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  Greg Stafford says racial unity among JW's makes them God's people

  by truthseeker in

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  check this out.... http://www.elihubooks.com/greg-stafford/jwd3.htm.

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  So if you have forced conformity, but teach lies (1914 etc) then you are God's Organization.

  Ok then Greg ...
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  Radiation update

  by confusedjw in

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  a few folks have kindly asked how i've been doing so i thought i'd post a short update.

  (i had throat cancer this summer).

  as for me i've been out of radiation for about 5 weeks now.

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  A few folks have kindly asked how I've been doing so I thought I'd post a short update. (I had throat cancer this summer)

  As for me I've been out of radiation for about 5 weeks now. My throat is still sore and my taste buds are not working very well and I now have three

  They are going to check me every two months for the next 3 years to watch closely for a re-occurrence. If they find anything funny they will go with head and neck CT scans.

  I would get treated at about 3:30 each week day, come home, sleep, get up and be around then go to bed on the couch for the night. I was gagging so much from the dying saliva gland that I would sleep on the couch so my wife could sleep.

  Due to missing part of the afternoon I would work most weekends to keep up with what I had to do at work, but some Saturday's I would just sleep all day.

  I just don't have the energy I did have. Working on the house yesterday was a real chore.

  Thank you so much for the positive thoughts and the Tuesday Vigils. It really did help knowing that folks were thinking of me. Some days (especially the first 2 weeks after the news) were pretty rough emotionally.

  Cheers
  ConfusedJW
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  Why don't JW's change their failed methods of witnessing...

  by zeroday in

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  going out in field service monday thru friday 9 till noon, knocking on empty doors while most people are away at work.

  knowing no one will be at home.

  why is there not a massive effort for evening witnessing when you know most people will be home and able to be reached.

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  That's a good question and I think the answer is that it's a way to keep control over the rank & file. This "action" on their part makes the rank & file more committed in some fundamental way. If door to door goes away the level of fundamentalism of the JW's goes away.
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  I need help with an assignment for college...please help...thanks :)

  by FreedomFrog in

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  the assignment says i need to locate relevant statistics about my research topic.

  my topic is about jehovah's witnesses as a controlling group and what the group can do to families.

  i'm not sure what kinds of charts i can use.

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  Oh THANK YOU...thank you....thank you...

  You are my new favorite person...

  Thanks - I need to be someone's favorite person right now!

  Let us know how the assignment turns out.
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  I need help with an assignment for college...please help...thanks :)

  by FreedomFrog in

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  the assignment says i need to locate relevant statistics about my research topic.

  my topic is about jehovah's witnesses as a controlling group and what the group can do to families.

  i'm not sure what kinds of charts i can use.

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  confusedjw

  True, but Brown said that "Elders disfellowship 50,000 to 60,000 a year". That gives you plenty to prove your point with numbers. After all he is the official WT spokesman! This assignment will at least inform your professor of this group and at a cocktail party he/she may bring up your stat to someone. Good work and good luck.
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  I need help with an assignment for college...please help...thanks :)

  by FreedomFrog in

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  the assignment says i need to locate relevant statistics about my research topic.

  my topic is about jehovah's witnesses as a controlling group and what the group can do to families.

  i'm not sure what kinds of charts i can use.

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  confusedjw

  ''What she [ Barbara Anderson ] alleges is not true at all,'' said J.R. Brown, a spokesman for the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York Inc., the incorporated name of the Jehovah's Witnesses. Brown said he had been talking to Dateline about the show's story for a year but said he and other organization leaders did not know which members television producers had interviewed. ''We have no idea what she told Dateline,'' Brown said of Anderson . The consequences of excommunication are severe for a reason, Brown said. It is hoped that the harsh isolation that disfellowshipped members feel will draw them back to the organization. Other members of the faith are not allowed to speak to disfellowshipped members. They can't greet them in a store or share a meal with them. Live-in family members can speak to the person but never about spiritual issues. ''Our statistics bear out that you have many people every year be reinstated,'' Brown said. Brown said Jehovah's Witnesses have a strict policy about child sexual abuse. If parents come to congregation leaders with concerns that their child is being abused, the leaders follow state law, he said. If state law requires parents to report the abuse, congregation leaders tell them that. People in the organization who are accused of sex abuse are subject to a hearing like the one Anderson attended yesterday, Brown said. They are automatically removed from leadership positions and can't go door-to-door without other members' being present. Anderson said she knew of pedophiles in four Middle Tennessee congregations who had confessed to elders and who had not been disciplined. She said those elders did not go to authorities with what they knew. There was no way yesterday to corroborate the accusations that Anderson made. Brown said they were false. A call to the local district attorney at his home yesterday did not yield a return call." (Tennessean Nashville News, Saturday, May 11, 2002 )
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  Teams, Players, Coaches, Managers You Love to "Hate"

  by XJW4EVR in

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  "hating" a team, player, coach, manager is kind of fun especially when your team is down.. i love to "hate" the following (in no particular order):.

  the oakland raiders.

  the new york yankees & mets.

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  Yankees Suck
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  I need help with an assignment for college...please help...thanks :)

  by FreedomFrog in

  1. jw
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  the assignment says i need to locate relevant statistics about my research topic.

  my topic is about jehovah's witnesses as a controlling group and what the group can do to families.

  i'm not sure what kinds of charts i can use.

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  The sanction is based on I Corinthians 5, which directs Witnesses to "remove the wicked from among yourselves" and is necessary, said Witnesses national spokesman J.R. Brown, to preserve the religion's "moral integrity and cleanliness" in a corrupt world soon to be destroyed by God Jehovah.

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  Jehovah's Witness elders -- all are men -- are the equivalent of ministers in other religions. Though unpaid, they take on responsibilities such as teaching Bible lessons and passing on denomination policy. They also investigate Witnesses accused of committing crimes against other Witnesses. In some of these cases, the police are never called.

  Among the elders' primary tasks is serving on small judicial committees that hear confessions and decide whether an offense is worthy of excommunication.

  Excommunications are announced to the congregation, but elders never say why a person was expelled. Witnesses can only guess from a long list of offenses that range from smoking cigarettes to manslaughter. Homosexuality, fornication, drunkenness, slander, fraud, gambling, apostasy, fits of anger and violence, and adultery are others.

  The excommunication announcement tells members to begin shunning that person. If they don't, they, too, risk being disfellowshipped. Fear of being disfellowshipped is gripping for many Witnesses. Because they believe that only Witnesses will be saved from death, many don't associate with non-Witnesses.

  Being disfellowshipped, then, means losing your circle of friends, not to mention family members who remain in the faith.

  Elders disfellowship 50,000 to 60,000 Witnesses around the world each year, Brown said.

  "It's not an unusual occurence, as far as we're concerned," he said.

  http://www.sptimes.com/2002/08/22/Floridian/Spiritual_shunning.shtml
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  I need help with an assignment for college...please help...thanks :)

  by FreedomFrog in

  1. jw
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  the assignment says i need to locate relevant statistics about my research topic.

  my topic is about jehovah's witnesses as a controlling group and what the group can do to families.

  i'm not sure what kinds of charts i can use.

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  confusedjw

  Could you chart the number of Witnesses who are DF'd each year? I believe that there are some solid stats as to the number. Then you chart that with the "average" family number and calculate how many real people are affected by the "shunning". Now is you show 10,000 are DF'd each year and the average family, including extended is say seven, that would show that 70,000 folks in just the immediate family are affected each year by shunning. You get the picture. You can also include those who DA themselves. You could then back this up with quotes from the WT about how folks ONLY came back to "Jehovah" due to the hard line their family took in shunning them. That is certainly showing a control feature of the group.
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  My UN email to my dad, he called the Writing Dept (this is long)

  by Pioneer Spit...oh, i mean Spirit in

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  date:tue, sep 26, 2006 11:47 am with good advice that i received at this site, i presented my questioning with a soft start... tell me what you think please.

  yes, thank you, nice pictures.

  i didn't recognize uncle ____.your place looks great.

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  confusedjw

  I wonder if he counted his time in writing this and counted it as a return visit?