Topics Started by Merry Magdalene

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Old Articles about JWs
by Merry Magdalene in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i was just looking back over some of my old inquiries and got curious about mainstream articles written about jws back when the public was, perhaps, a little more aware of who they were.

a critical booklet by leslie rumble, "the incredible creed of jehovah's witnesses," written during the presidency of knorr, said:.

the witnesses of jehovah constitute one of the most vigorous and spectacular religious propagandist bodies of the present day.
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Wiki Scanner--Revealing What Organizations Make Edits at Wikipedia
by Merry Magdalene in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
hey, anybody else check this out yet?

i was just watching the colbert report and heard about wiki scanner--you can now scan to see which organizations have been editing at wikipedia.

i tried it and there were 18 results containing the word watchtower.
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Just want to show you what we saw...
by Merry Magdalene in
1. jw
2. friends
the end of may my daughter and i were walking an overgrown path to the river, going to take pictures of each other in the wild roses, when we saw this--right at the edge of the path:.

"mommy, look," she said.

"oh no," i thought.
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Merry Becomes A Muslim (a bit long)
by Merry Magdalene in
1. jw
2. experiences
who is merry?

i was born in 1965, the same year that malcolm x was assassinated.

my father had committed suicide a few months into my mother's pregnancy so we lived with her parents until she married again when i was about 18 months old.
What Really Happened in Najaf?
by Merry Magdalene in
1. social
2. current
http://electroniciraq.net/news/2876.shtml.

in today's independent, patrick cockburn writes:.

there are growing suspicions in iraq that the official story of the battle outside najaf between a messianic iraqi cult and the iraqi security forces supported by the us, in which 263 people were killed and 210 wounded, is a fabrication.
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About suffering...
by Merry Magdalene in
1. social
2. current
about suffering they were never wrong,.

the old masters: how well they understood .

its human position; how it takes place .
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Anyone familiar with this Ex-JW?...
by Merry Magdalene in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
curious about accusations against the iranian president for his views on the holocaust, i was doing a little research into the matter and stumbled across this character: ditlieb felderer

charged, tried, convicted and jailed in sweden.

vilified in the press.
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US Extraordinary Rendition Program--good idea or bad idea?
by Merry Magdalene in
1. social
2. current
toronto, sept. 18 - canadian intelligence officials passed false warnings and bad information to american agents about a muslim canadian citizen, after which u.s. authorities secretly whisked him to syria, where he was tortured, a judicial report found monday.. the report, released in ottawa, was the result of a 2 1/2-year inquiry that represented one of the first public investigations into mistakes made as part of the united states' "extraordinary rendition" program, which has secretly spirited suspects to foreign countries for interrogation by often brutal methods.. .

oh well, he was just a muslim so who cares, right?

more justifiable "collateral damage" in the war on terror.
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Uninvited--A Wonderful "Witness"
by Merry Magdalene in
1. jw
2. experiences
i attended my mother's memorial at the kingdom hall saturday afternoon.

even with the jw sermon tagged on, my cousin did a lovely service for her.

there were many jws and non-jws in attendence.
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17 Days: One Final Adventure
by Merry Magdalene in
1. jw
2. friends
i once posted here a copy of my empassioned plea to the watchtower society--i want my mother back.

well, i just wanted to let all of you know that i got her back for a whole 17 days, and we had one final adventure together before she died, and there wasn't a damned thing they could do about it.. my mother is, was, a long-term loyal jw and i was her disfellowshipped daughter.

i believe she was in an almost constant state of conflict over me because her very strong maternal instincts demanded she behave openly and lovingly toward me, while her wts-trained conscience demanded the opposite.