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  Legalities around summarising Ray Franz's book 'Crisis of Conscience'

  by UnshackleTheChains in

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  just looking for some advice.

  i know there has been a lot of discussion around the book 'crisis of conscience' and copyright infringement on this forum.

  hence the reason for my question.. in 2004, i couldn't believe my luck in finding this book in the city library.

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  Londo111

  A whole another can of worms...which is why this book should go into the public domain.
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  JUNE 2017 Watchtower - Lost a loved one? Go out in service!

  by pale.emperor in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  apparently going to the kingdom hall and getting out in the door to door ministry is the best way to get over the loss of a loved one.

  who'dve thunk it?.

  stash: /intesoft-inc.appspot.com/post/80e3cef960fd4eee9fd5cd757c438581.html

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  Perhaps busywork can divert one's mind.

  But then, "field service", especially pioneering, can be stressful and embarrassing, and allot of work with nothing to show for it.
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  To cure cancer we need to go back in time! From the Brooklyn Eagle 1916

  by Aussie Oz in

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  It moves Russell from benign but deluded into the category of huckster.
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  JUNE 2017 Watchtower - Lost a loved one? Go out in service!

  by pale.emperor in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  apparently going to the kingdom hall and getting out in the door to door ministry is the best way to get over the loss of a loved one.

  who'dve thunk it?.

  stash: /intesoft-inc.appspot.com/post/80e3cef960fd4eee9fd5cd757c438581.html

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  I remember a CO saying something to the effect that you could be depressed or bipolar at home...or get out in the ministry (not sure if he mentioned pioneering or not).

  But yeah...it is the answer for everything.
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  To cure cancer we need to go back in time! From the Brooklyn Eagle 1916

  by Aussie Oz in

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  Food at the proper time...NOT!
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  Invisible Rulership - one of the dumbest things I ever believed in

  by Black Man in

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  2. friends

  having now been out of the cult for a few years, it really shocks me about some of the nonsense i used to believe in.

  like for instance, christ ruling in the midst of his enemies, but doing so invisibly.. let's let that one sink in for a minute.

  you've supposedly got a king who is ruling for a kingdom, but it is an invisible rule.

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  Of course, the kicker is that originally the invisible presence was supposed to have begun in 1874. All because Nelson H Barbour’s prediction of a visible return of Christ did not happen in that year. Then Russell invited Barbour to prove to him that the invisible presence began in 1874—and Russell was sold on that and of Barbour’s idea that 1914 was the end of the “Gentile Times”.

  It wasn’t until over 50 years later that the invisible presence was shifted from 1874 to 1914.
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  Do You Have Any Indoctrinated Guilt Left Over?

  by pale.emperor in

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  2. experiences

  i voted this morning for the first time.

  at 32yo i wondered in a church of england parish hall with no idea what i was doing.

  everyone else knew how to do it.

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  Being a JW meant constantly wrestling with guilt, but once the lightbulb turned on and I woke up, nope!!!

  I voted for the first time in 2012...and have voted in every election, big or small, ever since. There's a governor primary coming up next week, I'm hoping to do that as well.

  The first time I wasn't guilty...but I was anxious some JW would spot me and report me to the elders. Didn't happen.
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  What is the most bizarre counsel you received as a JW, from a JW?

  by Funchback in

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  2. beliefs

  there were many addressed to me.

  for example, i once had a sister tell me i was gambling because i liked playing skill crane (the machine where you have to try to pick up prizes like stuffed animals) at the arcade.

  i then fired back a her: "you saw the r-rated movie 'backdraft.

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  A blessing in disguise.
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  REVEALED: Remarkable Activities of Unusual Religious Sect

  by darkspilver in

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  interesting article.

  3,800 words long.

  so it's a 'long read'.

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  That cancer cure thing really makes my head spin.
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  Why do they flee and hide

  by eyeuse2badub in

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  something that has often struck me in my morning musings is: why should “god’s people” ever need to hide or flee in fear?.

  there are numerous accounts recorded in the bible, both ot and nt, where prophets, kings, apostles and others have either been told to flee and hide or have just experienced that normal human feeling of fear and have fled and hidden instinctively.

  even recently, the wtbts has produced vivid images in the wt magazine and videos of “god’s people” hiding out in bunkers to avoid detection.. is it just another broken promise from jehober that he will “without fail” protect “his people”?

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  The thing that makes JWs flee quicker than anything else: Questions.