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What's your sign?
by dinah inyeah, sounds really 70's....... but i really wanna know!.
i'm an aries, march 24, so i'm on the cusp of pieces.. .
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Goat Hill
by knock knock indriving through an area of town today and was told that that particular locale was once referred to as "goat hill" by the local jw's.
it was the affluent section of the city some 30-35 years ago.
middle class at best.
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Coincidences....
by hillary_step ini love a good coincidence.
it is the closest i get to the supernatural these days.
how about this one.. a couple of days ago i was working from my home office and while doing so was listening to a bbc radio 7 re-run of the 1960's radio comedy, "i am sorry i will read that again", with john cleese etc.
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A Message to Jehovah's Witnesses (in a new media format)
by DT inhttp://www.slideshare.net/deeeteee/a-message-to-jehovahs-witnesses.
it's just a basic slideshow presentation, but i think it might be the first slideshow on slideshare about jehovah's witnesses.
i got the idea from the recent threads about the do not call list.
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Greed for Power V Greed for Money - Which is the more dangerous?
by Gill ini'll make this short and sweet as i'm up to my arm pits (not literally) in spud peeling and dinner making!.
when i first left the jws and joined this forum my unanswered question was 'why'?
'why' would the fds and jws at the top all continue their sharade and deception on so many?
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A World To Believe In
by caliber inits very motivating because we can rise above confusion and turmoil to "live & dream once more",.
you gave me faith.
you gave me a love to believe in.
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What prompted the whopper of all Flip Flops? (Sodom & G. resurrection)
by Open mind inin pre-studying my watchtower for this sunday, (with mary's assistance on v's thread of course), i was reminded of something i've wondered about re: the whole "will the residents of sodom & gomorrah be resurrected?
" question.. to my knowledge, this one holds the watchtower record for most number of flip-flops.
please correct me if i'm wrong.
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Are We Any Better Than the Witnesses?
by Caljuher ini have just been on this board a short time.
i have been visiting it for years, however, via the freeminds site since i left the jws in the late 1990s.. but there is so much anger and pain and hatred--especially for people who still want to believe in some kind of god or religion--on this board that it doesn't seem to be so healthy of a place.
why so much hate?
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How Jehovah's Witnesses Control Your Mind - Controlling Your View of Truth
by flipper infor those of you, newbies or perhaps others who haven't read steve hassan's book - " combatting cult mind control" here are some very important things to remember of how jehovah's witnesses and other " mind control" cults operate .
it may help you to understand some things to see how we were all faked out at one time in our lives.
hassan's book states , " in totalistic cults , the ideology is internalized as " the truth ", the only "map" of reality .
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Does the watchtower need to loosen up
by jacethespace indo most jehovahs witnesses have a problem with having a sense of humor?or should i say a lack of it?.
i had an intresting experience a while back ive been thinking about after not going to meetings for a number of months and developing my own " independant thinking" and breaking from watchtower control.. i met with an elder at home and had a chat with him and during the conversation i commented on a funny cartoon sketch i saw about religion.he laughed with that strange programmed laughter i noticed before in the tower and then made a comment which got me really suspicous , he said " yeah we have got a sense of humor in the truth as well and can have a laugh".i remember thinking he had said that after encountering something that he found alien to the truth.from me and my own independant thinking seprate from watchtower control.. was really strange the way it was said like he had noticed something good in me thats not in the watchtower and tried to justify himself to convince himself it was nothing.. its things like that that make me sit up and question the watchtower.. and one of my friends in the tower that has been in all his life hes in his forties and i have always found him quite funny beacause he has like this rebelious attitude about him that seems to go against the tower.hes always looking for an excuse to have a party and have fun and get people together in the cong.and for this people say about him that hes on the edge of the truth.actually they just dont have a sense of humor and seem to be anti life.why?.