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  International Convention

  by msconcerned in

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  an email forwarded to a friend.

  what do you make of it?.

  below is a report about preparing for the seattle, washington international convention.

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  scotoma

  Funny how Jehovah works. If this were Africa they would rent some rancher's pasture. With their amazing cooperation and experience with quick builds they should (with Jehovah's help) be able to throw together a tent city. They wouldn't even need liability insurance because the angels would make sure that their would be no mishaps. And with large screen monitors they could still make the experience great for everyone. They don't need no stinky stadiums. Supposedly Jehovah took care of around 2 million Jews wandering around Sinai for 4o years.

  Maybe JW's don't have enough faith to endure the hardships their African brothers go through all the time.

  And whatever happened to "rooming work". That's a concept that those of you who have been witnesses for less than 50 years won't understand.
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  Recent WatchTower article about Witch Hunting

  by EverApostate in

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  this is about an article in may 2014 awake that was published about witch hunting.

  it is a 2 page article on how evil the catholic and protestant inquision was, how wickedly they killed the witches and so on.. .

  http://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/102014166.

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  scotoma

  There is so much in that article that should make JW's have second thoughts.

  It refers to witch hunts as a kind of paranoia. What about buying second hand objects from people who may also be selling Tarot cards and Ouija boards in the miscellaneous game box you see at rummage sales.

  What about the paranoia about watching shows involving magic - Harry Potter

  "Meanwhile, physicians began to recognize that such things as seizures could be linked to health and not demon possession."

  So what happened to all the demons that threw people into convulsions in Jesus' day?

  The nonsense of religion is the belief in any kind of spirit entity "good or evil".
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  Do you think there is magic/spirit forces in voodoo, ju ju men etc?

  by quellycatface in

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  what do you think?.

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  scotoma

  I used to get a kick out of the Haloween issue of the Awake.

  BREAK FREE FROM SUPERSITION!!!!

  Instead of believing in departed souls - believe in demons that can take over your mind and drive you crazy.
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  Letter Read At Special Talk

  by scotoma in

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  the watchtower arranged to have a letter read announcing that elders would now be apponted by circuit overseers.. any elders on this forum know how this will be different from the current arrangement for appointing elders.. it would be nice to see a schematic with boxes showing how it used to be and how it will be in the future..

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  scotoma

  The Watchtower arranged to have a letter read announcing that Elders would now be apponted by circuit overseers.

  Any elders on this forum know how this will be different from the current arrangement for appointing elders.

  It would be nice to see a schematic with boxes showing how it used to be and how it will be in the future.
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  If someone refers to the "greek scriptures" is that a sign of JW indoctrination?

  by scotoma in

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  i recently had a casual conversation at a bar on the subject of atheism.

  they used the expression "greek scriptures".

  i didn't pursue it but it made me wonder..

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  scotoma

  I recently had a casual conversation at a bar on the subject of atheism.

  They used the expression "greek scriptures".

  I didn't pursue it but it made me wonder.
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  What a wonderful age in which to live

  by fulltimestudent in

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  when i was young ( quite a while ago now) an old lady lived near us.

  sadly for her, she had had surgery to remove her whole nose and what was fitted with a very obvious prosthetic nose, a nose that was instant fascination for small boys, who would often jeer at her.

  i called her to mind and the difficulty she likely faced whenever she went out when i read this report.. scientists grow cartilage to reconstruct nose.

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  scotoma

  FTS.

  I have considered moving to a different country...but I don't have money.
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  What a wonderful age in which to live

  by fulltimestudent in

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  when i was young ( quite a while ago now) an old lady lived near us.

  sadly for her, she had had surgery to remove her whole nose and what was fitted with a very obvious prosthetic nose, a nose that was instant fascination for small boys, who would often jeer at her.

  i called her to mind and the difficulty she likely faced whenever she went out when i read this report.. scientists grow cartilage to reconstruct nose.

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  scotoma

  ... and if you don't have money???????
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  No peace in Israel

  by scotoma in

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  speculation about "peace and security" ends with the failure once again of israel and palestine to reach an agreement.. .

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  scotoma

  Speculation about "peace and security" ends with the failure once again of Israel and Palestine to reach an agreement.
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  FINE-TUNING our thinking by clarifying our VOCABULARY of conscience

  by Terry in

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  are you confused?.

  is your thinking and reasoning ineffective because of ambiguity?.

  do you sometimes find yourself unclear about what certain words mean?.

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  scotoma

  In any serious discussion the two most important questions are:

  1. What do you mean? That handles the easy part. People can define things anyway they want. Even if they have some obscure meaning to a word you can accept that to move the argument along. Legal documents will start off defining the way terms will be used.

  2. How do you know? This usually involves an If-Then statement of relationship or a series of causes and effects.

  Most theories collapse at the "How do you know?"

  Take any Watchtower and read every sentence and precede it with "How do you know..." Then do that with every explanation.

  You don't have to spend much time on religious concepts because you quickly arrive at a tautology.
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  The WT and it's views on depression.

  by quellycatface in

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  as a few of you may remember, i suffer from bipolar.. when working at the uk home office, i was signed off by my doctor with depression and anxiety.. in the space of 11 months i was assessed by 2 home office doctors, both diagnosing me as unfit for work.

  i eventually left.. how therefore, can stupid little people in the kh say you'll be better doing fs, ministry school and being regular at meetings??.

  they have to be the most un-empathetic bunch of people on the planet.

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  scotoma

  Unfortunately there really is a lot of garbage therapy. And there are garbage drugs.

  There are also very good and expensive therapy and good drugs for specific mental problems.

  The vast majority of people everywhere are maladapted and don't know their own minds.

  But the human specialty is adaptation. Sometimes we over do it.

  A book about ritual mutilation of male sex organs, fathers having sex with their daughters, stabbing infidel women in their pregnant wombs, sex addict kings with hundreds of wives, armies instructed on the proper way to humiliate the virgins they collected in battle etc. somehow doesn't seem like a person with mental problems ought to be devoting many hours of consideration.