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Suicide - How many do you know within the JWs
by Lady Lee inthw 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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TIME TO VENT - What Is Your Least Favorite Thought Terminating Cliche' ?
by Perry indefinition: a thought-terminating cliche is a commonly used phrase, sometimes passing as folk wisdom, used to quell cognitive dissonance.. here's mine: we don't believe that way ..... we are christians in this home..
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My top one is
"But where else will I go"
Also
"don't run ahead of Jehovahs organization"
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A Memory
by Bollonkers inhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkqu8jpizde.
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this makes me feel a little nostalgic and sad - just thought i'd share, even if most would rather i didn't.. .
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I've emailed ABC 20/20
by mauiboy init was so easy i should have done it long ago....i went to www.abc.com, filled in the search bar with "20/20" and then clicked on 'email us'.
my request was simple "please do an expose' on j.w.
's and how they hide and protect pedophiles and then require those same pedophiles to go into public neighborhoods....putting them in contact with innocents, while not even being known amongst their own congregation members for the vile persons they are".. if enough of us make similar requests.....maybe,just maybe, we'll get our request.
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I emailed them this
"This is the largest jury verdict for a single victim in a religious child abuse case in the country
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/18/us/28-million-awarded-in-jehovahs-witnesses-abuse-case.html?_r=0
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Jehovah's Witnesses Watchtower SUICIDE . How many JW suicides can you recall?
by Anti-Cult inhow many jw suicides can you recall?.
is it more common than the rest of society?.
i personally know of 5.
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I deal with suicidality and know of 6 around here .
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"Where are all those evil, mean spirited, mentally diseased apostates?"
Well said.
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Governing body member engaged... Again!
by OneDayillBeFree injust found out that the australian governong body member known as geoffrey jackson got engaged to a sister about two weeks ago.
it really shocked me at first but then i remembered how other members of the gb have remarried in the past like daniel sidlik.
what made me say "woah" was hearing that the holy bride to be is really young!
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Watchtower CD
by NeverKnew inhow does a person (non-jw) outside the organization get this cd the wt publishes?
how much does it cost?.
note: i'm not asking how much it's worth.
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Latest version downloadable right here
Watchtower Library 2011 English
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WT Elders school: Avoid black and white thinking - now look at this zebra
by sir82 incontinuing on with my haphazard review of the recent one-day elders school..... in one of the introductory talks, the co was making the point that we can't view things merely from a black and white perspective.
many issues have "shades of gray" and we need to use discernment in such situations.. and i'm thinking "finally!
maybe he will continue on to make an actual, reasonable point!".
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Prime Directive of Destructive Cults
by Farkel inthe prime directive of all destructive cults is to keep members absolutely convinced they are not involved in a destructive cult.
if that directive is not sustained the game is over for the leaders of the cult.. i thought about this because of an interesting experience i had not more than a half hour ago.
i wanted to call a childhood friend of mine; we had made contact a year or so ago after forty years.
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25 members of my immediate family are shunning me for just asking hard question and drawing away for not going to Watchtower corp meetings
I feel your pain Flip