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  Child abuse or consenual relationship?

  by pratt1 in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  a few years ago my brother - law admitted that at 14 he had a sexual relationship for 5 years with the wife of an elder in his congo.. he was at 19 dfed for an affair he had with a fellow student.. he never told any one about the affair with the married sister, but now 10 years later, this sister and her unsufferable husband are planning to become assistant co. .

  my mother - law, who is still in the"lie" now knows about this affair and has made the statement that she has probable asked for forgiveness in her heart therefore the elders do not need to know of the affair.. my brother - law is going through his own issues and because of the way he has been treated ie.. shunned, basically disowned by most of his family, he wants to expose her and her husband who he believes knew about the affair.. i've recommended that he discuss this with his therapist and that he should think about why he feels the need to expose her now.

  by the way this sister is 2 year younger than his mom.

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  jaredg

  he should expose this woman for what she is. maybe getting it off of his chest will help his emotional situation.
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  What made YOU drop Christianity?

  by GetBusyLiving in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  after i read coc and left the dubs for a short while i considered myself christian.

  the way franz explained it, all that is required is to have faith in jesus and to love your neighbor as yourself and then you will be 'saved'.

  the more i started pealing away at the onion though the dumber the premise of someone dying for my 'sins' seemed, and i just lost faith in it altogether.

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  my dad asked me a similiar question. i told him that i had finally learned what it meant to put my faith and trust in god. i was going to live my left the best way i could and that was by loving my neighbor as myself. as for the rest i'd just let god decide.
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  What made YOU drop Christianity?

  by GetBusyLiving in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  after i read coc and left the dubs for a short while i considered myself christian.

  the way franz explained it, all that is required is to have faith in jesus and to love your neighbor as yourself and then you will be 'saved'.

  the more i started pealing away at the onion though the dumber the premise of someone dying for my 'sins' seemed, and i just lost faith in it altogether.

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  jaredg

  hey brooke...if i'm screwed and you're screwed maybe we should just be screwing together

  ok that was a bit lame
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  What made YOU drop Christianity?

  by GetBusyLiving in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  after i read coc and left the dubs for a short while i considered myself christian.

  the way franz explained it, all that is required is to have faith in jesus and to love your neighbor as yourself and then you will be 'saved'.

  the more i started pealing away at the onion though the dumber the premise of someone dying for my 'sins' seemed, and i just lost faith in it altogether.

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  doogie...good point. maybe i'll just call myself a musl-indu-itian-wicca-wicca-jew jew
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  What made YOU drop Christianity?

  by GetBusyLiving in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  after i read coc and left the dubs for a short while i considered myself christian.

  the way franz explained it, all that is required is to have faith in jesus and to love your neighbor as yourself and then you will be 'saved'.

  the more i started pealing away at the onion though the dumber the premise of someone dying for my 'sins' seemed, and i just lost faith in it altogether.

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  what if budah is the true savior....you're kinda screwed aren't you?
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  What made YOU drop Christianity?

  by GetBusyLiving in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  after i read coc and left the dubs for a short while i considered myself christian.

  the way franz explained it, all that is required is to have faith in jesus and to love your neighbor as yourself and then you will be 'saved'.

  the more i started pealing away at the onion though the dumber the premise of someone dying for my 'sins' seemed, and i just lost faith in it altogether.

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  when i realised that christianity doesn't have a monopoly on the pathway to god.
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  If God doesn't want brothers to have beards, why does it grow?

  by JH in

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  men have facial hair and women don't, and that's god who decided that.. so why can't brothers have beards or goatees.

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  you know what really gets me upset? shaving the beard is actually rooted in "pagan" worship and homosexuality. back in the day gay guys would shave their beard to look more like women. that's why isrealite men were comanded "not to shave the extrimity of their beard". man the WTS is so wacked out. they twist shit around to fit their own agenda and it sucks big time!!
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  My story

  by Chia in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i have posted this story before on some other boards, but after "lurking" for a long time here, i have finally decided to come out and tell my story.

  it is really long, so i'm going to tell it in a few parts.

  that way i can also tell if i'm boring everyone to death, haha!

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  welcome to the board chia...i look forward to your posts and getting to know you better. it's like one big loving family here. glad you came.

  jared
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  New member, question thats been asked many times, but how do you feel ?

  by Greyeyes in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i came across this site, and while still my upbringing says i should stay away from such site, i had to join.

  a bit of a background about me.

  i'm 31, my parents became witnesses when i was born so they could give me the best upbringing they felt possible.

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  welcome greyeyes...i just have one thing to say. your gf said...

  "If this isnt as close to the truth as possible, then there is no truth."

  she's right....there is no truth. truth is just a figment of your imagination based on each individual's own reality. once you and her realise that no belief system can be proven with out a doubt to be right or true then you will be better off. what we are left with are facts, and with facts we can form an OPINION as to what they mean. you will also relise that we learn new facts everyday which in turn mold our belief system. that's why i have vowed never to become stagnant in my belief system, which is exactly what the WTS asks you to do. just think about it.

  regards,

  jared
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  *Tears*

  by Krystal in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i am 20 years old and i left the organization when i was 17. there are of course many gorey details which i will not get into right now... but i just wanted to say how happy i am to have found this fourm.

  as many of you remember, we were always instructed not to read anything about jehovah's witnesses that wasn't written by the organization.

  well, that instruction stuck, and this is the first time i three years that i have dared to even look.. needless to say, i found some very disturbing information.

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  welcome krystal....do you say it "chris'-stal" like the champagne? anyway stick around and learn. you will probably spend the next week just reading and reading and reading. i know what you mean about how the society really pushes not reading any negative info about them and i always thought that was sketchy b/c truth should stand up to scrutiny. see you around.

  jared