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  Can you think of anything that is postive about being A JW?

  by jam in

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  they make good neighbors, why because they.

  stay to themselves..

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  HELP! Good Friend just told she is being disfellowshipped!!

  by jdhf in

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  2. beliefs

  hey... a good friend of mine was visited by 2 elders this evening..and after being treated like something you wouldn't want on your shoe...told her that her parents can no longer have anything to do with her 9 year old boy.

  he is not baptized.. her dad is an elder and mum a long standing publisher...can they really insist that the grandparents ignore the child??

  they babysit for him when she's at work...she would have to leave her job, and she lives in their house too..although they live elsewhere...her dad is researching this as he is obviously curious as to whether this is scriptural.

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  Jehovah's happy people know more about HATE! What say you?

  by punkofnice in

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  2. beliefs

  cut a long one short.

  i encountered an elder the other day.....some threads ago i told of how concerned elder 'alf' (name changed as his real name makes me vomit), came over to 'encourage' me back to the meetings.

  after being hounded by him i told him about 'randcam', philip morris and the un.. .

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  What do you think of this argument?

  by Druid in

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  i stopped being a jw altogether when i went into college and took philosophy classes and started thinking for myself.

  i understand a lot of you former jw's are still theists, in fact it seems probably the majority of you are.

  i am agnostic, meaning i don't feel there is enough evidence for against either cause to subscribe my lifestyle to one belief.. .

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  JW = largest body of therapy for mentally ill?

  by cptkirk in

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  2. experiences

  can't believe i actually was buying into this group for as long as i have.

  i browsed a few threads on this web page, and saw a few that dealt with how heavy they have been lately on "the enemy within", paraphrasing, whatever....i really think they are actually collapsing, and this kind of notion of "the enemy is everywhere!

  " is just a testament to that fact.

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  Review and Comments on the New Elders Book

  by MrDarkKnight in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i recently completed an exhaustive review of an unofficial copy of the new elders manual.

  my father, who is currently serving as an elder told me a friend of his in the service department told him it was on the internet so i eagerly looked for it and found it.

  yes, i know it was a violation of copyright, but while at bethel i made copies of many technical manuals which is also a copy of copyright so the wts hypocrisy does not concern me.. i was appointed as an elder the year the pay attention book (manual replaced by this one) was released so i have very good working knowledge of the old book and could compare the two books.

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  Was there anything different about you that helped you escape the WT?

  by Giordano in

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  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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  What JW catch phrase DRIVES YOU NUTS!!!!

  by megaflower in

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  2. friends

  "we should be mindful".

  grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

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  fwd Email claiming 1980 AWAKE! "predicted" this economic crisis

  by inkling in

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  2. bible

  i did.

  *gag* got it from a family member.

  i didn't even acknowledge receipt - i just deleted it.. purza.

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  Golden Age Goodies

  by Leolaia in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  recently i had the pleasure to examine a stash of 1920s and 1930s golden age magazines, among the rarest of watchtower publications.

  i thought it would be a fun idea to have a thread in which i share with you some of the amazing, ridiculous, hilarious things contained therein.

  hence, this is the first post of a series of excerpts, scans, etc.

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