Posts by greenhornet

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Anybody else having trouble walking away?

by JW-Matrix in

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ok...so i'm a 19 year old fifth generation jw.

mentality, i've been out of the "truth" since i was 16(woke up after i was baptized ironically), but on the outside i'm a model jw.

my parents are really devoted, my grandparents are super devoted, and so are my ants and uncles.

greenhornet

I am a single parent my daughter was living with me at the time, we came in a little late to the Sunday meeting and the attendant sat us on the first row like 10 feet from the podium.. we did not like sitting there so i slipped her a note asking her to meet me in the car 5 min after I left. We drove off leaving our bible, song book and wich tower rag on the seat . So yes we walked away and never went back. That was over 20 years ago. Oh yes my daughter is doing good finishing her graduate degree at the UDUB Seattle.

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Long Island/ Faders-Laevers

by Drifting Away in

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so anybody from long island, ny?i just realized i spelled leavers wrong.

oops.

greenhornet

I left that area in 1969. I was in the truff then. It's not the same religion that's for sure

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If a JW Came To Your Door How Would You Handle It?

by minimus in

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jehovah's witnesses have never come to my door but they have come to my girlfriends door.

i have coached her as to what to say or ask but it appears that they always seem to come when she's not there.

.....just curious would you get into it with a jehovah's witness at your door especially if it was someone you did not know?.

greenhornet

Oh yes I forgot about 3 years ago we had 2 lady elders always come buy and visit and share some quotes from the book of the Mormon we enjoy their visit and headed to there car. Low and behold I see some JWs working down the block and they come to our door and they started in on there spiel and I said you guys were just here like 10 mins. ago it was 2 elders . The look on there face was priceless. they got in the ca,r and the car group left the territory and am sure they were very confused.

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If a JW Came To Your Door How Would You Handle It?

by minimus in

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jehovah's witnesses have never come to my door but they have come to my girlfriends door.

i have coached her as to what to say or ask but it appears that they always seem to come when she's not there.

.....just curious would you get into it with a jehovah's witness at your door especially if it was someone you did not know?.

greenhornet

It was about after one year after I faded. A group of them were out in "service" and did not recognize any of them.

How ever one of the "sisters" did recognize me and asked me if I was a "brother'?

I purposely gave her a WTF look and said "I dont know, Im my brothers brother, what do you mean?"

She got embarrassed and said I thought you were someone. and walked away.

But when they come knocking at my door at home I never answer. When I see them in down down Seattle with there stupid carts I pretend there the Mormons and ask them questions about how to become a Mormon.

I just go on about Joseph Smith and their beliefs and ask them questions they cant answer. I realy have a lot of fun with them

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This may be a crazy question, but it popped in my head and won't leave. . So I gotta ask. . .

by Miss Worldly in

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ok, this probably applies to most faith systems that believe in any sort of afterlife, but i would like to know what sort of explanation the jw's would come up with for this little problem, you know, after armageddon on earthly paradise.

sorry if i sound dumb, but it's been nagging at me for a few weeks and have to ask.. so, what if a young married jw couple are living their life, waiting for the big a, knowing they will be together in the earthly paradise, then very sadly one of them dies.

from what i know, if a jw dies, that's it.

greenhornet

In all reality this is how life after the big "A" is going to be like

http://www.4witness.org/what-about-life-after-armageddon-is-over-a-personal-diary/

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What's The First "Worldly" Thing You Did When You Exited The Cult?

by pale.emperor in

when you finally and officially exited the cult, whether it be by disfellowshipping, disassociating or fading - what was the first things you did that are considered "worldly"?.

for me, it was like crash landing on another planet that looked like earth but was completely different to the earth i knew.

i wanted to learn everything that i thought i already knew.. first things i did:.

greenhornet

I legally carry a pistol. Also a Member of a local church

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"Coping with Shunning" by Barbara Anderson

by AndersonsInfo in

http://watchtowerdocuments.org/coping-with-shunning/.

by barbara anderson.

when my husband and i left the religion of jehovah’s witnesses (jws), we, like countless others, lost family members and friends because of the witnesses shunning doctrine.

greenhornet

Well Barbara this is a painful subject. It happen to me I almost lost my kids. Now my kids hate JWs because of the crap they caused in our painful divorce. Hopefully your grandkids will someday see this thread.

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roku for watching JW.org?

by greenhornet in

so i understand jws use roku for watching a broadcast?

is it pass word protected can anyone down load the app and watch?.

is it only on a roku?

greenhornet

so why go to the KH? Oh yes I forgot if someone doesn't go to there "meetings" there hounded and then the elders can ask why. Its the control thing.

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roku for watching JW.org?

by greenhornet in

so i understand jws use roku for watching a broadcast?

is it pass word protected can anyone down load the app and watch?.

is it only on a roku?

greenhornet

So I Understand JWs use roku for watching a broadcast? Is it pass word protected can anyone down load the app and watch?

Is it only on a roku? inquiring minds want to know

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This week's WT study article "Keep on the Watch" - the latest dumb article from the Gang That Couldn't Think Straight

by sir82 in

ok so this week's wt study article is entitled "why must we keep on the watch?"..

it is filled with statements on the importance of "being watchful" for the beginning of the "great tribulation".

paragraph 2: “keep looking, keep awake, for you do not know when the appointed time is.”after that, jesus admonished them repeatedly: “keep on the watch.”.

greenhornet

There was a special needs talk from an elder. He was on the stage encouraging everyone that the great T was very very close. He also encourage those that have herd the end is near for years not to give up and stay focused. He read from the bible on how close it was and read from Watchtower books that the end was near!

It was a very emotional talk. That was 25 years ago