Joseph Joachim
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Unbelieving Partners
by Sirona init has occurred to me that living as an unbelieving partner to a jw takes its toll on you mentally.
do you start to be influenced by their way of thinking?.
do you begin to see religion in "black and white" terms, even though you claim you are not a jw?.
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Is You Know dead?
by Joseph Joachim ini'm reading in the newspaper that a certain american turist named robert king was bitten by a jellyfish in australia and died.
could that be you know?
is that the fate of apostates like him?
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Disturbing trend in WT magazines...
by TheApostleAK inthis may be obvious to some but has anybody noticed the lack of doctrinal based watchtower study articles in wts for the last 2 years?.
lately we've been just getting either "pep talk" articles or articles that are only based on subjects.. the only new light lately is mainly the daniel and isaiah books.
and any new light in wt's is mainly just clarification (usually in the q's from readers page).. from ak
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Religious Intolerence, P-Correctness& Racism.
by Englishman ini absolutely detest political correctness in any form.
im a firm believer that there is nothing wrong with a ship being a she nor a person being a chairman rather than a chair person.
some time ago i was sat in a busy restaurant and a person pushing a wheel chair containing an invalid, asked me if i would give up my table so that the invalid person could use it.
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Maybe we are evil
by joelbear inthe question keeps coming up here.. how could we have ever been a part of something so evil and sinister as the watchtower society?.
maybe its because we are evil.. joel
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Falklands 20 years ago
by LittleToe inmy, how the years roll by.. 20 years ago today argentina invaded the falkland islands.. friday 2nd april 1982.. it seems like yesterday.. edited to change 70 years for 20 years, because i'm really not old enough to remember 70 years back - honest.. thanks xena!
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True religion - anyone have a clue?
by Tin Man inwhat is the true religion anyone have a clue?.
i would love to know, if anyone does have a clue; being a witness most of my life it gave me this feeling like i really was in the true religion and god really was with me cause i belonged to the "true religion.. i have noticed that witness's say the elders were appointed by holy spirit, how do they know did they see it, it just dawned on me that all of it has been based on the premise that i had to have faith in what they say rather then substantiated facts; all of what they say simply put is nothing more then words, contrived by men only, if you tell them this you get the treatment like your going to be destroyed which is paramount to going and burning in hell.
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Should I stay or should I go now?
by meat pie ini know that really only i can decide,(unless i get df'd) but to-day i'm in a real quandry.
should i be honest and tell them i'm never going back, because i really have no intention of ever going back.or would that just give the orgaanization some kind of validity.
or , if this is really some kind of 'evil organization' should'nt i officially leave as a matter of urgency.matthew 24:15. i'm really just thinking out loud.
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Shunning is the big story
by joelbear ini just read the story about the family in oregon, gone forever, because of the pressure of shunning.. in my opinion, shunning is the big story about jehovah's witnesses.
shunning and the fear of shunning is what enables the control of victims of child abuse.
shunning is what destroys families.
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Restrictions
by WildTurkey insomething that always bothered me was society's policy of putting restrictions on people for wrong doing.
folks get reinstated, and full restrictions its like being punished and when you and then punished again how loving.
its just another way the borg uses to control people.