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Is it my imagination or have the wording in WT publications been altered?
by artemis.design ini am fairly new on here.
i grew up as a jw but never got baptised.
i have distanced myself from jw teachings for at least 10 years.. recently i was reading dawkins "the god delusion".
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Speak Truth
by etna inmy wife got back from the meeting yesterday, and she couldn't believe the topic for the wt study "speak truth with your neighbor".
anyway they were commenting and someone said that its ok to streach the truth if your talking to "wicked" people.
but in paragraph 7 they said that if an elder asks you personal questions you have to cooperate and the truth so they can carry out their assigned duties.
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I hope this news is true!
by wozadummy ini've mentioned before here that in my old congo that there is a pedophile who has been there for some years.
just to re-cap - he was an elder in a congo more south from my old congo for some years and stopped being an elder there for unknown reasons to us when he and his wife moved to our congo when we attended.. in time it came out ,from an elderly pioneer who was close to my wife, that he had been df'd before for adultery or some such.. now in our congregation he got df'd again and because the pioneer sister used to get a lift to meetings from them ,she was told by the pedo's wife that he had been accused of molesting his girls when they were kids.
of course the stupid woman was actually defending her husband to the pioneer - this is her daughters this animal molested!!.
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Received a call from my parents today
by Elsewhere inthey only call when someone in the family dies or there is some other sort of "family emergency".. .
my father told me that he has been diagnosed with terminal mesothelioma.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/mesothelioma.
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My JW parents met my wife, but would not see me...
by Confession inso it was time for the 25 year reunion of tawas area high school's class of '84.
because i was class president, i've been responsible for throwing all the reunions we've held.
while i come to michigan on business a few times per year, i don't usually make it all the way up to the little, northeast, lake huron tourist town where they live.
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Seeker4's 500th Post - My letter to the Elders (2nd Posting)
by Seeker4 inhere's the letter i wrote to the body of elders i served with for decades, when they invited me to a judicial committee meeting two months ago.
i have not heard a word from them since i wrote this.
i posted this monday night (may 30, 2005) to celebrate my 500th post, but it ended up in the "heated debates" section, when i intended it to go in this area.
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A Challange to Def'd.....
by AK - Jeff ini, and many other well meaning posters here, have asked you dozens of questions.
you have dodged them all for the most part and spent your replies on personal attacks, or just plain refusal to address the questions posed.
your favorite retort is typically ad hominen attacks or a red-herring thown in for good measure.
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"Have You Heard The Latest?"
by minimus inas a jehovah's witness, that's the question that was always raised.
jws love to gossip.
they love to know what goes on in the business of another witness or family.
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Off to a JW "Gathering"
by treadnh2o ini have not been to a meeting this year.
yet i was invited to a witness "gathering" through my wife and kids.. i really don't want to go.. however, if my reason for not going is because of someones religion, i am really no different than they are.. guess i need to go based on principal.. i won't change my mind, but am interested in your take on this situation.. .