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  The Elders are Coming Help!

  by LaurenM in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so the elders keep bugging me and pestering me about having a meeting with them to "introduce me to my new congregation" for some reason (do any ex elders know what that even means??).

  i keep postponing and making excuses and they are getting more and more aggressive.

  i finally agreed for them to come over today, but really don't want to..should i hide from them again?

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  Oubliette

  The elders only have the authority over you which you give them.
  

  You might appreciate this thread by 00DAD:

  • Relationship Issues: Boundaries, Freedom of Choice and Codependency
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  YMCA ? Are we allowed to go there or not?

  by Quarterback in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  half of our congregation goes there to work out because of the good pool facilities and prices, and the other half think that it's wrong due to it's old charter.

  but no one is enforcing the wrong or right of it.

  i'd be interested in knowing how this is being applied worldwide.

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  Oubliette

  Sure, go. Enjoy yourself.

  If anyone gives you crap about it say, "First of all, it's none of your f*$king business what I do. But since you're all wound up, let me ask you a question, 'Did you know the WTBTS had a library card at the U.N. for over a decade?'"

  Let's review: It's a cult!

  You need to stop worrying about what other people think and start thinking for yourself.
  
  
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  Scriptures that will never be the YEAR TEXT

  by ttdtt in

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  2. humour

  so what scriptures do you think will never make the cut?i will start off with one to warm you all up.. 1 corinthians 4:6 - do not go beyond the things that are written,.

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  Numbers 31:17 - 18: Now you should kill every male among the children and kill every woman who has had sexual relations with a man. But you may keep alive all the young girls who have not had sexual relations with a man.
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  Scriptures that will never be the YEAR TEXT

  by ttdtt in

  1. social
  2. humour

  so what scriptures do you think will never make the cut?i will start off with one to warm you all up.. 1 corinthians 4:6 - do not go beyond the things that are written,.

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  Judges 19:24, 29: "Here are my virgin daughter and this man’s concubine. Let me bring them out, and you can humiliate them if you must ... When he reached his house, he took the slaughtering knife and took hold of his concubine and cut her up limb by limb into 12 pieces and sent one piece into each territory of Israel."
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  Scriptures that will never be the YEAR TEXT

  by ttdtt in

  1. social
  2. humour

  so what scriptures do you think will never make the cut?i will start off with one to warm you all up.. 1 corinthians 4:6 - do not go beyond the things that are written,.

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  Obadiah 1:12: “And you ought not to watch the sight in the day of your brother, in the day of his misfortune; and you ought not to rejoice at the sons of Judah in the day of their perishing; and you ought not to maintain a big mouth in the day of [their] distress." - (NWT, 1984 Edition)
  
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  Could trends and group think be evidence of a form of telepathy?

  by EndofMysteries in

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  2. current

  i was thinking the other day about trends.

  think back over the decades and how generally the majority of people will feel or like or dislike the same things.

  people comment how awful and ugly things that trended in the past were.

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  Oubliette

  Read my mind and you'll know my thoughts on the subject!
  
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  Jehovah’s Witnesses Respond to How They’ve Failed Child Sex Abuse Victims With a Call For … Lawyers and Accountants

  by Watchtower-Free in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  australian royal commission inquiry 2015 .

  jehovahs witnesses respond to how theyve failed child sex abuse victims with a call for ... lawyers and accountants.

  by alex james on december 2, 2015 ( 2 comments )

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  Oubliette

  It seems as if they are once again failing to show any type of concern for the victims.

  Not "once again," it's "still."

  Let's review: It's a cult!

  
  
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  Sometimes I think Jehovah's Witnesses overuse the word "historic"

  by slimboyfat in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  at the beginning of the may broadcast stephen lett said this was a historic broadcast.

  he explained that every member of the governing body had hosted a show and they were starting over again.

  that was all the explanation he gave.

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  Oubliette

  This is a historic thread. ... or is it "an historic" thread. I am never quite sure if it's "a" or "an" with "historic"!
  
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  Science Will Never Contradict The Bible

  by Perry in

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  so claims nuclear physicist

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  Oubliette

  I'd like to invite y'all to come over to a thread I started that looks at this issue from the opposite perspective:

  • Reason in Contrast to Religion as a Path to Enlightenment

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  Warning: You will not find any pictures of parrots on this thread.
  
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  Science Will Never Contradict The Bible

  by Perry in

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  2. bible

  so claims nuclear physicist

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  Oubliette

  I can't believe you boys and girls are still at this nonsense.

  Perry, you have nice parrots, but you clearly don't understand either science or the bible.

  I think it's time you go cleaned out the bird cages; shit's been piling up in here.