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  Demonic Possession

  by Nihilistic Journey in

  1. watchtower
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  i am looking for articles that i recall reading from the magazines.

  i recall getting the magazines through subscription so it must have been in the 1980's.

  they were "biographies" from sisters that dealt with demonic possession and attacks.

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  Thanks. I was remembering a different article but that is exactly what I needed. Thanks!
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  Demonic Possession

  by Nihilistic Journey in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i am looking for articles that i recall reading from the magazines.

  i recall getting the magazines through subscription so it must have been in the 1980's.

  they were "biographies" from sisters that dealt with demonic possession and attacks.

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  Nihilistic Journey

  I am looking for articles that I recall reading from the magazines. I recall getting the magazines through subscription so it must have been in the 1980's. They were "biographies" from sisters that dealt with demonic possession and attacks. I haven't been able to find them using the 2017 CD I downloaded. Anyone know what I am looking for and / or where it is?

  Thanks in advance.
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  Has anyone here joined a different church after ditching the JWs?

  by NikL in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i am just curious.. i have a cousin who is a baptist and his church streams their sunday services and i've been checking them out before i go to meeting with my jw wife.. i haven’t been to a church except for the occasional funeral and wedding and the only sermons i had heard were the tel-evangelist type.

  anyway, all the church bashing by jws over the years made me unsure what to expect and i was pleasantly surprised.

  they do use the bible and they don't spend the whole time begging for money.

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  Nihilistic Journey

  I joined a United Methodist Church with my wife for two reasons. First my wife always wanted to attend church with her husband but it took 20 years to overcome the poison I knew as the Truth. It really is a easy way to give her something that is important to her. Second it gives me an outlet to help others. Through the church I volunteer in a soup kitchen, food pantry, distributing toys for tots, lgbt rights, etc. I've been very open about being somewhere between an atheist and agnostic and they don't care. In fact I've just joined a board dealing with social justice.
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  Compiling a list of Sin

  by Nihilistic Journey in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  with all the rules that we had to live under to be a good christian it's a wonder that we aren't all neurotic basket cases like i am!

  let's compile a list of transgressions and rules that we had to live by.

  no rated r movies.

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  With all the rules that we had to live under to be a good Christian it's a wonder that we aren't all neurotic basket cases like I am! Let's compile a list of transgressions and rules that we had to live by. For example:

  No rated R movies

  No Worldly friends

  Premarital Sex

  etc.
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  GRACE? GRACE? What the F*** is GRACE? Jehovah's Witnesses have no idea!

  by TerryWalstrom in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i think all of us ex-j-dubs have had the --i'll call it a privilege--to exchange views with others who think differently than we do.

  we encounter "christians" from mainstream churches.our dialogue is sort of...like speaking to martians.sooner or later, an ex-dub smacks into a wall.

  that wall is a subject which is never spoken about or taught by the gb or watchtower with any candor.

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  The Watchtower concept of Undeserved Kindness is almost as far from Grace as you can get. I've struggled with this reducing my self worth because it was undeserved.
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  JW mention in Geography book

  by Nihilistic Journey in

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  i was reading a book exploring he relationship between geography and religion and found the following quote starting on page 121 of chris park's sacred worlds.. park, c. c. (1994).

  sacred worlds: an introduction to geography and religion.

  london: routledge.. one of the most dynamic religious groups in terms of disseminating its beliefs is the jehovah’s witnesses.

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  Maybe it was when or where I grew up but I was always conditioned to believe that I could save everyone by going out in FS. I was scared to death of Armageddon for myself and everyone else. I spent every summer vacation in FS 7 days a week. I went out every non-meeting evening after school. I never saw anyone wanting death and destruction but rather a reason to go out with diligence to save them. At most I saw an acceptance of what had to happen.
  
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  JW mention in Geography book

  by Nihilistic Journey in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i was reading a book exploring he relationship between geography and religion and found the following quote starting on page 121 of chris park's sacred worlds.. park, c. c. (1994).

  sacred worlds: an introduction to geography and religion.

  london: routledge.. one of the most dynamic religious groups in terms of disseminating its beliefs is the jehovah’s witnesses.

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  An interesting quote. I presume the original is in Spanish? And intended for a Spain readership?
  

  The original paper was

  Landing, J. (1982) A case study in the geography of religion; the Jehovah’s Witnesses in Spain, 1921–1946. Bulletin, Association of North Dakota Geographers 32; 42–7
  
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  JW mention in Geography book

  by Nihilistic Journey in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i was reading a book exploring he relationship between geography and religion and found the following quote starting on page 121 of chris park's sacred worlds.. park, c. c. (1994).

  sacred worlds: an introduction to geography and religion.

  london: routledge.. one of the most dynamic religious groups in terms of disseminating its beliefs is the jehovah’s witnesses.

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  Just out of curiosity why wouldn't you say it's a pacifist group? I seem to recall a lot of articles celebrating how many JW went to prison rather than war. How the song in the brown book was written by a JW in a nazi camp for refusing to fight ( was it We Are Jehovah's Witnesses?)

  As far as I know he did get the number very wrong!
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  JW mention in Geography book

  by Nihilistic Journey in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i was reading a book exploring he relationship between geography and religion and found the following quote starting on page 121 of chris park's sacred worlds.. park, c. c. (1994).

  sacred worlds: an introduction to geography and religion.

  london: routledge.. one of the most dynamic religious groups in terms of disseminating its beliefs is the jehovah’s witnesses.

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  I was reading a book exploring he relationship between Geography and religion and found the following quote starting on page 121 of Chris Park's Sacred Worlds.

  Park, C. C. (1994). Sacred worlds: an introduction to geography and religion. London: Routledge.

  One of the most dynamic religious groups in terms of disseminating its beliefs is the Jehovah’s Witnesses. This unorthodox Christian group was founded as the People’s Pulpit Association in 1884 by Charles Taze Russell. Its legal name is the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society, although since 1931 it has been unofficially known as Jehovah’s Witnesses. The pacifist group claims to have up to 200 million followers world-wide. It propagates its own (allegedly infallible) version of the Bible, rejects all other religions as false or evil, and believes that a final battle (Armageddon) is imminent after which the Witnesses will rule the earth with Christ.

  The Jehovah’s Witnesses was mainly an American movement until 1911–12 when Russell made a world-wide evangelising tour. Evangelism and conversion of non-believers are high on the Witnesses’ corporate and personal agendas, and great time, energy and resources are invested in house-calling and distribution of religious literature (including magazines, books, tracts and bibles). Landing’s (1982) study of the diffusion of the Jehovah’s Witnesses in Spain between 1921 and 1946 offers little detail of how the process worked, but the overview does highlight some important factors. The Jehovah’s Witness movement entered Spain by relocation diffusion. A native Spaniard Witness was sent from Brooklyn in 1921 to begin preaching among the Asturias miners near the city of Oviedo. Presumably this group of potential converts had been carefully identified and deliberately targeted, but we are not told why. The pioneer missionary was recalled to the United States in 1924 and replaced by Spanish-speaking English missionaries. The focus of evangelism was also switched to the large cities of Madrid, Barcelona and Valencia. The missionaries’ messages were well received, and within two years (by 1926) Jehovah’s Witness congregations had been founded in the major cities. The Witnesses denounced both Communism and Fascism in their preaching, and met little opposition amongst the largely illiterate population. Most converts were won in the provinces with left-wing populations, and in the industrial and commercial centres of Valencia, Barcelona, Bilbao and Madrid. Given the prominence which Jehovah’s Witnesses attach to disseminating their beliefs, and the enthusiasm and commitment with which they do so in many countries, it is perhaps surprising that more geographical studies have not focused on the diffusion of this particular religious innovation.
  
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  Taking up a Cause

  by OnTheWayOut in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so recently, my jw wife asks me if i ever considered taking up a cause.it was a question out of the blue, coming off of a discussion about politics.

  so while it was unsaid, she was really getting at whether i was considering being politically active in some way.. i already have a standard answer that i have used before with other people, so i said it.

  "no, i will be content to work and get by then retire and sit in the sun with a good book and a cold water.

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  Nihilistic Journey

  I've found giving a way to feel better about myself. even though I'm agnostic I've joined a progressive church that allows me to do toys for tots, work in a soup kitchen, food pantry, and Feed America trucks.