Topics Started by atrapado

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Suicide - How many do you know within the JWs
by Lady Lee in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
thw wts likes to play games with their statistics.

one interesting but truly tragic is the number of jwhovah's witnesses who commit suicie.. now i suspect that if a person commits suicide shortly before or after they are disfellowshipped then the elders would say that person wasn't a witness or that they had done something so terrible that they were too guilty to admit it and by their action of committing suicide they pretty much declared they were no longer a jw.. yup fancy talk to make sure any crap didn't fall on them.. so my question.. do you know of cases like this?

if so then can you answer a few more questions.. had this person been dfed or in real danger of being dfed or whatever the equivalent is if they were never baptized?.
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Interesting video "ex jw elders meeting"
by yourmomma in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zi7az1ahhda&feature=mfu_in_order&list=ul.

this is a long series.

im finding more and more that jw's are so illequiped for debate, that they cant even make coherent arguments.
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Does anybody still believe in God and the Bible?
by tornapart in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i just want to know out of interest how many here still believe in god and christ and that the bible is god's word.

my faith in the wts is gone but i still love god and his son.

i've noticed that many here have lost their faith in god as well as the wts.
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Applying Math, Physics, Archeology to THE STORY OF NOAH
by Terry in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
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Checking Bibles for "God's Name"
by sabastious in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i had a ritual growing up every time we traveled to an assembly or convention.

in the hotel i would always take a look at the gideon bible's that were always stored in one of the drawers.

immediately upon finding it i would open up to psalms 83:18 to check if the bible had god's name within it.
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The Control is simply amazing
by outsmartthesystem in
1. jw
2. experiences
at the kind advice of so many of you (and hassan) on this board....i ceased attempting to discuss doctrine/failures with my wife many months ago.

but unfortunately that does not prevent her from grilling me from time to time.

during one of our infamous "discussions" she said she was going to "investigate" this supposed "proof" that is out there regarding 587bc.
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evolution question
by outsmartthesystem in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
it has taken me almost 2 years to get to the bottom of the watchtower society rabbit hole.

being fully convinced that i was duped....i am still a little ashamed of myself for being so narrow minded.

i have vowed never to close off my mind like that again.
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From JW's To Islam
by Bangalore in
1. jw
2. friends
life story of a brother who converted to islam.. .

http://tiigerr.wordpress.com/2010/05/24/raphael-my-journey-to-islam/.

bangalore.
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Where Are You From?
by finallysomepride in
1. jw
2. friends
alot of members don't have a flag or country name beside their user name, and well frequently one doesn't know where that particular person is from, tell us your country, state, county or what ever you feel like giving out.

if you are going to post please at least devulge your country.. me, i'm originally from taranaki, new zealand via auckland.

for the most of this decade i have been living & working in brisbane, queensland, australia.. .
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What other ancient Greek Manuscripts contained the divine name?
by yaddayadda in
1. watchtower
2. bible
the society in appendix 1a of their 'kingdom interlinear translation of the christian greek scriptures' refers to nine other greek manuscripts as containing the divine name, and they quote from jerome as referring to certain 'greek volumes' containing the tetragrammaton.

can anyone shed any light on what these greek manuscripts and volumes are and their dates of writing?

here is what the society says in full: .