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The Results of an Atheist Sex Survey
by Most Noble inwhat happens when 10,000 non-religious people take a survey about their sex lives including people who were raised in one religion but later left it?
well, you get a treasure trove of data thats never been analyzed before.. .
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2011/05/15/the-results-of-an-atheist-sex-survey/.
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Symposium: Those Who Will Inherit God's Kingdom
by 88JM init's been said before that once you know ttatt, then you listen with very different ears to talks at conventions.
i thought the second symposium this year on saturday morning of the convention was particularly terrible - here's what i had as the summary of the four parts:.
those "who are poor".
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JW vs. Christian Scientist
by 88JM ina little story here for you that occurred here this week.. my dad (a jw) and i got a call to help one of our elderly (non-jw) neighbours out - he had fallen down in the house and his wife was unable to get him up.
this is not the first time it has happened - he is in his 90s and now very bad on his feet.
my dad and i lifted him into bed, but it became evident that he needed to go into hospital.. the old guy is very stubborn even at the best of times - he's has a very generous spirit at the same time, and won't allow anyone to do him a job for free, even if it's something small.
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JW article on BBC website.
by The Scotsman inhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-28166192.
mostly about the new preaching tactics - i.e.
- standing in the street holding up magazines.. i have seen them many times in and around glasgow..
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What Are They Studying at Congregational Bible Study?
by startingover13 inmy father is coming in town in two weeks, and i'd like to accompany him to the one meeting he'll be in town for.
i haven't been to a meeting for some time now, and i was wondering what's the book they are using for the book study.
anyone still current on that?.
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RNWT bible "large print" version due out?
by 88JM ini'd totally forgotten about it, but the literature department at the local congregation here was taking orders for "large print" versions of the new bible.. has anyone seen one in the wild?.
why isn't it on jw.org yet - i'm sure they said it would be in january?.
is it really just a "large print" version, or is it a "reference" version with extra bits?.
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Found out I'm a bit of a catalyst among my local JW youth....
by magotan inso i have been a bit of a catalyst among the jw youth in my local area.
since my family was fairly well known, me coming out so publically and seeing the reactions among the people and my subsequent forced disassociation from the church has made a lot of young people ask questions.
one of my old friends broke a lot of rules (and caught shit for it) for being really good friends with a gay guy we both mutually know.
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Some initial results from the 2012 global survey (beliefs and practices disagreed with)
by cedars inhi folks.
i'm just in the process of compiling all the information gathered on the global survey on jwsurvey.org, which was held between february and december 2012.. i thought some of you might like a "sneak peak" at the results of the final question in the survey, which relates to the society's teachings and practices that are disagreed with.. here is a link to the pdf of these figures.... http://jwsurvey.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/2012-survey-results-beliefs-and-practices.pdf.
it's interesting to note that the same issues occupy 1st, 2nd and 3rd place as in the previous year's survey (see the 2011 results, page 23).
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Jehovah's Witnesses in FBI Files
by 88JM insomeone just brought this to my attention - not sure if it's a new thing or not:.
http://vault.fbi.gov/.
page 6:.