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  What happens when people are shunned from the Jehovah’s Witnesses.

  by Black Sheep in

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  2. scandals

  an article on rnz, a news site in new zealand.. https://www.rnz.co.nz/programmes/in-depth-special-projects/story/2018901718/something-evil.

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  Black Sheep

  My father, inadvertently, said things to cause me enough cognitive dissonance for me to not get baptized before Jesus and Jehovah and their minions on Space Horses, etc., threw little girls down cracks in the ground etc.,around 1975.

  There wasn't much enthusiasm for harassing faders after the 1975 debacle,, especially if they were not even baptized.
  

  I've never been shunned by my family or extended family, but I don't make waves by openly trying to de-convert the 'faithful'.
  

  The best thing I never did was get baptized.

  For maintaining any kind of half decent, (but it will still be dysfunctional), relationship with your JW family, If you have any doubts at all, I strongly recommend not getting baptized,
  
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  What happens when people are shunned from the Jehovah’s Witnesses.

  by Black Sheep in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  an article on rnz, a news site in new zealand.. https://www.rnz.co.nz/programmes/in-depth-special-projects/story/2018901718/something-evil.

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  Black Sheep

  An article on RNZ, a news site in New Zealand.
  

  https://www.rnz.co.nz/programmes/in-depth-special-projects/story/2018901718/something-evil
  
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  Were Bible writers flat earthers?

  by ExBethelitenowPIMA in

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  2. bible

  job 26:7 he stretches out the northern sky over empty space, well should it be the southern that has empty space under it?.

  the north pole has the earth under it?.

  the south pole has empty space under it?.

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  Black Sheep

  There something very weird about the software used by this forum. I hope I just happened to try to post when it was having a bad day.
  
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  Were Bible writers flat earthers?

  by ExBethelitenowPIMA in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  job 26:7 he stretches out the northern sky over empty space, well should it be the southern that has empty space under it?.

  the north pole has the earth under it?.

  the south pole has empty space under it?.

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  Black Sheep

  How many languages do you know of that don't have words that distinguish a ball from a disk, or sphere from a circle?
  
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  Were Bible writers flat earthers?

  by ExBethelitenowPIMA in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  job 26:7 he stretches out the northern sky over empty space, well should it be the southern that has empty space under it?.

  the north pole has the earth under it?.

  the south pole has empty space under it?.

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  Black Sheep

  It's a bit of a stretch to conclude that their word for 'circle' was used because they didn't have a word available that described a sphere or a ball. Can you think of any language that doesn't have different words to describe disks and balls?
  
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  If You Can Remember When This Was Displayed in the KH - You Ain't No Spring Chicken!

  by mikronboy in

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  Black Sheep

  I remember them.
  
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  Witnesses were Anti vaccine till 1950!

  by Witness 007 in

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  "brother mcmillan wrote "faith on the march" about his wonderful life at bethel.

  he wrote of an incident in 1943 where a group of witnesses in jail for refusing military service were against getting vaccinated and he came to the rescue visiting them and telling them it was ok. the reason for this was "the golden age" magazine in the 1920's describes vaccines as puss filled poison...so they were following their watchtower training..

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  Black Sheep

  In the early 60s, my father asked the Society if it was OK to be vaccinated before we went to where 'The Need Was Great'. It was OK'd by the Society, so we were vaccinated and went,.

  In hindsight, none of his converts were saved from anything that the Society was saying his god was going to do, Look up the pictures in the Paradise book.
  

  Many of his converts have passed away at ages much younger than Dad was telling them that they would reach, "in this wicked system of things."
  
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  Is a belief in GOD only found in the Bible ? Of course not .what about all of the other religious sects? Do they not count ???

  by smiddy3 in

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  2. beliefs

  the world is made up of many religions christian and otherwise .. whose to say which religion is more superior than another religion ?

  or has the approval of a god ?.

  none that i can think of.. since humans have been on earth god has kept silent as to who represents him , if any at all..

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  Black Sheep

  Kids trust what their parents teach them until they reach the age where they can compute that it doesn't add up. By then, most kids don't have what it takes to call out their parents on their beliefs, so going along with the teachings of whatever cult their parents belonged to is easier than bailing out and being shunned by their family and friends for doing that.
  
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  Anthony ,Tony , Morris where is he ? How is he ? Anyone ?

  by smiddy3 in

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  has anybody any information as to the whereabouts or the health of anthony morris ?.

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  https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/4808553924132864/brother-jackson-visits-italy-branch
  
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  A year since I have been back

  by Lee Marsh in

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  a year ago i came back to jwd.

  the 2 years before that.

  when covid stated, i was diagnosed with colon cancer.

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  Black Sheep

  I'm delighted to here that you dodged those Lady Lee. May your good luck continue.