Topics Started by quest81

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Setback
by EdenOne in
1. jw
2. experiences
i saw this coming since my mother-in-law's funeral .... the congregation's "love-bombing" over my wife had its impact.

i watched her drawing closer and closer to her friends in the congregation.

then she decided she would attend the memorial.
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Hold Me, Thrill Me
by Hold Me-Thrill Me in
1. jw
2. friends
i'm going to be honest and from the heart when i say that for 40 years in the jw religion i was very happy in my ignorance!

man, what a trip it was.

i loved every minute of it but then i was absent the bad in my religion.
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Why do we get TTATT and others don't?
by quest81 in
1. jw
2. friends
i have thought about how ttatt came full circle for me.

how the connecting the dots was simple and just made sense,.

how silos of information are literally at our fingertips today.. why is it that the ones we love cannot get ttatt?.
201
These guys crash a Kingdom Hall on Memorial, video included
by Crazyguy in
1. jw
2. friends
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=7mars2mtaui.

to funny nice job....
16
The end
by Garrett in
1. jw
2. friends
oh...my...god.... i can't.. well, i am officially done trying to explain things to them.

they talk in circles, and their excuse for everything is "imperfect men".

imperfect men!.
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TTATT Billboard outside Belton, TX JW Conventions - Fundraising campaign
by quest81 in
1. watchtower
2. child-abuse
billboard raising awareness of the dangers of the jehovah's witness cult.. short summary.

millions of people's lives are being adversely affected every day by jehovah's witnesses' (also known as jw.org) harmful teachings of shunning former members, refusal of certain kinds of medical treatment, social isolation, and harboring of child molesters.

the goal of this campaign is to sponsor a billboard that will be targeted to current members traveling to the belton, tx conventions july 31st - aug 9th 2015. these conventions attract thousands of current members and hundreds of prospective members.
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Reasons for Leaving
by maksutov in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i finally got my book finished.

it is available as a free ebook here: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/527252 i'm sure the contents are familiar territory to most people here, but hopefully it will be of some use to those who are either thinking about joining or thinking about leaving.
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Pick your belief system
by Giordano in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i think we've all noticed a ton of newbe's these past months.

one part of escaping or thinking about escaping the jw's is coming to terms with what you believe now and/or what direction you are leaning towards.. here is a site that has a quick quiz that may be of some worth or just for fun.

i took it when i first signed on here and the results surprised me because it was pretty accurate.. you don't have to sign up for anything and when you finish you will get a percentage answer on 20 major belief systems.
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"Gentile Times"
by zeb in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i am reading again the work.."the gentile times reconsidered" by carl olof jonsson.

it is very heavy going but he uses world sources as used by wt to totally refute the 607 thing.

he sent his studies on this to bethel ny and waited on jehovah.
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Advice needed on Crisis of Conscience
by cappytan in
1. watchtower
2. bible
so, some of you may have seen my thread from yesterday about my wife waking up.. we had further discussion yesterday evening after i sent her the pbs video on the abuse scandals plaguing the watchtower.

she was so furious and pissed off at wt hq.

apparently a close relative of her's was abused by an elder and the only reason he was reproved and removed as an elder was because he confessed.