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  Global Policy Forum on WT-UN affiliation

  by Five Gospels in

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  2. scandals

  here is a good article revealing the un's perspective on the matter.

  (my apologies if this has already been posted).

  the global policy forum is based in new york city and has consultative status at the un.. the title of the article is:.

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  CO talk

  by Fatal Error in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  we had our second co talk yesterday, the topic of which was loyalty, thinly veiled as to one another, but dripping with threats toward those who might go against the society.. after the usual drivel about the society being god's organisation, and appreciating their junk food (as an aside, has anyone actually vomitted up any of this "food"??

  just wondering...), i was rudely dragged out of my slumber by the co's harsh declaration that we should shun all those who slipped away from the thruth, as they inactivity is a bad influence.

  he went on to heap the blame on them, "if they feel this way, then they should expect their due", "they bring shunning onto themselves" etc.... has it always been this way?

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  NOTE TO GOVERNING BODY

  by Francois in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  have you folks or your agents read and carefully digested the posts in the very recent thread entitled "how many got the real truth from the internet"?.

  and it spells trouble for you.. you would be doing the world a favor if you just admitted your faults and disbanded the entire organization.

  and given the destruction you've wrought in people's lives over the last hundred years and more, that's exactly what you should do.. but, since there's so much money involved you won't do that until you're forced.

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  Post-JW education?

  by rebelledat12 in

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  2. friends

  i was interested in how many of you took up higher education after leaving the jws, and how old you were etc.

  i started college at age 23 (still enrolled at 24), my mother got her ged at 35 - disfellowshipped and started college at 40 - and will graduate at 45 from the university of florida in june.

  my inactive sister is a freshman in college, right on time.. my jw brother has two kids and washes windows.

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  A dilemma regarding the 144,000

  by Five Gospels in

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  2. friends

  some of the recent posts regarding the "anointed" got me thinking about some of the characters that i have met, or have known about, professing membership among this elite class of people.. one particular character i know of, even today espousing some, shall we say, interesting viewpoints on matters, had an even more interesting past.

  it seems that some years ago (c. 1970's) a typically subdued but otherwise ordinary christian meeting was being closed with a prayer at a small kingdom hall in the north eastern usa when it was suddenly disrupted by this individual (even then professing to be anointed) assaulting his wife at the rear of the hall!

  he was pretty much disfellowshiped on the spot for his indiscretion.

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  Complete reversal: from Witness to atheist

  by Ephanyminitas in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i'm pretty new here (five minutes old!

  ) and i'm curious: how many have left the organization and, in time, become athiests.

  i was raised in the organization, so growing up, my thinking was -- of course -- stifled.

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  "J W Church Accused of Hiding Sexual Abuse...

  by Smoldering Wick in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  jehovah's witness church accused of hiding sexual abusers .

  by matt pyeatt.

  cns staff writer.

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  Can You Believe this crap?

  by Farkel in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  when caught red handed with 10 years of signed documents where your leaders swore to uphold and promote the interests of the very organization you have vilified as satan's instrument, you now say, "i don't see that as a sin.

  because you were caught?

  also, if the proof is only "supposed," then where's a solid rebuttal to that proof without the ad hominems and red herrings?.

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  Atheists are a cult

  by gravedancer in

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  2. friends

  i have seen that statement quite a bit in the past few days.. why do people believe that's true?

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  Religiously inclined are Mentally Ill

  by gravedancer in

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  2. friends

  i raised this briefly in chat earlier today and i expect a similar response to this thread.. my opinion is that if you are religious/spiritual then you are mentally ill.

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