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  Three cheers for Hymenaeus, Philetus, Alexander et al

  by rory-ks in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  it's about time we embraced these courageous men who saw sense and went their own way in the early days.. hymenaeus, philetus, alexander et al: "they were not of our sort...".

  no need to get offended when you are compared to them..

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  Ghostworld of the Excommunicated

  by rory-ks in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  this is an account of my own experience of being disfellowshipped.

  i'm sure it will be familiar to many of you.. ghostworld of the excommunicated.

  here's fun, though: please feel free to sign the ghost-wall at the end of the story..

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  Jehovah's Witnesses cease to exist before the year 2000

  by rory-ks in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  september 1st, 2012, can be marked down in the theocratic calendar as the day the watchtower bible and tract society marched shamelessly into the 21st century.

  on that day, jw.org, official website of jehovah's witnesses, went live, and with one strike the organisation put a match to its past.. .

  seek out the society's online library, its searchable database of publications, and you will soon see that it has only made available literature published since the year 2000. inclusion of the generic work, insight on the scriptures, is of no consequence.

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  Where is the Society headquarters these days?

  by rory-ks in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i actually find this whole matter a bit creepy.

  i find it very hard to think of the watch tower society as a cult in the same mould as jonestown or the branch davidians, and yet their out-of-town facilities increasingly take on the appearance of a cultish stronghold.. where is the society headquarters these days?

  is it up in wallkill?

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  Thinking about disassociating yourself - STOP!...at least for a moment

  by rory-ks in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  (this recent forum post about a letter of disassociation encouraged me to post this new topic.

  it's been sitting in my drafts folder for a little while, but now is as good a time as any.).

  my suggestion would be, try not to go down the route of disassociation.

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  So, let's kick this revolution up a gear

  by rory-ks in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i left a comment on a jwstruggle post - who's in our worldwide brotherhood?

  it was aimed at a new visitor to the site:.

  what you have stumbled across here is what would be termed an apostate website.

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  Hoist by their own petard: Using w86 4/1 30, 31 for your own defence

  by rory-ks in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the april 1, 1986, watchtower, questions from readers is still the basis upon which jehovah's witnesses see fit to act against so-called apostates.

  it is, however, completely shot through with discrepancies and weak arguments.

  all of these can be used to build a solid defence.

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  Occupy Jehovah's Witnesses: When the 0.1% are the 99.9%

  by rory-ks in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  on the evening of thursday, april 5th, after sundown, some 19 million people will meet in kingdom halls around the world to celebrate the lord's evening meal.

  of those 19 million less than half will be fully-fledged jehovah's witnesses comprising men, women, and children, who have dedicated their lives to the cause, amounting to some 7-and-a-half million - a mere 0.1% of the world's 7 billion population.. .

  that 0.1% are in a privileged position.

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  Prelude to a disfellowshipping: An open letter.

  by rory-ks in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  an open letter to the body of elders, .

  sudbury (suffolk) congregation of jehovah's witnesses.. .

  on wednesday, april 4, 2012, the decision will be carried out to announce to the congregation that, rory sullivan is no longer one of jehovah's witnesses.. .

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  Prelude to a disfellowshipping

  by rory-ks in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i was 25 years a congregation member; ten years an elder; all told, up to 18 years an appointed man; a decade or so as a full-time minister; assembly speaker, with the pinnacle giving the public discourse at a district convention.. .

  i stopped being an active member of the congregation in november 2010, but it had been brewing for several years, with the customary gradual drifting away - all the necessary mental gymnastics as my spiritual views changed and doubts set in; quitting the theocratic ministry school; ceasing to answer; sitting quietly off to the side.

  i think the straw that broke the camels back was when family worship inevitably became family worship.

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