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  Is shunning scriptural? At all?

  by Open mind in

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  it's obvious that the jw view of shunning goes way beyond anything called for in the bible.

  1 cor 5:11-13 says,(nwt) "but now i am writing you to quit mixing in company with anyone called a brother that is a fornicator or a greedy person or an idolater or a reviler or a drunkard or an extortioner, not even eating with such a man.

  for what do i have to do with judging those outside?

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  Toronto, Canada: FREE Screening of Disfellowshipping DOCUMENTARY next Wednesday

  by AndersonsInfo in

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  2. beliefs

  free film screening at the university of toronto next wednesday, october 19th at 6:00 p.m. .

  emmanuel college of victoria university in the university of toronto presents: .

  a film by erin mcmichael.

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  well what's the story on the filmmaker???
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  Encouraging sigleness

  by Dudu in

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  2. relationships

  do you think is one of the unhealthy teachings among the wt?

  i mean humans has been created with emotional and physical needs that relationships provide, right?.

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  sad... for me it was 8 years (full-time slaving) down the drain.

  spoke to a friend that just called it quits after 17 years fts... just stop and calculate the hours we put in during our most productive years
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  Society on Documenting Personal Views

  by Marvin Shilmer in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  question: does the watchtower society want individual witnesses expressing personal viewpoints about vital religious issues to persons whose intent is to record and document the findings?

  the following letter written under the new letterhead from the societys service department documents the answer to this question.

  christian congregation of jehovahs witnesses.

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  has the society made any other comments recently along these lines... discouraging responding to surveryors questions?
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  Have you read my experience in the Awake?Read this

  by ELON14 in

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  2. friends

  many of you already know my real name.i'm the one whose experience was published in the sep 8 1994 awake mag.

  i would like to stress that although i have good reason to be angry and bitter, nothing i say here is said in anger but only in sadness.

  i write this to say that if i could take back many of my words i said in that experience , i would.

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  1984 WT cover, 1914 Gen That Will Not Pass -- How many of 16 alive today?

  by FatFreek 2005 in

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  2. current

  those people on that cover were supposed to represent a group of people that would still live on into the new order.

  in your best guess, how old were most of those 16 people at the time the photo was taken, and how many do you suppose are still alive today?.

  remember, that wt was printed in 1984, nearly 27 years ago.

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  My life ... and how JWD came to be - Part 5

  by Simon in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  my life ... and how jwd came to be - part 1. my life ... and how jwd came to be - part 2. my life ... and how jwd came to be - part 3. my life ... and how jwd came to be - part 4. i swear, i thought it was only a couple of years at most since i wrote part 4 of "my life and how jwd came to be".

  i re-read it after someone posted to it and brought it back on active topics and it was kind of prophetic in a way ... well, i had the 5 years part right if nothing else:.

  it would be nice to visit the site (or whatever one is around then) in 5 years time to let people know how we're doing and find only a few of the same people still around.

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  so did I. Thanks for bumping.
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  What I Will Teach My Grandson About Women

  by metatron in

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  2. humour

  [warning: i will make no attempt to be politically correct in this missive].

  son, i understand that your mother has given you "the talk" - about the facts of life and it's important that you know about these things now that you are becoming a man.. i appreciate your mother and all the sacrifices she has made to keep you healthy and out-of-trouble so far.

  however, there's just one more thing we need to talk about - and that is that you need to know some things about women.

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  LOL! That was hilarious and totally on point. As a woman I'd just add to #6 that women want (mind blowing) sex too ;-)
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  Was there anything different about you that helped you escape the WT?

  by Giordano in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  for me i know it was because i was a reader.. i began reading books at the age of 13, this was in the 1950's.

  because there were some serious family problems i had two escapes i could count on reading and associating with my friends at the kingdom hall.. as i devoured steinbeck, hemingway, wolf etc.

  my world view expanded....it had to.

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  Being an INTJ is what helped me and I guess a lot of others... we are generally not as occupied with conformity and prefer to make decisions with the mind rather than the heart.
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  My Trip to the Unitarian Universal Church

  by NewChapter in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so, pretty much i no longer care to believe in a god.

  but, either because of my 20 years in a jw daze, or because humans just desire this, i miss the community.

  so, i went to a unitarian church this morning.

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  Good to know. Are you still going new chapter?