Pork Chop

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  gcc2k asked "WHAT IS THE CURRENT VIEW"

  by JT in

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  made the following comments

  1. the quotes showed are pretty old.

  what proof is there that this is the current view?

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  Pork Chop

  Is it not amazing that you won't answer his question?
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  Jehovah's Witnesses Feel Superior To Others. What About EX-JW's???

  by minimus in

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  everyone knows the smugness that jw's have.

  "everyone is going to die except us because we only have the truth.

  " do you think that ex-witnesses continue this same smugness once they get out and realize what really is the truth?

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  Pork Chop

  JT I'd say you answered your own question. The majority opinion on this board is that Witnesses are stupid, not completely brain dead, there's a whole lot of derogative name calling which I don't need to list here. Then there's the charge that Witnesses are essentially evil, not quite so many go that route but there's a significant number. The denigration list gets very long when you think about it. The impression I often get as that most have almost exactly the same attitude that they had when they were Witnesses, it's just that now it is focused on Witnesses rather than non-witnesses. I will say that this is very typical behavious for hostile leavers from any organization.
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  DO’s, CO’s, Prominent Elders being DF”d recently….

  by cyberguy in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i just got off the phone with a friend of mine and thought i should relay something interesting.

  he said at a recent (within the last month) elders school in florida, dos, cos and elders that have been associated for decades are becoming "apostates," leaving the organization and have been dfd!

  something that makes me say "hummmm!".

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  Pork Chop

  I'd really like to see some details on this, names maybe?
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  how do you get ahead in the org?

  by Azalo in

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  a question: how does an elder move ahead?

  what i mean is my father has been an elder for over 20 years and as far as i know he has never been offered any high profile jobs, co etc, never gotten to give the big talks at assemblies, etc, i was just wondering is there some type of politics that goes along with it?

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  Pork Chop

  SwordofJah left out the Circuit Panel, they're the ones that really make the recommendations for District Convention speakers, on the basis of your demonstrated performance, supposedly. It helps enormously to know one of those guys and it's even better if you're in a congregation with one so they can hear you all the time. Once you become a District Convention speaker you have to get a "Good" for every part at a DC or you're off the list.
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  Jehovah's Witnesses Feel Superior To Others. What About EX-JW's???

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  everyone knows the smugness that jw's have.

  "everyone is going to die except us because we only have the truth.

  " do you think that ex-witnesses continue this same smugness once they get out and realize what really is the truth?

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  Pork Chop

  I would say the majority of exJWs feel vastly superior to JWs, at least it certainly looks that way.
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  The "Left Behind" book series. Has anyone read the books?

  by Yizuman in

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  has anyone read the "left behind" book series?

  http://www.leftbehind.com .

  yizuman.

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  Pork Chop

  District Overbeer those are some of my favortie books. Ever read "Malevil" by Robert Merle I think. Highly recommeded, an interesting little twist at the end.
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  The "Left Behind" book series. Has anyone read the books?

  by Yizuman in

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  has anyone read the "left behind" book series?

  http://www.leftbehind.com .

  yizuman.

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  Pork Chop

  I found them fairly interesting, just to see that particular point of view. I think it's stretching things to say they follow the "traditional" Christian way of looking at Revelation. It's just one of the ways professed Christians look at Revelation. There's actually quite a bit of criticism of the series from main line theologians.
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  I went to the Special Talk on Sunday!

  by UnDisfellowshipped in

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  i went to the "special talk" on sunday, april 27th, 2003!

  by undisfellowshipped (

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  Pork Chop

  I went to the special talk as well and I didn't hear anything like that.
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  US "King of the North"?

  by patio34 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  could it be that since oil rights may be going to us and uk oil corporations, possibly excluding france, russia, etc., that the us/uk coalition could be the new king of the north (kn)?

  after all, the daniel book somewhere, and i don't care enough to look.

  it's hardly worth mentioning as i don't care what the wtbs says.

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  Pork Chop

  Wow, Farkel allowed 13 whole minutes for a reply. That's amazing.
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  Is It Possible To See A Bethel Uprising In The Future?

  by minimus in

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  in the late 70's, there were a lot of free thinkers in bethel.

  they had a measure of independence.

  then they cleaned house.

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  Pork Chop

  I've heard there's a multi-year plan (10?) to make changes on a lot of things that are issues.