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given a roasting for our daughters behaviour!
by Bosho in
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2. beliefs
i'm not sure if i'm posting in the correct section but i had to put this somewhere just to let off some steam.. i have a beautiful little girl, she's just two and a half but she's tall, so she looks more like a four year old.

we live in a flat and have no access to a garden, the lady who lives underneath us is a nightworker, so we have to try and keep the noise down through the day.

which means that my poor daughter doesn't get the chance to run off steam.
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WBTS reply about UN involvement
by Bosho in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
okay, firstly appologies for it taking me, like a million years to actually get back to you good people.. i was sent a letter back and guess what... standard reply was issued!.

i don't have a scanner (it blew up ages ago!

) but the main body of the letter was the same as i've seen on other threads here.
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Another question none can seem to answer for me!
by Bosho in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i'm just full of questions and here's another that no one in the hall has ever answered with conviction.. they say that the church steeple is shaped like a phalic symbol (please excuse spelling mistake, mislaid my dictionary!)..

so why then was the temple shaped in a remarkably similar fashion (the picture in the back of the big bible always worried me).

maybe, just maybe, the church is shaped after the original temple and not .... what they say it is.
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UN involvement/elders reply.
by Bosho in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
several weeks ago i asked a lot of you here about the involvement with the un.

you were really helpful in your replies.

thank you.. i approached an elder who i know is "up" on that sort of thing and guess what... he had no idea!.
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DF / DA and just "falling away"
by Bosho in
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2. beliefs
i have always wondered why a person can sin and not be repentant (the reason they give for df) or can disassociate oneself and the congregation is to "shun them" but.... .

someone can be a baptised witness and not go for several months start doing things that would be considered a disfellowshipping offense (ie smoking etc) but the congregation doesn't have to "shun them".

surely this is a double standard.
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One Witness Policy
by Bosho in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
hey,.

i would be grateful to anyone who could give me some feed back on the "one witness policy".. i can't get over how if someone is convicted by a court of law for abuse, but denies it to the elders then they can't be disfellowshipped.

i've spoken to most of my family over this and several elders, they (mostly, apart from the true die-hards) all find it hard to accept.. surely this is no different from the catholics who don't ex-communicate.. surely they have to do something about this.. .
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"Shepherd the Flock" book.
by Bosho in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
hey,.

i'm relatively new here and wondered if any ex-elders (or indeed anyone who knows) could tell me what's so secret about the "shepherd the flock" book.. what is in that book that they don't want ordinary publishers to see?.

i haven't met an elder yet that can give me a good answer as to why it's kept so quiet.. any help would be gratefully received.
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NGO ? Please help!
by Bosho in
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2. scandals
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i've only just joined but i would be grateful if you could give me some information on this ngo business.. i live in england, am completly ignorant and no nothing about the un (everything i learnt in school went in one ear and out the other as did much else i learnt!).

i would be grateful if someone could explain what ngo is exactly and how jw's were involved with it.. much appreciated.