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Watchtower: You Need To Clean Your Organization, NOW!
by metatron inthe leaders of jehovah's witnesses are faced with a dilemma: they endlessly praise themselves as a 'clean' organization that has god's approval while dealing with the day to day reality of internal corruption, barely hidden decay, long term serious sins and a loss of vitality.. it should be obvious that there are countless elders going thru the motions simply to please their families - and much the same is true of publishers, as the society's own statistics manifest a profoundly unproductive preaching work.
worse yet, there is plain evidence of outright disloyalty as confidential documents pop up continually on the internet.
want a new elder's manual?
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Is the New Testament Just a Pagan Corruption of the Old Testament?
by Diest ini find myself asking that question more and more of late.. my first reason is the claim of a virgin birth.
all of the jewish sources i read say that isaiah 7:14 does not talk about a virgin birth, but rather a birth to a young maiden.
it was only the greek septuagint that shifted this belief to a virgin birth that is similar to their greek myths.. .
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More hypocrisy (surprised?) Oct 1 2011 Public Watchtower
by wannabefree inyou could also hold back from scrutinizing.
your beliefs out of fear that doing so would.
display a lack of faith.
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The Most bizzare & Scariest thing happened to me last night
by dm6 inhello everybody.. i wanted to share something with you all about something that happened to me last night.. i usually get these things called sleep paralysis, which is where you are alseep and you wake up and you think, oh ill get up now or soemthing, so you go to get up and you cant.. your actually paralysed.
but the strange thign is your awake....?
its very very hard to explain.
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HELP! Good Friend just told she is being disfellowshipped!!
by jdhf inhey... a good friend of mine was visited by 2 elders this evening..and after being treated like something you wouldn't want on your shoe...told her that her parents can no longer have anything to do with her 9 year old boy.
he is not baptized.. her dad is an elder and mum a long standing publisher...can they really insist that the grandparents ignore the child??
they babysit for him when she's at work...she would have to leave her job, and she lives in their house too..although they live elsewhere...her dad is researching this as he is obviously curious as to whether this is scriptural.
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I am so hurt and angry
by Igot2bme inthis fake ass religion has costed me so much but now it has turned my son away from me.
i am so hurt, my heart is broke, and feel completly defeated.
he refuses to call me, blocked me on my facebook account, and went back to the people in the org who threw him under the bus, called him names, slandered him, stole from him and these were so called brothers and sisters!
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JW = largest body of therapy for mentally ill?
by cptkirk incan't believe i actually was buying into this group for as long as i have.
i browsed a few threads on this web page, and saw a few that dealt with how heavy they have been lately on "the enemy within", paraphrasing, whatever....i really think they are actually collapsing, and this kind of notion of "the enemy is everywhere!
" is just a testament to that fact.
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Was there anything different about you that helped you escape the WT?
by Giordano infor me i know it was because i was a reader.. i began reading books at the age of 13, this was in the 1950's.
because there were some serious family problems i had two escapes i could count on reading and associating with my friends at the kingdom hall.. as i devoured steinbeck, hemingway, wolf etc.
my world view expanded....it had to.
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Jehovah's happy people know more about HATE! What say you?
by punkofnice incut a long one short.
i encountered an elder the other day.....some threads ago i told of how concerned elder 'alf' (name changed as his real name makes me vomit), came over to 'encourage' me back to the meetings.
after being hounded by him i told him about 'randcam', philip morris and the un.. .
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What do you think of this argument?
by Druid ini stopped being a jw altogether when i went into college and took philosophy classes and started thinking for myself.
i understand a lot of you former jw's are still theists, in fact it seems probably the majority of you are.
i am agnostic, meaning i don't feel there is enough evidence for against either cause to subscribe my lifestyle to one belief.. .