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  it takes time...

  by googlemagoogle in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  today i visited a (ex)jw christian forum, the first one i registered to when i needed to talk about my doubts and thoughts.

  i read my posts from 1 year ago, when i was really deep into research about the bible and the canon in particular.

  now it will soon be one year ago that i finally accepted that there is no jehovah.

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  googlemagoogle

  Isn't that an oxymoron?
  
  yes... but there are more oxymorons in dubworld.
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  it takes time...

  by googlemagoogle in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  today i visited a (ex)jw christian forum, the first one i registered to when i needed to talk about my doubts and thoughts.

  i read my posts from 1 year ago, when i was really deep into research about the bible and the canon in particular.

  now it will soon be one year ago that i finally accepted that there is no jehovah.

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  googlemagoogle

  no, it didn't only take one year...
  
  i actually had unanswered questions all my life, i just always dismissed them. i, as many "religious" people, always had to think in frames, could never think things to the end, as we were told that god watches our inner thoughts.
  
  my way from more or less zealous jw to atheist inactive jw had several steps, each of them took some time, up to more than a year.
  
  1.) not being satisfied with the answers the org provides. the reasoning-book is just plain insulting. also not feeling comfortable about the exclusivity - as i couldn't accept that people who do good, but just think different in a few things would be killed in big A.
  
  2.) looking for alternatives on the web. the "where else could one go" type. basically searching for an unitarian group. i was overwhelmed by the options, like the many groups of bible students, congregation of yhwh, christadelphians and so on. which very much opened my eyes, as i saw that jws are just another group amongst many.
  
  3.) not trusting the wts anymore, but still being a christian. that was probably the toughest time, as i actively wanted to show people where they are wrong... i even wanted to take from the symbols, but didn't have the balls.
  
  4.) finding errors in the bible and trying to explain them away. having endless discussions on forums. reading lots of books on history. dismissing parts of the bible, then accepting the whole collection can't possibly be gods word. that was the most interesting time, and i'm still very much into that.
  
  5.) trying to feel comfortable with the label agnostic, trying for the last time to contact god, but without success. which then lead me to accept the label atheist.
  
  that very last step made me find inner peace. but until that last step it's a pretty hard time. and there's noone around to assist. and as i said - it takes time...
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  Blondie songs

  by littlerockguy in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  since there are some obvious blondie fans here, what are some of you guy's (or girl's) favorite blondie song.

  some of mine are:.

  fade away and radiate.

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  googlemagoogle

  the blond one who always posts these "things you wont hear this weeks wt-study"-threads also sings?
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  it takes time...

  by googlemagoogle in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  today i visited a (ex)jw christian forum, the first one i registered to when i needed to talk about my doubts and thoughts.

  i read my posts from 1 year ago, when i was really deep into research about the bible and the canon in particular.

  now it will soon be one year ago that i finally accepted that there is no jehovah.

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  googlemagoogle

  today i visited a (ex)jw christian forum, the first one i registered to when i needed to talk about my doubts and thoughts. i read my posts from 1 year ago, when i was really deep into research about the bible and the canon in particular.
  
  now it will soon be one year ago that i finally accepted that there is no jehovah. and that the bible is not inspired by anything but human thoughts. i remember the sleepless nights and the arguments i had for the last 3 or 4 years. the talks with the elders. the way they couldn't answer my questions.
  
  i now am an inactive atheist jehovah's witness, who tries to miss as many meetings as possible, but cannot always, due to family. i don't know where i'll be in one year. i believe my situation won't change that soon.
  
  what i want to say is - it takes a effing lot of time and it's a really hard struggle inside to leave the ideas you were taught for years. and when you finally freed your mind, you probably can't understand why a thinking person could still believe in those dumb ideas. however, it took a lot of time for yourself, so it will take a lot of time for someone else too.
  
  don't try to push someone out of the org. that's not the way it works. those still in are not dumb. maybe they already have those sleepless nights. and they just need more time. a lot more time.
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  Google adv "Meet single JW just like you"

  by mad max in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i can't understand why they have put this ad up on this site, as it is only people who are not jw who look at this site (and others) so why advertise "meet single jw just like you on this site".

  i thought maybe it was for single ex jw, so went into that site, and low and behold it was for jw only.

  they were saying something like this "... we would like to say thank you so much brothers for this site as i have meet my wife/husband etc ....and thank you so much jehovah..".

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  because it is WRONG for an unbaptised person to date a baptised brother.
  
  says who? don't get baptised... saves you a whole lotta trouble. glad your crush is stopping too, congrats.
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  Male or Female

  by love2Bworldly in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i have been reading over the forum today and something hit me.

  because i don't look up everyone's histories, there are people i assumed were either male or female--partly based on their avatar and partly based on the type of comments they make.

  well guess what folks--i was shocked to find out i was wrong about a few people.. does anyone else out there decide that certain posters are male or female, and then find out they're wrong?

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  googlemagoogle

  The cross on the female icon is the thing we try to poke with our pokey thing.
  
  it's a pole, not a cross. didn't you learn that?
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  The JW new world system scum

  by greendawn in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  we now know that the new system of things as imagined by the jws is a myth, a poison that's meant to seduce the unaware into the org so that they can then be controlled, abused, and exploited.

  but during the time when you were taken in by the myth what sort of things were you imagining about this delightful new world and your participation in it?

  or perhaps deep down you never really believed it and ignored it.

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  googlemagoogle

  i always thought that the world as it is now is a much better place than the wt paradise.
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  Catholicism

  by Chia in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i went to a catholic church this weekend with my boyfriend.

  he was raised catholic and was thinking about going back to church, but after the service decided that his belief system was now too different for him to attend services anymore.

  as for myself, it stirred an unexpected reaction in me.

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  who's Hosanna?
  
  you sure it wasn't "rosanna"? by toto?
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  What Can You Do To Hurt Jehovah's Witnesses The Most???

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i would love to see jws "get out of her" and save anyone from getting involved with the witnesses.

  what do you do to make this a possibility?

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  noone's talking about hurting jehovah's witnesses as persons, but the organisation. the threadtitle may be misunderstood, a better title would be, how to hurt the WTS.
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  King Herod, and his "slaughter of the innocents"

  by stevenyc in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  matt 2:16 "then herod, seeing he had been outwitted by the astrologers, fell into a great rage, and he sent out and had all the boys in beth lehem and in all its districts done away with, from two years of age and under, according to the time that he had carefully ascertained from the astrologers".

  does anyone know if there is any historical evidence to support king herod's mass killing of children under the age of two, when christ was born.. i can't find any.

  that whole chapter seams to me not to be so much a historical report, but more a justification.. .

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  so perhaps the masacare was limited to the immediate area
  
  no, it never happened... herod killed most of his own children and family, but there is no historical evidence for the bible tale.