navytownroger
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How many kids never buy into the JW B/S???
by navytownroger inat the conventions, there always seem to be parents gushing about how their kids are 'in the truth', pioneering, etc.
i'm wondering how many jw kids just flat-out reject all the jw b/s right from the start.
surely there are some kids who just say 'no way!
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Do JWs miss having large parties, pot-lucks, etc?
by navytownroger inas has been stated before, large congregational get-togethers, cook-outs, baseball games, etc are now greatly discouraged by the society.
back in the 80s in san diego we had parties, night-time beach bonfires, pool parties and frequent restaurant meals with 10+ people.
do current jws seem to miss these sorts of social activities??
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Why such boring & canned answers at the WT Study?
by navytownroger inback in th 1980s, the answers at the watchtower study & the book study seemed much more interesting.
more personal experiences that somehow related to the question being asked.
nowadays it seems all answers are just repeated from the text, or consist of reading a bible verse.
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Will the WTBTS ever become mainstream like the WWCG?
by donny inback during the 80's and 90's, i occasionally heard statements lumping the society in with the likes of the worldwide church of god who had very similar teachings and even believed in 1975 as being a year that god would act (1975 in prophecy!
by herbert w. armstrong).
clearly the roots of the wwcg were from the same as the societys and both groups were viewed as cults.
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'Paradise Earth' makes absolutely no sense!
by navytownroger inthe jw idea of 'paradise earth' seems to be full of holes.
will babies of baptized jws also be in the new system?
if not, how could the child's parents consider it 'paradise' without their children?
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Adam unfairly treated?
by MacHislopp ina friend of mine confronted me with this :.
adam : a perfect man - with a free-will - disobeyed god, was punished with .
death, no appeal, no attenuating circumstances and the sentence.
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Do JWs need the BoE as substitute father-figures??
by navytownroger inwhat in the world really attracts new people to the jws??
most new ones don't know or understand the complicated theology, so i doubt it's that.
is it the love-bombing & friendliness?
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When Cults Collapse---
by navytownroger ini was in a los angeles cult in the 70s (unrelated to jw) and finally at one point most of the cult members 'woke up' simultaneously & saw that the leaders had been emotionally abusive and oppressive.
once everyone woke up, the entire cult collapsed within days.
a similar thing happened in the communist countries----everyone suddenly got tired of being oppressed.
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How many Kingdom Halls are being built/closed?
by navytownroger indoes anyone have any idea how many kingdom halls were built in the us during the last decade versus how many were closed?
what is the ratio in the area you live in?
with so many teenagers deserting the jws, i'd think that soon they'll be closing more khs than they are building, at least in the us and western europe.
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Were the 'Annointed' ones the biggest dolts in the KH???
by navytownroger inin my former kh, there was one 'annointed' elder & man, was he a robotic idiot!!
he gave the memorial talk, to which 'everyone' was invted via a big tract-placing effort.
his talk was pure boredom, with lots of page-flipping through the bible.