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  "Knocking" documentary is CNN approved.

  by DevonMcBride in

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  i found the below quote on this website.

  http://www.newday.com/films/knocking.html and was surprised to read this review from a well known anchor at cnn .

  "riveting and illuminating.

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  I myself do want to view and re-view it a few times in order to know what and how to counter its MISREPRESENTATIONS OF FACTS. I suggest carla take a couple of moments to consider the benefits OF seeing it. Even if you can only stomach it once. Try darlin'. You will then be armed with knowing how the enemy is actually moving about.

  I agree 100%, I do intend to comment, just not yet. I want to know exactly how to fight this particular piece of propaganda. I'd rather not give anyone an easy way to dismiss my criticism, so I will see the "documentary" before I protest it.
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  "Knocking" documentary is CNN approved.

  by DevonMcBride in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i found the below quote on this website.

  http://www.newday.com/films/knocking.html and was surprised to read this review from a well known anchor at cnn .

  "riveting and illuminating.

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  Carla, if that comment was addressed to me, you will notice that I referred only to this movie; and judging it without seeing it, is a bit like the JWs judging "worldly" material without cracking the cover. The organization is a different story, I know because I was there.
  I believe, based on reviews, that it is biased, and likely a propaganda-type movie. However, I will not be writing any letters to anyone until/unless I see it. To do so without seeing it lacks credibility. I wonder what a newspaper thinks when they receive a letter that says "I will never watch this movie and you shouldn't show it because it is all lies!" I'm sure the first thing the editor thinks is "how do they know? They haven't seen it."
  As a sidenote: "god-given brain"?, well, then, I'm quite happy that my brain evolved.
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  GUESS WHAT HAPPENED TO ME TODAY!

  by Butters in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i cannot believe what i saw happen today at the store.. i was at wal-mart browsing various electronics and digital cameras and such, when i heard behind me, "brother hardy, how are you!"...

  first thing i thought was oh shit, they found me, and forgot my real name, or have me mixed up with someone else.. turns out, this disfellowshiped witness was there at the store and saw one of his congregation members there.

  now i personally have never been part of the shunning process myself, but here i am, an ex-jw watching from the other aisle, a bunch of shit that i never thought i would see the lights of day on.... the brother, this "hardy" i guess, looked up at the man with a smile, but then when he realized who it was, he immediately frowned and started pushing his shopping cart away looking straight ahead and not even acknowledging the man... (here's where i jump in..).

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  Well I hope the part about getting stoned right before going home is a story, because anyone who gets smoked then gets in the car and drives deserves to be arrested.
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  "Knocking" documentary is CNN approved.

  by DevonMcBride in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i found the below quote on this website.

  http://www.newday.com/films/knocking.html and was surprised to read this review from a well known anchor at cnn .

  "riveting and illuminating.

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  Odrade

  Devil's advocate... How many of the people protesting "Knocking" have actually seen the film? Yes, we "know" what's in it, having heard reviews and read the descriptions. I'm just wondering if these protests without watching might be just a little bit like the JWs who say "I don't need to read that book to know everything in it is wrong/bad." ? And no, I haven't seen the film, though I intend to.
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  POLL: Do You Believe In The Bible or God At All???

  by minimus in

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  at this point in your life, do you believe in god or any parts of the bible as being god's word???.

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  No and no.
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  Maybe Interesting Blood News

  by truth.ceeker in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  i had a meeting with my heart surgeon yesterday, and after informing him of our faith, my wife still holding onto to parts of the organization, the dr. said that, "there is a new form that just came out last year from your mother church in new york.

  " what this document does is (1) make it clear that the person is not allowing blood to be used, (2) makes it clear that the dr. will have a court order ready in case blood is deemed medically necessary to sustain life and (3) absolves the person's conscience of any guilt if it came down to it.

  i'm not sure if this document has been discussed before, but i thought that it was a bit intriguing.

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  hmmm... I think I'd rather have to be treated for HepC, than rolling on a little cart into an incinerator...
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  We know what she has

  by lola28 in

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  an update on my sister, the blood work came back and she has lupus.. .

  lola.

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  I'm sorry Lola, do they know yet which form of Lupus she has?
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  Sister will not visit son's house as he lives with his girlfriend - why not

  by Deleted in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  one of my mates from grade/high school married a woman who became a jw, who witnessed to me in 1980 and in turn i became a jw (1981-1998).

  i left, she didn't, and she never spoke to me again.

  i have recently rekindled my friendship with my old schoolfriend.

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  Odrade

  I have a sneaking suspicion we missed the meetup today... oh well, maybe the next one, send me a PM if you and the wifey are going to make it there. Mr. Odrade and I are great! Trying to plan some remodelling. (ugh and Yay! at the same time.) Also we are getting a new puppy. (more YAY!)
  Funny about the ousting, it's about time that happened...strange too about the Brit, seems like they have a little more commonsense, but obviously she's a little off her froot-loop if she's pulling that nonsense. Thing is, there was a KM about 4 years ago that really caused a bunch of families to take a hard-line against their non-JW or ex-JW children. Maybe that is her reasoning? I don't think there has been a retraction since, and the latest "When a loved one leaves Jehovah" magazine I'm sure didn't help much.
  Maybe she expects that he should "know better" by osmosis? As in, she's a JW so he should be too? Who knows what they think anymore...
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  Sister will not visit son's house as he lives with his girlfriend - why not

  by Deleted in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  one of my mates from grade/high school married a woman who became a jw, who witnessed to me in 1980 and in turn i became a jw (1981-1998).

  i left, she didn't, and she never spoke to me again.

  i have recently rekindled my friendship with my old schoolfriend.

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  Ah, Glen... why bother. She's probably following the advice of some tall, "dignified" pompous windbag of a substitue C.O. (starts with "K", rhymes with "hurt,") and nothing her worldly husband could show her in a WT book could ever compete with the direct counsel of such a fine, upstanding man of god. *cough*cough*
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  How many people in this forum are from NewZealand??

  by ania in

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  2. friends

  hello i am a newbie and just saw another person in the forum from nz.

  it hadn't even occured to me...now i wonder how many there are??

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  Odrade

  eleventy-one