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  Divorce and Separation-2/8/02 Awake!

  by Mister Biggs in

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  in the past, didn't the society always say that under .

  they always cited the scripture that god is hating a .

  divorce.. read the imformation above carefully.

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  Mister Biggs: You got that right on - hit the nail on the head. Same reason so many battered women don't go to the cops either, but at least the cops will get you out of the house and into a shelter. The elders will say "Wait on Jah" and then go to the husband and tell him to get his errant wife 'under control'. Seen THAT a few too many times.

  Zev, ditto. One congo I was in, these 2 couples basically wife swapped - 2 or 3 of them getting DF'ed, swap wifes, then all reinstated a few months later. Shuffle the (many) kids around, and you have one big happy family again! What a f*cked up system ....

  Fornication is actually a pretty easy way out of a bad marrage - then you can get back in in less than a year most times. Elders don't seem to mind sex too much - now, smoke a cig or question the org and you're out for good, but sex is semi-OK ... just don't throw any oral into the mix !
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  GOING DOWN IN THE ONRUSHING FLOOD?

  by You Know in

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  presently developing trends in the world are like a slowly rising mountainous tsunami that threatens to drown jehovahs organization.

  global warfare seems certain to erupt at the next spark of terrorism.

  the financial system is being rocked with increasing tremors of volatility in advance of the onrushing wall of water.

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  NameWithheld

  I'm a little red spaceman, come to the earth to cause finacial ruin, punish the wicked, and serve little glasses of kool-aid. Perhaps you have seen my brother the Ewok? I sent him here 2453 weeks of days of years ago to announce my kingdom. The mimes are actually my chosen orgainization that has been feeding my sheep all these years, although I must now punish the bad mimes that have run my clean organization amuck. So let it be as I have said!

  I can prove all this too. So naner naner na! <plllllubbbfff>
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  Divorce and Separation-2/8/02 Awake!

  by Mister Biggs in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  in the past, didn't the society always say that under .

  they always cited the scripture that god is hating a .

  divorce.. read the imformation above carefully.

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  spiritual endangerment = yet another easy way to control the JWs since if you want to leave the WTBTS it more than likely means the total ruining of your marrage on top of loseing friends/family. Yet in the meantime MANY women suffer terrible marrages to 'spiritual men' who abuse, neglect, and mentally torment them. Or the 2 people are simply worlds apart since they married 'in lust' to legalize sex...
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  This Year's Memorial Talk Outline

  by Kent in

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  do you want to read this year's memorial talk outline?

  of course you can, and you can naturally find it on the watchtower observer :).

  yachyd da.

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  Ha ha, I bet it is slightly embarasing to them that the 'remnant' class keeps level if not increasing from year to year! So much for that group dying out - sure seems like there were a LOT of unfaithful remnant's since there are so many replacements!
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  True Peace and Security - books

  by Lady Lee in

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  i have a question that has puzzled me for a long time.

  i would love to have some explanation because i cannot think of one.. i left the jws in 1985. the year after they released a book called "true peace and security - how can you find it?".

  i got a copy of this book several years after it was released so i am unaware of the information about it.

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  I know that any time a book was 'revised' we felt some wierd desire to 'purchase' oops, I mean 'obtain' the latest book. Like it somehow mattered that they had changed 2 phrases in the book ... more money in the coffers of the WTBTS!!!
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  This Year's Memorial Talk Outline

  by Kent in

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  do you want to read this year's memorial talk outline?

  of course you can, and you can naturally find it on the watchtower observer :).

  yachyd da.

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  NameWithheld

  Ha ha ha ha - I can't believe that *I* know more than my parents (faithful JWs) about their own religion!!! LOL!

  I note that they still haven't removed the [optional] unscripted comments while the blood and flesh is being passed about ...
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  Ashi's Apostasy---Part Last Formal Apostate

  by ashitaka in

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  my future brother in law (futurebro) is a great guy, as ive mentioned.

  he really cares about people, doesnt want to hurt anyones feelings.

  yet, now he was trapped between doing the right thing, and possibly losing his parents.

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  Great series Ash, what an interesting life already @ 22 years old. I was never in the 'click' enough to see the true underbelly - noone ever confided things to me save my best friend, whose dad was PO (And whom beat his sons/wife/cheated on wife - real fine example!) And even he kept things to himself in later teenage years. He's now on the fast track to eldership (if not already there) like his dad since he's part of the 'elite' in that congo. I'm pretty certain he knows it's BS, but I also know him well enough to think he digs the power it brings. After being exposed to the hypocracy of double standards for elders children, it's tough to keep thinking it's "God's org" since "he" is using such obviously corrupt men.

  Hope your sister and FBIL make it thru the wedding OK. You said FBIL doesn't want to be a witness anymore? Wow, to have pulled so much family out of the claws is fantastic!
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  370 Bucks

  by metatron in

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  i visited an old congregation i used to go to awhile back.. they posted their accounts report on the bulletin board.. about 370 bucks went to the worldwide work, total.. i can remember 800 to over a thousand bucks for books and magazines.

  being sent to the society per month - about 20 yrs.

  ago.. subtract inflation and it's even worse.. meanwhile, the young boys are out in the parking lot,.

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  Yes they can block those - but most elders have their heads up their @$$ and don't think about stuff like that until it's too late - same thing that happens to parents, if they even consider the possibility they'd think "My kids would never do that". That is until the phone bill arrives. I personally find this quite ammusing, perhaps I should visit the local hall and make some calls
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  1998AWAKE PUBLISHED FOR UNITED NATIONS CONSUMPTION

  by MadApostate in

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  special awake issue published for united nations.

  a few months back dino posted this link:.

  http://www.unhchr.ch/udhr/materials/articles.htm.

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  Still odd that the article could arrive there, be translated, and incorporated into a newsletter - which from my (somewhat limited) experience, often take weeks/months to decide contents, layout, publish, etc. I would not be surprised if the article were given to the UN in advance as part of the WTBTS annual 'submissions'.?
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  1998AWAKE PUBLISHED FOR UNITED NATIONS CONSUMPTION

  by MadApostate in

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  special awake issue published for united nations.

  a few months back dino posted this link:.

  http://www.unhchr.ch/udhr/materials/articles.htm.

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  !!! Very sneaky WTBTS ... Amazing what they pulled off right under the JWs noses!!!