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The Awake's Lying Image of Witnesses (Oct 22)
by metatron in
1. jw
2. friends
if you didn't know that the watchtower society published the awake magazine, you might.

think it was published by some semi-liberal born again group.

doesn't give a realistic representation of most witness families i'm aware of.. .
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JW foul play.
by avishai in
1. jw
2. friends
what instances do you know of jw crime, particularly jw on jw or jw on xjw?.

i know of several instances.

my own po, elder grandfather ripped off tons of dubs.
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How?
by Lostreality in
1. jw
2. friends
how did you go from celebrating no holidays, to celebrating them?

what changes did you make in your household to accomodate this change?
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A new spin on an old perible
by meggidon555 in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
one day a man was driving down a hiway and saw a car broke down.

he stops to help to help.

but it was a trap the robber beats him up leaves him for dead takes all his money and steals his car.. men while a christian drive by does nothing, a jew drives by nothing, a muslim ditto,.
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How were you love-bombed??????????
by BLISSISIGNORANCE in
1. jw
2. experiences
some of the ways i was love-bombed were,sisters fussing over the kidsbrothers helping me move housetaking the kids at meetings and helping them look through the biblebeing invited to gatheringsalways having people talking to me after the meetingssisters dropping in through the day for visits (didn't know they counted time until i was baptized)being given thingsgetting soooooooo much attention, especially when the co visitedsisters offering to come to court with me (re.

divorce)having the co invited on my study wwwwooooo hhhoooooo.

all the above came to an abrupt end when i had the baby, lost weight and got baptized.. so how were you love bombed?.
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Threw Away My Last JC Penny's Suit Tonight...
by Confucious in
1. jw
2. friends
kind of a milestone of sorts.

not that there is anything wrong with a jc penny's suit.

it's just that this was the "status quo" kind.
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CAPITALISM: Do you know what it is? What is your opinion?
by Terry in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
.

i'll just let the question stand before i spout off.. i hear alot of people speak disparagingly about capitalism.. i'd like to hear your opinion before i give mine.. terry.
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5 Jehovah's Witnesses Die in Plane Crash
by Kenneson in
1. social
2. current
a report from zambia, africa relates that 6 persons died, including 5 believed to be jehovah's witnesses in a chartered plane crash near livingstone.

they had just toured victoria falls and were returning to lusaka, when the plane developed problems and crashed.

a zambian newspaper says it was an oil leak.
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Jw's and Freemasons
by aniron in
1. jw
2. friends
i've been going through my wt 2003 and 1995 cd-rom's looking for articles on the freemasons in any wt publication.. there doesn't seem to be much from 1950 onwards only basically passing references.. but there are 8 references from 1930 to 1958 all in the awake magazine.

which of course are not on the cd's.. does anyone know what these articles are.. especially an article in the awake 22nd march 1958 which was 4 pages long.

long shot i know.
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What Your JW Relatives May Realize
by metatron in
1. jw
2. experiences
there's a lot of hurting manifest on this board.

i've been there, with witness relatives and friends shunning me ( more or less).. as you encounter these people, it may be easiest to kindly remind them of the near future of jehovah's witnesses:.

in ten years, the average witness will be about the same as any other religion.. .