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Why are some that post here JW apologists?
by ctrwtf in
1. jw
2. friends
my rant tonight is against the quasi religious apologists that post on this board.

those who at once rail against the jw's then later talk about how "orderly" and "neat" the witnesses are at their conventions.

those who site the benefits of bloodless surgery to some who have the luxury and time to actually make an educated choice, while ignoring the tens of thousands who've died because they happen to be in an accident or succumb to a disease for which there is no other treatment.. i understand the power of cognitive dissonance.
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JWs exist because...
by oldskool in
1. jw
2. friends
one sentence answers only.. here's mine:.

jws exist because people want an escape from the modern world and are willing to give up intellectual freedom to get it..
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Why the “Doomsday Underground Bunker” Videos of Jehovah’s Witnesses May Be More Prophetic Than You Think
by berrygerry in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
https://jwvictims.org/2016/06/05/why-the-doomsday-underground-bunker-videos-of-jehovahs-witnesses-may-be-more-prophetic-than-you-think/.
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“Worldwide Epidemic”
by berrygerry in
1. watchtower
2. bible
watching the world - awake june 22, 1977. during the first interhemispheric conference on adolescent fertility, held recently at arlington, virginia, the delegates representing thirty-nine nations concluded that childbearing among teen-agers has reached the proportions of a “worldwide epidemic.” as quoted in medical tribune, iranian journalist nalia kazemian said in the keynote speech: “[we must] face the fact that the world-wide trend towards pregnancy and childbearing [at an early age] is a physical, social, and demographic crisis.

damaging the whole fabric of society.”.

daily mail - june 2, 2016. us teen pregnancy rate falls to an historic low.
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The Greatest Intellectual Scam of All-Time: French Postmodernism
by cofty in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
sbf you annoyed me enough to deserve this.. gad saad's comments on the nonsensical gibberish of jacques derrida, michel foucault, and jacques lacan.

charlatanism of the highest order.

.... the first quote from derrida starts as 2:50.
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Witness Carts - A Vehicle for Significant Decline
by slimboyfat in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i was stalking to a jw today about her recent experience on the carts and with being a jw generally.

until this conversation i considered the carts as just an ineffective preaching method and a harmless waste of time.

but now i wonder if the effect of the carts might be to produce noticeable decline in jw numbers.
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Reaction of the JW believers to the 2016 RC
by EyesOpenHeartBroken in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
there are threads on the content of the rc and reaction of awake jws here, but how are indoctrinated jws reacting to the convention.

my family and i have not attended yet, but i am bracing myself for it.

anybody talking in jw circles?
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What strange things are taught at MTS?
by Londo111 in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
a few years before i woke up, a young man in my congregation went to ministerial training school.

he began to speak about some of the things he had learned.

one of the things mentioned was that of incubus or succubus, that is to say, sex demons.
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Feeling Sad After Uncovering TTATT
by pale.emperor in
1. jw
2. experiences
my initial pangs of unease and doubt led me to research some things.

well, a lot of things really.

i've never felt comfortable using the bible to try to calculate dates (1914).
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Has any of the GB members ever had a job?
by Crazyguy in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
just wonder since that video about a child giving up his dreams of being a great musician do to competition .

i had to give up all my dreams and now work in a very competitive industry just to get by.

how many people not work in a competitive job?