Whatever you think of these deplorable images of pitiless destruction of 99.9 pct of the human race by a vengeful God, JWs share this worldview with many right-wing fundamentalists. It's hardly unique to them.
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Watchtower images
by Gorbatchov inin the previous posting i watched the watchtower images about worldly people etc.
how awful are these.
since childhood i am grown up with this kind of indoctrination.
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TCHAIKOVSKY: Serenade for Strings in C major, Op. 48
by possible-san intchaikovsky: serenade for strings in c major, op.48.
i like this classical music.. especially i like the part of the beginning of this music.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsgrglp6tvs.
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Yes, one of his best compositions
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Why are alot of witnesses very interested in watching Sports but they are against playing organized sports?
by asilentone in.
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It's the same reason why a kid can take music lessons but is discouraged from playing in a school orchestra......
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Skeleton's Come Tumbling out of Bethel's Closet - Ray Franz- Book ISOCF
by flipper inmy wife and i are towards the end ( finally ) of reading " in search of christian freedom " by ray franz .
( long book 728 pgs.
on pg.
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When I was there in 1965-1969, there were no locks on the Bethelites' room, and one young man, the son of a circuit overseer, home-schooled by his mother, was outed as a thief and denounced at the Bethel breakfast table.
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Paranoia rules the Spiritual Paradise!
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The Dawkins Delusion
by brotherdan inso, i recently finished reading "the god delusion" by richard dawkins.
i read it with a certain amount of hesitation.
after all, i am still recovering from my disappointment at realizing that the wts is not god's organization.
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The underlying nub of these questions is: faith is neither empiricism nor science. Jesus told Thomas; "happy are those who do not see and yet believe."
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I understand it may be a natural gas rig, one that feeds into the ANR pipeline which runs Northeast from Louisiana to the Great Lakes
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Did you ever try any of the awkward, and somewhat creepy suggestions in the KM for Informal Witnessing?
by miseryloveselders inthe august km, has an article entitled, "you can witness informally!
" this week's service meeting will cover half of the 13 questions.
next week, congregations will finish the article along with a box full of several experiences with successful results from informal witnessing.
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I wonder just how many of these "suggestions" the members of the GB -- or any Bethelites for that matter, personally apply... if they engage in public preaching at all....
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Find refreshment in spiritual things - this weeks tower.
by Cook My Socks UK ini just thought that i would share an observation regarding par 3 of this weeks wt study.
the paragraph says in part " jehovah's witnesses find genuine refreshment through up building christian fellowship".. .
i am wondering if any readers / posters on this forum that still do or used to attend meetings have any thoughts on this.
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After a meeting, I was left with a vague sense of having been let down, that the anticipation far exceeded the reality: ("what's the point? I didn't learn anything new"). Almost nil spiritual enlightenment. And after the closing "amen," most of the post-meeting chatter among the friends focused on the mundane to the exclusion of the material on the meeting, ie. women talking gossip, families, and exchanging recipes, etc. with the men talking about work and/or sports.
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Do the GB really BELIEVE??
by Slidin Fast ini believe that most dubs remain because of the investment they have made to the "truth".
as soon as men become a ms or an elder they have bought in and can no longer express any doubts felt.
then promotion through full time "service" means an increase in authority over those below and control by those above.
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Most of these guys spent a large proportion of their lives in an insular, hot house, self-reinforcing environment with limited to nil first-hand interaction with people on the outside, including regular JWs, and much less with non JWs. All this inhibits, if not totally blocks out, a realistic view of the world.