This just seems to be the Facebook way of getting a group off the ground. You add everyone you know, whether they want to be in the group or not. I can't tell you how many ex-JW groups I've been added to on FB without my permission, and usually with "notifications" set to "All" so that I'm getting a message every time someone makes a post. Now, I don't care at this point who knows who I am and whether the WTS or any of my old JW friends see me in an "apostate" group. But if I were still trying to fly under the radar, it would upset me greatly to be added to an apostate group without my permission. However, I blame Facebook for this more than AAWA or any of the other ex-JW groups. It should not be possible to add someone to a group without their permission. You should be able to invite them, and they should have to accept membership before they are in the group. If I want to add someone as a friend, they have to accept my request before they become my friend. When I wanted to show my cousins as being part of my family, they had to acknowledge that they were actually related to me before it would show on my profile. Why should it work any differently with joining a group?Juan offically stated, BOTH AAWA (not offically AAWA, but a volunteer for AAWA) "force added" FB people to their group, as well as one other pho AAWA Group.
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The Advocates for Awareness of Watchtower Abuses (AAWA) [WARNING]
by Simon inuncensored discussions and information for anyone interested in the advocates for awareness of watchtower abuses or 'aawa' http://aawa.co/ (previously known as "the association of anti-watchtower activists http://jwactivists.org/) and how it's handled and responded to privacy issues and put people at risk:.
aawa is here!!
(the association of anti-watchtower activists)an invitation to a new effort- aawawhy when i logged onto aawa did it go to facebook ?in regards to aawaaawa - every generation needs a new revolution - thomas jeffersonnotice how the introduction of the aawa has brought out the loonies lately?will aawa become another cult?
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"Did Jesus Die For Klingons, Too?"
by metatron inhttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2044730/did-jesus-die-klingons-christian-weidemanns-speech-100-year-starship-symposium.html.
yes, the pentagon did pay for a lecture on this subject.
does darpa take this et stuff seriously?
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Did He tread Space
And visit worlds beyond our blood-warm dreaming?
Did He come down on lonely shore by sea
Not unlike Galilee
And are there Mangers on far worlds that knew His light?
And Virgins?
Sweet Pronouncements?
Annunciations? Visitations from angelic hosts?
And, shivering vast light among ten billion lights,
Was there some Star much like the star at Bethlehem
That struck the sight with awe and revelation
Upon a cold and most strange morn?from Christus Apollo by Ray Bradbury
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A 3 phase great tribulation.?? Has anybody else heard this before? July 15 2013 Watchtower
by SeekingTheRealTruth inam i the only one that never heard this before?
on pg 3 par 3 of july 15 2013 watchtower it says "for a number of years, we thought that the great tribulation began in 1914 with world war i and that "those days were cut short" by jehovah in 1918 when the war ended so that the remnant would have the opportunity to preach the good news to all nations.
" after the completion of that preaching work,satans empire would be destroyed.
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The present teaching - that the Tribulation is still entirely future - was "new light" given at the 1969 International Assemblies, where I was baptized.
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I was just kidding - remarking on the one-word answers ("excessive rhetoric").
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When the Anointed Die which part of them goes to heaven?
by WildeLover inaccording to the wt the 144000 have to die to obtain their heavenly reward?
but which part of them goes to heaven?.
their body can't and doesn't.
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According to JW teaching, Jehovah, in effect, re-creates them as spirit beings as he did with Jesus/Michael. So they get a new "spirit body" (a term that never appears in Scripture) that goes to heaven.
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I hate it when threads get so bogged down in excessive rhetoric.
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Watch Tower Fallacies - 4/2/2013
by cognisonance inin another thread a poster, oubliette, asked to share logic fallacies we spot in wt publication.
that is a great idea and thread to which i've already contributed.
i'll also the contents of this post to that thread, but thought that it's easier to discuss a particular fallacy (or fallacies) in use in wts publications if we consider one quote at a time.
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Before trusting it, ask: (1) Who published this material? What are the author’s credentials? (2) Why was this published? What motivated the writer? Is there any bias? (3) Where did the author get the information? Does he supply sources that can be checked? (4) Is the information current?
This might also be considered a form of special pleading, since they do not recommend that these questions be applied to evaluating their own material, only to material that disagrees with their position.
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BOE Letter: Kingdom News No. 38
by pixel into all bodies of elders re: kingdom news no.
dear brothers: .
april 1, 2013. we are pleased to inform you that in november 2013 a month-long special campaign will focus on a wide distribution of kingdom news no.
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How special that the special GB think we special publishers are so special, that we get a special campaign to especially show off our special zeal!
Special special special!
Well, isn't that special!!
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The Church's Biggest Lie
by ProdigalSon inthink you've sorted out the mess that christianity has become?.
ever wonder why the other 2/3 of the planet doesn't believe the utter nonsense of "resurrection"??.
chew on this, christians:.
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St. Gregory also wrote: “Every soul comes into this world strengthened by the victories or weakened by the defeats of its previous life.” (5)
Just as an exercise, I decided to check out this quotation as best I could. Your cited source, of course, is an out-of-print Theosophy text that gives me no indication where or in what writing St. Gregory might have said such a thing. So I went to this site: http://www.sage.edu/faculty/salomd/nyssa/index.html and searched in every text of St. Gregory's on the site for the phrase "previous life," which is within quotation marks in your citation, and therefore should be quoted exactly. Of the 23 works reproduced in full on that site, none contains the phrase, "previous life." Now, to be 100% fair, I'll acknowledge that a different translation of Gregory's works might use different phrasing, but the burden is upon you to provide the exact citation so that it can be checked out in context.
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The Church's Biggest Lie
by ProdigalSon inthink you've sorted out the mess that christianity has become?.
ever wonder why the other 2/3 of the planet doesn't believe the utter nonsense of "resurrection"??.
chew on this, christians:.
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Oh I have read them, and I did plenty of my own research.
If that's really true, then it should be a simple matter for you to provide specific citations of the Fathers where they advocated a doctrine of reincarnation. So far, you haven't provided one.
Then you'll turn around and say it ccomes from "Theosophy" sources and is out of context.
If what you provide are simply references to Theosophy sources and/or are out of context, then, yes, I'll say that. If you provide actual citations to the Fathers that I can check out rather than "So and so said such and such" without specifying exactly where he said it, then I'll examine the quotations to see whether the context supports the argument that you are using the citation to support. It the quotation in context doesn't say what you are claiming, you can be certain I'll call you out on it.
You think I haven't been here long enough to know what kind of response I would get from my "own research"?
From everything I've seen so far, your "own research" appears to be on the level of JW research. You know, they have extensively researched other religions because they've read Mankind's Search for God? You haven't posted anything yet that leads me to believe you have considered this topic from any sources other than Theosophical literature that takes the position you are advocating, and that without supporting its own claims with appropriate references that can actually be checked by a discerning reader.
"Bing Bong" and invoking the 911 card is all you have left.
Interesting that you include that in a response to my comment, since I have used neither in my arguments. Straw man, anyone?
Sayonara, til the next time I feel like dropping a truth bomb on ya all
Still waiting for the first one.
