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  HOW MANY WOULD LEAVE?

  by disillusioned 2 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  there are a lot of people on this site and others who even though they don't believe anymore still fill the seats at the meetings.. i was just wondering, if they all decided to leave at the same time, how many do you think would leave?

  would the numbers drop dramatically?

  i would love to see that..

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  If they weren't to be shunned by family or friends maybe 25% would leave.

  75% left during the Rutherford takeover and it only distilled the organization down to the hard core. There would be less money and free labor though if many left.
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  Are Jehovah’s Witnesses losing the War on Apostates

  by Watchtower-Free in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  found this.

  http://jwalumni.org/2015/06/08/who-are-jehovahs-witnesses-september-watchtower/.

  by misha anouk on 8. june 2015 in news

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  "Are Jehovah’s Witnesses losing the War on Apostates"

  Yes they surely are and every new poster who comes here is a victory for us.
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  Now Even JW Men Are Going To Die At The Big A

  by OneFingerSalute in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so this weekend there was a part about not following jesus at a distance.

  the speaker made a big point of stating that any baptized jw male who was not either appointed ms/elder, or at the very least "reaching out" actively, was in fact following jesus at a distance.

  he said that the only way to live through the big a was to follow jesus closely.

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  ecan6,

  
  

  "I wish you had a recording of that manure."

  
  

  All still ins should record their meetings although there might be an issue with personal security. You can always run into something said that hasn't been officially recorded.

  Blondie, can you give us a time mark of the interesting comments?
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  The wisdom of YODA .. and other SW quotes : )

  by talesin in

  1. social
  2. humour

  "fear is the path to the dark side ..."https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xha3d-musuw.

  "size matters not (ahem, and lol) ... for my ally is the force .. and a powerful ally it is ... you must feel the force around you!".

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeua5y_cc88.

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  “I find your lack of faith disturbing.” Darth Vader as he chokes someone.
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  Question you may have ,but to embarrassed to ask.

  by James Mixon in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i will start.. 1) can you cry under water?

  (2) once you are in heaven, do you get stuck.

  wearing the clothes you were buried in for eternity?

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  1) can you cry under water?

  Yes. The tears will simply mix with the water.

  (2) Once you are in heaven, do you get stuck wearing the clothes you were buried in for eternity?

  God gives you a huge wardrobe closet inside your celestial mansion.

  (3) Why is "bra" singular and "panties" plural?

  Panties is plural because it covers two butt cheeks. Bra? Don't have a clue.

  (4) Can a hearse carrying a corpse drive in the carpool lane?

  You have too much time in your hands.
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  i committed the unforgiveable sin

  by 060702015 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  everyday i wake up with knots in my stomach and trouble breathing.

  my life continues to go into a downward spiral.

  in the past, i had my dependence on god.

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  060702015 you have a PM (Private Message at top of the page with the envelope link.).
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  The JOYS of being an EX-JW

  by nicolaou in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  add to the list and let's see the weekend out on a positive note!

  1. sunday mornings.

  alarm not set, cuddles with the mrs, tunes in the bedroom, coffee, bacon, another lazy coffee in the garden .

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  No anxiety and panic attacks while out in field service.
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  2015 Regional Convention Anthony Morris Governing Body encourages coerced baptism of unwilling children ...again

  by Watchtower-Free in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  this is from the last talk of the convention ......... clip 1:30 minutes longhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrej8tlyiso&feature=youtu.be.

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  Yeap. They're getting worse and worse. The tighter their fist clenches the more witnesses will be slipping through their hands.
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  Do you consider this site Godly or Ungodly

  by Truthexplorer in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  over the years, i have seen a change in heart with the country i grew up in and the general view of what they perceive as how everyone should view things in relation to morality.

  a strictly religious country for centuries now forever changed within a short number of years.

  i have also seen the viewpoint on this site gradually change in many ways.

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  “Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we called it the word of a demon, than the Word of God. It is a history of wickedness, that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind; and, for my own part, I sincerely detest it, as I detest everything that is cruel.”

  Thomas Paine - The Age of Reason. From the Online Library of Liberty - The Writings of Thomas Paine, Volume IV ,Page 34

  “But the belief of a God is so weakened by being mixed with the strange fable of the Christian creed, and with the wild adventures related in the Bible, and the obscurity and obscene nonsense of the Testament, that the mind of man is bewildered as in a fog.
  

  “A man, by hearing all this nonsense, lumped and preached together, confounds the God of the Creation with the imagined God of the Christians, and lives as if there was none.

  “Of all the systems of religion that were ever invented, there is none more derogatory to the Almighty, more unedifying to man, more repugnant to reason, and more contradictory in itself, than this thing called Christianity.”

  Thomas Paine - The Age of Reason - From the Online Library of Liberty The Writings of Thomas Paine, Volume IV, Pages 189-190

  
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  After 2 years my parents make contact. The end result is that I promise them to cryogenically preserve ONLY their heads

  by paulmolark in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  it has been 2 and a half years since my departure from the religion.

  i was told by my parents from the start that i would never speak to them until i returned to jehovah dog.

  a few months later they told people they hoped i died before the end came, then all of this culminating in them telling my inactive / fading sister that they don't consider me a child anymore and they have given me up to satan.

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  Just curious Paul, if it's not too personal, were you disfellowshipped or did you drop out?