jimbob
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Before You Leave The Witnesses, You MUST Make New Friends!!!
by minimus inmy advice to anyone that is thinking of leaving the "organization" is to make friends (real friends) with people other than jehovah's witnesses.
the sad truth is that jws are only conditional "friends".
they will drop you like a hot potato if they think you want to leave.
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Studying the new "Keep on the Watch!" brochure - Who's Judging Now? (p12)
by ozziepost infrom the next section in the brochure, entitled "the hour of judgment has arrived":
ask yourself: "do i still cling to a religious organisation that is tainted with teachings and practices that mark it as part of babylon the great?
" even if you are not a member, you might ask yourself: 'have i allowed its spirit to influence me?
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THE INFORMATION AGE AND NEW JW MARKETING CHANGES
by seven006 inlately on this board there has been a couple of threads that show how much the watchtower is being effected by the open communication of the internet and web sites like this one.
they are changing long time policy and trying new ways of getting their religious product to the market.
no longer do their leaders hear the voice of god and then pass it directly on as unwavering guidance to their customers.
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Ever met high ranking JW and felt uneasy
by AlanB inthis came up in another topic and feel it needs a topic of its own.
does anyone else have experiences of meeting (cant use the word 'brothers')men from high up in the borg and felt uneasy about it.. alanb wrote.
i was at twickenham many years ago (about 20) and went to the admin area to get info about serving where the need was great (great plan that turned out to be) anyway there were two elderly yet autstere brothers standing at the steps to the main office area looking as though they owned the place, they had a real air of seniority and importance about them, i have no idea who they were, yet sense they were senior one was english the other american.. .
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Mulan's Birthday
by Princess inhey everyone!
today is mulan's birthday.
my dad took her to vegas for the week so she won't be able to see this for a few days.
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Got the latest congregation scoop on JW rapist Curtis Thompson....
by jimbob ini had to go over to my mother's place today to do a little computer work for her, and she filled me in with what's been happening in her congregation since jw curtis thompson was arrested for rape.. she told me a sister told her that another sister thought that the police were trying to frame curtis for the charges, and that he didn't do anything.
and then another sister who's been a jw for years and years told my mother that she had felt sorry for curtis because he was trying to get his life together and wanted to go to college, but he was told that if he did, they would inform the class each day he was a registered sex offender.
when i heard this crap from my mom, i about went ballistic!!
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Just loaded the 2003 Watchtower CD rom......
by jimbob inactually, i loaded it for my mother.
i had to do a little work on her computer today and she had just gotten the cd and asked me to load it for her.
what was interesting was the dialog box agreement that the user had to agree to in order to load it.
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they are in our territory
by Mulan ini learned today that a group from california is in our area working "seldom worked territory".. my jw friend told me to watch for them as they are in town working their territory.
it all made me laugh.
they aren't in montana, or north dakota, they are in edmonds/lynnwood washington.
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You'd better pioneer or else tell Jehovah why you can't !!
by Gopher inback around 1980 (i cannot remember the exact year), the speaker at the district convention said that each non-fulltime-pioneer jw should pray to jehovah and explain to him why they cannot pioneer.
if you can't come up with a reason, then you should start pioneering.. if i remember correctly, this counsel was repeated in the pages of the watchtower magazine the following year.. did anyone here respond to this "encouragement"?
i think it pushed me toward pioneering, although i didn't do it for very long.. this was a subtle but powerful guilt trip that tested your loyalty to the organization.
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Detectives suspect Brother Thompson of MURDER
by Nathan Natas inhttp://www.king5.com/topstories/stories/nw_082604wabsuspiciousdeathkc.b7515e1c.html
disabled woman found dead in seattle apartment complex
09:19 am pdt on friday, august 27, 2004. king5.com.