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  Demonic Possession

  by Nihilistic Journey in

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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 Atlantis! That was exactly the article I was looking for!
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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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  The one that I remembered was of a sister in Africa that had practiced Ancestor Worship. When she started studying she was harassed by Demons
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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

  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

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  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

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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.

  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

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  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
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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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  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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  Nihilistic Journey

  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!