Topics Started by czarofmischief

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What reason is there to live???
by songmistress in
1. watchtower
2. medical
this is a for real question, not just hypothetical.

some of you are aware that i am going through a very rough time.

i have been diagnosed with chronic major depression, probably from childhood.
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Should I have a Christmas tree?
by scuba99 in
1. watchtower
2. medical
hi folks,.

i'm rather new here, only posted a couple of times.

although i have been visiting the site daily for a good 2 months now.
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WHICH MEETING WAS THE MOST BORING?
by minimus in
1. jw
2. friends
the more meetings you go to the more drivel you hear.

elder's meetings were terrible because all you ever did was gossip about how everyone wasn't doing this or that.

meetings for field service sucked.....enough said on that.
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CULT CULT CULT
by minimus in
1. watchtower
2. bible
i have read many opinions about jw's being a cult.a dictionary describes cult as a system of religious beliefs and ritual .. some have viewed even major religions as a cult, such as the roman catholic church.based upon webster almost anybody or anything that is viewed as ritualistic could be said to be cultic.when someone tries to negate jehovah's witnesses by using.

the "cult" word, i believe they are not seeing that many others could legitimately be regarded as a cult or at least "cultic".therefore the word loses alot of meaning.

some have said that the watchtower is a cult because of the control factor.
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Why dont JW's have a youth group?
by In_between_days in
1. social
2. family
something that has been alarming to my jw family is the amount of teens ("young ones") that have bailed out of the organisation, never to return.. they use the excuse, as would most jw's that "satan is getting them - he knows young ones are vulnerable.".

if you want my opinion, young people are getting far more educated - they are becoming far more broad minded than they were say 10 or 20 years ago.

because of the slow yet sturdy slackening of the "no college" rule, many more young jw's are attending university or college than ever before, and with further education comes more knowledge, more interaction with reasonable and intelligent conversations with educated people and most importantly -use of the internet ("satans latest tool, as put by a jw i talked to recently).
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Antichrist?
by mouthy in
1. watchtower
2. bible
watchtower ,aug 1st 1981 say.

your attitude toward the wheat like anointed "brothers"of christ will be the determining factor as to whether you go into "everlasting cutting off"or to receive "everlasting life ( math 25:34-36.

watchtower,july 15th 1991 says.
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Another Terrorist Attack
by RR in
1. jw
2. friends
upi london.

re: terrorists.

in an apparent copycat terrorist act, polish.
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Hot Gossip: JW Lies Re Murder Attempt in WSM
by Englishman in
1. jw
2. friends
just a bit of background first: my pal ray works as a barman in a nearby village social club.

sometimes he enjoys a pint in my pub, and sometimes talks with my estranged pal, dub-in-the-pub.

some years ago he married lucy, a vivacious middle-aged lady with something of a reputation.
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JW Kids Leave the Organization: Facts
by Maximus in
1. jw
2. friends
the october 1 watchtower 2001 features articles on training children "properly" and dealing with a "prodigal child.

the latest inside u.s. figures reveal that 86% of jw children leave the fold, with some 29% who eventually come back for reasons of family ties, most never "reaching out.

" that means over half leave permanently.
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Position on College Changed?
by Maximus in
1. jw
2. friends
several have made outright statements and others have suggested that the society's negative position on higher education has changed.

'the society does not discourage higher education where i live.

' worse, 'apostates have made it all up--the society has never discouraged education.