ab, knowledgeable JWs are going to claim that other religions that have some of their doctrines did not have "the whole truth". They will also say that all the sects of Bible Students that started popping up during the Rutherford takeover are to be considered rebels to "God's organization" simply for separating themselves from it no matter if they believe in the exact same doctrines.
Village Idiot
JoinedPosts by Village Idiot
-
15
Christadelphians the closest to JW?
by ab.ortega ini am curious as to what current religion is similar in beliefs and organization to jw's.
i've only come as far as christadelphians.
are there any others you know of?.
-
-
Village Idiot
-
17
Spy camera wanted, motion activated, wireless, etc.
by FatFreek 2005 inokay, it doesn't have to be a spy camera.. it must be something wireless that send signals to my android smart phone.
and some of those spy cameras seem to have fairly good features but they are also scary.
their descriptions are obviously translated from some other language and i would worry about decent customer support.. i'd simply like to be notified the moment a certain cabinet door (actually, two doors) is opened.
-
-
Village Idiot
Is your child getting into the cookie jar?
-
45
Potential Muslim convert
by StopTheTears inabout a month ago, i purchased arabic/english gospels of john that contain a commentary for muslims.. .
i went to one of my neighbors and spoke to him and gave him one.
fast forward to today, my brakes need done so i took my car to the shop, walking back into my street i saw my friend abdullah outside.. .
-
-
Village Idiot
For a moment there I thought that it was StopTheTears that was going to convert to Islam. Whew.
In any case, Islam teaches that Jesus will return in the last days to assist the Mahdi (Muslim messiah) in his war against the Muslim boogey man who's the equivalent to the Christian Antichrist. I guess that gives you both some common ground.
-
-
-
Village Idiot
Persistent means continuous. Does that mean that the Watchtower allows for occasional "spiritual association"?
-
17
Have a pretty interesting story to tell.
by Dexter ini am new to this site, was always told by my elder father if the site accidentally appeared on the comp screen it was satans doing.
anyways, i am 28 y/m who had the unfortunate life of being the last of three kids to be born ins.
my oldest sibling lasted about 8 years before she was d,f.
-
-
Village Idiot
Welcome Dexter.
By the way, what happened to your sister after she was thrown out?
-
13
Someone Turned Off the InterTubes
by Simon injust a heads-up in case we disappear too, there's a massive ddos attack happening that has knocked a lot of major sites offline:.
http://gizmodo.com/this-is-probably-why-half-the-internet-shut-down-today-1788062835.
things like this can have knock-on effects as other systems become overloaded, so far we seem ok so fingers crossed we stay that way..
-
-
Village Idiot
Donald Trump found the "any Key"
Donald Trump is too stupid to find his own reflection.
-
13
Someone Turned Off the InterTubes
by Simon injust a heads-up in case we disappear too, there's a massive ddos attack happening that has knocked a lot of major sites offline:.
http://gizmodo.com/this-is-probably-why-half-the-internet-shut-down-today-1788062835.
things like this can have knock-on effects as other systems become overloaded, so far we seem ok so fingers crossed we stay that way..
-
-
Village Idiot
It's the Russians I say!
-
41
I don't think I will be able to escape the JWs ...
by nevaagain ini know i will get a lot of backslash on this forum for saying this, but as it looks like, i won't ever be able to escape the jws.
i have been a born in, third generation jw and awoken in one way or another (i joined this forum 15 years ago) for a very long time.
but i have adapted to the jw lifestyle to a point where it does not bother me anymore.
-
-
Village Idiot
nevaagain,
So what I am trying to say is, I woulnd't live any different as a worldly person.
Don't mean to be rude but how could you live with yourself if you were to convert a 'worldly' person to your religion? Would your conscience not feel guilty for introducing him/her into a destructive cult?
-
18
Genital Warts Because our Ancestors were Banging Neanderthals
by cofty inresearchers have found evidence that modern genital warts – otherwise known as the human papillomavirus (hpv) – were sexually transmitted to homo sapiens after our ancestors slept with neanderthals and denisovans roughly around 100,000 years ago.....
-
-
Village Idiot
A 100,000 years ago? I'm a little confused. Although we started migrating 60,000 years ago from Africa it wasn't until about 45,000 years ago that our species colonized Europe where Neandertals lived (There is no evidence of them elsewhere). There may have been other "archaic" species in Africa who, when we began to expand in and out of the continent, might have infected us.
Yet again, we might have caught it from Neandertals in the ever changing border between our two populations (?).
-
10
Week 16 Since My Disfellowshipping - Update
by pale.emperor inhi guys.
i could really do with you advice regarding my current state since being disfellowshipped 16 weeks ago.. since being given the boot (i did try to fade but it failed) ive been on a rollacoaster of emotions.
lately im getting frequent headaches, tiredness and i have about 3 or 4 thoughts running through my mind at all times.. im passed the sadness phase of discovering it's a cult.
-
-
Village Idiot
pale.emperor,
What i'd like to know is, is there a list of phases one goes through before they're "recovered" from this cult?
It's probably different with everyone but I went through the following:
- Rage, at the fact that I had been duped.
- Later on my rage settled down but I still had resentment.
- Support in a "phone tree" of ex-JWs (This was in the 1980s before the internet).
- Eventually I outgrew my negative emotions and had become curious in an objective manner on their past history.