I feel that whole episode was drawn out and overblown. It is easy when reading a text or email to misunderstand the tone of how things were meant or to read into word choice. Despite many apologies rendered, I felt many were harsh and unforgiving. No apology offered was good enough.
Londo111
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Lloyd Evans' New Book - Is It Really Necessary?
by pale.emperor inso lloyd evans will shortly be releasing his new book how to leave the jehovah's witnesses.
i do enjoy his rebuttals and the stuff he manages to get hold of and leak.
but i'm struggling to understand what he could possibly write to merit a whole book.. all info on how to leave is right here on this forum.
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Loving a JW
by stevilla inhere’s a little back story.
i met this jw girl 4 months ago online and found out she was a jw 2 months later after confessing my liking for her.
we had a long conversation about it with her explaining what exactly a jw is and the rules and what not.
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Londo111
You have not met in person yet?
If not, it may not be wise to invest that much emotionally at this point. Romantic feelings can be built up with mostly online interactions, but when things transition into the real world, the bubble bursts.
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New Store called Best Life Gifts
by Franklin30 ini noticed a recent post where it was suggested the store was taken over by hostile means!.
the person who posted it pretended to have knowledge of why the store changed names but clearly was operating with an agenda!
one filled with lies, misinformation and deceit!.
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Londo111
Franklin30: Thank you for the information.
It's sad when people put misinformation out there.
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Lloyd Evans' New Book - Is It Really Necessary?
by pale.emperor inso lloyd evans will shortly be releasing his new book how to leave the jehovah's witnesses.
i do enjoy his rebuttals and the stuff he manages to get hold of and leak.
but i'm struggling to understand what he could possibly write to merit a whole book.. all info on how to leave is right here on this forum.
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Personally, I didn't see a need to read his first book. I can’t imagine what unique information could’ve been presented that was not in Crisis of Conscience or Apocalypse Delayed. -
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Lloyd Evans' New Book - Is It Really Necessary?
by pale.emperor inso lloyd evans will shortly be releasing his new book how to leave the jehovah's witnesses.
i do enjoy his rebuttals and the stuff he manages to get hold of and leak.
but i'm struggling to understand what he could possibly write to merit a whole book.. all info on how to leave is right here on this forum.
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Londo111
While I don't like the unforgiving bashing of this man, or anyone else for that matter, and totally detest some of the made up allegations his opponents have brought up with zero evidence...
I agree. I can't imagine why this needs an entire book. I could see a chapter in a book. But there is better advice to be had online. For free.
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TIL - sunanamignumi vs. Shunning
by berrygerry ininteresting comment on this greek word - used three times according to strong's - .
http://biblehub.com/greek/sunanamignusthai_4874.htm .
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Londo111
This was originally pointed out in one of Ray Franz's books...I believe In Search of Christian Freedom.
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Clearly, undeniably, without doubt ... is there a term for introducing a thought in such a way.
by jwfacts inwatchtower article often introduce a point that has no merit with words such a "undeniably.".
for instance the watchtower 2014 august 15 page 10 says:.
"jehovah undeniably blesses the preaching work of christian women and supports them in times of trial.
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Londo111
We could compile a whole list of these words use a fudge factor to create an absolute assertion.
Without doubt
Evidently
Likely
Many have
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Leaked Videos-Petra-I need help!
by Atlantis inleaked videos.i need help with these leaked videos.
grampa has a whole stack ofthem but they need to be reduced in size.i have never seen these videos before.
some are pretty large in size,so if someone could reduce their size and get them on youtube be myguest.
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Londo111
Let us know when they are ready!
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MaxPayne-2018 Regional Assembly Talk Outlines!
by Atlantis in2018 regional assembly talk outlines.maxpayne:i wasn't sure if you wanted the english ones or the spanish outlines.
i hope i got the right ones for you, but if not we will try again.these are the ones in spanish and we are still waiting to get the onesin english.
as soon as they arrive i will post them for you.grampa put these in a zip folder.https://we.tl/tljfccp4vepetra!.
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Londo111
Update us the moment it's translated in English.
Thanks!
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Do You Think a Schism is in the Future?
by lepermessiah ini was thinking about this over the weekend.
just this week, there was the "consolidation" talk (in my wife's congregation) , the article about shunning that went viral, and the annual "show your love and obedience to jehovah by giving us your money" watchtower.
i know my wife said people are running scared about this consolidation even though it was sold as maximizing space to help other areas, build kh in other countries, etc...... the media and government has hit them hard in many countries, but they have gotten off easy in the usa, where the majority of the people and money reside.
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Londo111
Watchtower is adapt at stopping schisms before they start. Any groups have have broken away have been very small...the largest no bigger than a circuit. The cult mechanism is in place to quarantine any dissenting individuals and demonizing them to the max.
A schism would need to consolidate around a leader or leaders from the top. Of course, in seeing what happened to Ray Franz and Ed Dunlap, Watchtower will go into witchhunt mode and kick out any dissenting leader in the street. I believe had Ray Franz chose to do so, he could've started a competitive schism. But he was a man of integrity and did not want the mantle of leadership and the harm that can bring those under that mantle.
Even if there was an even split in the Governing Body to the breaking point, I wonder how Watchtower would handle it. Eventually one faction would win out and shut and excise the other down.