Topics Started by Watkins

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Medical marijuana and the congregation
by zed is dead in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i do not know if anyone has ever asked this question before.. if you live in a state where it is legal to smoke marijuana with a prescription, will the congregation take any action against a member of it that smokes it?

i imagine that they wouldn't disfellowship anyone, but it may not make the person eligible for priveleges.. has there been any letter from hq to the boes about it?.

i am just curious.. zed.
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Ok EVERYONE- want to know who is going to be reading this website and others?
by Newly Enlightened in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
while everyone has been bickering back and forth, i decided to do something positive to move forward.

as most of you know back in jan our family marked us as apostates and started shunning us.. so i wrote to all of my congress-people and told them what is going on with the jw's.

i told them how they are breaking up families, teaching the children intolerance, etc.
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Did the Romans use crosses or stakes??
by Monsieur in
1. jw
2. friends
the cross is so prevalent, i would be inclined to believe that this is for a reason.

can anybody provide references for either one?
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Cognitive Dissonance Is The Driving Force Of Discovery?
by frankiespeakin in
1. jw
2. friends
what say you?.
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The Small Quiet Voice
by Satanus in
1. jw
2. friends
do you hear it?

not talking about voices.

i'm talking about that little niggling thing, on the side.
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BOOK: Jehovah himself has become king - Robert king
by *lost* in
1. watchtower
2. bible
i just got my first book ... to start with.

the next one will be ray franz, crisis of conscience.. so if there any believers or semi-believers that would like to chat about it i would appreciate your comments.. also it may help any visitors to this site, who may be questioning things.. .

lost.
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TIME FOR A MIND EXPERIMENT
by Terry in
1. watchtower
2. bible
try this "mind experiment".. there is a very large sports stadium the size of texas.

inside this stadium there are four enormous crowds of people.

they are all believers in jehovah god and think of their religion as the truth exclusively.. group number one are all the people who read and believed the teachings of charles taze russell.. group number two are all the people who came along after judge rutherford became president of the society.. group number three are the jw's under nathan knorr up to the year 1975.. group number four are all the jehovah's witnesses post 1975 up to today.. .
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Who are the REAL demons behind the Watchtower?
by Dogpatch in
1. jw
2. friends
i apologize for not writing much of anything in several weeks.. did you miss me?

(don't answer that!).

i am doing pretty good now after going through the worst year of my 60 years of life... but in order to make some changes that will enable me to keep working, i really had to take time off to take care of medical issues (mostly my spine - destroyed after 30 years spending 10-12 hours a day on the computer).
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Your earliest doubt?
by Apognophos in
1. jw
2. experiences
this might be an unfair question for those who have been out of the organization for decades, but i'm wondering if any of you remember your earliest doubt -- maybe something odd that occurred to you as a kid (if you were a jw then).

please try to limit to two doubts at the most :-).

i think my first "doubt" was simply realizing that at the time of the flood, every animal that wasn't in the ark died (well, besides the fish, supposedly).
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The New Diary of Winston Smith
by WinstonSmith in
1. jw
2. experiences
we had to go off grid for a time, time and half a time as we thought we had been outed.

fortunately it was a false alarm, but it was a stressful time.

i asked for my original diary thread to be deleted in case there could be anything on there to identlfy mrs smith and i. i am always very careful when posting, and am sure there was nothing on there, but felt it best to have it removed in order to be as cautious as a dove.