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I'm Screwed Up, You're Screwed Up
by Farkel ini have not followed very many threads of late, so if someone has already made the same observations i'm about to make, i apologize for my redundancy.. .
i admit it: i'm part of a highly secretive, highly elite group.
(we have to drink two quarts of fresh yak blood and get a tattoo of a pentagram on our butts as part of of the initiation.
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Restrictions
by ozziepost inthere is a practice among jws of applying restrictions to individual members.
it forms part of the judicial process and, although having no scriptural basis, is applied automatically to erring ones who are judged to be repentant.. so, for a period of time, usually up to 12 months, the individual is not allowed to share in commenting at meetings, offering public prayer, appearing on the platform in congregation meetings, or in serving as an auxiliary pioneer.. as with any man-made law, difficulties arise from this practice.
although no announcement has been made to the congregation, individual congregation members can have their curiosity aroused.. for example, take the real-life situation where a sole parent has been placed on restrictions by a judicial committee.
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More Silentlambs Pics
by jst2laws ini will try to come back later and give editorial comments.
a familiar family.
group growing as we get ready.
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NWT One Thousand 666 pages cover to cover?!
by Celtic intalking of 666 barcodes as mentioned in a post below, did you know that the nwt soft cover bible from the inside front cover map to the rear inside cover back page has exactly one thousand 666 pages?
i always did wonder what the blank pages in the nwt were for.
possibly to make up numbers?
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What did you do?
by StiLLinTruth into all those who have in some way left the organization (be it disfellowshipping, disassociating, dis-whatever):.
come now, i know the amount of people who "realized that wt doctrine was in serious error" and politely handed in their letter of resignation has to be very small.
the level of bitterness and hostility towards the closest-to-what's-biblical organization has to develop some other way.. what did you do?
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A lame reply from Amazon.com
by Xandria indear shanna,.
thank you for writing to amazon.com with your concern.. .
let me assure you, amazon.com does not endorse "understanding loved.
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Who Here Believes in God?
by The_Bad_Seed inpersonally, i do not believe god ever has or ever will exist.
i have my reasons -- i guess i could be considered an agnostic, rather than an athiest.
i was curious to see what the larger part of the former borg community believed, now looking from the outside in, rather than the opposite.
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"Biting The Helping Hand..."
by silentlambs in"the elders feel that she is basically biting the helping hand"
the quote above is from a recent news article regarding child rape and jehovah's witnesses.
i find it a stunning confirmation of exactly how abuse survivors are treated within the jehovahs witnesses community.
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Literary Mag. story about Barbara Anderson
by Littlebit inan unlikely david: .
barbara anderson's struggle to stop predatory pedophiles in the cloistered world of jehovah's witnesses .
by michael morris .
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Madame Blavatsky / Theosophy / Krishnamurti
by Larry ini recently read nikita's story and she mentioned that she briefly came across the religion of theosophy in her travels towards of dub-ism @ a young age (thanks nitkita :) .
her post reminded me of my studies of madame blavatsky, colonel olcott, annie besant, cw leadbeater, etc., the founders of theosophy.
a book i recommend regarding madanme blavatsky is entitled "madame blavatsky's baboon - a history of the mystics, mediums, and misfits who brought spiritualism to america.