ABibleStudent
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How Did/Has the WTBTS Affected Your Social Skills?
by ABibleStudent ingood or bad?
how did/has the wtbts affected your social skills, social development, and/or how you interact with other people?
i have many questions about different social skills that i will ask either after other people post to this thread or to keep this thread active.
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Will the IRS Investigate the Watchtower Society?
by ABibleStudent inif you feel that the wtbts is breaking a tax law(s), you can send a letter to investigate the wtbts to the irs to:.
department of the treasuryinternal revenue servicemc 4910 dal1100 commerce streetdallas, tx 75242 .
the irs will investigate complaints about the wtbts, but it will not investigate the wtbts without compliants being sent to the irs.
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Need Advice About Letter to the IRS to Revoke the WTBTS' Tax Exempt Status
by ABibleStudent inplease review my letter to the irs commissioner to establish a process for revoking the tax exempt status of dangerous cults and write comments about how to improve it.. rough draft of letter.
mr. douglas h. shulman .
commissioner.
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Congress Investigating AARP's Tax Exempt Status. Why not the WTBTS?
by ABibleStudent inwhile researching tax exempt status of organizations in the usa for my next legislative letter writing campaign against the wtbts, i found this letter from charles w. boustany, jr, oversight subcommittee - chairman to douglas h. shulman, commissioner - internal revenue service, which was dated october 6, 2011. it just made me wonder if aarp's tax exempt status could be in jeopardy because of its business practises, why can't the wtbts' business practise of extracting donations from jws through building and selling khs be questioned?.
i'm trying to discover if now is a good time to raise eliminating tax exemptions for organizations that are dangerous cults, and to think of several different ideas in which to ask congressman and senators to investigate the wtbts in specific and cults in general.. what do you think?.
peace be with you and everyone, who you love,.
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Suggestion: Create an "Empowering JWs" Forum
by ABibleStudent inbefore everyone gets the wrong idea about creating an "empowering jws" forum, this forum would be for serious campaigners to exchange ideas about helping jws by either influencing the wtbts to change or planting seeds of doubt in jws, and would not be for promoting the wtbts nor its policies.. since jwn threads have gotten so numerous and effectively using jwn's search engine is a mystery to me, i believe that creating a forum for posting ideas to awaken jws would benefit both jws and exjws, who want to do more than debate religion and relate how they were abused by the wtbts/jws, and who want to help awaken loved ones.
i feel that the forum should be named "empowering jws" to paraphrase steven hassan's book "releasing the bonds: empowering people to think for themselves" and because i do not want to alienate jws with doubts be calling it something derogatory that may raise a jw's persecution phobias.. also, jwn might appear more welcoming to jws, if there was a recommendation that posters refrain from labeling jws jdubs, borg, witlesses, etc.
i know that many members of this forum were hurt by the policies of the wtbts and that some jws were jerks to them, but that does not mean that all jws are jerks.. peace be with you and everyone, who you love,.
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Need Help and Advice . . .
by ABibleStudent ini would like members of jwn to read the following proposed letter to the editor that i wrote and post their comments to this thread.
i am an american so i feel a little uncomfortable sending this message to australian newspapers.
as a christian, human being, and someone who was adversely effected by the wtbts, i feel that i must do something to help other people from being recruited by the wtbts.. peace be with you and everyone, who you love,.
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Did You Like being Afraid as a JW?
by ABibleStudent inziddina - thanks for posting this, barbara!!.
i don't know whether it's been mentioned in newer books on the subject of cults, but several of the older books i read, mentioned a link between any situation causing fear and feelings of uncertainty, and a vulnerability to becoming a member of a cult.... after all, fear is the cults' primary tool for manipulation and indoctrination - therefore, anyone in a mental state or climate of fear, would tend to be attracted to cults - the fear would feel 'familiar'..... zid .
i am starting this thread because of ziddina's comments in the thread http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/217728/1/sydney-morning-herald-economic-climate-a-breeding-ground-for-cults.
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If Pope indicted in International Court, Why Not the GB?
by ABibleStudent inthe center for constitutional rights, a new york-based nonprofit legal group, requested that the pope be indicted by the international court for church practises protecting catholic priests, who abuse children: http://news.yahoo.com/abuse-victims-seek-intl-court-case-against-pope-100135627.html .
if the pope is indicted by the international court and found guilty, could the gb be indicted for protecting elders, who abuse children, or for not advising child abuse victums to go to civil authorities?
if the gb is found guilty of not following victoria's child protection laws and an elder in victoria raped/abused a child after 2002, could the gb be indicted in the international court, because gb members would refuse to surrender to australian authorities?.
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Youve Got Mail! TM
by ABibleStudent indont you love getting emails from friends and relatives, even if it is a chain email?
at least someone thought about you and cared enough to send you an email.
if you were a new convert, active jw, a jw with doubts, or an ex-jw struggling to live without jw family/friends, how would you feel about receiving one of my friendly, innocent emails?
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Combating Destructive Mind Control Part III
by ABibleStudent inquote from: chapter 8, how to help, pg 132. if someone you know and love becomes a member of a destructive cult, you will probably find yourself facing one of the toughest situations of your life.
in helping a person you love return to being himself, its easy to fall into mistakes that could make your job even harder.
if i was a former jw, i would help another family member or friend who is a jw by doing the following:.