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  Can a person resign from being one of Jehovah's Witness?

  by RULES & REGULATIONS in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  can a person resign from being one of jehovah’s witnesses?.

  frequently asked questions.

  a person can resign from our organization in two ways:.

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  stan livedeath

  i resigned in the early 70's--before 1975.

  It was at the end of a committee meeting i had been invited to attend. There was no case to answer..but at the conclusion i announced i was no longer a JW and and to address me as Mr S***** or by my first name.

  It must have been accepted because in early 1981 there was a d'fing of a female member of the congregation, and at the announcement i was also mentioned but couldnt be d/f'd because i hadnt been a witness for years . I was however labelled as apostate and should be treated the same as a d/f person.

  But i wasnt there ..& couldnt care less.
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  Looking back a year at Covid

  by pistolpete in

  1. social
  2. current

  march of last year covid was declared a pandemic that would take hundreds of millions of lives world wide.. here are the facts after a year.. the world population is 7,800,000,000 (billions).

  114,770,269 millions of people have caught the virus as of today.

  aprox 91 million recovered from the virus,.

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  stan livedeath

  all these theories..

  why would a government effectively shut down their country's economy if it wasnt in the best attempt to save many lives ?

  ( please--no more "great reset" crap)
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  Are you 'super-straight'? lol

  by LoveUniHateExams in

  1. social
  2. current

  apparently , some bright spark has created a new sexuality - super-straight - and posted it on twitter.

  it's a new sexuality that means people who are exclusively attracted to cisgender males or females.

  it was made because some people are saying you aren't straight if you don't date transgender people.

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  stan livedeath

  i'm just plain straight..attracted to women..but i am rather particular...they must have a pulse.
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  An exchange with a JW about the blood doctrine.

  by Giles Gray in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i recently had an online exchange with an active jw about the blood issue.

  he originally wanted to talk about the potential dangers of transfusions but i pointed out that the risks of transfusions have nothing whatsoever to do with the reason that jws reject blood, and therefore i didn’t see any value in debating that topic.. not able to let it go, he then insisted that the blood mandate was a common theme throughout the bible, quoting acts 15:29.. it’s been a while since i looked into the subject, and i admit i’m now a little rusty when it comes to recalling where to find biblical quotes, but i remembered that there are passages in both the new and old testaments that, when read in the context of the time they were written, call into question the watchtower’s rendition of acts 15:29.. i offered to do some bible research and get back to the jw, suggesting that rather than letting our discussion become combative, we could have an informative and interesting exchange of ideas.

  i reassured him that i was not looking to undermine his convictions, in fact i was more than happy to be corrected if my thinking was wrong.

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  stan livedeath

  St George of England6 hours ago

  Didnt former member Cofty write the same thing a year or 2 back ?

  "Former Member"? Have I missed something?

  George

  not been on here for months.
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  An exchange with a JW about the blood doctrine.

  by Giles Gray in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i recently had an online exchange with an active jw about the blood issue.

  he originally wanted to talk about the potential dangers of transfusions but i pointed out that the risks of transfusions have nothing whatsoever to do with the reason that jws reject blood, and therefore i didn’t see any value in debating that topic.. not able to let it go, he then insisted that the blood mandate was a common theme throughout the bible, quoting acts 15:29.. it’s been a while since i looked into the subject, and i admit i’m now a little rusty when it comes to recalling where to find biblical quotes, but i remembered that there are passages in both the new and old testaments that, when read in the context of the time they were written, call into question the watchtower’s rendition of acts 15:29.. i offered to do some bible research and get back to the jw, suggesting that rather than letting our discussion become combative, we could have an informative and interesting exchange of ideas.

  i reassured him that i was not looking to undermine his convictions, in fact i was more than happy to be corrected if my thinking was wrong.

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  stan livedeath

  Didnt former member Cofty write the same thing a year or 2 back ?
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  An exchange with a JW about the blood doctrine.

  by Giles Gray in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i recently had an online exchange with an active jw about the blood issue.

  he originally wanted to talk about the potential dangers of transfusions but i pointed out that the risks of transfusions have nothing whatsoever to do with the reason that jws reject blood, and therefore i didn’t see any value in debating that topic.. not able to let it go, he then insisted that the blood mandate was a common theme throughout the bible, quoting acts 15:29.. it’s been a while since i looked into the subject, and i admit i’m now a little rusty when it comes to recalling where to find biblical quotes, but i remembered that there are passages in both the new and old testaments that, when read in the context of the time they were written, call into question the watchtower’s rendition of acts 15:29.. i offered to do some bible research and get back to the jw, suggesting that rather than letting our discussion become combative, we could have an informative and interesting exchange of ideas.

  i reassured him that i was not looking to undermine his convictions, in fact i was more than happy to be corrected if my thinking was wrong.

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  stan livedeath

  once you stop and realise god doesnt exist--all the foregoing becomes meaningless twaddle.

  why anyone would want to deliberately set out to debate it with an active jw is beyond me.
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  Looking back a year at Covid

  by pistolpete in

  1. social
  2. current

  march of last year covid was declared a pandemic that would take hundreds of millions of lives world wide.. here are the facts after a year.. the world population is 7,800,000,000 (billions).

  114,770,269 millions of people have caught the virus as of today.

  aprox 91 million recovered from the virus,.

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  stan livedeath

  i love a good conspiracy theory.
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  JW Net and Politics

  by snare&racket in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  this site was and remains instrumental in assisting people that want to leave the jw's.. there has been political discussion here for some time now, a good couple of years and it makes me feel a little uneasy.

  i just opened up the site for the first time in some weeks, of the 10 posts being discussed, 4 were by the same poster, about politics, promoting their right wing beliefs.. this has been the trend for some time now, the same name behind a peppering of posts stirring the right v left of politics.. i remain forever grateful to the site and it's founders simon & angharad, i appreciate that simon shares some of these these political beliefs.

  it would be a shame to see the site evolve from a place for jw freedom of thought and escape, to political squabbling, that the world is frankly tired of right now.. just to clarify, politics is my hobby, whilst my friends read the football scores, i'm reading polling data.

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  stan livedeath

  I wonder if this is why a number of the more erudite and useful contributors have left over the last 3 or 4 years ?

  
  

  i wonder where they have gone ? Cant be redditt surely ?

  and that other xjw site closed suddenly in recent years.
  
  
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  What JW Subjects Interest You The Most On This Site? What Doesn’t??

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i like subjects that delve into the history of the religion and proofs that the witnesses are not the true religion.

  i’m not so much into apologists saying we need to go to meetings, especially if the poster looks like a scammer trying to get ex jws going.

  what subjects interest you ?

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  stan livedeath

  i like reading any news about the watchtower being tn trouble.
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  Anyone here take any chance you get to tell others how dangers the cult is?

  by mickbobcat in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i know i have made some uncomfortable at times and others have thanked me for telling them about the cult because some family member is one and they thought it was a bad cult but did not know details.

  personally i take every chance i get to tell others about the cult.

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  stan livedeath

  the fact is--most JW's are nice people ( well--outwardly ), they genuinely believe in what they have known from their childhood. Its only when one tries to leave they find out just what a screwed up mess the cult really is. That's the message i try to get across to anyone who might be curious.