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  BOB SALNAVE has been found

  by QUEENIE in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i am a apostate and he is a jw so we know what that entails -- i would like to see him finally married off as he is 56 and aint getting any younger -- last i know he is living in santa maria, calif. with his dad dewey salnave (they were listed) tell them linda k. sent ya

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  Hyghlandyrs Four Pillars, his Hygh Geas.

  by Hyghlandyr in

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  2. friends

  some of you know that i have stated i am amoral.

  that means that i have no moral system.

  no ethical system either.

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  Did you have a "religious experience" ?

  by refiners fire in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  by "religious experience" i mean a moment, an incident, where you felt that god was directly addressing you thru a public talk, a watchtower article.

  did god give you a "sign" that convicted you of the truth of "the truth"?.

  my mother told me about one she had.

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  ANOINTED Jehovah Witness has no doubt,

  by lotus in

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  2. friends

  hello, i am new to this website, but have to be straightforward and say that i do not agree with most subjects and contents.

  i am an active jehovah witness, but i am very lonely so i am looking for others with the "hope" or to speak to those that know someone that does.

  it has been a long , hard road for me.

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  Do they intentionally love-bomb?

  by Xander in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i've seen this term used a lot (love-bombing) re: new jw studies.

  the implication is that this is some kind of nefarious wt strategy, but, the more i think about, the less i agree.

  at least, it's not an intentional strategy, i think, just something that happens that works to their advantage (getting new recruits in).. i grew up as a jw.

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  Changes in Baptism vows again?????

  by Jang in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  is paragraph 11 on page 12 of the april 1 watchtower an indication that candidates will no longer be baptised in the name of the organization any longer?.

  jang.

  caic website: http://caic.org.au/.

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  Do the Witnesses "manipulate" recruits?

  by refiners fire in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  do they "mystically manipulate"people joining them?.

  im inclined to say they dont.. they are almost unique in this.. practically every cult ive joined, i could recite a litany of manipulation techniques applied to me during my joining process.. the dubs study with people, systematically, unemotionally.. noone else does this in my experience.. people who join the dubs join under "intellectual conviction".. do you agree with this view or not??.

  im most curious to hear opinions on this.

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  Heaven and Earth will pass away?

  by eyeslice in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  like many, for years i understood the generation mentioned in matthew 24:34 to be an actual chronological generation that actually saw the events of 1914. this would mean that to be in a position to see and understand the events of 1914, someone would have to be at least 10 years old, and to be someone who actually fought in the great war, say 17 or 18 years old.

  this generation has passed away, as clearly brought home with the recent death of the british queen mother who was born at the beginning of the 20th century.. whilst i understand the so called change of thought of a few years back that now makes this generation a contemporary rather than a chronological one, i cannot see how the guarantee that heaven and earth will pass away but my words will not pass away sits with a much vaguer contemporary one.

  if it is not possible to clearly define this generation, then this guarantee makes no sense.. has anyone heard of any new spins on the guarantee aspect, say from cos, dos, bethelites, etc, as the official lines have been particularly vague on this point?

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  Shunning/Ostracising

  by DevonMcBride in

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  2. friends

  the past few weeks i have been comnunicating with jw's in my area who attend kh meetings physically but not mentally.

  they are "closet apostates" or "double agents".

  some are planning to leave the area altogether to avoid the hassles of being shunned.. according to one of these "closet apostates", he believes that 30% if not more of the members in his congregation would leave if it were not for the shunning.

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  newsflash!! WTBS CD-ROM 2001

  by greven in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  yesterday an announcement was made at my local con.

  and i thought i`d share it.. the watchtower announced that work on the new cd-rom is in progress and we can expect it at the end of this year.. unlike the other versions you can`t get away with win 3.1, you`ll now need at least win95.. available languages: the one already available + tjech and japanese.. some of it`s features:.

  - one window (instead of several).

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