probably 2 years now.

  and i'm quite certain there are many more lurking and reading just like me.. i have to be honest and say that i most likely will not be contributing much to the discussion board.

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  Half banana

  That's reet good lass and welcome, an you didn't have the elders mitherin you?
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  Blood Ban Not Going Away Anytime Soon

  by baldeagle in

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  2. medical

  at the recent circuit assembly in our area (nov 19/2016) a talk was given in the afternoon entitled “jehovah will resurrect the dead” it’s clear that the prohibition on blood is not going away anytime soon.

  many of us here have expressed the hope that this death dealing policy would be softened or become a complete conscience matter.

  not the case, jw’s are urged to not give in and to focus on the resurrection hope.

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  Half banana

  Good on you Schnell!
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  Blood Ban Not Going Away Anytime Soon

  by baldeagle in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  at the recent circuit assembly in our area (nov 19/2016) a talk was given in the afternoon entitled “jehovah will resurrect the dead” it’s clear that the prohibition on blood is not going away anytime soon.

  many of us here have expressed the hope that this death dealing policy would be softened or become a complete conscience matter.

  not the case, jw’s are urged to not give in and to focus on the resurrection hope.

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  Half banana

  The bizarre belief in pleasing god by dying is a sobering predicament to put the JW believer in.

  It is a means of manufacturing an artificial test of faith, it is a distraction from the real issues in life and a trump card from the control perspective for this cult to put their member's lives on the line.

  It keeps the punters fearful, it raises the intensity of the stupid Watchtower belief to a matter of life and death. It is also a disastrous way to live your life trusting the judgement of seven undereducated religious obsessives to dictate the boundaries of your biggest decisions in life.

  How many have lost their precious lives deluded by the mindless dogma of the brainless idiots who control the JW org? They should be publicly exposed for this dangerous teaching.
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  HQ move; a good thing?

  by Half banana in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so the new jw hq is to be in warwick and no longer that bleak architectural fixture on the brooklyn skyline.

  actually it makes more sense after all, upstate new york is a more suitable place to have a unicorn ranch than in a city.

  but it is just as easy to produce a drizzle of fairy dust out in the country as it had been in ny.

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  Half banana

  So the new JW HQ is to be in Warwick and no longer that bleak architectural fixture on the Brooklyn skyline. Actually it makes more sense after all, upstate New York is a more suitable place to have a unicorn ranch than in a city. But it is just as easy to produce a drizzle of fairy dust out in the country as it had been in NY.

  But what is the fairy dust for? It is to bamboozle ignorant and gullible people into believing that the governing body of the JW organisation are the ONLY religious leaders to have a hot-line to the creator........... and second, that if you do what they tell you to do, you will get the chance of living forever.

  Is this reasonable? What difference will the move make?
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  Anyone else hear of this?

  by Tahoe in

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  a jw family member informed me they are filling out an application to preach the truth in israel.

  interested ones in the congregation were asked to start saving now, as the cost of the flights would be their own responsibility.

  the time frame for this preaching work is for a couple of weeks in may/june 2017. the applications are to be turned in this sunday.

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  Listener, your link is a gem...the article says that J's Witnesses have a "sordid" history and then proceeds to back it up with detailed accounts of their outrageous misanthropy.

  This document should be handed out to all prospective JWs but of course especially to Jews.
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  Fiji: Tears of joy for villagers

  by darkspilver in

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  from the fiji times.

  see also https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5673136815079424/fiji-houses-built-love.

  tears of joy for villagers.

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  Half banana

  From the news here you would think that the only people to receive assistance were JWs.

  The Fiji government and other countries immediately pledged $ millions and all the other churches mucked in to help as you would expect.

  The wealthy JW org simply parades its very begrudging charity and does so to enhance its own precious image. As John Free says they want the insurance claims back from the cyclone victims...they are out to profit from the goodwill and charity of the sheep who did the work. Some mean religion this!
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  Why is religion in general so obsessed with what people choose to do with their willies and vaginas?

  by jambon1 in

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  2. friends

  what was it in the evolution of religion that got them so hung up about what people do with their genitalia?.

  i mean, the (mis)use of genitalia is up there with murdering another human being in terms of badness.. and in the 21st century, we have a situation where in the jw religion, it's deemed as acceptable for three middle aged/old men to sit a teenage girl down and ask her the details of her use of her genitals.

  to any normal person this is intrusive, completely inappropriate and bordering on deviancy.. why they so obsessed?.

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  Half banana

  I'm not so sure that religion in general is overly concerned with sex. The C of E on the whole seem pretty relaxed about it, although a bit exercised on the subject of openly practising gay clergy. However religious cults like JWs are obsessed with a pharisaical sense of precisely enforcing their own vision of what they want you to do in bed and with whom and how.

  If cult leaders control your most private activities then they surely can control the rest of your life.