Topics Started by DuvanMuvan

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Yahoo answers for the question: Why do Jehovah's Witnesses shun former members?
by DuvanMuvan in
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2. bible
why do jehovah's witnesses shun former members?.

loads of jws answered on this one.

kind of old but thought people would still wanna see it..
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Children's comic about Lot and his family on jw.org
by DuvanMuvan in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
the comic (which you can find here) is pretty much everything i dislike about the wt.. if you've read it you'll see how they have added to/ taken away parts of the account to make it read how they would like you to read it.. in this version, lot's wife is a materialistic b*tch who got what she deserved and lot is a hero who stood up to the bad sodomite men.. no doubt you also saw all the wonderful images of people dying while fire and sulphur rained down from the skies.

and who says the wt don't provide for the "young ones".

the part about this that makes me really mad is that this stuff is aimed at children.
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Deuteronomy 22:28,29. Thank Jebus nobody pays attention to this f*cked up part of "God's inspired word" any more.
by DuvanMuvan in
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28 if a man happens to meet a virgin girl who is not engaged and he seizes her and lies down with her and they are discovered,+29 the man who lay down with her must give the girls father 50 silver shekels, and she will become his wife.+ because he humiliated her, he will not be allowed to divorce her as long as he lives.

" -nwt 2013 revised edition.

was just on the thread about lot and his messed up family life and was reminded of another part of the bible that made me feel physically sick the first time i read it.
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What JW beliefs did you used to hate trying to defend?
by DuvanMuvan in
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2. beliefs
as one of the jw "young ones" i was always expected to witness to my friends at school if i wanted to make god's heart glad or whatever but i didn't.

the closest i ever got was just explaining why we didn't celebrate christmasetc.

even then i was just reciting things i read in publications.. one topic i always tried to avoid talking about was birthdays.
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Anyone who was a jw a while ago know when they started using pre-written responses in the ministry?
by DuvanMuvan in
1. watchtower
2. bible
one of the things that bothered me as a jw was how whenever i was on the ministry with someone it was pretty much the same sh*t being said every time.

also, it wasn't very stimulating when you had a question and got the same response every time.. i was just curious as to when this started happening.

did the gb decide one day that the majority of jws don't know how to answer the simple questions in the way they would like so they had to write them for them?
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Going to a meeting for the first time in a while- love bombing expected
by DuvanMuvan in
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2. friends
long story short, i have to go to the kh on tuesday with my mum and i havent been in at least a month now.

the reaon im going is because when i got my mum to finally let me make my own decision about whether or not i want to be a jw she made me promise that i'd go to the memorial, assemblies and if she had a talk.

she's already told me that people have been asking for me and only a few people in my cong know that i dont think it's the truth.. when i was trying to leave a couple brothers really piled on the "encouragement" and i dread to think about what it will be like when they see me again.
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Same sex marriage legalised in the UK at midnight tonight!!!
by DuvanMuvan in
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2. beliefs
title pretty much explains it all.

lots of people are getting married at midnight tonight.. what do you guys think?

maybe if anyone gets called on by a jw this weekend you can ask them what they think about it.. im just glad because it shows that religion doesn't define our conscience, that basic human decency can prevail over time and hopefully, these types of gradual but big changes will be present in the wts too in the future .
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Need advice, really wanna play COD
by DuvanMuvan in
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2. friends
well my ps3 is downstairs because i had no idea how good games looked on tvs that weren't older than you are and i've run into a problem.

my mum doesn't know that i have "bad" games like cod, gta 5, legend of zelda and final fantasy (yeah ik last two aren't that bad but loads of religious stuff and magic) and it's getting harder to keep it a secret.. i was just wondering if anyone had any ideas on how i should go about this.

should i just wait a while and slowly introduce the idea to my mum that i play these games or should i just come out and play them and act like it'a nothing?.
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Post the funniest WTBTS quote you can think of
by DuvanMuvan in
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2. bible
just felt like a laugh.. if any funny quotes come to mind feel free to post them here.
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By saying things like magic are bad, do the WTS imply that it exists?
by DuvanMuvan in
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2. beliefs
i was wondering why they're so uptight about magical things (cough cough sparlock cough) and was just remembering some quotes in the publications about demons and stuff i saw on another thread and i seriously think that they believe this stuff is real.. once i asked my mum why previously she said not to watch magicians because they're bad blah blah when it wasn't real, hence the term magic trick.

she admitted that while most of them are probably innocent, she still thinks some of them (anyone heard of dynamo?

) have some demonic power behind them.. i seriously wanna hear some other views on this .