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KM 09/07
by Philippus79 in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
does anyone know or have a scan of the km 09/07.

in the german edition the question is raised and answered if the "faithful and discreet slaves" encourages biblestudy groups who study "deeper" topics.

obviously the answer is "no" don't do that the slaves feeds you more than enough.. i could do with an english copy.
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Great Post on Cognitive Dissonance
by Shepherd Book in
1. jw
2. friends
just thought i'd share something a friend recently posted at his site.. here it is: http://ryansutter.net/wp/2007/07/25/539/#comment-699.. it's about cognitive dissonance and the role it plays in the lives' of witnesses and ex-witnesses..
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MyJWSpace Update 7/24
by WTWizard in
1. jw
2. friends
out of curiosity, i checked out the myjwspace site mentioned in an earlier thread to see if it was growing.

as of now, there are 64 members on the whole site, and a grand total of (all this) one post on the whole forum!

of course, without joining, there is no way to read those posts to cut and paste segments of it here to tear them apart.. they have a chat room where they claim all the people are jws, the topics are safe, and they can be themselves (as dull and preprogrammed as they can get).
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Hoping someone can direct me...
by Shepherd Book in
1. watchtower
2. bible
there was a thread in the last six months wherein someone proposed giving a #3 talk that started out by having the householder show a clipping from a catholic newsletter.

this clipping gave warnings about researching other religions and talked about how only catholics have the truth.

after the talk-giver spoke for a few minutes about how wrong the catholic church was for saying these things, the householder then points out that it was really a clipping from a watchtower, just with a few bits of lingo changed.. does anyone know which thread this was?
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'The good outweighs the bad'. I don't think so.
by ThomasCovenant in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
for most of my 30 years in the 'truth' (age 12-42 thereabouts) i have always doubted many many things taught from the watchtower.

however like many if not most of those brought up in it i got swallowed up in the whole social side of it.

bringing up children in it i told myself that it wasn't such a bad life after all.
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AlanF Interview with Creation Book author Harry Peloyan 1997
by besty in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
this has possibly been posted before (i hadn't seen it) - i found it a fascinating read - well done alanf for fronting it up..... it can also be found online at http://www.reexamine.org/wtobserver/apps/pbcs.dll/article86c8.html?aid=/20040309/history/204007.

interview with a watchtower society author on wednesday, 27 august 1997, i met with harry peloyan for about 1 1/2 hours in the lobby of the 25 columbia heights bethel office in brooklyn, new york.

my purpose was to discuss problems with the creation book with him, since he is its main author.
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Post A Comment at this article
by Gayle in
1. watchtower
2. medical
http://www.courierpostonline.com:80/apps/pbcs.dll/article?aid=/20070609/living/706090311/1004 jehovah's witnesses hope to debunk myths about their faith.

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rita clement (far right) and jennifer difilippo lead the way while handing out pamphlets in gloucester township.
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How about birthdays?
by molybdenum in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
hi... i'm a newbie here.

i have been associated with jw's for quite some time however there is one aspect of being a witness that i can't quite come to terms with that is the prohibition on celebrating a person's birthday i have of course read the arguments for this but find them somewhat unconvincing.

is it really the case that everyone follows this direction?
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2007 diSTICT convention
by Shepherd Book in
1. watchtower
2. bible
the district conventions for '07 have commenced as of this weekend.

just wondering if anyone out there has any great stories to tell about it yet.

anyone know the new releases?
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New World Translation on Jeporady
by moomanchu in
1. watchtower
2. bible
is this true, e-mail i got from mom, sounds like bs to me.. recently on jeopardy on tv...one of the questions was.....what is.

>the most accurate translation of the holy scriptures??

no one got the>correct answer, so alex trebek said "new world translation of the holy>scriptures, printed by watchtower bible tract society.... ]>this following is worth reading!