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  Need a native English speaker to proofread my personal statement

  by will-be-apostate in

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  greetings to all of you :) finally, i gathered some courage and finished my personal statement...at least it's in its most final state it ever was.. i would like to ask somebody, a native english speaker to proofread it for me because it may contain some mistakes.

  post it here if you have 10 minutes to help me out, and i'll pm you it.. thank you in advance :).

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  Oubliette

  WBA, check your PM!
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  Need a native English speaker to proofread my personal statement

  by will-be-apostate in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  greetings to all of you :) finally, i gathered some courage and finished my personal statement...at least it's in its most final state it ever was.. i would like to ask somebody, a native english speaker to proofread it for me because it may contain some mistakes.

  post it here if you have 10 minutes to help me out, and i'll pm you it.. thank you in advance :).

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  Oubliette

  You have a PM
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  just wanted to introduce myself

  by TheMark in

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  i've been a lurker for quite some time and enjoy the forum.

  i've reached a point in life where i don't argue ideologies anymore so i don't have much to say.

  i've been out for decades and believe i've been mostly de-cultabilized (if that's even a word).. my family is still in and i haven't had contact with them in years.

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  Oubliette

  Welcome Mark!

  You're sure right about how much the religion has changed over the years. I hardly recognize it.

  If anyone is an "apostate," it's the WT leadership. Each new regime has successively apostatized from the previous one.

  Let's review: It's a cult!

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  Deposition of Richard Ashe

  by truthseekeriam in

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  http://watchtowerdocuments.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/lopez-11exhibit-8-to-dec-of-copley-iso-opp-to-plnts-mfs.pdf.

  did any of you guys sit down and read this??

  it's long but i assure you it's a great read.. .

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  Ashe: You can try to do a search for do not destroy but you'll come up with child abuse, you'll come up with adultery, you'll come up with bigamist marriage, you'll come up with slander, fraud, murder any abhorrent sin.

  Wow, would have loved to have been there for THAT MOMENT!
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  Jehovanomics RULE #1: Real Estate Laundering.

  by Jehovanomics in

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  it's all about the money.

  a simple business model.. .

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  Oubliette

  Welcome. It would be good if you posted an explanation of your thesis in your first post.

  Your thread titles are intriguing, but the lack of exposition is only frustrating.
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  My Wife Takes the "Spiritual Belief System" Quiz

  by breakfast of champions in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  so i asked my wife to take the "spiritual belief system" quiz online.

  now, this is not claiming to be a scientifically accurate system to determine your religious affiliation, but i thought it would be an interesting exercise.. for those who haven't seen it, the questionnaire is here:.

  http://www.selectsmart.com/religion/.

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  When I took this I came up as a Secular Humantist at the top, JW at the bottom.

  Very accurate!
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  My prophecy about the tight pants comments

  by stillin in

  1. watchtower
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  ok, so, brother morris seems to have gone out on a limb with his comments about tight pants.

  yup, he's an opinionated man.

  but, i fully expect that there will be some reference to the scientific wisdom behind his words.

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  Stillin: BUT, I fully expect that there will be some reference to the scientific wisdom behind his words.

  OMG, you need to come into the 21st Century. Actually, if you even joined the 20th Century, it'd be an improvement.

  Here we have electric lights and indoor plumbing.
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  Do Jehovah witnesses exploit the most vulnerable in society?

  by Blind_Of_Lies in

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  during my final few years being active with the jws i noticed that the vast majority of people who were studying or joining the group in general where those that the rest of society would consider disabled and/or severely mentally ill. now by disabled i dont mean i lost my leg in nam kind of disabled... in some cases these people were mentally retarded, had the minds of children, were severely abused as children or even as adults and as a result had personality disorders that put them on the edge of society.... and then we had the full on crazies... about 15 years ago one of the brothers who worked at the local welfare office somehow started a study with a person who was a paranoid schizophrenic.

  he met her because she was a client of the welfare office.

  she got handed off to a sister who studied with her, then started driving her to her doctors appointments, and to get grocerys, and took her to congregation events.

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  No, they try to exploit everyone. The most vulnerabler, however, are just that: vulnerable.

  Let's review: It's a cult!
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  Shunning Disfellowshipped & Apostate family Members. Scriptural?

  by objectivetruth in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  anyone who is a witness or was previously a witness, is aware of the written & un-written rules concerning association with disfellowshipped family members.. there are a multitude of quotes through out the watchtower publications, but these 2 will suffice.. "are you proving yourself holy by not associating with family members or others who are disfellowshipped?

  "the clear instruction in the bible is: avoid them.

  that means that we have to stay away from them... the bible says that apostates are mentally diseased and that they use their teachings to make others think like them... what must we do to avoid false teachers?

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  Oubliette

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  PS: I hate this fucking religion. The rules, policies, practices and procedures have stolen my children from me. If I ever could find a way to get my hands on the people responsible for this, I would be sure to make them confront what they are and what they have done before I ended their pathetic lives.

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  Shunning Disfellowshipped & Apostate family Members. Scriptural?

  by objectivetruth in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  anyone who is a witness or was previously a witness, is aware of the written & un-written rules concerning association with disfellowshipped family members.. there are a multitude of quotes through out the watchtower publications, but these 2 will suffice.. "are you proving yourself holy by not associating with family members or others who are disfellowshipped?

  "the clear instruction in the bible is: avoid them.

  that means that we have to stay away from them... the bible says that apostates are mentally diseased and that they use their teachings to make others think like them... what must we do to avoid false teachers?

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  Oubliette

  The fact is that Jesus Never shunned anyone

  Let's review: It's a cult!