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  Not having a paradise earth in the future makes me sad - What about you?

  by BonaFide in

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  yes, i am enjoying realizing the truth about the truth.. but there is another side to it.

  the world as we know it didn't seem to me to be the way that god intended it to be.

  i know i was brainwashed, but it felt good believing that all the bad things would be changed.

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  My E-mail to Sherri Shepherd of The View

  by snowbird in

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  2. scandals

  who knows where this may lead?.

  hi, sherri.. i want to thank and commend you for your efforts in exposing the watchtower society for its history of deception, doctrinal flip-flops, and false prophesying about the end of the world.. i belong to a discussion board of mostly ex-jehovah's witnesses, and your revelations about the wts on the view have caused many to seek out our site.. one thing i'd like to ask, are you aware of the wt's past view that black people are inferior to others?.

  you can find the details about this at randy watters' site, freeminds.org.

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  Austrian Branch Participating in Interfaith Discussion

  by GermanXJW in

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  2. scandals

  on june 9th, 2009 austrian chancellor werner faymann met delegates from the 14 churches in austia that are registered under public law.it was called a dialogue about the cohesion of the austrian society in which things in common should be emphasized and not seperating things.

  among the participating churches were among others catholic, protestant, greek orthodox, jews, muslim, mormons, buddhist and - jehovah's witnesses!.

  you find the list here: http://www.ots.at/presseaussendung.php?schluessel=ots_20090608_ots0170.

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  Governing Body Talks @ Convention

  by nbernat in

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  2. friends

  well the convention was extremely long and boring but i decided to take specific notes on brother morris's talks for discussion here on jwd (and i was also able to get a few extra copies of the creation dvd so if anyone wants one, pm me).. overall, the brother is not a great orator and sometimes awkwardly raises his voice.

  i am aware that some of the friends were a little disappointed to say the least that we did not get a more "famous" gb brother at the first international convention, but he speaks for the gb, so same difference.. it felt like most of his talks were around a.

  ) countering criticism about jws and b.

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  The young ones are leaving in droves!!!

  by 1914BS in

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  2. beliefs

  i hear that many congos are loosing all their young dubs and now only very old dubs are left.

  it seems the jws religion is dying out because there are no youngins to replace the aging ms/elder/cos .

  the young dubs are very internet savy and would rather play warcraft than go out in the field circus.. i remember a wt study article a couple of years ago that was entitled" when a young person rebels" or something like that - anyone know that mag?.

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  I was thinking of becoming a witness again

  by isaacaustin in

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  until reniaa came along and proved to me that the wt can not possibly be of god and that there was no way that the gb was god's appointed channel of truth.. thank you reniaa...and for brushing me up on refuting jws on various topics..

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  Loving provisions from Groverning body

  by bobld in

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  the new field arrangement for bethel workers.they will not work on saturdays mornings.remember how.

  the wbts was pushing that everyone should visit bethel.they even had a special brochure on how one.

  should dress when visiting bethel.no doubt some made plans well ahead of time to visit bethel hq this.

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  this evil ...wicked.....rotton system of things.....NOT!!!!.........

  by oompa in

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  2. bible

  of course anyone not a jw is "worldly""...i think that mentally this is the hardest part to overcome if you are born in..... you should have seen the look on my wife's face recently when i told her that i feel that things are prob about as good as it gets.....no evil wicked system of things exists........ ya..... i know times are tough here in usa as far as employment.....but damm....this ain't like the great depression or wwi or ww2!!

  !.......life in the middle ages used to be 38 years......now it is 88 years!!!.......

  i can walk just about any neighborhood without fear...if the "world" were as bad as they say...there would be a prisons every 1000 meters!!!

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  Did the WT ever show prejudice against black people?

  by jambon1 in

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  it has come to my attention that there was a time when the wt magazine or some other wt.

  publication actually printed an article(s) relating to black people being 'cursed' or unworthy of gods blessing.. .

  if so, is there any reliable copies of this text?.

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  does anybody remember "marking?"

  by stillin in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  for a while there was this arrangement, based on 2thess:3:14, wherby a talk was given on the service meeting describing a dangerous influence in the congregation, and reference was made to that scripture, thereby indicating to the congregation that this threat exists here, and that you should distance yourselves from anybody fitting that description.

  frankly, it bothered me because even if somebody didn't know who was really being referred to, they felt like they might, so the congregation formed little fractures of suspicion.

  i wrote to the society because of this divisive effect (that i'm sure wasn't the intended effect; creating a phantom "marked man," breaking up the unity in the cong...etc.).

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