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Marriage
by Mr Magoo inwhen i married my jw wife i was told that marriage was a very important thing.. i have, however, later learned that:.
1) my sister-in-laws husbands jw brother got divorced because his jw wife fooled around.. 2 - 3) 2 couples were divorced after we got married (212 years ago).
one of them had only been married for a couple of years.
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Independent Thinking
by Jang inindependent thinking .
a skill we all need .
what is independent thinking?.
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I'm Back
by Yerusalyim inhey folks, it's me again, you're good old friend yeru.
i was gone for a whole week at a terrorism awareness class, i got to do some shooting, some driving, crashed through barracades with a car.
it was great fun.
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Damage control
by Norm insince brooklyn finally allowed the 1914 generation to die in 1995, the distributing apparatus of the multinational printing organization has been starting to slow down.. service is down, the numbers of pioneers are decreasing, the number of baptized show an alarming drop and people are leaving in their thousands.. after many decades of incessant harping on how jehovah, jesus and the bible had guaranteed that the end would be over before the 1914 generation was dead, the witnesses had the only thing that kept many of them going, ripped out from under their noses.
suddenly jehovah hadnt promised any such thing in the awake!
suddenly jesus had never been talking about the length of a generation, as usual the watchtower had never said any such thing, someone had speculated about the generation.
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Does this help?
by openminded intoday our society raises us to believe that obedience is good and disobedience is bad.
we are taught that we should all do what were told and that the people that are disobedient are almost always bad people.
society tells us this, but it is not true.
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Manipulate through guilt
by Norm inone of the most important techniques in manipulating people is to get control of their guilt.. all totalistic movements, religious or political use this method.
few organizations are better then the watchtower society in mastering this.
the religious cults have the advantage over the political that they can use the ultimate authority, namely god.. a typical example of such manipulation can be found in the january 15, 1997 issue of the watchtower.
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Blanket Judgements and other JW phenomenon
by LDH inmy mind was wandering last night and i started thinking about the way 'faithful' jws issue blanket condemnations.
i wondered if it's a personality thing that is just reinforced by the jw mantra of "we're always right and we're the only true religion etc.
" or if it's a jw or other fundy religious phenomenon.. here's two examples, feel free to add your own.. when i was about 17, i started visiting nyc regularly, and attending different congregations (wow!
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Randall Watters exposed
by StiLLinTruth inhello again friends!.
well it was time again for me to take my weekly dose of apostate faeces and see what it tastes like.
decided to check out randy watters this time (we all love him here) and his little testimony on freeminds.org, titled "what happened at bethel in 1980?
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Very very simple equation....
by JW72 inworld end 1975(and other dates)-not happen-false prophecy-steer clear of false prophets-steer clear of jws.. .
we shoulda had those kind of equations in math lessons, i would have definately understood (unlike most jws!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!).
man, i'm so tired o' bein' right!!!!.
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Another Dumb "Awake" (6/08/01)
by metatron inyes, another dumb, deceptive, biased "awake" magazine.. on the subjects of health and aging, the awake is becoming.
more and more desperate.
science is threatening to create miracles.