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Special talk awesome! How could I have been so blind?
by IMustBreakAway in
1. social
2. humour
listening to the special talk this sunday really put things into perspective for me.

see mans governments have failed because every five seconds a baby dies.. but jebuss government which was established in 1914, wait it was established in 1914?

i mean cause thats a hundred years ago.
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slower to chase down those that disagree?
by IMustBreakAway in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
perhaps this is a local phenomenon.

but it seems the elders are slower to chase down those that disagree, or have faded in the past few years.

i have heard (and seen) in the past where someone even remotely outspoken about disagreeing with the watchtower or some such would get the fury of divine retribution brought down upon them in an instant.
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Stuck in the "Truth"
by IMustBreakAway in
1. jw
2. friends
i notice from comments posted that many here who post (and untold scores who lurk) are still "in".

perhaps their social / family circles are too constricted for freedom of mind, and or, they are too afraid to rock the boat.

or too young to strike out on their own and are dependent on jw parents for support.
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Research project
by IMustBreakAway in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
wife wants to go to the library and research 607 from other sources.

i already have mountains of evidence on that.

but i was wondering if anyone knew of some other little nuggets i could slip in while we are there.
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The secret agenda of WTBS apologists.
by IMustBreakAway in
1. jw
2. friends
has anyone ever seen that movie, empire records?

in it there is a character that everyone calls warren.

he gets caught shoplifting and has to sit on the couch.
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Love of the greater number
by IMustBreakAway in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
sort of in conjuction with the thread about "feeling" something different in the atmosphere of the kh as of late a few things have been on my mind.

i make maybe one meeting a week.

every time i go i get smiles from the brothers and a nice, "how are you doing xxxx?
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Adam the beginning of the end for God.
by IMustBreakAway in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
just wondering if anyone else has had thoughts like this.

eve was deceived into eating the fruit.

an act that constituted a rebellion against god.
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Is Ritual Circumcision Religious Expression?
by IMustBreakAway in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
thought this was interesting.. and not just the part about the dubs.. full article http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/05/magazine/05wwln_idealab.html?_r=1&oref=slogin.

by jeffrey rosenpublished: february 5, 2006. americans pride themselves on their commitment to freedom of religion, but how much religious freedom is too much religious freedom?

at the moment, the thorniest dispute over the issue concerns a male-circumcision ritual practiced by some hasidic jews in new york.
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No sex in NS.
by IMustBreakAway in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i have been a jw all of my life and i have never heard anyone say anything about not having sex in the ns.

did the wtbs ever actually say that?

or is a bit of wittness folklore?
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Hanging by a thread
by IMustBreakAway in
1. social
2. family
except that instead of feeling like a thread it feels like a giant knotted iron cable pulling at my heart.

we are among the 5th generation of witnesses, my great grand mother went to rutherfords funeral, and being a witness has always been central in their lives.

i went to bethel like my brother, and uncles before me and sat at the same sewing machine that my grandfather had sat at when he was there.