Band on the Run
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Comment about Family and Community Shunning
by Band on the Run ini was minding my own business, out of my jw zone, reading a current best-seller, the finkler question, a man booker prize winner, by howard jacobson.
the main character, julien, has two jewish friends with very different views of israel.
the older one, libor, feels he may end up in israel b/c he will have no choice.
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Big Love
by Band on the Run ini adore big love, in its final season on hbo.
for those who don't know, it is a story about a group of polygamous mormons in hiding who just stepped out publicly.
the mormons cannot be happy with the show.
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Dumbing Down
by Band on the Run inmy perception after observing this site for a short time is that posters here are much better informed and articulate than the witnesses i encountered.
growing up there were contradictory messages.
in fact, my grades were a witness than jws were better than my school peers.
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Orgone Boxes at Bethel
by Band on the Run inwhen i studied psychoanalysis at college, i drew wilhelm reich as my term paper topic.
research showed that he championed the public health benefits of orgasms.
further, he built a box to hold this special energy and cure people of ailments.
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SOUL - THE CONCEPT
by Band on the Run inmy family left decades ago.
when we were active, there was much ado about the word soul, being nonscriptural.
i think the new world translation was written to avoid the word.
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Remnant Check by WTS
by Band on the Run inthere is a debate about the nature of the eucharist once consecrated, a church mouse appears and runs off with the host.
is it still christ's body?.
when i was a witness, only a literal handful could be annointed.
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How Would Jesus Announce HIs Second Coming to the Watchtower
by Band on the Run insomeone wrote something on another thread that i find puzzling.
how would jesus communicate with them?
do they hear an actual voice?
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Ties between Society and local KH
by Band on the Run ini was wondering how the witnesses tend to not have much education.
it takes skill to administer the dictates of the brooklyn centered society down to the local kingdom hall level.
other religions do this but they have a professional clergy class with old school networking.
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Preparing Scriptural Defenses Against WTBTS
by Band on the Run ini am curious whether most people here believe that they need to memorize biblical proofs against wtbts teachings the way they did as a witness.
my concern is that for someone out for decades, i may read the bible too much.
i am drawn to it almost unnaturally as for me it is the best proof the witnesses lied and willfully misinterpreted.
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Observation -- Posters Don't Seem Clueless
by Band on the Run ini'm impressed with sophisticated thinking on this site.
after all it is an ex-witness site.
i wonder what changed in the former witnesses.