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June 15th WT - WT Society Pressures JW Parents to Indoctrinate Children
by flipper in
1. jw
2. friends
in a non-study article in the jw only watchtower is an article titled " should youths get baptized ?

" the wt society is losing young people in very large numbers - so how else to try stemming the exodus than putting pressure on jw parents to indoctrinate and instill mind control into their children ?

in one section here in this article it almost sounds like a version of " 20 questions " that the wt society asks parents to determine if their children are making " spiritual progress " as they phrase it.
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How Many of Them Do You Know About?
by clarity in
1. watchtower
2. child-abuse
after flipper's thread about the wt child abuse cases, i started to think about how many children i know of personally who have been sexually abused by a jw!.

as someone who is not especially 'in the know', it's amazing that i do know five of them.

one who was a small baby, at the time!.
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April 15th WT - WT Society says " Obeying Us is Same as Obeying God "
by flipper in
1. jw
2. friends
this is a non-study article in the witness only version of the april 15th titled " do you discern the evidence of god's guidance ?

" essentially in this article the alleged " faithful slave " is telling witnesses that to be approved to survive armageddon- they will have to recognize the " faithful & discreet slave's " authority in their lives.. notice these direct quotes from pg.

4 , " jesus christ is the assigned leader of the congregation.
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assemblies; how times have changed
by Evidently Apostate in
1. jw
2. friends
my wife mentioned our circuit assembly was this weekend, she looked at me and i let out a chuckle and said "the kids are too sick right?

" (they weren't) but it was what she wanted to hear, an excuse from me to blow it off.

it got us thinking about how they were kind of tolerable when we were younger.. meals with ice cream, lots of volunteering to get you out of your seat.. there was more room at past assemblies.
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How I Know The Assembly Parts Are Made Up
by lovelylil in
1. jw
2. friends
we had a co looking for a certain experience for an assembly part coming up and the elders in my hall at the time sent him to see me, since i usually had good experiences out in field service.. anyway, after speaking with the co, i was sorry to inform him that i did not have an experience that suited the type he needed.

he told me that was o.k.

because he could use me anyway for another part.
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You Can Overcome WT Phobias!
by leavingwt in
1. jw
2. friends
early in the exit process, it's very important to begin overcoming irrational fears.

fear of the devil.

fear of god.
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What's the biggest lie/rumor that has ever been told about YOU?
by VampireDCLXV in
1. jw
2. experiences
most of us here know what a hypocritical, backstabbing bunch of gossips many of the jw's tend to be.

far too often, a jw wont tell you to your face what's eating them, but they'll sure tell others.

when i started waking up (the second time around) this made me very paranoid.
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The Ransom for Nitwits
by Farkel in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
mark 10:45: "for even the son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.".

1 timothy 2:5-6: "for there is one god, and one mediator between god and men, the man christ jesus; who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.".

the ransom that was taught for the first 1,000 years of christianity.
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What's YOUR Favorite Weird Al Yankovic parody?
by Gopher in
1. social
2. entertainment
mine is amish paradise.

hilarious!.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsfvw9xxony.
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Any videogamers here?
by R.F. in
1. social
2. entertainment
this is my #1 hobby.

i have a ps2, psp, and xbox.

i was mainly an xbox kind of guy until they completely abandoned it soon after the 360 was released.