Now if only we could hear the other side on exactly what is considered extreme about the literature. Instead of simply asking and possibly altering the rhetoric slightly instead we'll be subject to a heaping helping of persecution complex.
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RUSSIA deports and bans JW Attorneys
by skeeter1 inhis article was published by f18news on: 23 july 2009. russia: jehovah's witness lawyers deported for defending extremism cases?by geraldine fagan, forum 18 news service <http://www.forum18.org>.
four lawyers defending jehovah's witnesses have been deported since march, forum 18 news service has learned.
a leaflet by a traditional mari el pagan priest is among the latest additions to the federal list of extremist materials, meaning it is banned throughout russia.
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Major anti-cult campaign in autumn? Post here if interested
by rebel8 inso we already have this thread which has separate actions for next month: http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/179142/2/make-august-2009-the-dawn-of-the-mass-exodus-the-beginning-of-the-end-of-the-watchtower-org.
i don't intend to discourage anyone from participating in that.
those actions are meant to educate current jws (help people leave).
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The idea came to me a couple of weeks ago when my tonsils swelled and I was taken off of work. All I've really got is an outline and a bit of research done. I think regardless of my writing style it's going to be controversial. My videos are very polarizing as much as they're strictly the facts. With a documentary I'm relying on other people to give their opinions which of course will be discarded. I don't think I'll be able to get many active JWs to give interviews on the subject. Obviously I'd like to interview the Venus sisters and Prince, but somehow I doubt I'd be able to. My dream would be to interview the Governing Body as a whole about things, nothing too specific just getting their responses on things. I'm fairly confident I'd be able to get people to talk about things by asking real open-ended questions.
Mickey Mouse you have a PM.
Anyone who's interested in this project as well, I'd love to hear your thoughts. Feel free to PM me.
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Major anti-cult campaign in autumn? Post here if interested
by rebel8 inso we already have this thread which has separate actions for next month: http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/179142/2/make-august-2009-the-dawn-of-the-mass-exodus-the-beginning-of-the-end-of-the-watchtower-org.
i don't intend to discourage anyone from participating in that.
those actions are meant to educate current jws (help people leave).
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This to me seems like a very good opportunity to get the word out....and it should be relatively low cost.
Knocking seemed to have gotten a fair amount of airplay due to the PBS series independent lens, I would guess something done on a very fact based level, asking good questions like Tuesday does on his you tube series would be very interesting....there is plenty of information that the WTS has provided that would be of interest to the general public that they (the WTS) have done a very masterful job of shielding from their present membership, at least until the time that they can get thier potential converts and members to feel that anything 'anti-WTS' is merely apostate rants....
There should be plenty of mainstream paths to get the word out.........just want to make sure it is not a rant
Actually the basic idea is to get word out there of HOW Jehovah's Witnesses fit into the mold of a destructive cult. I want to do an interview with Steve Hassan with his BITE method explaining what they are. The big selling point of the documentary and the hardest part I feel where I've just started sending out feelers to various agents is getting former Jehovah's Witnesses who are actors, actresses and musicians to do interviews about their upbringing as JWs. That I think would be the selling point.
Personally I feel if it is out in common knowledge HOW JWs fit the mold of cults it will be harder to recruit people. I'm going to be writing the documentary since that's my trade, I'm going to try my hardest to make it similar to my series. We'll see though, I do have to sell the thing and have a partner who will be helping me write it who's going to be a bit busy when his other movie comes out next year.
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Major anti-cult campaign in autumn? Post here if interested
by rebel8 inso we already have this thread which has separate actions for next month: http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/179142/2/make-august-2009-the-dawn-of-the-mass-exodus-the-beginning-of-the-end-of-the-watchtower-org.
i don't intend to discourage anyone from participating in that.
those actions are meant to educate current jws (help people leave).
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I'm going to try for a documentary, I'm in the VERY early stages working with a producer to find funds.
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Any Leonard Cohen fans?
by I quit! ini bought the leonard cohen "live in london"concert on dvd the other day and finally got around to playing it today.
it is a wonderful.
his song "hallelujah" was featured in shrek.
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Big fan here, "Everybody Knows" is my favorite song of his.
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i think my df son needs your help...kicked to the curb at 17...
by oompa inhe is a good example of what dubs think happens to all who leave da troof.....he has floundered in life, but he was as a teen dub too....he had lost of emotional problems and really hated authority figures....school problems a nightmare starting at 13...then counseling and tons of meds......the dunked for a gf at 16.....and kicked out at 17...it has been five years.
i hate to admit it but back then i urged him to "go to the elders".....when dfd....i told him and others "it was for his own good".....was that party line or what!?!?!??!.
now......i am trying to get him to see what a mindfuck it is to lose your entire social structure at that age!!!!
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That's what I was going to say Jim, basically he needs to take the core requirements anyway. He'll find like I did those core requirements might seem like High School at first but they're a whole different ball game in what you're learning and how. People who hated High School usually LOVE College. Plus he needs to take I believe 6 electives which would be for the credit hours, tell him to read through the catalogue and sign up for anything that interests him. chances are he'll find one thing and try to major in that. That's what happened to me, I started out hoping for an associates in computer programming, ended up moving to paralegal, liberal arts, english then creative writing. Luckily the last three were the easiest shifts. Life has a funny way of falling in to place, just get to college things will fall into place from there.
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i think my df son needs your help...kicked to the curb at 17...
by oompa inhe is a good example of what dubs think happens to all who leave da troof.....he has floundered in life, but he was as a teen dub too....he had lost of emotional problems and really hated authority figures....school problems a nightmare starting at 13...then counseling and tons of meds......the dunked for a gf at 16.....and kicked out at 17...it has been five years.
i hate to admit it but back then i urged him to "go to the elders".....when dfd....i told him and others "it was for his own good".....was that party line or what!?!?!??!.
now......i am trying to get him to see what a mindfuck it is to lose your entire social structure at that age!!!!
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Why don't you try to get him to go to college or something in order to occupy his mind so he'll get that silliness of returning out of his head?
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Being Brought Up As A Jehovah's Witness---Was It A "BAD" Upbringing?
by minimus ini think that my upbringing made me the person that i am today---for good and bad.
even though i was raised a witness, i don't think that my upbringing was bad.. your thoughts, please..
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I don't think the pros would be anything that I wouldn't have been taught otherwise. My parents were divorced, the same basic "good" things people here are saying were the pros of being raised a JW is really just the pros of having responsible parents. My father taught me not to steal or lie and all that fun stuff.
The stuff I learned as a JW was how to not get so attached to my friends that I couldn't drop them at a moment's notice, how to make sure no one can find out any of my real feelings, here's a good one...how to not really read a selection but still be able to answer questions about it by remember specific questions. The really good stuff I feel any parent would've taught me, in fact I know this because my father who was an apostate taught me the same things.
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How many here actually still believe that there is a God??
by annalice inafter being gone from the jw's for many years now , and having done extensive research on the history of god and the belief in him , i can't seem to find any logical way to have a belief in an invisble being up there ruling over us.
how many here still believe?
how many don't?.
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I'm not even agnostic, while I will agree and say that no one can KNOW for sure there isn't a God I do not believe in him.
I find it funny the biggest thing that convinced me that humans were animals was my own daughter's birth. I know alot of people say stuff like "It's such a miracle"; for me it so closely mirrored the births I'd seen of animals while I was still happy it was my child there was nothing special about the process. It was just like any other mammal. That really made me turn the corner to realizing that humans are nothing more than animals.
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A Reverse Spelling/Anagram of Your Username
by snowbird inreverse: dribwons.
anagram: swordbin.
an anagram of my nemesis' username is hoojend.. tee hee hee.
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Reverse: Yadseut
Anagrams:
Sea Duty
Yea Stud
Stay Due
Say Duet