Topics Started by MYOHNSEPH

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Are JW's Satans children?
by sleepy in
1. jw
2. friends
are jw's satans children?.

i was just wondering how ex-jw born agains and members of other religions view jw's and their time as one.do they believe , like jw's do of other religions, that satan is behind the movment?.

do you feel that in your time as a witness you were under satans control?.
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Loyalty to the truth
by happy man in
1. jw
2. friends
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at bokstudy yesterday , we talk of the diffrent things gb say, and who we must stand to this.. i tell that they are only peopel and have make some misstaks, as we can se , fore exampel in the proclaimers book, well the study leader say, we must shoe loyality to the gb, even iif it later show upp to bee wrong, it is very importat that we follow what they say.. this is a ver difficult area, ofcourse in our religion we can not have 6 million diffretn wuies, but if we follow evry word very carefull, are we then not follow man?.

what about if they say something who take your life, and later change this, who is responsibel, or even worse our kidds, who are resposibel if they die on such polyci, like the transplantaision prohibition, we have fore some time, are we fore exampel personaly responsibel fore our akts, when the day is here, or can we say, we only follow what the gb say.. this is a very tricky qestion who i think about a lot
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Ozzie's Weekend Poll #20
by ozziepost in
1. jw
2. friends
well, here we are with the twentieth of our weekend polls!

doesn't time fly when you're having fun!

this weekend's poll is a serious topic and invites us to exercise our dub trained minds to solve a problem in helping us to reach to those who want to honestly look at their situation within the organisation.
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Probably a dumb question.
by els in
1. jw
2. experiences
i've been lurking around reading pretty much all of the posts for probably a month.

i just registered and set up a profile which has a brief synopsis of my life.

well the first thing i want to ask is, what does dub stand for?
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Selective Compassion
by MYOHNSEPH in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i dont know how many of you have listened to the audio of mike spence interviewing j.r. brown on the societys policies related to child molesters, but its worth a listen.

i was particularly fascinated with browns comments about allowing someone, who may have previously been convicted of child molestation, to later hold a position of responsibility in the congregation.

as an example of how this might happen, he presented a hypothetical case in which a boy of sixteen has sex with a girl of fourteen, with her consent.
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Elders vs. Clergy? Lacking
by patio34 in
1. social
2. current
since i'm not a religious person anymore, this is not a thread advocating clergy people.

but simply a comparison between most clergy and jw elders.

usually jws have made it a positive that elders are not like clergy.
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FREEDOM
by UnDisfellowshipped in
1. jw
2. friends
matthew 20:27: and whoever desires to be first among you, let him be your servant; .

matthew 20:28: even as the son of man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life a ransom for many.. mark 10:42: but having called them near, jesus said to them, you know that those seeming to rule the nations lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them.

but through love serve one another.. galatians 5:14: for the whole law is fulfilled in one word, in this: "you shall love your neighbor as yourself.".
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Religious Tolerance & Hypocrisy
by MYOHNSEPH in
1. social
2. current
in looking over the wts website this morning, i was drawn to an article entitled, the edict of nantes a charter for tolerance?

it deals with the edict signed by king henry iv, of france , in 1598, which afforded an unprecedented degree of religious tolerance and freedom of religion for protestants of that time.

while questioning the motive behind the edict, the article seems to extol the virtues and rightness of religious tolerance.
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Should we care about "lurkers"?
by expatbrit in
1. jw
2. friends
ive noticed some discussion on the question of whether we should be concerned about moderating our behaviour because of what lurking jws will think.

should we be concerned about scaring off jws who may be starting to question the wt, or should anything go because if they can't deal with the real world it's not our problem and we should be ourselves?.

the following are some of my thoughts.
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When "called a brother"?
by metatron in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
when is a witness no longer "called a brother"?

logically, they would not be disfellowshipped.. if a person is df'd and makes clear that they no longer wish to be considered a witness by anyone, how are they.

"called a brother"?