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Documentary Film: 'Waiting for Armageddon'
by leavingwt inhttp://www.waitingforarmageddon.com/.
"[the film] serves as an absorbing snapshot of america's highly influential, reportedly 50-million-strong evangelical christian movement.
" (source).
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DO you follow any of these quacks, charlatans, liars, mystics or self-promoters?
by Terry indon't try to lie about it.
you accept some of these people as an authority.
you listen to them.
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Jesus is NOT the mediator for all?
by Ultimate Reality inthe current interpretation of the watchtower society is that christs role as mediator applies only to a small group of individuals - the 144,000. the assumption is that since the new covenant applies to their roles and kings and priests, jesus mediates between them and jehovah god, while those with an earthly hope are often described as beneficiaries of this arrangement.
for more information on this, see jwfacts.com.
there is some shifty reasoning used by the society to justify their view that christ actually mediates for fewer people than moses:.
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has anyone ever met Ray Franz?
by poor places ini guess you would have to be kind of old school to have met the guy.
i've only met a current gb member before he joined.
he seemed nice.
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Memorial 2010 Your Experiences
by scotinsw injust got back from memorial.
only went so that i could say to my parents that i had gone and to remind myself why i left.. oh my word!!!
it was sooooo painful.. got there a bit late - it was a couple of minutes into the talk.
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Does the new Catholic scandal help or hurt in exposing the WT abuse scandals?
by undercover inwith all the attention being paid to new allegations of abuse cover-up in the catholic church i wonder:.
1. does this take the heat off the wts and are they hoping to slide through less scrutinized while the pope gets skewered by the media?
will the wts be stupid enough to try to capitalize on the catholics problems by printing articles critical of them?.
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November 15 Watchtower (Study Edition) - discourages showing affection to your spouse
by CrazyBlonde inanother gem from the same edition - article to be studied december 28 - january 3 (which most will miss lol coz of summer vacation) entitled "what do your prayers say about you?
" page 6 para 19 reads:.
19 when we are being represented in public prayer, we need to display reverential "fear of god.
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How much time before U.S. persecution starts?
by sd-7 ini was reading barbara anderson's recent entry on free minds, and it made me think--the society's recent maneuvers in real estate, moving things to canada, etc.
does this mean jws in the u.s. will be facing problems from the government soon?
if so, is anyone knowledgeable enough to give an educated guess as to how soon this might happen?.
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Brenda Lee, former Jehovah's Witness exposes Watchtower org. on national T.V.
by koolaid-man inhow exciting it was to see former jehovah's witness brenda lee, author of the book "out of the cocoon" on secret lives of women which aired on we, women's entertainment network.
the program aired on sept. 8 and will be rebroadcast on sept. 29,2009. brenda will be our special guest on the conference call saturday september 12 at 7 p.m. est.
brenda will share her experience on how she got to be on this national program.
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Oct.15th WT GB Tells JW Rank & File-You are Our Belongings Stay Humble
by flipper inthe mind control in this latest oct.15th is amazing.
our lurking jw friend sent us this and it basically tellls witnesses that their opinions don't matter and only god is good .
it belittles independent thinking and explains that each rank and file jw is owned by the alleged " faithful and discreet slave " .