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  Were You Ever Robbed At the Kingdom Hall?

  by Funchback in

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  2. experiences

  okay, i don't mean by "donating" your hard earned money in the contribution boxes.

  or, by having your purse or pocketbook taken.

  or, by armed, masked men storming into the hall demanding everyone's money and jewelry.

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  A few years, a guy (non-Witness) was caught in the KH parking lot siphoning gas out of cars. But I wasn't personally robbed.

  So much for Jehovah protecting his "Witnesses"...
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  Governing Body Questions

  by PurpleV in

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  2. friends

  i've seen this topic debated/mentioned on other threads.

  but i'm wondering if i'll get any jw apologists on this one.

  question 1: .

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  Sorry PurpleV, the Adventists Russell hung around were NOT Seventh Day Adventists.
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  Any new halls?

  by JH in

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  2. friends

  when i joined the org.

  in 1988, every once in a while new halls were being built here and there.

  i couldn't pass a month without hearing that a new hall was being built.

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  All the new halls I've heard of in the last several years were built only because the old buildings were either falling in or were on the bad side of town. I know of none built because of they actually outgrew an old building.
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  Barbara Anderson sues WTS for $7M

  by Nathan Natas in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?brd=1614&dept_id=161052&newsid=6011345&pag=461&rfi=9

  banned church member sues jehovah's witnesses .

  by brian justice, the sunday news staff writer november 09, 2002 .

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  I just hope that this case drags WT mud out into the open, so the public can see the way they treat their members and ex-members. I'm wondering how Barbara came up with the 2 million dollars in compensatory damages.

  Anyway, I hope she wins!
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  Veterans day is a bunch of crap!!

  by LuckyLucy in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i have several friends that are veterans and they have to work on monday!!

  yet teachers (and we know how useless they are) and students get the day off.i have an idea!!

  why don't they just let the veterans off, would that be asking too much??

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  NotBlind

  Teachers, and thier union, are a major part of the problems in this country. That problem could be solved if more people showed up at school district meetings, demanding change, rather than letting it slide.

  Incorrect. The bureaucracy and administration which cripples the sytem are a major part of the problems in our country. Teachers are overworked, underpaid, and anyone who says otherwise has never been a teacher in a U.S. public school or is in an ideal teaching situation. Local school boards are also a major part of the problem. When the people running a school district are concerned only with the next election and spending less money, it is destined to fail. Say what you will, but the vast majority of teachers are NOT the problem.
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  Position on College Changed?

  by Maximus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  several have made outright statements and others have suggested that the society's negative position on higher education has changed.

  'the society does not discourage higher education where i live.

  ' worse, 'apostates have made it all up--the society has never discouraged education.

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  NotBlind

  When I went to college in the mid-90's, I was personally taken to the library by the Service Overseer and told I shouldn't go off to college. You see, not only did I go to college, I lived on campus for 4 years, I was the first person at the meetings and the last one to leave all four years. I went out in service twice a week the whole time I was there.

  You see, I wasn't going to allow myself to be the scarecrow the elders back home could point to and say, "Don't be like NotBlind, he went to college and then he quit the Trooth." Maybe more JW's back home will go to college, like I did, and buck the elders.

  Of course, I never told them I learned the truth about the Trooth on the internet while in college.....
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  Zealous Pioneer Likens WT Study To 'Mental Enema'!

  by Derrick in

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  2. friends

  it's remarkable the memories we repress.

  one came back today.

  many moons ago as a young zealous "publisher" i lived with a house full of single brothers (some former bethelites and others aspiring wannabe bethelites).

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  Well, the guy had the right body part, anyway...

  He would have been more accurate if he had compared to WT and Awake and KM to the stuff that comes out your a$$.
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  Is "questions from readers" made up b...

  by SpannerintheWorks in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  an ex-jw friend of mine once agreed with me that the letters in the "questions from readers" section in the wt/awake!

  were all made up by the wbts.. does anybody have any evidence either way?.

  has anybody had their "question" published?.

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  There are seven letters - two from Italy, one each from Germany, Japan, India, Czech Republic and the USA. Only ONE from the USA! As everybody knows, the majority of JWs are in the States, but reading where these letters (allegedly) came from implies a global JW distribution!

  Think again. There are about 1 million active JW's in the US. Most of them don't even read the mags. There are about 6 million active JW's worldwide. You do the math. The "From Our Readers" section in the Asleep! is probably real. But I'd bet the QFR is made up.
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  A CO page is up - please visit

  by Carlo in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  hi brothers and sisters.

  i'm a jw circuit overseer.

  i have just uploaded my pages.

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  My favorite part is "Ask the C.O." Absolutely hilarious! I loved the part about the guy who got "caught masturbating" at Bethel! ROFL!!

  http://www.dbhome.dk/carlo/607.html
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  The Morality of Teenage Baptism part2

  by metatron in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  witness teenagers are subjected to unrealistic standards and demands.

  cut off from family association by watchtower extremism, at a time when guidance is.

  sorely needed.. such young people are frequently set on a course of personal disaster because of.

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  NotBlind

  My favorite ax to grind regarding marriage/dating in the JW's had to do with the chaperone thing. Even when two adult JW's wanted to go out together, they had to have a 'chaperone' to make sure they didn't do anything. How insulting!

  The NO MASTURBATION idea seems ridiculous too. I can't see how the WTS rationalizes spending TWO WHOLE CHAPTERS on a topic that isn't even mentioned or condemned in the Scriptures. The WTS seems to be intent on driving their young followers crazy.