I am American but speak Portuguese and live in Brazil.
A few years ago there was someone here who I knew in my post-JW days and she was thinking about starting a bible study with a JW and asked for my opinion being I was a former JW. I found some translations of some excerpts from the book at that time. They still might exist. I don't remember if I found the whole book though.
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Portuguese translation of Crises of conscience?
by Diogenesister indoes it exist and if so where could i get a copy?
i am in touch with a young, particularly uninformed portuguese sister who has been talking to my bi-lingual neighbour.
i have been telling her about some of the organisation's history, of which she is absolutely clueless, and she is open to reading this book....i mean that's how little she knows about her religions own edicts.
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Hurricane Harvey JW Victims - Keep trusting in Jehovah’s loving arm of support.
by Funchback innot a peep about all victims, not even a prayer for them.
only pray for jws.
and who or what is jehovah's loving arm of support?
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Not a peep about all victims, not even a prayer for them. Only pray for JWs.
And who or what is Jehovah's loving arm of support? If it's God, can't they just say "trust Jehovah"? If it's the Governing Body, are folks to put trust in man?
Ok...Rant over. Here's the article from their site (link is at the bottom).BREAKING NEWS | Hurricane Harvey Strikes the Gulf Coast of Texas, USA
Hurricane Harvey made landfall in the coastal city of Rockport, Texas, as a Category 4 storm on Friday, August 25. Although now categorized as a tropical storm, Harvey continues to devastate large portions of Texas from Corpus Christi to Houston. Experts forecast little change in strength over the next few days.
As of Sunday evening, August 27, there were no deaths among the brothers and sisters. However, there were four storm-related injuries reported. Commendably, the brothers living in areas impacted by the storm cooperated with the direction to evacuate. A total of 4,141 publishers are currently displaced from their homes, and it is anticipated that more families will be displaced as the storm continues.
We keep our brothers and sisters who are affected by this storm in our prayers, while monitoring the situation in order to provide assistance. We also urge them to keep trusting in Jehovah’s loving arm of support.—Psalm 55:8, 22; Isaiah 33:2; 40:11.
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Sneezing in the presence of non-JWs
by compound complex ingreetings, cold and allergy sufferers:.
i'm in good health currently, but i do sneeze quite a bit, bringing down the rafters, as one sister exclaimed at the kh.
apart from that, no jw ever acknowledged my clearing out .
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In Brazil, they don't usually say anything here but if they do, they have a word: SAÚDE, which literally means "health".
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Using Illegal Means for Righteous Activism
by John Davis ini wanted to get people's opinion on something.
how do you feel when people use illegal means while performing their activism to shed light on the watchtower.
there have been people who have illegally recorded conversations with elders and with branch offices or at meetings.
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LOL! I know, right?
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Using Illegal Means for Righteous Activism
by John Davis ini wanted to get people's opinion on something.
how do you feel when people use illegal means while performing their activism to shed light on the watchtower.
there have been people who have illegally recorded conversations with elders and with branch offices or at meetings.
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You have left all sorts of evidence.
Your virtual DNA is spread all throughout your posts.
I am wearning rubber-eye gloves as we speak.
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Using Illegal Means for Righteous Activism
by John Davis ini wanted to get people's opinion on something.
how do you feel when people use illegal means while performing their activism to shed light on the watchtower.
there have been people who have illegally recorded conversations with elders and with branch offices or at meetings.
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You've done plenty to prove that you are.
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Using Illegal Means for Righteous Activism
by John Davis ini wanted to get people's opinion on something.
how do you feel when people use illegal means while performing their activism to shed light on the watchtower.
there have been people who have illegally recorded conversations with elders and with branch offices or at meetings.
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John Davis once wrote on this forum that he wasn't Richard Oliver and said he had never heard of him.
John Davis isn't a very good liar and he is also a very good Richard Oliver.
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Using Illegal Means for Righteous Activism
by John Davis ini wanted to get people's opinion on something.
how do you feel when people use illegal means while performing their activism to shed light on the watchtower.
there have been people who have illegally recorded conversations with elders and with branch offices or at meetings.
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It is absolutely the right thing to do Richard Oliver.
Right on, dubstepped. I called him out for this a couple of months ago.
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This is actually quite a powerful illustration.
If JW parents could forsee that their child would not become a JW or would become a JW but later become so-called apostate, I would bet that most would give up that child for adoption.
JWs have truly morphed familial love into something unnatural.
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Remember Your First Taste of Freedom?
by Funchback init's around 10am here in the northeast of brazil.
i have just finished having coffee and a light breakfast.
i am reflecting on my saturdays of jw past, where i would be just about ready to leave the morning field service group and go door-knocking.. honestly, i hated every second of field service, always keeping one eye on the clock, counting down the minutes until service would be over.. 12 years later since i last "preached", i am also reflecting on the sense of freedom i experienced (and still experience) when i definitively said "no more!
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