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Jehovah's Witnesses: A Coercive Organization?
by john.prestor inso in sociology we divide organizations up into three categories or types, you got utilitarian, voluntary, and coercive.
utilitarian means people join to accomplish some purpose like selling food or making furniture, voluntary means they join up just for fun or to hang out with people like the freemasons or a lot of churches, and coercive means they don't really want to be there but they gotta because someone will punish them if they leave, so labor camps, armies, or prisons.. in a paper i wrote for a class a while back i argued that jehovah's witnesses should be seen as a coercive organization.
yeah, people join up and they do leave, nobody beats you up if you stop attending or preaching, nobody imprisons you, shoots your dog, kills your kids that kind of thing, and nobody makes you join up either.
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Daro Weilburg! I want to report this guy to his elders
by joe134cd indaro weilburg is a jw apologist on you tube.
to be honest i really can’t stand the guy, and i want to report him to his local elders, as he knows full well he shouldn’t be making these videos.
so anyone know his local area or a contact number for his kh.
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The Watchtower are Right About Blood...
by cofty in... but, they fail to take note of one important detail.. i believe that if we are going to have any chance of reasoning with a jw about blood, this is the place we need to begin.. don't try to convince them that it was only a dietary law.
it wasn't, and they will never go along with it.. don't tell them that saving a life is more important than obeying a law, even a seemingly trivial one.
they take pride in obedience.
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Then is Finished - The Mockery of God
by Farkel inin case you think you've heard it all, have you heard that the wts has made the following claims:.
1. they and other holy angels are god's wife, therefore the wts elite is the "mother" of christ himself.. .
" the wts elite, of course!.
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Early Editions of The New Creation (Vol 6) on the New Covenant
by cabasilas inseems like i've read that the earliest editions of the new creation by russell taught that the new covenant was in force for christians of this era.
then after russell wrote that, he changed his views and put the new covenant as something future and not now in effect.
he then later changed the text in the new creation to reflect this new view (i've been told this was about 1909) and this helped precipitate what's been called the new covenant schism.
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How to remain with Jehovah's Witnesses even though you are Awake!
by TerryWalstrom inthinking is an active process.. evasion is avoiding that action of active thinking which would create a positive difference.
.realizing the truth about the truth.. thinking is the virtue* man prizes most.
all other virtues proceed from thinking.. evasion is the willful suspension of one's consciousness.
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"Lone Ranger Christianity"
by leavingwt insome may enjoy this thread at the channel c forum.
by jim penton, it's about what he calls, "lone ranger christianity".
there are quite a few responses there, in the ongoing discussion.. .
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christian millenial fellowship
by musky inhas anyone ever received the magazine from the christian millenial fellowship?
was just wondering what others thought of it.
i enjoyed reading it.
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A conversation with M. James Penton (Watchtower historian, author and former elder)
by oppostate injohn cedars' youtube channel has a new video interview with james penton.
lloyd asks some good questions and jim provides excellent insights about jw history and where the movement may be headed.. i had the pleasure of meeting jim and his former wife, now passed away, at the christian believers conference (of bible students).
http://www.cbconference.com/.
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Bible Students Question
by lambsbottom ini've know ttatt for over three years.
stopped going to meetings three months ago.
i recently contacted the bible students.