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  Advise needed please

  by EdenOne in

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  dear forumites, i need your advise please.. i would like to write a letter to the world headquarters of the jehovah's witnesses regarding a subject that i've published an article recently.

  i would like to draw the attention of the gb to said article, which i will send in print form (therefore, no attention would be drawn to the website where it was published).. naturally, because i am a jehovah's witness in good standing in the congregation and what i'll be discussing in my letter will be a dissenting view from the official doctrine/practice, i want to protect my identity and i don't want to be harassed by elders or subjected to any sort of judicial investigation.

  nevertheless, i would be very interested in reading their response (if any) to my letter.. how can i do that?

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  Since I don't know how long it would take them to reply - if ever - I suspect it wouldn't end up bein cheap. Besides, wouldn't it be traceable? Imagine a brother/sister would work for the postal services ...

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  Advise needed please

  by EdenOne in

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  dear forumites, i need your advise please.. i would like to write a letter to the world headquarters of the jehovah's witnesses regarding a subject that i've published an article recently.

  i would like to draw the attention of the gb to said article, which i will send in print form (therefore, no attention would be drawn to the website where it was published).. naturally, because i am a jehovah's witness in good standing in the congregation and what i'll be discussing in my letter will be a dissenting view from the official doctrine/practice, i want to protect my identity and i don't want to be harassed by elders or subjected to any sort of judicial investigation.

  nevertheless, i would be very interested in reading their response (if any) to my letter.. how can i do that?

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  EdenOne

  This one, Cofty.

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  Advise needed please

  by EdenOne in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  dear forumites, i need your advise please.. i would like to write a letter to the world headquarters of the jehovah's witnesses regarding a subject that i've published an article recently.

  i would like to draw the attention of the gb to said article, which i will send in print form (therefore, no attention would be drawn to the website where it was published).. naturally, because i am a jehovah's witness in good standing in the congregation and what i'll be discussing in my letter will be a dissenting view from the official doctrine/practice, i want to protect my identity and i don't want to be harassed by elders or subjected to any sort of judicial investigation.

  nevertheless, i would be very interested in reading their response (if any) to my letter.. how can i do that?

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  EdenOne

  If I would give a friend's address (non-JW) in a foreign country as my return address, would that be safe enough?

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  Advise needed please

  by EdenOne in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  dear forumites, i need your advise please.. i would like to write a letter to the world headquarters of the jehovah's witnesses regarding a subject that i've published an article recently.

  i would like to draw the attention of the gb to said article, which i will send in print form (therefore, no attention would be drawn to the website where it was published).. naturally, because i am a jehovah's witness in good standing in the congregation and what i'll be discussing in my letter will be a dissenting view from the official doctrine/practice, i want to protect my identity and i don't want to be harassed by elders or subjected to any sort of judicial investigation.

  nevertheless, i would be very interested in reading their response (if any) to my letter.. how can i do that?

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  Nevertheless, Cofty, I would like to give them the opportunity to answer in writing.

  How would that hypothetical reply reach me while at the same time I would keep my identity a secret?

  Eden
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  Advise needed please

  by EdenOne in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  dear forumites, i need your advise please.. i would like to write a letter to the world headquarters of the jehovah's witnesses regarding a subject that i've published an article recently.

  i would like to draw the attention of the gb to said article, which i will send in print form (therefore, no attention would be drawn to the website where it was published).. naturally, because i am a jehovah's witness in good standing in the congregation and what i'll be discussing in my letter will be a dissenting view from the official doctrine/practice, i want to protect my identity and i don't want to be harassed by elders or subjected to any sort of judicial investigation.

  nevertheless, i would be very interested in reading their response (if any) to my letter.. how can i do that?

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  EdenOne

  Dear forumites, I need your advise please.

  I would like to write a letter to the world headquarters of the Jehovah's Witnesses regarding a subject that I've published an article recently. I would like to draw the attention of the GB to said article, which I will send in print form (therefore, no attention would be drawn to the website where it was published).

  Naturally, because I am a Jehovah's Witness in good standing in the congregation and what I'll be discussing in my letter will be a dissenting view from the official doctrine/practice, I want to protect my identity and I don't want to be harassed by Elders or subjected to any sort of judicial investigation. Nevertheless, I would be very interested in reading their response (if any) to my letter.

  How can I do that? How do I send a letter and expect a written reply, all the while keeping my identity a secret? I don't live in the US, btw.

  Your sugestions are welcome.

  Eden
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  New article - SHUNNING: UNCHRISTIAN PSYCHOLOGICAL TORTURE

  by EdenOne in

  1. watchtower
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  hello everyone.. after months of neglect, i've resumed writing for my website.. the new article deals with the issue of shunning among the jehovah's witnesses.. it attempts to disentangle disfellowshipping from shunning, and demonstrating that shunning is a practice unbecoming of a christian.

  i hope you find it interesting the article shunning - unchristian psychological torture.. it's divided into the following sections:.

  introduction.

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  I need to give you a heads-up that I've updated my article on shunning.

  I felt I had to do this in view of my recent reading of a paper published in 2009 by investigator Valery Alexadrovich Alikin, of the University of Leiden. This work is titled: "THE EARLIEST HISTORY OF THE CHRISTIAN GATHERING - ORIGIN, DEVELOPMENT AND CONTENT OF THE CHRISTIAN GATHERING IN THE FIRST TO THIRD CENTURIES". I strongly recommend its reading. You can access it via this link.

  After reading this article, I felt I needed to revise part 8 and Conclusion of my article, because of the valuable information that came to light regarding the way the christian meetings were conducted in the first century. If anything, the revised text makes even more obvious how morally wrong is the practice of shunning amongst the Jehovah's Witnesses. I urge you to read it, because it offers a valuable insight on how the early christian meetings were held, and how this ties with the exhortations of Paul and John regarding the way to treat the unrepentant sinners in the Christian congregation.

  Here are the links to:

  Part 8 - What about bible passages that support shunning?

  Conclusion

  Thank you,

  Eden

  Edit: I can't make the link to the said paper.

  Here's the addy: https://openaccess.leidenuniv.nl/bitstream/handle/1887/13780/Alikin%20proefschrift.pdf?sequence=2
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  Help me find this quote: "Bible cannot be understood apart from the WT"

  by UnConfused in

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  thanks.

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  "It should be expected that the Lord would have a means of communication to his people on the earth, and he has clearly shown that the magazine called The Watchtower is used for that purpose, " ( 1939 Yearbook of Jehovah's Witnesses , p. 85).

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  Help me find this quote: "Bible cannot be understood apart from the WT"

  by UnConfused in

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  thanks.

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  EdenOne

  "We all need help to understand the Bible, and we cannot find the Scriptural guidance we need outside the 'faithful and discreet slave' organization, " ( Watchtower , Feb. 15, 1981).

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  Help me find this quote: "Bible cannot be understood apart from the WT"

  by UnConfused in

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  "To understand the Bible for their salvation they had to have it explained through God's organization." [ The Watchtower , November 15, 1961, p. 692]

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  Dis Jesus Took Over The Watchtower?

  by EdenOne in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  if jesus came to inspect his temple only in 1919, as claimed by the governing body, and found only the international bible students to be doing the lord's will, can we then speak of a "take over" on the watchtower society?.

  because, if before (1879-1919) the watchtower society, a.k.a.

  the 'organization', started by russell, wasn't god's organization yet - at least not until 1919, how come this organization can in any way be considered "our mother"?

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