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  San Francisco Giants vs. Kansas City Royals - World Series Winners ?

  by flipper in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  once again for the 3rd time in 5 years my favorite baseball team the s.f.

  giants are headed to the world series !

  so who do you think will win this years series and your reasons for your predictions ?

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  kairos

  "Beat L.A."

  Good enough for me!
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  I cry during the National Anthem now

  by kairos in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  after being a jw for 25 years and finding every weasel way to 'maintain christian neutrality', i now find myself in a completely 'new light'.. i quit abruptly, four years ago and have lived a jw free life with the exception of my born-in wife.when i see the ceremony of the national anthem, it not only reaffirms the absolute beauty of personal freedom, but it also allows me to see that most people are good and loyal to one another.

  i treasure my life and have become a patriot.

  now i feel ashamed that i was a government/authority rejecting, isolationist that benefited from living in the greatest country in the world.

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  kairos

  After being a JW for 25 years and finding every weasel way to 'maintain Christian neutrality', I now find myself in a completely 'new light'.

  I quit abruptly, four years ago and have lived a JW free life with the exception of my born-in wife.
  When I see the ceremony of the National Anthem, it not only reaffirms the absolute beauty of personal freedom, but it also allows me to see that most people are good and loyal to one another. I treasure my life and have become a patriot. Now I feel ashamed that I was a government/authority rejecting, isolationist that benefited from living in the greatest country in the world.
  
  'We voted for God's Kingdom".

  I cry for the privilege to live with loyalty to my land and fellow - also for my shame of past mistakes.

  It can be an emotional experience to rejoin society.
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  Just Bumped Into My JW Sister And Brother In Town

  by pale.emperor in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  so im walking through town today on my lunchbreak and spot the unmistakable walk of my younger brother.

  this is the one who left watchtower... well it turns out he's returned to the vomit after stupidly turning up to the 2017 convention and a few elders filling his head with seeing our dead dad in paradise and to "wait on jehovah".. a few meters behind him was my sister.

  she spotted me first, then hurried up her step to my brother.

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  kairos

  We're the scariest thing of all to a JW.
  Even scarier than the devil, ( that wily old serpent ).
  Why, you ask?

  We actually exist.
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  Everlasting life on a stick

  by truthseeker in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i think the watchtower is the only organization that can promise a product (everlasting life) and never deliver it.. what fools we've been to believe this nonsense..

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  kairos

  Peddlers of the 'original lie'.

  "You positively will not die" - Gen 3:4

  "Millions now living will never die"
  "Truth that leads to everlasting life"
  "You can live forever in paradise on earth"

  They lie
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  Jonestown

  by Akid48 in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  does any one think the wt is going to go out this way?i know its dark but i can see it going down that way but i dont see it being the way there would go down..

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  kairos

  When the scam is finally undeniable, I could see thousands killing themselves in shock.
  It's one thing to wake up over time and feel suicidal. It's another to have to wake up with you face being slapped for days straight at a time.

  Some of the uber dubs will crash and burn, I'm sad to predict... :(
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  Exposing one's identity. When?

  by kairos in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i've been toying with the idea of just coming out and posting my name and location as an attempt to be available to locals that secretly browse the forum that have known me for up to 25 years.

  ( "reaching out", so to speak ).

  i'm not da'd or df'd, so this most certainly could end in a dramatic confrontation.

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  kairos

  **Two years out and gone**

  The freedom has been wonderful and exhausting.
  I value this freedom more than I thought possible.

  The shunning is good/bad.
  I miss a handful of people. That's sad.
  Leaving the indoctrination and mindless JW conversations was the best decision ever.

  That first step out was the hardest of all.
  Research your religion and answer all your own questions.
  Leave no stone unturned. The decision to stay or go will become clear to you.

  I am at a place at life where I make choices only after I've been honest with myself.
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  DPRK Asserts that USA has Declared War

  by cofty in

  1. social
  2. current

  north korea has taken president trump's recent statements as a declaration of war.

  pyongyang reserves the right to shoot down american planes even if they are not inside their airspace.. i listened to trump's speech to the un with dismay.

  it demonstrated a total lack of understanding of his enemy and the inevitable consequences of inflicting personal insults on kim jong-un.

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  kairos

  I thought the Korean War never actually ended...
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  Disfellowshipped in Absentia

  by HereIgo in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i have heard of this happening before, but how often?

  its pretty rare it seems.

  i have often wondered if the elders would go this route with me since they knew i was actively sinning, but as far as i know, no jc was ever formed.

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  kairos

  Happened to me.
  
  
  
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  By what authority does the Watchtower declare itself biblical interpreter?

  by TTWSYF in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  we're god's reliable mouthpiece, but not prophet?

  jesus inspected all faiths in 1914?.

  does everyone agree or is it more convoluted than that?.

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  kairos

  Yet, the GB just came out and stated they are not 'inspired' and make organizational and doctrinal errors.
  

  The truth is in plain sight, but:
  

  1. dubs aren't looking
  2. 'where would we go?'
  3. many have their entire lives invested
  4. many know TTATT, yet are trapped with threat of family shunning

  bad all around~
  
  
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  Oh The Irony

  by FedUpJW in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so i sat and suffered through the clam tonight.. everything was pretty much as dull, repetitious, and simple-minded as i have come to expect, but i was really struck by the mind-numbing idiotic comments made during the part about shunning family.. then came the book study (no real bible use) loaded with self-congratulatory b.s about how wt never has, and never will beg, solicit, or ask for money.

  i could feel myself beginning to channel the old tasmanian devil cartoon character as i listened to that garbage while remembering the jdubya tv shows about how more money was going out than coming in and give more.

  but finally came the most ironic (to me) part of the entire meeting and i could not help bursting out in a loud belly laugh that got me many dirty looks and heavy frowns.

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  kairos

  Wow. Now I want my wife to go to the meeting...
  
  This could wake her up