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  Is there a reason to remain a JW other than for family?

  by cedars in

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  this strikes me as an important question.

  in my short time on this forum it strikes me that many contributors are quite open about keeping a foot in both camps.

  some are apparently even elders, serving in positions of authority within their respective congregations.

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  Personal Grudges and Judicial Committees: is There a Link?

  by passwordprotected in

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  2. beliefs

  i've received a submitted article for publication on my blog (http://thegoverningbody.org).

  this is from the introduction:.

  i have an issue i would like raise.

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  ex-jw-uk

  by bigmac in

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  2. friends

  i'm quite new to this site, & have realised some members have a union jack symbol under their avatar.

  i don't.. could we have a "show of hands" from any uk members?

  i've already found several by reading older posts..

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  What books, songs, artists, movies, etc were banned in your JW home?

  by serenitynow! in

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  my mother was very strict about entertainment.

  in school i was doing a project about teen suicide and had checked out some books on suicide and abortion.

  i had alot of explaining to do for that.

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  Were you Stalked or Chased After Once you Exited the JW's by Elders ?

  by flipper in

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  2. friends

  i tried to fade off the map by moving 30 miles initially in 2004 after i exited in late 2003 .

  the first several years they didn't bother me.

  i ran into a elder from my former congregation in late 2005 in an antique store - he tried telling me i was wrong for stopping attending meetings.

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  Is Richard Dawkins an ostentatious acrimonious supercilious pusillanimous calumnious censorious vituperative querulous embittered obsessive and bombastic bully?

  by slimboyfat in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  richard dawkins closes down his free-thinking/free-thought site (www.richarddawkins.net) for 30 days to reconfigure it 'because too many morons were contributing drivel' (he doesn't put it quite like that!

  ) he is then surprised because those self-same contributors call him everything under the sun (i won't repeat the names flung at him on our ultra -refined boards).

  he now wants the site more or less 'peer-reviewed' (by analogy with papers to learned/scientific journals having to be vetted by vips).

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  Our JC

  by besty in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  dear brothers .

  you are aware that i am not present this evening following medical advice from our family doctor.

  i will attempt in this letter to give you some idea of why that is and how i feel.

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  thirdwitness and other pseudo-scholars: Let's discuss the Hillah Stele

  by AuldSoul in

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  2. beliefs

  thirdwitness and other pseudo-scholars, .

  firstly, i offer this disclaimer: i am not a scholar.

  but i can add and subtract.

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  Do you really know what you believe?

  by Leolaia in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  there is a thought-provoking article on religion in the latest issue of skeptical inquirer.

  i thought i'd share this quote which bears on jw issues in an interesting way:.

  "do people know what their religious concepts are?

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  Ray Franz.....LIAR?

  by integ in

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  2. beliefs

  one of my witness family members agreed to take a look at crisis of conscience, and after.

  perusing the first couple of chapters, said that she thought it could be all made up.

  agreed that the documents presented could be legitimate, but as far as franz's personal.

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