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  Socially awkward

  by tamagotchi in

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  growing up a jw has made me some what socially awkward.

  i would often push people away due to my weird traits.

  this was made worse by surrounding myself with certain people within the congregation who didn't have my best interest at heart, who now i know where trying to bring me down, this has invoked in me trust issues with people i meet.

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  Village Idiot

  I have been socially awkward since childhood, before I became a JW. The Witnesses made me worse. I was lucky to have a friend who was not a JW who listened to my tale of woe after my disfellowshipping. The JW friend that I had abandoned me before a judicial committee was formed.

  I see my problem as a combination of innate personality and the negative effects of growing up as a JW during the formative years of my adolescence. As to overcoming them I have yet to do that fully. Working with people in retail stores helped me to socialize my self and practice my communicative skills but that depends on the type of work that you have.
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  Jehovah's Witnesses Are Believers But Know Not What They Teach

  by minimus in

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  they simply belong to a religion.

  they cannot explain why they follow all the dictates of the organization.

  they live in blind faith.

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  Village Idiot

  "Jesus didn't come to make bad people good, he came to make dead people live."

  
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  Before knowing TTATT did you really believe in things as...

  by roberto avon in

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  did you really believe in things as ;- the earth is only 6000 years old- the 144.000- 1914, based upon the destructiono of jerusalem- harmagheddon or the end of the world coming soon???

  ?i married a jw when i was an interested person and studying with the jw's ( not the way they wanted) but i told my wife before marrying her that " most probably " i would never have been a jw.she accepted me as i was and married me.

  after that i had interrupted the study for one year, i started all over again with an elder of my wife's cong.

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  Village Idiot

  Roberto avon,

  I was an atheist at 10 who suddenly got an interest in the Bible at 13. At 14 I converted to JWs wholeheartedly believing it was the "Truth" completely. Then, as the years went by, I started getting disillusioned because of the egotistical, pathological organization worship - doctrine did not come up even at my disfellowshipping though I was beginning to wonder.

  It was soon after I was disfellowshipped that I became an atheist with a Carl Saganesque awe of the Universe. It wasn't until some years after that I read books like the Gentile Times Reconsidered and Crisis of Conscience. After that I lost all interest in JW issues.
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  Before knowing TTATT did you really believe in things as...

  by roberto avon in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  did you really believe in things as ;- the earth is only 6000 years old- the 144.000- 1914, based upon the destructiono of jerusalem- harmagheddon or the end of the world coming soon???

  ?i married a jw when i was an interested person and studying with the jw's ( not the way they wanted) but i told my wife before marrying her that " most probably " i would never have been a jw.she accepted me as i was and married me.

  after that i had interrupted the study for one year, i started all over again with an elder of my wife's cong.

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  Village Idiot

  "...the earth is only 6000 years old-..."

  Actually they teach (or taught) that the Earth was 48,000 years old. They said that the creative days were 7,000 years long and that the present one - the seventh creative day - was 6,000 years old.

  "...the 144.000-..."

  Yes and I even made a list of the individual scriptures that lead up to that conclusion. My list was more effective than the book they used to have to explain all doctrine (Make Sure of All Things, Hold Fas to What is Fine).

  "...1914, based upon the destructiono of Jerusalem-..."

  Yes and I was not impressed by the 1975 teaching so I was not disappointed when it came and went.

  "...Harmagheddon or the end of the world coming soon????"

  Yes and I based that on the 1914/Generation teaching.
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  Jehovah's Witnesses Are Believers But Know Not What They Teach

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  they simply belong to a religion.

  they cannot explain why they follow all the dictates of the organization.

  they live in blind faith.

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  @ Wrath of Jehu:

  "I recall a story related to me by a dear elder who told of a 4 yr old girl who made a stand for the Truth among her family members.

  ..."The great part of this story is that the youngling ended up starting a bible study with her cousin and it is the youngling's hope that it will lead to baptism."

  If this story is true, instead of another JW urban legend, then that 4 year old girl must have been a genius making it more pathetic than if she would have been a teenager. Such a waste of potential talent.

  The good part is that it doesn't even sound close to being a true account of anything.
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  Does God follow his WORD? Or is it --- do as I say and not as I do?

  by Gnostic Bishop in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  does god follow his word?

  romans 12:21 be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good..

  job 2;3 and the lord said unto satan: 'hast thou considered my servant job, that there is none like him in the earth, a whole-hearted and an upright man, one that feareth god, and shunneth evil?

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  "Does God follow his WORD? Or is it --- do as I say and not as I do?"

  No, Yes.
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  My JW MIL asked me to help her download a QR app to her iphone

  by nonjwspouse in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  she is entirely technically challenged, but of course, has been pushed into purchasing the newest ipad and newest iphone .. while attempting to see if she already had a qr app in the iphone ( she thought she might have but couldn't find it) i saw maybe 10 different jw apps on there!

  this kind of stuff blows me away when such technologically challenged older people are now getting the latest and greatest ( much newer than anything i have) .

  don't even really know how to use them properly or understand them very well sometimes.

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  Village Idiot

  @ insidetheKH: "They will use paper only for many years to come."

  So why are they shutting down printing presses? Where does Malawi and other nations in a similar situation get its literature?
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  "The Tower of sand"

  by Doug Mason in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  my study on the pillars that create and support the existence of the governing body: "144,000", little flock, great crowd, and other sheep.. http://www.jwstudies.com/the_tower_of_sand.pdf.

  doug.

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  Village Idiot

  Great illustrations on your document.
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  Memorial Question?

  by naazira in

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  over the years, i've come to notice that some of the friends will not touch the plate with the bread or the cup of wine ,when the emblems are being passed around.

  i remember a row of 3 people told the brother to skip over them.

  every year i have noticed this behavior.

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  Village Idiot

  They're afraid that the plates and the wine glasses might start singing.
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  Who knew that Apostasy comes before the Antichrist. 2Thess.2;3

  by James Mixon in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  is there an apostasy occurring in the world today?

  the arrival of the.

  antichrist cannot occur until sufficient apostasy has happened in .

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  Village Idiot

  @ James Mixon: "You folks are doing a great job in bring in the Antichrist."

  Glad to be of help.