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  Isn't that what they use to deter people from escaping prison?

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  the title is what a person today told me as i was explaining the changes i've seen and made in fading from the watchtower.

  he got a smile on his face and asked that question about watch towers being manned with men in guns to prevent people from escaping prison.

  man, i never thought about it like that, but he nailed it with such a simple observation.

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  What instructions came with the new brochure?

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  like the title says, i'm wondering if anyone here knows what instructions came with the new brochure about returning to jehovah.

  did each person get a certain number at the convention?

  are they to be handed out at will, up to each publisher's individual discretion?

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  Is this a big reason that JW's are so attractive to some out there?

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  in another thread i saw it mentioned that this elder and his wife were trying to preach to the poster here and said that they liked that jw's had answers to their questions.

  i've heard that over and over throughout the years, and it does make sense on a level.

  people in other religions sometimes have questions and are told that this or that is a mystery, or that they just have to have faith, etc.

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  Crisis Of Conscience In Audio Format?

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  i'm just wondering if the book is available to be listened to in any format?

  i know that it can be found online and read freely, and i've been through some of it, but i just wondered if it was available in any other way.

  i guess it would be lacking some of the copies of articles and such that were in the original book, but it would still be interesting.

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  The Religion Of Rejection - And Now That Includes Me

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  due to some recent developments i find myself in a new place, and at this point i've lost all of my family and fri....oh that's right, i never really had any friends in the organization anyway.

  just people that wanted something from me and a few people that i would invite to do things that occasionally said yes.

  the recent rejections of me got me thinking, so let's take a rejection inventory.. i had to reject all of the holidays when my parents started studying.. i had to reject any worldly friends that i already had.. even family became rejected, and the new religion had some place in that.. i was rejected in school and bullied all of the time, not just because we were poor and i made good grades, but for jw reasons too.

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  The JW Family

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  maybe this is a bit obtuse, but see if you can follow me here and maybe throw in your own views.

  as i see it, the organization as a whole is a family, and like most, it is dysfunctional.

  you have the parents in those taking the lead (gb, elders, overseers, etc.

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  The Power Of "IF"

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  so, the whole may money grab episode of jwtv really looks bad to me and many others, obviously many here.

  i was looking on another website dedicated to active jw's and if you'll notice on post number 109 a little ways down (<click there to read) a person named luca dares to express some concerns over the latest episode.

  the following pages do contain one more person that has some issue with how things were presented.

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  They only care about themselves......

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  i've watched the reaction to the nepal disaster for the first time with eyes opened.

  lots of comments about praying for the brothers and sisters affected.

  the official release on the website references only the sister and her two children that died, along with the impact on the brothers there.

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  I had every intention of going to the Memorial last night.......

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  i wanted to go and to do it for jehovah and jesus and what they've done for me.

  i wanted it to be a personal thing between them and i. i haven't been to a meeting in close to a year, not that anyone notices or cares.

  this isn't my first stint away, and nobody would notice or care if i was found dead.

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  Just Want To Be Heard

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  i've been lurking here for a while now, and i guess you could call me a fader.

  i don't have hate in my heart for the organization that i spent most of my life in, but i have had an awakening.

  luckily, so has my wife, and that way i don't feel so alone.

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