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? for elders and former elders...
by somebody in
1. jw
2. friends
after reading thirdson's post on sin and mercy... the watchtower way, i was wondering how a disfellowshipped person is able to prove to the elders that they are repentant.

considering that it's not a biblical command to confess out sins to elders, nor to have to prove to them we are repentant, but rather it's a command of the wbts to it's followers, i was appauled to read the following in the flock "book of rules" written by the wbts for the elders to follow.. .

"how funeral arrangements for a disfellowshipped person .
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JW Pedophiles as early as 1970?
by Amazing in
1. jw
2. friends
at my first district convention in oakland, ca at the raiders stadium, i was eager to help out in anyway i could.

3. when i was done with the quiet sign during the session, i went to the attendant dept.

the dept head said that i could walk the bathrooms during session walk the what?
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JCs, Judging, & Jury Duty.
by Amazing in
1. jw
2. friends
okay everyone, ai cannot believe what has just happened to me.

here i type away publishing my jc series showing how untrained and at times incompetant men should not be sitting in judgment of their fellow jws, when i get a summons from the cook, county office to appear for jury duty in chicago.

[don't they understand that al cappone said that there are no gangsters in chicago?
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Pedophile JC Analysis
by Amazing in
1. jw
2. friends
the title to this post sounds impressive, but i am not going to do to much here that is too technical, except to draw attention to the general scope of jw justice, and the shear battlefield of religious victims.

i will evaluate just the usa statistics.

many of my numbers are estimates, but i have reason to believe that they are generally representative of reality.. there are about 1,000,000 jws in the usa, in about 7,000 congregations.
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Position on College Changed?
by Maximus in
1. jw
2. friends
several have made outright statements and others have suggested that the society's negative position on higher education has changed.

'the society does not discourage higher education where i live.

' worse, 'apostates have made it all up--the society has never discouraged education.
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? on new Ministry School
by why144000 in
1. jw
2. friends
i have read the summary on a couple of days of the dc.

i am interested if anyone has more specific information on the changes to the ministry school.

will the bible reading stay in its present format?
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Org. Re-orging in JAPAN
by JWD in
1. jw
2. friends
for those of you who haven`t been following it,the wts is in a downward spiral here in japan.fs hours are down,memorial attendance.

is down,pioneers are down,studies are down,donations are down,number.

of congregations is down and the number of publishers continues to.
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Did the elders keep secret files on us?
by XJWBill in
1. jw
2. friends
howdy all,.

i've recently discovered all the great ex-jw sites on the internet, and i've enjoyed reading other people's stories.

but a few passing comments in some stories have made me wonder: do or did the elders keep files on individuals in each congregation?
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murder letter
by silentlambs in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
lets dance, we have added "wt letters" section to the website.

it will offer a new letter each week added to a list with an introduction.

read the introduction, click to view the letter and see if it answers the questions.
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Jerry Bergman, Ph.D. (psy) - JW insights
by AhHah in
1. jw
2. friends
this site also contains articles by ken raines, who seems to have developed the site.. url http://www.premier1.net/~raines/.

url http://www.premier1.net/~raines/story.html (ken raines).

url http://www.premier1.net/~raines/papers.html (j. bergman).