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Adoption by Jehovah's Witnesses is blocked

by expatbrit in

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adoption by jehovah's witnesses is blocked .

the independent - united kingdom; may 26, 2001. by brian farmer.

a couple originally approved by a council as adoptive parents have been refused permission by social workers to adopt a child, because they are jehovah's witnesses.

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This hit a little too close to home

by mommy in

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the following appeared in the newspaper this morning:.

a 17-year-old highlands school student was in jail thursday on charges that he had developed a hit list, naming several fellow students he supposedly planned to kill.

highlands police say they arrested andrew douglas quintero, a junior, without incident on wednesday and charged him with 10 misdemeanor counts of communicating threats.. in an interview thursday, highlands school principal jack brooks indicated he wasn't sure whether the student intended to carry out the threats, but said he wasn't taking any chances.. "whether this was done out of humor or it was an expression of anger, i had no idea," brooks said.

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SAVING SEATS

by Amazing in

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taking a brief break from my 'deceptive jw elders' series, i thought about conventions and recalled the annual exhortation from the congregation service meetings and the kingdom ministry about not saving seats.. in the early 1970s, my wife was pregnant with our second child.

we were attending the disctrict convention at the oakland, california coliseum where the oakland raiders and oakland a's teams play.

the stadium hold about 70,000 give or take 5,000 with extra seats on the field.. during the summer in the bay area, sitting all day in the sun listening to speakers you can barely understand due to planes flying overhead, poor sound system, and crying babies, becomes a tortureous event.

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HEY! 2001 CONVENTION POINTS

by Amazing in

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the following is a recent jw advertisement about their upcoming conventions.

it can be found on the jw-media.org site under recent news.

i will quote them in italics and then make my own observations.. jehovah's witnesses office of public information.

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DECEPTIVE JE ELDERS - CASE#4a

by Amazing in

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deceptive jw elders case#4a .

the following case#4a through case#4 (whatever), are a number of events that personally happened to me where jw elders deceived or deliberately lied to me or members of my family.

they are not necessarily written in order of events nor necessarily connected to one another, but they all had an impact on my decision to leave the organization:.

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JWs and odd health practices

by Seeker in

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i noted a long thread earlier that dealt with the frequency with which jws will accept medical practices that are far out of the mainstream.

kinesiology, and herbs, and the like were all mentioned, and there was much discussion about whether these things should be taken seriously or not.

i do not want to get into such a discussion, but wanted to talk about why i think jws are so frequently involved in such health pursuits.. someone mentioned that jws are trained to be suspicious of the medical establishment, and that's right.

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How to Leave WT and Intact

by JT in

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one of the most painful things i continue to see here on this forum as well as all the others is that many who want to leave wt simply don't know how to leave and remain "intact" as it were.. i recall talking with jw who "formally disassociated themselves back in the 70s and it was not till the 90s and the net did they finally feel free.

or many who jump up and write a letter off to mo larry and curly (congregation service committee).

while i feel there is absolutely nothing wrong with writing a letter for many it is a matter of.