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  Do you understand...

  by christopherceo in

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  ...what i mean when i refer to a high control group?

  let me tell you how it works from my experience as a member of one.

  once you become a member you're "new personality" must quickly conform to the standards set by the group regarding all manner of things we used to do in ordinary everyday life, but not any more.

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  Adam and Eve

  by rnovello in

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  can amyone tell me what scriptures in the bible say what year adam and eve were created and how long adam was in there before eve was created.

  thank you.

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  Disfellowshiping and Title 7

  by Maverick in

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  any legal eagles out there have any thoughts on the potential success of a class action lawsuit against the watchtower for their written corporate policy on the treatment of disfellowshipped people?

  does their policy fall under religious discrimination as outlined in title 7 of the federal anti-discrimination statues?

  i am sure there are many df'd people who have lost jobs and housing and suffered mental anguish as a result of the restrictions of interacting with loves ones and family members.

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  God in the video games shop...

  by WantTheTruth in

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  i have been considering religion and god recently... and to some extent the jws religion.. i was in a video games shop the other day, looking for a few good games for my xbox console.... i found myself thinking "would god look favourably upon me if i brought this game".... the game in question was 'mortal kombat' (one of the more violent games).

  this is one of the main reasons i did not purchase it.. i think i have succumb to jw logic.... is this the right way to be thinking?.

  ahhhh..... wtt

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  Do they imagine that they have some sort of special powers mandate ?

  by A Paduan in

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  2. beliefs

  do elders, or other jws, convince themselves that they have some sort of divine mandate which allows them to walk over the top of people's rights ?

  i know some jws who appear to simply do as they please, whether or not it infringes on anyone's privacy, or impacts on their lifestyle, or even their natural rights, and i've read posts here which would indicate that elders in particular may simply enter someone's home uninvited, and worse.

  what's your experiences of this imaginary authority?

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  Have you been punished for testifying in court?

  by lilacs4everr in

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  on the official wt website, under media, there is a statement that says no sanctions are taken against any member of the congregation who reports abuse to the authorities.

  well, guess what?

  a member of my family made a statement to a judge in regards to an abuse case and immediately had his privileges taken away from him.

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  Husband puts off wifes funeral for Elders meeting

  by Sangdigger in

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  while reading minimuses post under "friends" about a sister who kept up auxillary pioneering even though her 5 year old daughter died, it brought to mind a similar story that happened just 2 months ago in a large cong.

  an elder serving in that cong.

  for many years now, lost his wife to heart complications.

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  DNA and Man's origin

  by D wiltshire in

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  i think as time goes on and dna gets understood better and better it will be imposible for fundamental christians to defend thier position against evolution.

  kind of like the catholic church going against galileio saying the "earth is not the center of the universe".. "eventually"(maybe not now) to fight against the evidence makes you look very stupid and under heavy mind control.. don't get me wrong i beleive there is a god, and i think he used "gradualism" to create the universe and life, i even feel the first 2 chapter of genesis are discribing a very long drawn out process that took just as evolutionist are telling us, billions of years till finally man appears.. eventually the wt is going to have to change its understanding of genesis to even stay credible..

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  If Time were running in reverse would we know it?

  by D wiltshire in

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  2. beliefs

  if "time" is running backwards i dont see how that we would ever know, perhaps some clever physicist could devise an experiment to find out for sure.. some theoreticians have suggested the reason the arrow of time runs from past to future is tied intimately to the expansion of space.

  since einstein special theory of relativity we have come to see that "time", space and speed are all relative.

  we now more correctly speak of "space-time" instead of just space.

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  Watch Tower Finances

  by link in

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  2. scandals

  would anyone like to comment on the following observations?.

  the very large majority of the jws that i come into contact with on a regular basis are not wealthy and many have very low incomes, yet they still make substantial contributions to the wbts every month.

  because they are firmly lead to believe that it is an organisation that is struggling for its financial survival.. following a recent visit from the c.o.

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