Posts by Black Sheep

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my disassociation letter

by unstopableravens in

dear elders at%^** congregation, november 1, 2013. .

as you know ive been a member of your congregation for many years.

throughout the last several years i have had the opportunity to get to know many of you personally and i can truly say i have love for all of you.

Black Sheep

If you must send a DA letter, consider posting it to everone else in the congregation, and to everyone who is going to shun you after the announcement, a day before you send it to the Elders.

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The Family Worship Night is a blessing for me (spreads TTATT)

by ILoveTTATT in

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so because of a new job that i got, i have to stay in my parents' city for 6 months.

thereafter i can move.. so i am back at my parent's house.

my dad is fully awakened now, it will just take time for him to accept the invalidity of the blood doctrine and the disfellowshipping doctrine, or anyone for that matter.. my mom was delighted when i said i wanted to join them in the family worship night.

Black Sheep

If you can, get your Dub to take a position that you know is contradicted in a future WT. The more adamant they are the better.

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DID THE SOCIETY REPLACE THE OLD (32-PAGE) TRINITY BROCHURE WITH AN ANOREXIC VERSION ???

by Calebs Airplane in

so i was debating with a jw on youtube the other day, calling out all of the misqoutes and dishonesty in the 32-page "should you believe in the trinity" brochure as the reason this brochure was discontinued and this jw responds: "well we have a new bochure.

it's thinner but it has all the new light.".

has anyone ever heard of this replacement trinity brochure???

Black Sheep

He made the claim, he should be challenged to produce it. I don't believe there is one.

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The 1914 generation is still going strong 100 years later - 2014 study article.

by THE GLADIATOR in

january 2014 watchtower study article.

let your kingdom comebut when?.

this generation will not pass away.

Black Sheep

... anointed contemporaries of the first group...

Whoever wrote this garbage doesn't even understand what a contemporary is. Like having to redefine 'generation' as their understanding of the meaning of the word had to be stretched way past it's use by date, they are already having to stretch the meaning of 'contemporary' beyond it's breaking point and they have only just started using it. Does the Bethel library not contain a dictionary? or are the writers short of enough brain cells to use it?

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How I recently handled JWs at my door

by Christian guy in

the jws stopped by my house a couple weeks ago on a saturday morning.

i knew that with others most likely waiting for them out in the car they probably did not then have much time to engage in any serious conversation.

so i let them talk while i feigned interest in what they had to say.

Black Sheep

"I went from the Watchtower to Christ"

You were a member of a high control cult without realising it. Why should we give any credence to someone who has already demonstrated an inability to spot a cult?

"...and a lot of people who appear to hate God, his word, and his people..."

How can you hate something that you don't believe exists?

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Maybe I'm the bad guy after all

by braincleaned in

maybe i'm the bad guy after all.

my mom and sis love me and still talk to me, although i'm clearly an apostate.

their loophole?

Black Sheep

Have you forgotten all that mind control stuff that was unloaded on you for decades while you sat in KHs and arsemblies? They were listening too. They have been taught not to hear you. They don't want to hear you. You have to stop trying to do their thinking for them.

You have to give up on the idea of getting them to listen to you and get cunning. You have to get them to do the thinking, the research, the explaining, justifying their following failed doomsday loonies, etc.. You have to shut up except to make them want to do the talking and realise any dishonesty they indulge in.

Softly, softly, catchee monkey

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Why Eve sinned (WT 8/2013)

by EdenOne in

adamah brought up in another thread an issue i wasn't aware of, and i thought it merged well with something i've been pondering about.

it revolves around the deeper reasons why satan was successful in persuading eve to eat from the forbidden fruit.

why was eve persuaded to disobey god?.

Black Sheep

"Now, we are usually focused on the portion of the argument "you will be like God, knowing good and evil." But, was Eve so naive that she believed that she could really be like God by simply eating a fruit?"

Eve was a new human, only the second in existance. Why wouldn't she be naive? Why would she have ambition? Why had the god not realised that this species did not have any way of reproducing itself? Why hadn't they already had sex?

Sometimes things don't make sense, simply because they don't make sense, not because we are stupid.

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Sheep and Goats

by ctrwtf in

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i'm lucky enough to live in a part of the us that many would call "pastoral.

" true to the label, i pass a small farm on the way to talking my daughter to school each day.

the other day i notice the owners had their small flock of sheep out to pasture along witha black goat.. for some reason i had a flashback to all the references the society uses re sheep, other sheep, sheeplike and goatlike etc.

Black Sheep

If you think the sheep and goats get a bum rap, what about pigs? Jesus chases them off a cliff .... and not as a parable. Mark 5:11-13. What do pigs do wrong?

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