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  Does God have any one organized religion he supports?

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  this is an open ended question meant to iniate a debate.. .

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  Something Good we can learn from the Organization

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  even though most of us here absolutley despise the organization, there is something we can learn from it and that is how to become sucessful business owners ourselves.

  it can not be denied that the organization is a multi-billion dollar corporation as a result of the millions of dollars that pour into the hq each year from donations it receives.

  we can study the watchtower's organizational structure and decide what we like about their corporate governance and what we don't like.

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  1975

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  do any you ever remember the elders admonishing you to change certain behaviors, attitudes, and actions that could be considered a consience matter if it was stumbling another brother or sister...they always quoted a scripture "he that stumbles the faith of another will perish in gehena" (i think it goes like that...) correct me if i am wrong.. so i have been reading crisis of conscience and i am at the part about the 1975 debacle...my question is if " jehovah is directing the faithful and discreet slave (eka governing body, wts, etc) why would he direct them into making a colossal blunder on when exactly armeggedon was coming, thereby stumbling the faith of those in god and driving them away from him?

  " in essence, its almost as if jehovah allowed them to drive the flock away, which according to the wts he is so "desperate to protect" hence the need for disfellowshipping and such.

  yes, it can be argued it was the act "of imperfect men" but don't you think jehovah would have given them a flash of "new light" to correct the fallacy in their reasoning before the disastorous ramfications that occurred in 1975?

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  Any One here interested in History??

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  i was just wondering if we have an history fanatics on this forum.... i am personally into the napoleanic wars, american civil war, wwi, and wwii.

  if anyone is into history whats your favorite time era??

  war??

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  STALKED II

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  as i was studying last night for organic chem the phone rang around 10:30 p.m. eastern as i predicted it would.

  when i answered it was my mom on the other end, again as i predicted.

  afterall, it was tuesday night, the night of theorcratic minstry school and the service meeting and of course i knew the elders were going to speak to my mom about the little incident out in the shaws parking lot.

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  STALKED!!!

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  i think you are all going to get a kick out of this, .

  for those of you that don't know me, i have been out of the organization for almost 4.5 years but i have never been disfellowshipped nor have i disassociated myself.. last night after going out to a nice italian resturaunt with my girlfriend, father, and step-mom,( who never were part of the organization in the first place) my girlfriend and i said goodbye to them and we began the trip back to her place, which is 2.5 hours away.

  before we got on the turnpike she said, "that she had to use the restroom and could i please stop off somewhere.

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  Spreading Discension while participating in the Theocratic Ministry School

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  were you part of the theocratic ministry school and if so did you ever try to subtley spread discension among the flock by attacking the watchtower doctrine with nuances when you were on your way out of the organization??

  or did you use the opportunity to get self-righteous and ram some frivolous dribble down the throats of the audience perhaps out of revenge for all the mindless crap you had to listen to for the next hour afterwards..... did you ever know anyone that would get up on the platform and say " hello...goodbye" and just walk off...??.

  curious had someone do that once...lol.

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  Cleaning the Kingdom Hall

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  what part of the hall was your favorite part to clean?

  was it the bathrooms, the main hall, library or lunch room perhaps...did people use cleaning the hall as an excuse to get self-righteous?

  let me know.... lol.

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  No Animosity

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  No Animosity

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  i will begin by stating that i have been an inactive jw for about four years now and i currently have no plans on returning to the organization at this juncture.

  i have read many of your experiences with the jw's and wts and i can certainly understand the rage, hatred, depression, anxiety, and sense of hoplessness as a result of your association with the jw's.

  personally, i have had simliar experiences with the jw's such as an elder constantly chastising me for every "bad" thing i did by always informing me that " if i continued on the course i was on i would be destroyed at armeggedon.

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