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  no pictures of Kingdom Hall remodels???

  by Lynnie in

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  i'm following an old friend on instagram who's an uber elder and he does lots of work on kh's and has gone to warwick on his own dime to help with the construction.

  on his instagram post he says " i can't post pictures of the kh remodel but i can post pics of jack daniels that i had afterwards" or some such.

  why aren't they allowed to take pics of remodels?

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  scratchme1010

  Why aren't they allowed to take pics of remodels?
  

  I'd be asking why is he ok with posting pictures of him drinking Jack Daniels.
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  chapter 39 New Boy 50 years a Watchtower Slave

  by new boy in

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  chapter 39. i’m glad i don’t believe the way you do!.

  your whole life becomes a blur.

  weeks turn into months.

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  scratchme1010

  Thanks for sharing. The issue with their position regarding people's mental health was part of my awakening. Try returning to a meeting, just to look around at the behavior of people, and this time look at it from a mental health perspective. You will be creeped out!
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  Can you be disfellowshiped for reading other religious materials?

  by paradisebeauty in

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  2. beliefs

  i am having a conversation with a jw and they say you can not be disfellowshiped for this.

  is this true?

  i thought you can be disfellowshiped for this.

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  scratchme1010

  Do you know where can I find this information? Or proof of this?
  

  As much as they claim that they are united in the exact same way of thinking, the reality is that many elders do whatever they feel like doing. There's no difference between the WT organization and any other organization. It's just politics, just like everywhere else. Hence, that depends on what side of the bed the elders wake up the day that they hear of it.
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  What does the society fill about psychiatrist?.

  by new boy in

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  please help .

  more research for my book .

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  scratchme1010

  More research for my book
  

  I'm not sure if the accounts of people alone can help your research. Something that may help is looking for references to depression and the most common mental health problems in their literature. At best you will find some phony statistics, maybe some stupid story about somebody who was depressed and not it's not because of finding their so-called truth.

  That can give you a feel of what their position is regarding seeking help from a mental health professional.

  Other than that, maybe people with specific experiences.
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  By the G-ds! 4 MILLION Posts?

  by Hyghlandyr in

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  ive been gone a long arse time and yous have really blown up the number oph posts.

  holy mother oph our lord and savior osiris!.

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  scratchme1010

  Welcome back (I guess). Try to catch up. It will be nice to hear how much this forum has changed.
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  My unbelieving husband was offended by the WatchTower just studied

  by Isambard Crater in

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  it was the paragraph talking about people who don't want to be j.w's being executed, and it being an act of compassion from jehovah towards his witnesses..

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  scratchme1010

  It was the paragraph talking about people who don't want to be J.W's being executed, and it being an act of compassion from Jehovah towards his Witnesses.
  

  I imagine that you are not exactly wondering why he got offended.
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  How do jw's answer this? John 6:54 & blood issue

  by carla in

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  i happen to be cruising around the net and stumbled upon this question on a different forum.

  how do jw's answer jesus words in john 6:54 today?.

  "whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and i will raise them up at the last day.

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  scratchme1010

  Another one coming to "ask simple questions".
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  So this is what JW's do out in service

  by mann377 in

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  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5058729/married-jehovah-s-witness-seduced-actress.html.

  i never had a good time like that!.

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  scratchme1010

  That's fake to the bone. Nice try. The key is in the details. They are both horrible actors too.
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  In what decade was it clearly apparent that Watchtower was a high control religion?

  by UnshackleTheChains in

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  i'm just curious to get people's views on this.. the bible students seem to start of as quite a liberal group under charles taze russell, albeit he had some whacky teachings going on.

  obviously things began to change under rutherford.

  but what decade did it become abundantly clear that the society was indeed high control religion or even labeled a cult?.

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  But what decade did it become abundantly clear that the society was indeed high control religion or even labeled a cult?

  I know that when I first heard of the JWs in the early 80's, I was told they were a cult by some friends, which seemed a common view.

  From the perspective of what I have learned and experienced, your question could be stated differently. Cult is not necessarily a label, but it's an effect, something in which some organizations and groups evolve into. I can't speak for CT Russell, but I have the feeling that from the get go, he loved controlling other people's lives for his own gain. Hence, the cultic effect might have been present since the beginning.

  A good indicator of how (not sure about when) it evolved into what it became/has become could be looking at the history (if it was ever documented) of their implementations of rules that started aiming at controlling people's lives and independent thinking. In fact, that very concept of them attacking independent thinking can be a good indicator. If anyone can research and see when that nonsense popped up in their teachings and literature, that might give you an idea.
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  The Governing Body Doing The Math As Corporate CEOs

  by Brokeback Watchtower in

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  2. scandals

  lett announce to his braindead indoctrinated rank and file masses the wt corporation is short on funds and so they have money problems.

  he made light of his role and the rest of management's predicament by saying on a public broadcast: "in doing the math we found that the amount of money flowing out will be much greater than the amount of money coming in at this time".

  clearly the guys on the gb have very little business sense to let things get so out of hand with tons of projects in the works and having to close all of them except for warwick, and one in england.. i have to wonder just what type of math these dead heads on the gb even know or consider when making all their plans for the future of the corporation they have leadership over.

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  They really are victims of themselves. Their mentality an obsession with controlling every aspect of people's lives is finally catching up with them.