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  An Unky Punky YouTube vid - Are the GB paedos?

  by punkofnice in

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  http://youtu.be/l3vhl0ppffa.

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  That's the conclusion I came to just before I left JWs 8 years ago. I couldn't understand why they didn't take steps to protect children unless they themselves were pedophiles.

  I had a civics teacher back in high school who told us that legislators enact lighter punishment for offences they themselves are more likely to commit. Drunk driving was the big one back then - a mere slap on the wrist. (In the intervening years things have changed, thanks to grass roots campaigns like MADD.)

  That little lesson came back to me when I first learned of the pedophilia in the organization, and the only conclusion I could come to was what you posit in your video, Punky.
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  All Letters to Elders From The branch 1981 - 2012 BOE

  by BlindersOff1 in

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  http://www.sendspace.com/file/1d0c72.

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  This is great! My father was the PO in our congregation, and every so often in a conversation he'd interject, "Well, the bodies of elders got a letter on that, but I can't tell you about it." If he were still alive he'd be horrified to find all of those letters, plus the top-secret elders' book, available online.
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  Watch Tower Web Site Has No Commenting Feature, Comments Unwelcome,

  by frankiespeakin in

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  2. bible

  well it comes as no surprise that the "official" watch tower web site has no place to leave a comment you can only leave your address if your interested.. can you imagine if they did have a place where you can post comments what would happen?.

  i'm sure the lack luster of the wt web site is due to the fact that a bunch of old governing body member must go over it with a fine toothed comb and with all thier other business to carry out as corporation executives it is just to time consuming and lets face it these old guys just don't have what it takes to bring this organization thru the 21st century, they are too lost in thier delusion, they are fighting thier own shadow, the enemy is everyone that disagrees with them and they are so steeped in denial they don't want to hear any comment that doesn't agree with them.

  they only want confirmation biased statements to read, all else must be resisted and faught against.. internet presents is very important to the wt or it should be as door to door sales will no longer pay the bills, who wants a trashy magazine when you can down load info cheaply and quickly off the net.. these delusional old guys running the wt will be the reason they go belly up.

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  With the anonymity the Web provides even articles about cute puppies can elicit nasty comments. How many times have you wanted to comment on a video you enjoyed only to find a few people having a name-calling-fest in the comments section?

  If the WT site allowed comments it would get spammed by both fawning JWs and apostates. It could be fun, though.
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  Listen, Obey, and Be Blessed - corrected version

  by finally awake in

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  2. friends

  1. if we have listened to herd, we will show it.. his demands oppress, and screw up our day.. it makes us unhappy to hear and to know it,.

  and well be stressed if we know and obey.. (chorus).

  2. this way of life, like a jail, is a sentence.

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  cobaltcupcake

  I don't know the tune. This must be from the new songbook. But I like the lyrics.
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  Who is the biggest hypocrite JW that you know?

  by Iamallcool in

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  cobaltcupcake

  There are hypocrites in every religion. JWs have such a rigid code of conduct it's nearly impossible not to be a hypocrite to some extent.

  Shoot, I'd have to vote for myself. I tried hard to live up to what was expected of me, and I certainly preached it, but I failed.
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  Are JW'S "hated" in all the world? Or...are they considered IRRELEVANT?

  by Terry in

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  wathctower 90/1/1 p. 12 par.

  8 not ashamed of the good news .

  while it is true that jehovahs witnesses are hated and opposed in all the nations of the earth, this is in fulfillment of what was foretold to be an identifying mark of genuine worshipers of the one living and true god.

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  Irrelevant. Obscure. Kooks.
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  CS Monitor. Religion in New England...the future of Religion. Some Jehovah's Witnesses become Seventh Day Adventists.?

  by Balaamsass in

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  gd2-status-2 spaceid=95400273 loc=logo noad qyz cms_none_avail,,98.139.32.249;;logo;95400273;2;who's filling america's church pewsin puritan new england, protestant and catholic churches are declining while evangelical and pentecostal groups are rising.

  why the nation's most secular region may hint at the future of religion.by g. jeffrey macdonald | christian science monitor sun, dec 23, 2012 .

  start article more from yog-5u on a snowy 20-degree day in december, the visitors shiver as they move among vestiges of a long-closed pizza hut on this city's struggling main street.

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  I'm really surprised to read that. I lived most of my life in New England, but then I moved to North Carolina in the Bible Belt. I was so surprised to find that people actually talked about their church - never heard that kind of talk in NE. Churches back home were usually small (except the Catholic churches), and often in disrepair. In NC churches are enormous and very active in community outreach, totally unlike anything I ever saw in New England.
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  An interesting article on scientific explanations of near-death / out-of-body experiences

  by cedars in

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  i've been doing quite a bit of research into books recently, and i've noticed that the book "proof of heaven" is selling very strongly at the moment.

  it's currently no.1 in the new york times bestseller list for nonfiction paperbacks.. the book is by a qualified neurosurgeon who converted to religious faith after going into a coma and having what he later described as an experience of heaven, which he elaborates on in great detail in the book.

  he argues that the experience must have been supernatural, because his cerebral cortex was "offline" for the duration of his vision.. .

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  cobaltcupcake

  Haters gonna hate.
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  Hi I am new. Thanks for the food at the proper time.

  by 2+2=5 in

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  i have been lurking on this forum for a few months and thought it was time i joined in.

  a big thankyou goes to all who post here, i have enjoyed immensely all the thought provoking discussion and not so thought provoking (thanks recovery/ethos).

  i have had heaps to get my head around recently learning the truth about the truth and as i remember reading here before its like digesting a brick.

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  Welcome!
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  Born in, Convert or 1975er?

  by Think About It in

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  does a person's involvement in the jw religion usually fall into one of these 3 categories?.

  a) born in.

  b) convert.

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  1975er