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  Undercover apostates...

  by Maze in

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  i've observed some forum users here that claim to be active witnesses (even claims to be ministerial servants or elders) while duplicitously supporting apostates online.

  my contention is this; why attend meetings and/or participate in the preaching activity when the second you divulge your apostate thinking into the congregation, you'll be disfellowshipped?

  while this action taken may seem to be harsh, the outworking of events wouldn't be much different in one of christendom's churches.

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  "Apostate" is the most heinous misapplication of the language when referring to people find it impossible to uncritically submit their minds and consciences to religious authority, or to raise any question whatsoever, however respectfully expressed. As Cervantes said "I can live with questions I can't answer, but not with those I can't ask (or, put another way, "answers I can't question").
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  Jehovah's Witnesses & Higher Education

  by minimus in

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  i believe that jws demonize higher education so much, that it makes them look like weirdos!.

  you and your family are penalized if someone goes to college!.

  when i tell any "worldly" (aka "normal" person) that witnesess view higher education with disdain and ridicule, i always get the same response:.

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  Ther's nothing really wrong with deciding against college ... IF one has marketable, specialized skills in high demand, and enjoys the manual labor, creativity and problem-solving that go along with them. The whole point is that, except for working illegally or in a criminal enterprise, what one does for a living has nothing whatsover to do with his/her spiritual relationship with God.
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  WHO WROTE THE BIBLE by Washington Gladden, PT 1

  by Quentin in

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  2. bible

  am currently reading this book.

  would like to share some excerpts from same.take note mr. gladden is objective in his wrting.see wikipedia for gladden bio.

  excerpts, printed by waking lion press.

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  Has anyone of you read "Who Wrote The Bible" by Richard Freidman? It came highly recommended; the subject interests me and I've read neither. Any impressions/comparisons, etc.?
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  Talking Blood in 2006 — Watchtower, We Have a Problem

  by Marvin Shilmer in

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  talking blood in 2006 watchtower, we have a problem.

  i have added a new article to my blog titled talking blood in 2006 watchtower, we have a problem.

  my article contains a scan of a watchtower provided special outline.

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  Excellent point, Blondie. How can the WT possibly endorse the use of blood "fractions" which can only come from the processing of previously stored blood. And another question: Can a JW conscientously offer his blood for the sole purpose of having it processed into "fractions" for his brothers/sisters without facing DFing?
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  WHO WROTE THE BIBLE by Washington Gladden, PT 1

  by Quentin in

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  2. bible

  am currently reading this book.

  would like to share some excerpts from same.take note mr. gladden is objective in his wrting.see wikipedia for gladden bio.

  excerpts, printed by waking lion press.

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  "I was considering readin the bool until I learned it was written in the late 1800s!!! This book seems too outdated to gather any knowledge from" The mid-late nineteenth century was for many the Golden Age of Bible exegesis and commentary. So many of the critical works, concordances, etc. come from that era. Ray Franz, among others, certainly thought so.
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  K.I.S.S. Keep it simple (for the) STUPID! Considering 1914 anew

  by Terry in

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  have you ever seen a stop sign?.

  what if it were a "decelerate until stationary!

  "sign, instead?.

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  Per Mary: " "Jerusalem will [continue to] be trampled on by the nations" whence the creative "[continue to]" embellishment to the text?
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  How come it was Our Kingdom Ministry then it was Our Kingdom Service then it was changed back to Our Kingdom Ministry?

  by hoser in

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  it was okm in the old days 50s and 60s then it was our kingdom service in the 70's then they changed it back again??????.

  this is the publication used at the service meeting thursday nights showing how to preach in the territory..

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  "Our Kingdom Service" was discredited and changed back in a Kremlin-style effacing of all vestiges of the creeping liberalization of the Ray Franz era.
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  For Those Who Went: How "Special" Was Sunday's "Special Talk?"

  by Room 215 in

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  comments anyone?.

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  .... which is to say, YKnot, in your case it was the SPEAKER who was special
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  For Those Who Went: How "Special" Was Sunday's "Special Talk?"

  by Room 215 in

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  comments anyone?.

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  Yknot, sadly there are far too few JW speakers of the kind you describe above; there never were too many to begin with and now they are on the point of extinction.
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  Pennsylvania witnesses shot at

  by Siddhashunyata in

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  http://www.poconorecord.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?aid=/20110501/news90/105010338/-1/news.

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  That's one way to get them JWs to move fast!