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  Blondie's Comments You Will Not Hear at the 06-06-10 WT Study (YOUNG PEOPLE) TEST PLEASE FORGIVE ME

  by blondie in

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  young people strengthen your desire to serve jehovah.

  what invitation was extended to children in the christian congregation?

  serve god or the wts?.

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  Hey "miseryloves elders:" I wonder how Cherie (paragraph 13) will fel about her decision in five years? ten years?. I can't help but wonder how many of these "true life accounts" are examples of WT writers' "artistic license."
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  Disfellowshipping - But You KNEW About It Before You Were Baptized!

  by Georgiegirl in

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  started a new topic b/c i didn't want to threadjack another ongoing pointless debate.

  :) (isn't it interesting how the apologists all come out around dc time?).

  i have seen that statement made over and over again by jws about disfellowshipping.

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  It isn't just stealing or fornicating that will get you df'd as we know....... what about swimming in the YMCA pool, cutting a lawn or painting a church as a contractor's employee, buying a lottery ticket,etc., etc. .... talk about the "fine print!!"
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  The Story of Randall Watters part II - Trouble at Bethel

  by Dogpatch in

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  my story part 2: trouble at bethel.

  [if gte mso 9]><!

  [endif]by my third year at bethel i was really enjoying it and determined to make bethel a life career.

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  Wonderful job Randy, I can't express how greatly it resonates with me. I was there 1965-69 and served as the overseer for the home painting and plastering crew. That job granted me access to every nook and cranny of the buildings, even the Knorr/Henschel penthouse apartment complex. What this brings to mind one thing Ray said to someone who inpugned the accuracy of CoC' " I stand behind every single word!" Amen. His book portrtays those crotchy old men, Knorr, Franz, Karl Klein to a tee. It's a rare Bethelite who leaves the place with his/her idealism intact. Thank you once again, not least for the great work freeminds.org is accomplishing.
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  Press Covering the Death of Ray Franz

  by AndersonsInfo in

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  the associated press is sending out on the news wire the information about the death of ray franz.

  this story will be picked up across the world by all major newpapers, tv and radio.. fyi, there will be a tribute to raymond franz, saturday, june 12th, at 7 p.m. est on the phone conferencing dialogue program.

  call.

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  Mad Sweeney, check your PM
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  District Assembly Dramas - where the heck do they come from?

  by babygirl30 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  despite growing up a jw i was always curious where this corny plays came from?

  my best memories of them were when they used to turn the lights out in the convention center - cause that meant i could sleep!!!

  but seriously, who writes them?

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  Hey Man In Black, that JE-HO-VAH portentious intonation was a specialty of Dan Sydlik's....
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  Fell off the wagon today

  by 5thGeneration in

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  one year sober.

  got bombed today.

  really upset at myself.

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  Courage 5thGeneration; been there, done that: "Today is The Tomorrow I Dreaded Yesterday." It's a new day, a clean slate; the old cliche "one day at a time" is a valid one. We all stumble but need to move on.
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  District Assembly Dramas - where the heck do they come from?

  by babygirl30 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  despite growing up a jw i was always curious where this corny plays came from?

  my best memories of them were when they used to turn the lights out in the convention center - cause that meant i could sleep!!!

  but seriously, who writes them?

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  I was part of the very first one, "Cities of Refuge," back in the late sixties. We recorded it at Bethel and Brother Ulysses Glass, since deceased, oversaw the production.
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  How I left Jehovah's Witnesses/Maeve Courteau

  by not a captive in

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  in february of 2009 i slipped a letter of conscience under the doormat of my former book study conductor who was out of town.

  that letter was written because i could not support a portion of the materials that constantly was featured in wts literature.

  at the time i was a sister in good standing.

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  Well and thoughtfully done! I must admit, I'm surprised at the length of the WT's response letter.
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  Apostate Signs At Conventions...Has Anybody Left Because Of That?

  by mentallyfree31 in

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  just wondering how much good that does when ex-jws hold up signs at conventions.

  do you know of anybody that saw something on a sign and did research and subsequently left the organization?.

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  The one problem with any sort of picketing is it reinforces the JW notion that " apostates" (1) are organized and militant; and (2) out to suck them over to the "dark side" like some sort of satanic vacuum cleaner. It takes an uncommonly courageous JW to engage any of them in conversation, especially in plain view of passers-by.
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  JW’s Worship of GB vs exJW’s “worship” of Ray Franz

  by Broken Promises in

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  as jws, we would have seen the adolation the governing body received.

  even as far away as australia, we thought and spoke of them with reverence.

  after all, they were figuratively at gods right hand, with the prospect of one day being in heaven with him.

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  Such an analogy is ludicrous on its face....