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  Are They Cynically Shutting Down The Organization?

  by metatron in

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  2. friends

  i've raised this idea before but recent events seem to support it.

  changes in the watchtower may be guided by more than a need for cash flow: they may simply be liquidating/shutting it down as discreetly as possible.. of course, this doesn't mean they stop working on their upstate ny country club - but it could mean that the throrough going exposure and disproof of their beliefs on the internet, when it emerged, took many of them by surprize, as it did many of us!

  after awhile, they generally gave up trying to make any sense of their doctrines - and coupled with cash flow issues - moved towards a quiet retreat.. take a look at a few things:.

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  ExJW who was a former friend explains why she defriended me on FB - and my response!

  by Broken Promises in

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  2. friends

  hi broken promises,.

  since i'll be seeing you on saturday [at her sisters wedding who is also an exjw], i thought i should let you know why i removed you from my friends list and didn't accept your last request.

  i did this because i saw you were in an ex jehovah's witness recovery group.

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  What are the levels/ranks within the Jehovah's Witnesses

  by biometrics in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  growing up as jw it was constantly drummed into us that we're not like churches having different classes (e.g.

  preists).

  however it is quite apparent that there are ranks within the jehovah's witnesses.. this is the list i have so far.

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  The Wacky World of Dating Sites

  by Terry in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  sooner or later each of us who does not have a significant other goes out on the trail armed with our crappy photo and lame self-descriptions and awkward smile in search of our prey: an exciting mate!.

  who'd have thunk it?

  it ain't easy.. not easy, why?

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  Psychological distress/Disfellowshipping and Heart Attacks

  by lifestooshort in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  it has been in the news today that risk of heart attack are 21x higher the first day of grief or extreme distress.

  this means disfellowshipping can cause phsycal harm and can kill.

  this goes way beyond not showing love.

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  The Two Forces

  by N.drew in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  the ark pictures the response to one kind.. it means the customs of the people can cause catastrophe.. and most people did not stop the destructive behavior , but some used it to be redeemed.. .

  sodom pictures the other kind.. it means the people respond badly to the intuitive recognition that doom is ahead.. .

  in one case what the people are doing causes something bad.

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  hello I Am the Tater-T

  by Tater-T in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  so here i am... finally.. i'm 3rd gen, df'd since 87 .. married a worldly girl in 88.. to save my soul, daughter in 90 divorced in 92.... let my daughter be raised by others, figured if it's the truth... i'll present it when she old enough to be acountable... just sent her the video growing up jw 1960-2010. by not wanting to teach this to my child, resonated within and well here iam... thanks to this site and all of you... everyone on my dad's side of family is df'd or inactive except my older sister, who has been flying over here to idaho to see us from hawaii.. which is making me think she is getting tired of the retoric.... i don't know where i'm going with this... i just want to change my way of thinking.. i can't see the future... but now i know why.... i have a lot to share, but for now just one thought, on being a jw child.. in 3rd grade i never got see one cartoon on saturday.. when all the other kids were talking about how awesome hong kong phooey was... i just sat there paralized, prentending to have seen it... and angry lol ... i think there are a lot more people out there like me... out but still clinging to 'the truth' in their heads.. because going against is the ultimate 'unforgivable' sin.... that it for now l8r t8r.

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  The latest change in Watchtower vocabulary to catch out the unwary

  by slimboyfat in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i got a copy of the recent kingdom ministry the other day and it reminded me of something in the book the orwellian world of jehovha's witnesses by heather and garry botting.

  it's on the front page of the december issue of the km, they have a heading called "not 'alternative' witnessing" where they explain that the term is no longer considered appropriate and "public" witnessing should be used instead.. in the orwellian world of jehovah's witnesses the bottings discuss the importance of the particular language jws use to set themselves apart from other people.

  they redefine common words to give them a particular slant, such as "brother", "sister", "literature" and so on.

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  If You Wanted To Corrupt A Jehovah's Witness How Would You Go About It?

  by minimus in

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  i'd like some ideas..

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  My Story

  by TheWanderer in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i found this site quite a few months ago, after a curiosity search on wikipedia about jws and what's going on with the organization.

  i was unfortunately born into it, 4th-generation; my great-grandfather was a special pioneer spreading the word in the early 1900s.

  it was all i knew growing up, even though i struggled between trying to conform to make everyone happy ... and finding my own way in life.

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