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  Outrageous propaganda. "Treat your disfellowshipped loved ones like they're dead, but without mourning them." NOV 2014 study Watchtower

  by Watchtower-Free in

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  I can see them getting 'ban attention' in Russia again for printing this absolute hate material.
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  Why the Watchtower Society is wicked...fantastic youtube clip

  by yadda yadda 2 in

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  best clip i've ever seen on why it's no exaggeration to say the organisation is morally wicked.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4v8elawms60.

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  Oooh can't watch this yet, I'm going through the entire series slowly and carefully and am up to No. 12. Watching these for me is a revelatory and liberating as reading 'Captives of a Concept' and even more so for me than 'Crisis of Conscience'. This Winston fellow is a Godsend! Pun intended.
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  Fresh Newcomer

  by Yondaime in

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  hi guys, my name is yondaime,.

  my will to remain in this relgious sect is fading, i'm about to be a freshman(just turned 18) in college.

  , i have seen so many terrible things happen to good people in this cult and i'm sick of it!

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  Hiya!.
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  JEhovah's Witnesses Governing Body member David Splane and his Brother

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  The second head has not been photoshopped onto the body correctly. I bleeds right over the shirt collar.
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  Is the Watchtower Intentionally Trying to Force People to Leave the Organization?

  by kneehighmiah in

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  the leaks from the new november watchtower are alarming.

  they will disturb even longtime jws who haven't surrendered all rational thought.

  it's become so cult like its scary.

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  You can not imagine how glad and grateful I am that my spirit compelled me to flee this morbidly unhealthy group of people and their organization.

  They are nothing what so ever to do with any kind of benevolent, loving and kind God.. or any recognizable form of love at all.

  Examining the whole picture from the outside they look completely messed up on every level top to bottom, inside and out.

  I think one is better off taking ones chances out alone in the wilderness.
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  pros and cons of anti depessants?

  by Crazyguy in

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  obviously i'm having ex cult issues, family still in and a wife that's all kokoo for cocopuffs as well as our marriage isn't good.

  i would like to leave her, she has never been the kind of wife i wanted.

  anyway the stress is getting to be to much, thinking about things all the time and its effecting my work as well as otherthings.

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  Marlon Wayans: Robin Williams’ Suicide Likely Caused by Antidepressants

  "I don't think it's depression. I think it's chemical..."

  “I think there’s something in these medicines that people are taking for depression that’s making them depressed and making them commit suicide,” Wayans said. “I don’t think it’s depression. I think it’s chemical… He was such a joyful dude.”

  Wayans’ comments appear to confirm that Williams did indeed use antidepressants, a topic Williams himself causally joked about during at least one recent interview.

  “He’s so mellow,” Williams told Entertainment Tonight, describing producer David Kelley. “Talking to him is like taking a Prozac because you feel, you just feel good.”

  While drugs like Prozac may cause temporary relief for some, countless studies have found an undeniable link to suicidal thoughts, a side-effect even mentioned on the drug’s insert.

  http://www.infowars.com/marlon-wayans-robin-williams-suicide-likely-caused-by-antidepressants/
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  Why Do Witnesses Promote A Unhealthy Lifestyle, My COBE weighs 340lbs (5ft 7in).

  by BucketShopBill in

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  please don't take this the wrong way if your battling weight problems, that's not what this thread is meant to talk about.

  i am asking this question because jehovah's witnesses claim they have "the best way of life", "god's blessing", "the truth" and are trying to change the habits of healthy people by turning them in to their own makings.

  i watched people who were great athletes turn all their muscle in to fat because we would get a elder or circuit overseer make remarks they were spending too much time "working out" and "bodily training is beneficial for little".

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  Maybe he's the entire 'Body of Elders'.

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  According to JWs' application of Acts 15:29, shouldn't they also be refusing medical examinations by gynecologists?

  by Island Man in

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  watchtower uses the following twisted logic to equate receiving a blood transfusion, with feeding on blood:.

  feeding is sometimes done by injecting nutrients intravenously.. blood transfusions are carried out by injecting blood intravenously.. therefore the intravenous injecting of blood can be equated with feeding intravenously.. hence, true christians refuse blood transfusions in order to obey the biblical command to "abstain from blood".. now notice how the same kind of twisted logic leads to the equating of an invasive examination by a gynecologist, with sexual intercourse:.

  sexual intercourse is often done by inserting the penis into the vagina.. certain invasive examinations by a gynecologist is done by inserting an instrument into the vagina.. therefore such invasive gynecological examinations can be equated with sexual intercourse.. hence, true christians refuse such gynecological examinations that are performed by someone to whom they're not married, in order to obey the biblical command to "abstain from fornication".. it's the same kind of twisted reasoning, isn't it?

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  I'm not sure what the JW's view is in this but vast numbers of Christians and Mormons would consider any examination of a female by a male (and in sonme cases a female) a form of fornication.
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  According to JWs' application of Acts 15:29, shouldn't they also be refusing medical examinations by gynecologists?

  by Island Man in

  1. watchtower
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  watchtower uses the following twisted logic to equate receiving a blood transfusion, with feeding on blood:.

  feeding is sometimes done by injecting nutrients intravenously.. blood transfusions are carried out by injecting blood intravenously.. therefore the intravenous injecting of blood can be equated with feeding intravenously.. hence, true christians refuse blood transfusions in order to obey the biblical command to "abstain from blood".. now notice how the same kind of twisted logic leads to the equating of an invasive examination by a gynecologist, with sexual intercourse:.

  sexual intercourse is often done by inserting the penis into the vagina.. certain invasive examinations by a gynecologist is done by inserting an instrument into the vagina.. therefore such invasive gynecological examinations can be equated with sexual intercourse.. hence, true christians refuse such gynecological examinations that are performed by someone to whom they're not married, in order to obey the biblical command to "abstain from fornication".. it's the same kind of twisted reasoning, isn't it?

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  I found this comment on a site discussing that very thing. It's something that's just not normally talked about or it's just ignored or put up with but there is definitely a valid debate here.

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  "It is really surprising that there is still public controversy about the question of male doctor eroticism during a pelvic exam. The medical community recognizes the problem - Why don't you ladies? I will summarize what I see on the matter, and you tell me what facts I have wrong and were my logic has gone astray. Medical textbooks inform the young male medical student that it is "inevitable and unavoidable" that erotic sensations will occur while doing a pelvic exam. Textbooks at least into the 1980's provide this caution. Medical students relate stories that male professors would often comment that "if you do the pelvic correctly you won't need extra lube when you do the bimanual exam." Occasionally medical journals publish cautionary memoirs about young male doctors who "fall in love" with female patients while looking at and feeling the patient's breast and genitals, the tale always ending with a warning from an older colleague. The medical profession has frequently ordered surveys by medical school personnel to determine the extent of sexual violations during intimate encouters in the doctor's office. The published results of self-confession indicate high rates of abuse by male gynecologist (not ear, nose and throat doctors), sometimes running as high as 20%. When male gynecology developed over one hundred years ago there was no denial of eroticism for the male. The novel practice of a man examining the female anatomy was simply defended as a practical necessity - there was no female in the profession to do the job. You want good health, you go to the male doctor. As I have said, textbooks and procedures acknowledged the explosive nature of the exam and doctors quickly set up the chaperone sytsem to reduce the tension. It is only recently as female doctors have moved into the field that male doctors and their followers have come up with the absurd notion that a male can examine a female body in the most intimate manner, and experience absolutely no sexual response. In other words, it has been discovered that male gynecologists are unique in the human species - after six million years of evolutionary development in which the male "automatically" responds to the sight and touch of the female genitals, this all can be blocked out by a couple years in the medical lab. To those of you who comment that the pelvic exam is a simple medical procedure, I say of course it is, but what is the real nature of that procedure. To those of you who say you feel comfortable with your male doctor, I say your comment tells us nothing about what the male doctor is thinking nor anything about your level of awareness. To those of you who say all I want is the best doctor, I respond that all of us want that and I want more. I receive what I want from my female gynecologist. Common sense and a bit a research will indicate to all that it doesn't matter whether he is wearing a white coat and a stethescope, or a tweed jacket with a pipe, he is still underneath a man."
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  Poll--How Many Believe In God, Do Not Believe or Are Not Sure Of His Existence?

  by minimus in

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  i believe in god but i'm not sure of anything....what about you?.

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  I belive in God, I can sense something. But not certain of anything else. I can prove nothing. I have hope.

  I basically live around the 'love your brother as you love yourself' principal but am still learing the love yourself bit.

  I don't know where God is or very much about him so I try not to make an enemy of him in the meantime.