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  The big bad "worldly" person

  by roxanesophia in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  considering this looks to be mostly a ex-jw site, you're probably thinking "coming into it?

  run.

  " but i have friends in it who have persuaded me to have a bible study and attend meetings, and well, hey... it isn't doing me much harm.

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  jean-luc picard

  Hello J.Hofer.

  I dont like clubbing personally.

  I've never been able to figure out if its just my nature or a result of the indoctrinisation I received.
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  The big bad "worldly" person

  by roxanesophia in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  considering this looks to be mostly a ex-jw site, you're probably thinking "coming into it?

  run.

  " but i have friends in it who have persuaded me to have a bible study and attend meetings, and well, hey... it isn't doing me much harm.

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  jean-luc picard

  Welcome roxanesophia.

  There are some very nice people who are Jws. You have friends in the sect yourself!

  There are people who I miss, who are really nice. They are not all nice, and unfortunately, because of human nature, often the less nice ones, driven by ambition, get into positions where they can dominate the really nice "sheep", who like sheep follow along meekly.

  If you say today, I'm not really interested, I'm not coming to the memorial, how long will it be before your friends are discouraged from seeing you?

  How will they respond to that? What will happen to them if they "disobey?

  This is all serious food for thought.
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  Proclaimers book and Memorial question

  by Lunatic Faith in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i got a text this morning from my 17 year old nephew.

  he told his parents last night that he didn't want to go to any more meetings and he was not attending the memorial because he doesn't believe the way jdubs believe.

  i'm not sure how his parents have responded.

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  jean-luc picard

  Jehovah's Witnesses Deprogramming - 1

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azH4Pw22-Nc&feature=related
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  Proclaimers book and Memorial question

  by Lunatic Faith in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i got a text this morning from my 17 year old nephew.

  he told his parents last night that he didn't want to go to any more meetings and he was not attending the memorial because he doesn't believe the way jdubs believe.

  i'm not sure how his parents have responded.

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  jean-luc picard

  I just hope to say the right thing to push them over, but I have noticed it just puts them on the defensive

  Ther is someone on utube, but I cant find the link now, who suggests asking questions, almost innocently, rather than an open challange. Its a way of sowing a seed, or even nurturing a doubt that is already there.

  I think it was this guy:

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCnan8ODotU&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL

  Good luck.

  jlp
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  Proclaimers book and Memorial question

  by Lunatic Faith in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i got a text this morning from my 17 year old nephew.

  he told his parents last night that he didn't want to go to any more meetings and he was not attending the memorial because he doesn't believe the way jdubs believe.

  i'm not sure how his parents have responded.

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  jean-luc picard

  Hi Luna.

  Heres a pdf link

  http://www.sendspace.com/file/czi1o2

  It seems a bit long downloading ( 30mns).

  However I dont think his parents will take much notice. They'll only say there has been new light.

  There is always a getout clause.

  Once downloaded, a search with acrobat reader should easily find what you're looking for.

  jlp
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  Is there anything from the GB that isn't about them getting Money and Power?

  by punkofnice in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  since i woke up from the delusion of the jw cult, i have seen things very differently.. it seems to me that all the gb and their suck ups gear up for is money and/or power.. eg.

  brothers in cheap salesman suits on the platform.

  the 'clean' image.

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  jean-luc picard

  I sincerely doubt te individual GB members gets any large amount of money

  I agree with pirata here. However, the governing body donot have to worry about

  the financial crisis,

  what are they going to eat,

  where are they going to live,

  what if my car breaks down,

  what about my retirement,

  oh no the freezer has broken down, etc etc.

  these kind of worries get many people depressed. So even though they are not millionaires, they are free of the financial worries that bog the rest of us down.

  Easy then, in their publications to say " trust in Jehovah".
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  untitled

  by TheJigsUp in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  ok heres a theoretical for you.. first of all i appreciate that not everyone here believes in an all powerful being ie.

  a creator... but... not entertaining moral aspects of such and disagreements that will arise concerning it,.

  what might be a theoretical picture of what might be able to be omnipresent and so on and so forth if the idea of an all powerful creator was so?.

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  jean-luc picard

  I watch this thread with interest.
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  Jehovah's Witnesses and their Armageddon Imagery

  by whereami in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  jehovah's witnesses have an obsession with the end of the world/armageddon.

  this video explores that idea and the effect on the average witness.. .

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdc6wljpxno.

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  jean-luc picard

  I'm sorry kjw53. You are right.

  Horray for everybody that kills someone. They give their victims a passport direct to the new system.

  Oh, and why do you say

  "our side"

  ? Surely your not following

  the man made word patriotism

  ?
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  Jehovah's Witnesses and their Armageddon Imagery

  by whereami in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  jehovah's witnesses have an obsession with the end of the world/armageddon.

  this video explores that idea and the effect on the average witness.. .

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdc6wljpxno.

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  jean-luc picard

  after all non-believers killed at 9/11 will be resurrected.

  Horray for terrorists then. They give their victims a passport direct to the new system.

  Terrorists are good kind people.

  My mother once told someone she wishes I were dead. Then at least I would have a resurrection.

  Another example of Jws " having no natural affection ".
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  Jehovah's Witnesses and their Armageddon Imagery

  by whereami in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  jehovah's witnesses have an obsession with the end of the world/armageddon.

  this video explores that idea and the effect on the average witness.. .

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdc6wljpxno.

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  jean-luc picard

  Thank you for the video link. I must watch his other videos as soon as I have the time.

  I must read up about Smurfs too. (See one of the comments after the video.)

  I think I must have been out when that light came out .