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I finished reading Combatting Cult Mind Control
by neverendingjourney ini just finished reading steve hassans combatting cult mind control.
i found it to be an interesting read.
i have been inactive for 2 12 years now, so its impact was not as big on me as it would have been had i read it shortly after i began to have my doubts about the jws.
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The Wave: A short movie about mind control
by neverendingjourney inthis is a very good short movie about how mind control works.
it's based on a true story of a high school teacher that started his own cultish student organization modeled after the nazis.
it's very easy to see the parallels with jws.
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Sometimes the most obvious connections are the most difficult to make
by neverendingjourney ini had a sudden realization the other day, one that took me many years to make but that should have been fairly obvious in hindsight.
let me explain.. my parents are immigrants.
they moved to the u.s. when i was a toddler.
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The Watchtower: Roots, Shoots, and Those in Cahoots
by neverendingjourney ini'm typically not a fan of jw criticism from a christian point of view (the jws are silly, but everything i believe in is truth), but i think this video does a solid job of putting into historical context the religious influences behind the jehovah's witnesses.
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it's pretty eye-opening for those who have not yet researched the origins of the religious movement and who, much as i did, once belived the doctrines originated from the "great minds" of past watchtower society presidents.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_c-pdt0sse.
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Wikipedia article on the GB falsely claims the GB has existed since 1884
by neverendingjourney ini'm currently in the process of reading crisis of conscience.
in it, franz meticulously goes about debunking the notion that the wtbts has always had a governing body.
in fact, through a variety of documents, and using the society's own literature, he shows that the watchtower's board of directors was powerless.
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How was child molestation handled before 1996?
by neverendingjourney inas i recall, the abhor what is wicked article came out in 1996. in it, the society outlined their new child abuse policy, namely that known child molesters could never hold any positions of responsibility in the congregations anymore.
from what i understand, there were letters to the bodies of elders and special c.o.
instructions that further clarified the new position on handling child sexual molestation.
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Relax...Isaac Newton said the end would come no earlier than 2060
by neverendingjourney ini just ran across this article.
the following words caught my attention: "in one manuscript from the early 1700s, newton used the cryptic book of daniel to calculate the date for the apocalypse, reaching the conclusion that the world would end no earlier than 2060.
i'll say this: at least isaac newton's word is way, way more reliable than the watchtower bible and tract society's.
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Was the use of the term "regular try-oneer" common in your area?
by neverendingjourney init just occurred to me that i've never seen the term on the forum before.. it was pretty common in my area.
there was a group, a clique really, of regular pioneers, mostly stay-at-home mom types who placed the "try-oneer" label on newly-appointed regular pioneers.
it was their way of cementing their importance.
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What happened to the new light on the generation? Has it come out yet?
by neverendingjourney inadmittedly, i spend a lot of time on jwd, but i haven't seen anything recently in regards to the new light on the meaning of the generation in a while.
there were several threads on here not too long ago regarding how this new light had been announced at the society's annual corporate meeting.
someone said that it would be formally unveiled in the new study edition of the watchtower.