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The increasing number of the anointed. Comments, anyone?
by dgp ini'm very much enjoying "the orwellian world of jehovah's witnesses", by heather and gary botting.
now, this excerpt comes very much to the point of this thread, i believe:.
page 145: "still, in 1975 the society clearly feared a continuation of the upward trend in memorial partakers, and in an article entitled "annointing to a heavenly hope - how is it manifest?
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Redemption Song
by dgp inthese songs of freedom?.
these songs of freedom?.
these songs of freedom?
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The WTBTS is very American. Will that affect it in the future?
by dgp ini am repeating this post because i forgot to add a title to it and then couldn't edit the original one.. the wtbts was founded in america and has a strong american component to it.
it is an authoritarian organization, and, as you people know, all real decision making is left to the governing body, whose members seem to be mostly white americans, or at least have been mostly white americans or white people of english descent.
it doesn't seem to me that the members from other countries do anything but obey the commands from brooklyn.
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by dgp inthe wtbts was founded in america and has a strong american component to it.
it is an authoritarian organization, and, as you people know, all real decision making is left to the governing body, whose members seem to be mostly white americans, or at least have been mostly white americans or white people of english descent.
it doesn't seem to me that the members from other countries do anything but obey the commands from brooklyn.
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Was there one single thing that told you non-JWs were not that bad after all?
by dgp inwhen you people were witnesses, was there one thing (or many) that really told you non-jw's were not that bad people after all?
was there anything other people did to you that got you thinking or, better yet, feeling that you hadn't been told the truth about us?.
thank you for your answers..
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How important are the US witnesses for the WTBTS survival?
by dgp ini understand the number of witnesses is not growing much, or is actually decreasing, in a few originally important countries.
i also understand that growth in the united states come from non-white and possibly non-american congregations, and that the wtbts' growth, as a whole, comes from developing countries (latin america, maybe africa).
i notice that the training school for missionaries, gilead, is in the united states.
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by dgp ini'm reading "the orwellian world of jehovah's witnesses", by heather and gary botting.
in chapter 7, the authors argue that the wtbts needs a stream of converts if it wants to avoid becoming an established religion.
they also argue that disfellowshipping serves the purpose of maintaining "unity at all costs".
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Artificial red blood cells
by dgp inscientists have found a way to create artificial red blood cells.
the story is here:.
http://www.smartplanet.com/business/blog/smart-takes/scientists-create-synthetic-red-blood-cells-to-help-deliver-drugs/3035/.
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The moment you know you will die, too
by dgp inat some point in life, everyone outside of the wtbts realizes that death if a fact of life.
no one gets to accept that fact easily, and the moment when you realize you will die, too, usually comes all of a sudden and takes you by surprise.
when you were a jw, did you have such a moment, even though the society told you you would never die?
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How do active JW's spend their Christmas? What do they feel?
by dgp inhello to all.
maybe this is a stupid question, since jw's don't celebrate christmas, but, as jw's, how did you spend your christmas?
what did you feel when everyone else was celebrating?