True North
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Could there ever be another "hostile takeover" of the WT Society?
by True North ini've read that back in the day, rutherford worked the legal system to take over the wt society in opposition to russell's final instructions.
could this sort of thing ever happen again?
another recent thread on this forum spoke of there currently being factions within the organization that take opposing views of many things.
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What happens when Bethelites are too old, infirm, or disturbed to work?
by True North inin barbara grizzuti harrison's book visions of glory: a history and a memory of jehovah?s witnesses (which is online at http://www.exjws.net/vg.htm -- i highly recommend it) there's an account of heartlessness at bethel that i found particularly troubling.
it's in "chapter iv.
accumulating wealth while the world refuses to die" (http://www.exjws.net/vg4.htm) and is as follows:.
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Did you ever actually make a JW convert from the door-to-door work?
by True North inin all the years i went door to door as a jw, i never once had a study who went all the way to baptism.
in the thirty years i've know my wife -- who has been a jw all this time -- she has never made a single convert from going door to door either.
is this true of others on this forum?
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what is the fate of those who aren't preached to before Armageddon?
by True North inrecently i spoke with someone who says they were told that current jw teaching about those who aren't preached to before armageddon (in china, india, etc.
) is that such ones will be allowed a "second chance" in the "new order" (or "new system" or whatever it's called these days).
in reply, i said i found it unlikely that this would be their teaching and that if so it would mean that even from a jw perspective, people would be better off if they were never preached to.
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What is a good martial art for girls to learn? Any recommendations?
by True North indoes anyone have have any experience with martial arts?
my daughter is interested in trying to learn one and i think it would be a good idea both for physical training and for self defense.
i know there are a lot of different styles to choose from and i'm not sure which would be the best for her.
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Why didn't Abraham suspect it was Satan telling him to kill Isaac?
by True North inhaven't we all heard of those who've killed others -- even their own children -- after (they claimed) hearing a voice telling them to do so?
most people would consider these ones to have been insane if they really thought they'd heard such things.
on the other hand, some jws, i would suspect, would think that these murderers may actually have heard demonic voices.
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Why weren't (aren't) we appalled that God required a human sacrifice?
by True North inapologists for the genocidal behavior written of in the old testament have often stated that its victims simply got what they deserved, and that they deserved it in part because their unclean religious practices included human sacrifice, even the sacrifice of their own children.
christians have long prided themselves in comparison to many pagan religions in that christian religious practice has never included human sacrifice and that christian principles would make one abhor such practices.
so why did we (do we) so readily accept the concept that the christian god would require a human sacrifice -- of his own son, yet -- before he would allow himself to be propitiated?
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Did the second-class status of JW women ever bother you? Does it now?
by True North inif the jw organization were considered a normal business operating without the protections of being a religion, it obviously would have to make some big changes in order to avoid being sued out of existence for sex discrimination.
i wasn't raised to think that women should be relegated to second class status or that they should have less opportunities than men or be relegated to a limited set of life roles.
however, when i became a jw, i freely accepted all the sexist nonsense that came with the territory without ever being bothered by it.
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Women barred from foot-washing ritual
by True North infaithful decry foot-washing ban of women .
thu apr 8,11:14 pm et add u.s. national - ap to my yahoo!
by eliott c. mclaughlin, associated press writer .
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Easter Bulletin: Radical surgery performed to separate conjoined Peeps!
by True North inhttp://www.peepresearch.org/surgery.html