Topics Started by lola-rabbit

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WTBTS impact on the environment nubmers, repost from another jw site
by i_drank_the_wine in
1. jw
2. friends
taken from: http://www.thebroadroad.com/forum/#topic/bring-to-ruin-those-ruining-the-earth-trees-wtbts.htm.

i never found statistics on the amount of paper the wtbts wastes, but i think they're might be a little hypocritical by parading the "he will bring to ruin those ruining the earth" verse that they always quote.

it got me curious and i decided to crunch some numbers.... they print 42 million washtowels a month, more than any other magazine in the world (http://download.jw.org/files/media_magazines/wp_e_20110501.pdf).
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"You don't even exist."
by snakeface in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
recently i remembered another example which shows how hateful and unchrist-like the witnesses are brainwashed into being.. a long time ago, when i was a pioneer, i was hanging out with a group of long-time pioneers after the district convention, in the stadium hallway.

some had been pioneering for more than 10 years and therefore were considered to be spiritually mature.

a woman who appeared to be a sister was walking by; she paused and greeted us and said something like, "what a great program that was.
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So why did the organisation cause you anxiety or depression?
by TimothyT in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
in regards to my other post regarding attending counselling as a jw, i was wondering what it was about being a jw that caused you to be anxious, stressed or depressed?.

for me, i knew that the person i wanted to be was constantly being supressed by the wt.

there was a battle going on in my head between who i wanted to be and who they wanted me to be.
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My Sister Died This Morning After Refusing Blood On Four Occasions.
by still wondering in
1. watchtower
2. medical
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The Huffington Post has picked up the mentally diseased story!!!!
by discreetslave in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
just posted by vampire665 on facebook.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/28/jehovahs-witness-magazine_n_985479.html.
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Contradictory statement in this weeks WT
by stillstuckcruz in
1. watchtower
2. bible
this exerpt is taken from the july 15,2011 issue of the wt.

study article for sept 19-25th.

(bolding mines) this was under the subheading "when someone we love leaves jehovah".
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Today's Watchtower Lesson Really Bothered Me...
by dontplaceliterature in
1. jw
2. friends
i was a hair away from telling my wife i never wanted to go to the kingdom hall again after today's watchtower.

the conductor mentioned something along the lines of..."if you think having to shun your disfellowshipped children is bad...you should read up on the israelites.

when one of their children was disobedient to the law, they had to take the before the judges so that they could be stoned to death...and guess who's job it was throw the first stone?".
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Are we all still FAMILY? Yes or No?
by Greybeard in
1. jw
2. friends
here is why, even though i no longer agree with most of what the gb/wt/jw's teach, i still feel especially close to all of us who were apart of this group.

born in or converted.

we all have had the same life experience of being raised in a over bearing mind controlling cult.
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Do I just have a dirty, filthy, perverted apostate mind...
by serenitynow! in
1. watchtower
2. bible
...or does the picture on page 30 of the december 2011 awake look like the beginning of a certain act?

i mean that sword is at waist level, the shaft is long (:-d) and there is a little round dealy on the end.

the male in the submissive position has got his mouth open, the dominant male is looking like "oh yeah, get ready.
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New here looking for some help
by angel.face in
1. jw
2. friends
long story short, i have been a jw for the pst 7 years.

i am married with 2 kids.

hubby is a die hard jw who is an ms and would like to be elder.