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Maniputlating the media - from www.ajwrb.org. Worth reading.
by Pole insorry if i am preaching to the choir, but has everyone read this document on the http://www.ajwrb.org site?
i showed it to my mom (half-active jw) yesterday and she was shocked by the amount of spin and manipulation the wts resort to.
i guess it's worth reading by newbies whatever their current "stand on blood" may be.. pole.
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"Replacement doctrines" - things which JWs lie about to the interested ones
by Pole independing on the denomination of their interlocutor the witnesses often claim that their religion is free of a whole bunch of non-sensical doctrines which are so common in other religions.
oftentimes, however, it proves that they have something that i'll call "replacement doctines" - beliefs which which are difficult to figure out for the 'interested ones', but which in the long run prove to be just as bad as the stuff they disclaimed or worse.
example: in a catholic country like poland, jws often boast about the fact that they don't have the confession routine, where a person has his/her sins forgiven by a priest who acts as a representative of god.
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Your biggest discovery of 2004?
by Pole inwhat was your biggest intelectual/philosophical/psychological/religious discovery of the year 2004?
was there anything new that you "understood" about our existence?
did you learn something new about human relations or your spirituality?
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Why do you qoute dictionaries when making a point in a discussion?
by Pole ini've noticed a lot of people cut and paste dictionary entries when making a point in a discussion.
how do dictionaries help you get the message across?
do they make you sound more authoritative?
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The collapse of the Watchtower. Write your gloomy-doomy scenario here.
by Pole inhey, prophets of doom, if you were to write an abstract of a screenplay for a movie about the collapse of the watchtower what would be the final nail in the coffin?
make it as serious or as preposterous as you like.. here's two scenarios to begin with.
english is not my first language, so naturally yours may be much more entertaining.. .
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First love cooling off - how did you deal with it?
by Pole inin the witness world there is a label for everything.
that's how things work in many systems with distinct totalitarian traits.
as a zealuos witness i believed in the homemade psychology provided by the writing department.
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The system of privileges in WTS - any thoughts on how it works?
by Pole inwts has quite a few traits which are typical of totalitarian systems.
many of them have been demonstrated on this board (labeling, shunning, monopoly on truth, propaganda, indoctrination, polarization of reality etc.)..
there is one more aspect of the wts religion which can also be observed in most totalitarian systems and that is the system of granting privileges.
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John 18 Quid est veritas? - Who was right: Pilate or Jesus?
by Pole init's a doctrinal question.
of course the gospel of john may have been written by someone who made this conversation up.
but let's assume it really did take place between pilate and jesus christ.. john 1837"you are a king, then!
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Getting fed up with fading
by Pole inok, so here is my story in put a nutshell: .
1. i first had "nagging doubts" about the borg some three years ago (after 6 years of being a faithful witness).
2. i stopped avoiding "apostate" internet sites some 1.5 years ago, which really helped me confirm my doubts.
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What languages do you speak?
by Pole inwhat languages do you speak/write/read (can be ancient ones as well)??
i speak/write/read polish, english and russian.
i know basic swedish and some survival phrases in finnish as well.