Sheepish
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What's next
by DaCheech ini really hate this religion.
i feel sorry for all the followers.
when i speak to close witness friends, i try to plant seeds..... but no matter how much they agree on me on certain points.... the society is great and individuals are to blame.. i go to meetings, and wind up playing solitaire on my palm pilot secretly to avoid puking at the info.
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Swartzentruber Amish Ordnung
by blondie insometimes i wonder, is there a religion with worse doctrines.
yes and no, while the rules about clothing and material possessions is more strict, much is very similar to the wts.. http://www.amishabuse.com/ordnung.htm.
the ordnung is not about scripture out of the new testament or the salvation of your soul, but it is about control.
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Do you support gay marriage?
by chappy inis your belief moral, social or practical?
would you feel the same way if there were absolutely no religious influence on the matter pro or con?.
regardless of your belief, does every adult have a fundimental right to marry anyone of his or her choosing, regardless of gender?.
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FREEDOMLOVER: update with my dad
by freedomlover inhope you are all well.. if you have been following the soap-opera of my life and the letter i wrote my dad then you may be interested in the latest.. my dad has been here visiting and we had a good long talk yesterday about my letter and what has brought me to the decision to leave the org.
he listened to everything i had to say and agreed with everything i had to say.
his own doubts arose when he became an elder and got a clearer picture of the abusive tactics that are used on the sheep.
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What did you take with you when you left the organization?
by coffee_black inleaving the organization, it is like packing for a journey you can choose what you take with you, and what you leave behind (other than people).
there are things i chose to take with me.
for example, i have used the sales training to my advantage over the years.
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A visit
by A Paduan incouple of jws (guys) came to the door today, started saying "we believe the world is ending and changing soon" - and then plainly stated - "this brochure here explains how it is going to happen".
{i thought, "no, this is what you think will happen, but you just can't stop yourself from getting to the next step anyway - just can't speak properly without fitting some kind of lie into it"}
anyway, i rejected them outright, in as few words as came to mind (six, i think).
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Bethel "Vow of Poverty" documents scanned.
by What-A-Coincidence invow of poverty scanned from 2002 documents.
i believe these are the latest ones unless someone has a newer one.
i posted these in another thread but i thought it deserved its own.. ocrd with 98% accuracy.... initial cover page 1 of 4. vow of obedience and povertyto the.
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Life in Bethel & Ex-Bethelites know if the GB prayed together?
by Sheepish ini have always wondered how seriously they took this dispensing doctrine thing.
do they all get together and actually pray or just have meetings?
ex- bethelites say they wrote doctrinal articles for the watchtower or awake.
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One more time: Watchtower Quotes site??
by Sheepish insorry i know it comes up again and again, but darn it, i can't find it!
i am looking for one of the sites that have only watchtower quotes in it.
did they all get shut down?
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I experienced a Jewish Shabbat Service tonight!
by Billygoat inmy very best friend, casey, is a member of a local baptist church.
her church is similar to mine, known to be a very liberal baptist church, holding very loosely to the "baptist traditions" and holding more tightly to the life of christ and his example set for us.
the other day she invited me to an interfaith shabbat service held at a reformed jewish temple.