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  The Secret is out....but nobody cares

  by MrTheocratic in

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  i've been looking on this site for some time but never posted.

  i'll give a little about myself, but not too much.

  i'm a ex-bethelite ( brooklyn )and currently serving as an elder (10 years) (thinking about stepping down) on the service committee.

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  Village Idiot

  Welcome to the forum MrTheocratic.
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  Who is like the Wild Beast (Russia) and who can do battle with it? Rev 13:3,4

  by scotoma in

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  continuing my posting to the blind, deaf, & conventionally minded ... you may be out of the jw's but you are still thinking in a box.. now that russia is back it is clear why powerful countries are wary of doing battle with it.

  putin is getting his way.. sorry, ukraine, you can't beat putin - bloomberg view.

  jan 28, 2015 - ... restrain russia's incursions into ukraine, but they can't defeat putin.

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  @ scotoma,

  "Continuing my posting to the blind, deaf, & conventionally minded ... You may be out of the JW's but you are still thinking in a box."

  I try not to judge a post by its opening line but I could tell that it's downhill from there on.
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  Thoughts on My Exit

  by losingit in

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  it has been some time since i last posted or even visited the site, and i wondered why that was.

  life continued to be difficult without a network of friends to look forward to seeing.

  the novelty of being disfellowshipped wore off, and the mundane advanced as it did every day.

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  Village Idiot

  Based on her actions and blasé attitude I would say that Hannah is a psychopath. Stay the hell away from such people no matter what.
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  Why attack?

  by newqatarjob in

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  as someone brought up as a jw and been an elder and been disfellowshipped (twice!!!

  ) i find it difficult to understand why ex jws have to attack the religion, yes religion, not cult or sect.

  i am no longer disfellowshipped just do not want to practice anymore.

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  @ WheninDoubt,

  "Village Idiot: Thank you for the pdf, I already have it. I read the inside story of Jehovah witnesses, apostles of denial, and countless more. That’s how we learn, but to be effective, view all sides of the issue, by not relying on any one thing. That’s how free will works."

  No problem but I posted that PDF for the sake of the newbies and lurkers here.

  "I read the inside story of Jehovah witnesses, apostles of denial, and countless more."

  Crisis of Conscience is different than most other anti-JW books in that it is an account of a man's experience and a man that was actually part of the power structure. The rest are mostly doctrinal apologetics.

  That’s how we learn, but to be effective, view all sides of the issue, by not relying on any one thing. That’s how free will works."

  Most people on this forum have seen all sides of the issues that's why they're here.
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  Why attack?

  by newqatarjob in

  1. jw
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  as someone brought up as a jw and been an elder and been disfellowshipped (twice!!!

  ) i find it difficult to understand why ex jws have to attack the religion, yes religion, not cult or sect.

  i am no longer disfellowshipped just do not want to practice anymore.

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  @ Finkelstein,

  "I like to ask Whenindoubt what are you doing here if its strongly advised by the GB to not come to ex-JWS apostate web sites and discuss religious faith issues ?"

  Maybe he's disfellowshipped and thinks that he can come here without breaking Jehovah's command.

  I know that several Witnesses on this site have had that question posed to them but never gave an answer.
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  Why attack?

  by newqatarjob in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  as someone brought up as a jw and been an elder and been disfellowshipped (twice!!!

  ) i find it difficult to understand why ex jws have to attack the religion, yes religion, not cult or sect.

  i am no longer disfellowshipped just do not want to practice anymore.

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  Village Idiot

  A pdf version of his book is here.

  
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  Why attack?

  by newqatarjob in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  as someone brought up as a jw and been an elder and been disfellowshipped (twice!!!

  ) i find it difficult to understand why ex jws have to attack the religion, yes religion, not cult or sect.

  i am no longer disfellowshipped just do not want to practice anymore.

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  @WheninDoubt, "Curious, did any of you meet RAY?"

  Go back to my post four posts behind this one.
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  Why attack?

  by newqatarjob in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  as someone brought up as a jw and been an elder and been disfellowshipped (twice!!!

  ) i find it difficult to understand why ex jws have to attack the religion, yes religion, not cult or sect.

  i am no longer disfellowshipped just do not want to practice anymore.

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  WheninDoubt,

  "And that would be your understanding Village Idiot, I hope for your audience sake, you speak with first hand knowledge."

  The fact that you said "...but didn’t bother to write down the reason why." is a clear indication that you have not bothered to do the most basic research, further more you criticize others for not having "first hand knowledge" but you do not have any such knowledge yourself.

  Bottom line, he did explain why in his book and you're erroneous in stating that he didn't.
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  Why attack?

  by newqatarjob in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  as someone brought up as a jw and been an elder and been disfellowshipped (twice!!!

  ) i find it difficult to understand why ex jws have to attack the religion, yes religion, not cult or sect.

  i am no longer disfellowshipped just do not want to practice anymore.

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  @ WheninDoubt,

  "Raymond Franz wanted to change the WT doctrine to befit him, not the members, and when he got kicked out for that, then he wrote a book explaining how evil that organization was, but didn’t bother to write down the reason why."

  That is absolutely false and he did explain the reason why!

  One of the 'brothers' started a witch hunt against him because he abstained from certain votes on doctrinal matters, neither voting for or against. And such voting indicates that the Governing Body chose doctrinal matters by vote. They could vote for or against.

  He was not kicked out for his voting record. When the witch hunt was instigated they questioned him about his beliefs. They did not find anything with which to disfellowship him.

  They finally disfellowshipped him because, after he had been kicked out of Bethel with his wife and no job, he started working for an inactive elder who was a friend of his. That employer was also his landlord since Franz had no place to stay in except for a trailer on his friends property. He was witnessed, by his accusers, to have been sitting down at a restaurant with him. The Watchtower had recently doubled up on its stand against disfellowshipping by expanding shunning of both disfellowshipped and dissociated ones. His having a meal with his employer/landlord had taken place before that more stringent law was passed but they chose to apply it retroactively.

  Get your facts straight you obviously have not read anything on the subject.
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  Why attack?

  by newqatarjob in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  as someone brought up as a jw and been an elder and been disfellowshipped (twice!!!

  ) i find it difficult to understand why ex jws have to attack the religion, yes religion, not cult or sect.

  i am no longer disfellowshipped just do not want to practice anymore.

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  @ WheninDoubt, "To Village Idiot: Where do you think the WT gets it material? From global publishing."

  I don't see how that relates to anything I said.