Here's an article I wrote some time ago offering a more biblically sound understanding of the Bible texts most used by the JWs to support their shunning doctrine:
http://dispelthedarkness.org/index.php?p=1_10_Expel-the-Wicked-Man
NeonMadman
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Can you prove that WT policy of shunning is unscriptual? Will soon be discussing with somebody, give me all your ammo!
by EndofMysteries inwill soon be discussing w/ somebody still in about that.
i want to make sure i am not missing anything good.
so any scriptures, articles whether wt articles or secular about effects of shunning, etc, or your arguments against how wt interprets their scriptures, etc.
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Somewhere in my stuff, I have a 78 record from the 1930s of "Take Sides With Jehovah" being sung by a barbershop quartet. -
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Where are you from?
by BeautifulMind ini know we are all anonymous for our own personal reasons, so i understand if you would rather not say.
but if you don't mind sharing that would be cool.
i currently live in georgia, usa.
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My mom passed away yesterday....
by minimus inthank you all for your sincere encouragement during these last few weeks.
finally, she is at peace.
i was with her , holding her hand when she died.
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Why Does The RSS feed for this site No Longer Work?
by NeonMadman ini had been following active posts here for a while through the rss feed, first through google reader, then through feedly after google reader shut down.
but in the last few weeks, the feed seems to have stopped working.
anybody know why, and how i can get it back?.
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Since the forum changed over, I've been unable to get the new "Latest Posts" to feed through my Feedly, as I used to do before the forum change. Is there a solution to this, or is the new format simply RSS inaccessible? -
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why we do not have to read the bible daily,
by sowhatnow inor for that matter at all, from my perspective ,.
the only place in the bible that there is a mentioning of reading something [in an undertone day and night] [that i can find].
is in the hebrew scritures.
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NeonMadman
JWs talk a lot about reading the Bible daily, but I don't know of very many who actually did, unless you count the verse or two that appeared in the Daily Text. Most of the JWs I was aware of read the Bible only when directly assigned, as in the reading for the Ministry School (which was relatively small; it took 3-4 years to read through the whole Bible if you just followed that), or else looking up proof texts found in the publications. As far as just reading the Bible for its own sake, I think we were too convinced that we couldn't understand it on our own, so it was easier just to read the publications.
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Jehovah's "perfect earthly organization"
by troucul inhello friends,.
it has been a while for me since i last posted.
i've been busy getting some degrees, now working on my doctorate.
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NeonMadman
I just searched the terms on the 2013 WT Library (which has WT mags back to the 50s), and the phrase does not occur. In fact, every combination of the three words I could find stated that the earthly organization is not perfect.
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Bob Dylan: The Basement Tapes Complete (the Bootleg Series Vol. 11)
by Simon inbob dylan is an artist like no other.
while some spend months or even years working on and crafting an album, some of his have been cut over a long weekend.. some have been great, some are near misses - some seem awful at the time and then come into their own a decade later.. the mistique around the man has always driven demand for his music especially the unrelease stuff.
the original bootleg album was "the basement tapes" recorded with the band after his motorcycle accident of the late 60's.
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NeonMadman
I got mine from Amazon a few days ago, and I'm enjoying listening through it. Some of the stuff on the first disc was sort of bland, with a similar sound to all the tracks. I suspect a lot of that was covers of old folk songs, not Dylan's own material. But moving on through, there are some fascinating alternate versions of the songs that are already well-known, either from earlier releases or cover versions (including a version of "Tears of Rage" in slow waltz time). Well worth the investment, but Dylan always is.
Dylan has been my favorite musician since the 60s; my friends used to kid me that if Dylan made an album of himself burping and farting, I'd buy it. They were probably right, and he's come close once or twice. But, heck, I even like Christmas in the Heart - Christmas carols croaked out by an old Jewish guy. The guy's a genius, that's all.
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Do you remember the 15 minute break at the Sun. meeting?
by 3rdgen ina poster on another thread reminded me of when there was a 15 min.
break between the talk and the wt study on sundays.
the break was supposed to be to allow jw's time to drive their bible studys home from the talk.
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NeonMadman
They had them when I first started going to the meetings in 1967. I believe that by the time I got baptized in 1969, they had already gone away. Of course, congregations in other areas may have done it differently.
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NeonMadman
When Google Reader went away, I switched to Feedly, which took a bit of adjustment, but now that I'm used to it, works just as well. I use it to keep track of posts on this site, among others.