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Watchtower Aug. 15, 1968 says to ignore Jesus about tthe time of the end..
by AloneinOh in
1. jw
2. friends
talking about 1975 and the push by the society got me to looking at some older quotes.

this one here really bugged me and still pisses me off when i read it.

in this instance they are telling you to forget about jesus and listen to the society.
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Have many become atheists who've left the Watchtower?
by The Leological One in
1. jw
2. friends
thought i've never been a jw, my wife is, and she was df'd a couple months ago when we got married (we were together a short while before getting married).

sometimes it seems she still tries to defend jw doctrines... others, it seems she's about ready to accept the idea of some other views (protestant), and yet i've wondered at times when she says she doesn't know what to believe if she's about ready to forget religion altogether.

i'd prefer she keeps her faith in god but seek her understanding more from the bible than just from other people's doctrines -- esp.
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I found a big ol' fat lie again in there!
by gumby in
1. watchtower
2. bible
some big fat liar made sumthin up again!

looky here what i went and found in the bible!

remember that little dove that desended down on jesus right after he was baptised by john?
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Slow to help....Quick to punish!
by FreedomFrog in
1. jw
2. friends
ok...thought this was interesting.. mom called this morning practically begging me to go to the jc meeting that's coming up this weekend.

i explained that i had asked 6 different elders to get a study started with me within a span of 4 years because i was "feeling weak".

each time i asked for a study i would say "i need help because i'm losing faith".
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Re-post of validity of 1914 date
by Bluegrass Tom in
1. watchtower
2. bible
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something went wrong the first time.

here are a few facts that i have recently discovered by doing some research.
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What Made Things Finally "Click" With You To Know This Was Not The Truth?
by minimus in
1. jw
2. friends
for me it was the realization that there was no "faithful & discreet slave", that all the prophecies "proving" that jehovah's witnesses are the only religion approved by god is bogus and the realization that this is a "cult" and there is no real normal sense of love and affection in the "truth".
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Name Things That "Prove" JWs Have The "Truth".
by minimus in
1. jw
2. friends
....this could be interesting.....
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What Are You READING?
by patio34 in
1. social
2. entertainment
okay, it seems it's high time we had another thread like this!.

for serious reading, i have exceptions to the rulers by amy goodman (goes great with fahrenheit 911!

)the curse of adam by bryan skyles (i think) (it predicts the extinction of males.
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What Motivates You to Expose the "Truth About the Troof" to Active JW's?
by imallgrowedup in
1. jw
2. friends
while responding to another thread, i was thinking about how so many of us talk about trying to help "believing dubs" out from the clutches of the wt, while at the same time, it occurred to me that we probably all have different motivations for doing so.

as for me, i am motivated to get my parents out because i think they have the right to know "the whole story" - not just the candy-coated version the wt espouses, so they can make better decisions about how they want to live the rest of their lives.

right now the wt makes all their life decisions for them - including whether or not they should look at what the "other side" has to say about them.
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Help! What would you say as a last word to a JW (ex)freind
by The Leological One in
1. jw
2. friends
i've read a lot of posts over the last month or so and seek some advice.

although i was never a jw, i had some good freinds who used to be and still seem to be recovering from the influence.

not long ago, i ran into a different jw i knew from a previous job.