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  Do You See In Yourself Continuing Jehovah's Witness Traits?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  for all of those either out or on their way to the freedom exit door, do you still see traces of your old jw self that rears its ugly head?

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  Ernest Ricketts ... DISFELLOWSHIPPED

  by RR in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  for those of you who know ... or know of ernie ricketts, he was disfellowshipped a weerk ago, a long time prominent jehovah's witness, who represented the watchtower in jersey city, he was the care taker of the stanley theater.

  there are a few post in the archivs that make mention of him.

  i knew him personally, from what i was able to gather, the society wanted to get rid of him, apparently as someone told me "he was too black for the society," so they found a 17 year old "sin" and used that to get rid of him.

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  Are Jw's that important?

  by integ in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  sunday's talk on avoiding satan's snares brought out an interesting point that the human government's very soon will be turning all their military and political might on god's people here on earth, because of the fact jehovah's witnesses would be perceived as such a dangerous threat to the governments of the world because of their christian neutrality.

  which begs the question.....when the hell were the witnesses ever a dangerous threat to anything besides logic?

  they really are so freaking full of themselves.

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  Convention Report

  by Euphemism in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i just got back from my convention yesterday evening.

  i'll be trying to catch up on the posts as time allows, but there is a very large volume; so if i miss any personal replies, please forgive me.. this was my first convention since i became mentally free, and it was just painful to sit through.

  i used to be one of those dubs who actually enjoyed conventions.

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  Fw: As Bro Sydlick was saying the closing prayer

  by NikL in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i just had to pass this on to you.. it is an e mail that is making the rounds.. what do you think of this.... (beware!

  gagging may be expected).

  the 41,000 friends at the international convention in michigan .

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  A reality check for JW's and ex-JWs...

  by logansrun in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i'm currently taking a course in cultural anthropology to fulfill a college requirement and thought i'd share something from one of the textbooks we are using.

  in the book, "extraordinary groups -- an examination of unconventional lifestyles" ethnographer william w. zellner relates his findings when he spent some time studying the jehovah's witnesses.

  he relates of an experience he had when attending a convention: .

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  What's in a name? Teenyuck?

  by leddfootdja in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i find all the different aliases people use on here to be pretty entertaining.. what does your name mean to you?

  why did you choose it?.

  i assume teenyuck, for example = tina spoke by a young child.

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  Which way will the Society go because of the Internet?

  by be wise in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i've only learned the truth about this society over the last 5 months or so, so i'm not sure what the difference is to say - 2 years ago.

  do you think the society will now get even more cultish in it's methods of teaching and more heavy handed if they feel things are slipping?

  i don't feel i'm being over the top here because i've experienced very heavy handed talks at the assemblies and kingdom hall in the past that are just plain scare tactics but this just makes people ask more questions ??

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  Did anything a householder said ever make an impression on you?

  by Alleymom in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  coming at this as a householder rather than an ex-jw, i'd love to hear from any of you about comments from householders that made an impression on you, back when you were active in the door-to-door work.

  since the jw's first knocked at my door 13 years ago, i've done my best to give them something to think about every time they knock at my door.

  i always introduce myself by name and try to get their names.

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  Voting Bush out

  by Jayson in

  1. social
  2. current

  what is the best campaign stratagy to win against him?

  be serious this is to win the minds of american voters not to polerize them against you.

  otherwise it's a plug for him.. i think that the one real weakness is unemployment in america.

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