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  What can ex-JWs learn from Harvey Milk?

  by zengalileo in

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  if you haven't seen the movie "milk" starring sean penn, or is you have not seen a documentary or read up on harvey milk, then it'll be hard for you to have an opinion on this.. this is not a "gay" thread.

  the fact that harvey milk was gay and was a civil rights leadewr for the gay movement has nothing to do with the point i will make here.. harvey milk when he was campaingning for city supervisor for san francisco and fighting against prop 6 in the mid 70s came upon some marketing research that said, where a person actually knows a gay person, they vote favorably towards gay civil rights 2 to 1. this made him come up with his policy that everyone working on his campaign that had not come out as gay to their freinds and family, had to come out.

  i'm not sure if there were any consequences if someone just refused to come out; the movie didn't say and neither did the documentary.. .

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  I feel ethically compromised by Rick Fearon being allowed to continue posting here

  by sabastious in

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  i'm not entirely sure why, but rick has been the biggest trigger for me.

  i have said some very mean things to him that i regret and i apologize to rick for them.

  but what he is doing leaves me feeling dirty and i don't even know him.

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  Pros about being a jehovah's witness

  by raxxxx in

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  can you personally think of any pros of being a jws?

  anything that you have experienced that was and still is beneficial to you now from when u were a jw?.

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  Any actual Witnesses here?

  by trthskr in

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  i found this site hoping to read topics submitted by jw's so i could learn more, but it just seems to be everyone else here except them.

  just about every topic and member is just bashing jw's and their teachings.

  this site should be renamed "jwbashertrolls.net".

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  The Watchtower is NOT a false prophet

  by The Quiet One in

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  regarding what some have said here about the wt being a false prophet.. i would like to make my point regarding the wt not being a false prophet... so please, if you can be patient enough to read this, at least try to understand what i am getting at.. a false prophet is one who, according to deuteronomy, makes a false prediction of the future and claims that the prediction came from god, or in other words claiming that 'god has said he will do a certain thing at a certain time' etc.. for example, hypothetically speaking, if someone had claimed: "god will bring about the end of the world in 2010", they would have been proven to be a false prophet, obviously.

  but, as an example, imagine a man who claimed the position of a prophet of god, (as moses did, because although he was not the type of prophet that predicted the future.. he was still a prophet or spokesman for god) and that he had publicised worldwide, according to his interpretation of a (for example) prophecy found in the book of isaiah, that the world would end in 2010.. and he had also stated that he was not saying that god will end the world in that year.. but only that there was biblical evidence that god might do so.

  that would clearly have been a mistake.

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  As An EXJW Does Christmas Mean Anything To You?

  by minimus in

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  i've been thinking how correct the witnesses are regarding an aspect of xmas.

  it is totally commercialized and it's big business and materialism.

  having said that, i enjoy giving presents and recieving them.

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  Parenting - The JW Way

  by What Now? in

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  [endif]one year ago today, i was 40 weeks pregnant and my husband and i were sitting at home, watching a movie.

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  Ike apostatized from JW religion and got baptized by the River Brethren

  by oppostate in

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  from e-watchman's website:.

  http://e-watchman.com/jehovahs-witnesses-news/tag/obama .

  eishenhower's upbringing associated with the international bible students (later jehovah's witnesses).

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  losing my religion

  by Evidently Apostate in

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  have you kept your faith in god?

  i know this has been discussed but i am suprised at my change in beliefs.

  imo pretty much all of the hebrew scriptures are about an angry god who reminds me of an abusive father.

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  Tebowing in the Kingdom Hall... Funny? Not funny?

  by oppostate in

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  tebowing is defined as "to get down on a knee and start praying, even if everyone else around you is doing something completely different.".

  http://tebowing.com/about.

  here's tim tebow in full tebowing stance:.

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