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What is the longest you know of a Fader being out of the JW's and then DF'd?
by Think About It inwhat's the longest amount of time you know of where a fader was out of the jw's and df'd later?
probably alot of factors in this.
could depend on how visible you are in your kh's town, the personality of the boe, what your "sins" were, what your "status" use to be, etc.
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Debunking the Watchtower - Slam Dunks and Solid Arguments
by Nickolas inthere's a wide cross section of thinkers on this board, representing christian belief and non-belief and points in between, the agnostics.
there is most definitely a minority, mostly silent, of devoted jehovah's witnesses present, too, but their contribution to the dialogue and dynamic of the board is minimal.
that small minority aside, it can be said the people who venture into here to communicate with one another share a common paradigm, and that is the watchtower is built on a foundation of clay.
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Do You Tend To Believe New Posters When They Tell Us What Bethel's Up To?
by minimus incircuit overseers were supposed to be a thing of the past.
"presiding overseers" were supposed to take over.. there seem to be certain people "in the know" that reveal information and it may sound very convincing-- but is it??.
do you tend to believe what new posters say if they tell us about "new light" from the organization?.
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Whoops! TSA Missed a Loaded Gun and it Boarded a Plane.
by Yizuman inquote:a man accidentally brought his loaded .40 caliber gun onto an airplane.
neither did the tsa, who completely missed it during its scan and allowed that plane to fly.
apparently, this happens a lot.. .
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Is it possible for the WT society to ever convince us of true reform?
by james_woods ini got to thinking about this and for me anyway, they would have to come clean on at least the following things:.
an honest retraction must be made on all the ridiculous chronology (of course including the false prophecies).
by this i mean, stop this psuedo numerology stuff of adding up this or that date, adding on x many years, etc.
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Religion and Sex
by whereami inthis poor caller/christian had no chance.. .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yo8eubj23dq.
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Are they stealing to order now?
by fokyc in.
a crescent city man scammed a deland woman out of more than $250,000 after knocking at her door with a bible in hand, according to an arrest report released thursday.. francis l. paul iii, 46, was charged wednesday with exploitation of an elderly person after a more than four-month investigation by deland police.. paul fooled the 84-year-old woman into signing away her savings and stock holdings -- totaling about $255,000, according to the report.. .
subpoenaed documents from several banks -- paul used at least seven, investigators said -- showed the beneficiary on many of paul's accounts was the watchtower bible and tract society, an organization of jehovah's witnesses.. http://www.news-journalonline.com/news/local/west-volusia/2010/12/10/police-man-scammed-elderly-woman.html.
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JW's are more obsessed with sex than most people
by jambon1 inalways found this bizarre.. they have printed boundless amounts of information about this matter.
they discuss sex and it's details in front of infants & young children (surely a criminal offense, no?
), they gossip about who has been doing it with who when someone has fallen into the trap of the 'sins of the flesh.'.
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Thought I'd introduce myself...
by Vidiot ini'm "vidiot", born-in but a three years-plus fader, a six-month-ish lurker (after i initially worked up the huevos to check this place out, i kept coming back for "booster shots"), and would probably be labelled an "apostate" by any jc who bothered to track me down and persuade me to run off at the mouth.
i'm up on all the dramarama, i've read coc and and ad, and nobody here needs to fill me in on anything.
i do have some "life story" stuff, but it's rather dull (compared to some).. * a quick shoutout to fellow canadians lady lee and outlaw (one of the funniest posters i've ever encountered).. anyways, the main reason i'm finally announcing myself is that lately there's a few questions/wonderings i've had, and i was hoping that the really deep thinkers here (metatron, wtwizard, mary, dogpatch et.
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Any reason to Add new GB Members?
by LostGeneration inif you were on the gb, and you wanted to push your own personal agendas and doctrines, wouldn't you want to resist adding any new members.. when there were 10 members, basically each member has 10% control.. now that there are 7 members, each has basically 14% of the vote.. adding more members dilutes your power.
and if you truly believe the "overlapping" doctrine, there isn't really a valid reason to add anyone else, if the overlapping is applied to gb 1.0 and 2.0 only.. if another one dies, then basically you only need 4 votes to top the other two votes, that is pretty small power center, only four men.. will be interesting to see if they wait a while to add anyone else.. .
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