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"A Tremendous Teaching Tool!"
by under_believer inthe above is the title of the "article" on the back of the april 2007 awake!
magazine.
what follows is the body of the "article.
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The many ways Jehovah's Witnesses harm children
by under_believer inwas talking with my therapist this morning and i made the comment "i guess i don't mind if she is a witness as long as it doesn't harm the kids.
" this got me thinking about all the ways that being raised as witnesses harms or can harm children.
1) teaches children to have an air of superiority regarding other human beings.
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I have no mouth, and I must scream
by under_believer inplease indulge a little whining.
i don't go out in service--i don't comment.
they assign talks (once, one of the highlights of my existence) to me every couple of months.
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Do you think Jesus gave every Christian a personal commission to preach?
by under_believer in"go therefore and make disciples of people of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the father and of the son and of the holy spirit, teaching them to observe all the things i have commanded you.
i am with you all the days until the conclusion of the system of things.
" (matthew 28:19, 20 | nwt) .
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Is the Society more Orwellian than it used to be?
by under_believer ini was born in the 70's, grew up during the 80's, was a young adult during the 90's.
i was born into the witnesses and attended meetings that whole time.
i am still attending meetings, in fact, for my wife's sake.
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Snopes says toasting, clinking glasses has nothing to do with superstition
by under_believer inhttp://www.snopes.com/food/rituals/clink.asp.
excerpt:.
each of those explanations is false.
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Carl Sagan: Reflections on a Mote of Dust
by under_believer inin 1996, the year he died, sagan gave a commencement address.
the following is an excerpt from it.
(the picture was taken by voyager 1 in 1990 as it left our solar system.
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Swivelling The Service Reports: The Decline of JWism In The West
by under_believer inso there is this new web service called swivel.
it is at http://www.swivel.com.
what it does is you take data and upload it onto there, and you can generate charts and graphs and so on.
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WTF weird JW videos on YouTube
by under_believer ini can't even explain it.
this first one involves superman.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxcbcwad6k8.
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Independent thinking
by under_believer inthose of us who are still attending meetings for one reason or another often hear the phrase "independent thinking" bandied about, from the platform, from the society's literature, and from comments from other witnesses.
independent thinking, we're told, is a snare.
it's dangerous.