Unfortuneatly, most JWs have no clue of what the cocept of "unconditional" love entails. It's so ironic how they pride themselves on the "love" amongst themselves- I don't think there is another group in the world with such a myopic view of love.
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JW children - conditionally loved?
by Gregor inwhen they reach a certain age they are expected to "sign up" (get baptized).
in many cases if they choose not to their parents essentially "disfellowship" them.
so a lot of children get baptized under pressure from the parents and when they fail to live the jw life and get df'd the folks are the harshest shunners.
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Napa Valley, CA Child Abuse Court Case Victories
by AndersonsInfo innapa wt child abuse case.
two important court decisions, which came out of napa valley, ca, are now available for us to post on jwd.
these significant rulings overturn objections regularly made by the watchtower in recent lawsuits and may serve as a precedent for future lawsuits.
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Any updates?
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Free Knocking Preview on Thursday in Pittsburgh, PA
by DazedAndConfused inhttp://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07117/781358-237.stm.
pbs show screening.
point park university will screen the upcoming pbs "independent lens" documentary, "knocking," at 7 p.m. thursday in room 212 of the university center, 414 wood st., downtown.
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From the Knocking.org website it lists the following info for the Chicago viewing:
Wednesday, May 2nd 7:00pm
Facets Cinematheque 1517 W Fullerton Ave.
For more info contact: [email protected]
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Watchtower to Sell 6 Brooklyn Heights Properties
by DannyHaszard inwatchtower to sell 6 brooklyn heights properties.
brooklyn daily eagle, ny -7 minutes ago.
... residential and all in brooklyn heights, according to david semonian, a spokesperson for the watchtower society, also known as the jehovahs witnesses.
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Danny- That issue as well as a host of other dribble of the day is what convinced my dad not pursue his PHD, whereas two other witness classmates, who by the way were third generation JWs whose grandparents and parents had heard it all before, continued in their educations and have enjoyed 35yrs in careers they really wanted to pursue.
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anybody been to the KMS lately (elders school)...amos?
by ?me? inany new info for us lowly publishers?
do they ever tell or warn you not to discuss the kms with others?
or some of the reasoning and terms they use .
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The last KM school was in Nov and Dec of 2005. I believe he meant to say TMS= Thecratic Ministry School, the weekly meeting.
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The best way to judge the morale of a congregation / JWs in general?
by sir82 ini think the best way to measure how enthusiastic the publishers are is...the number of auxiliary pioneers, especially when there is a "big push" for such.. in any sufficently large population (such as jws), there's always going to be a core of "true believers".
in the jw world, these are the regular pioneers - devoted enough to put their lives on hold & financial security at risk to spend 70 or more hours per month knocking on empty houses & leaving magazines at laundromats & with hapless gas-pumpers.. likewise, there's going to be a group of less active ones, who are in it mainly for social reasons, or because their parents are forcing them.
these ones typically have the stigma of being "low hour publishers" or "spirtually weak" or (horrors!
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We have 74 pubs., which means we should have had around 12, we only had 6.
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Percentage of JW's that are undercover?
by flipper inwhat do you think?
it seems like a lot are there so they won't lose family and friends - are in good standing but don't actually believe.
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I concur with DoubtingBro. I think those percentages are pretty accurate.
I recently had a conversation with my mom (a die hard JW, pioneer for the past 30 yrs, had about 30 of her students baptized) about the May 1st QFR and was surprised by her response. She said the newer members of the GB are too young to truly be "annointed" and she feels it's their influence which caused the writing of the article. She then through me for a loop stating that it's a shame that articles such as these give fodder to the opposers of "Jehovah's Organization" and she doesn't appreciate them. So there you go, a die hard JW doesn't believe the newer GB members are truly "annointed" but STILL believes this is "Jah's Org." I guess she falls in that 40% group.
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Napa Valley, CA Child Abuse Court Case Victories
by AndersonsInfo innapa wt child abuse case.
two important court decisions, which came out of napa valley, ca, are now available for us to post on jwd.
these significant rulings overturn objections regularly made by the watchtower in recent lawsuits and may serve as a precedent for future lawsuits.
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Napa Valley, CA Child Abuse Court Case Victories
by AndersonsInfo innapa wt child abuse case.
two important court decisions, which came out of napa valley, ca, are now available for us to post on jwd.
these significant rulings overturn objections regularly made by the watchtower in recent lawsuits and may serve as a precedent for future lawsuits.
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I have been thinking about this topic recently and was wondering if there are any updates?
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Any current Good Standing JW, posting here?
by NotaNess ini was wondering if there are any current regular posters here that are still active , but are mentally inactive and don't believe all the bull anymore, and are just going through the motions to keep their life with friends and family together.. i realize this might be a posting that will probably get 0 replies, but.......
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Yes- the ONLY reason is to keep family ties in order. However, it is getting harder to stomach a lot of what the FDS spews. I do hope to be out by year's end for reasons I cannot divulge right now.
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