Posts by jaredg

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I'm an Aries, pleased to meet you!

by Pleasuredome in

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i was just wondering if our posts on jwd show our star sign characteristics?

i dont know much about star signs but there are people on here who do.

i'm sure sirona knows, as she's into witchcraft (my wts training comes in handy to pigeon-hole people lol).

jaredg

i'm scorpio...woot!

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Preaching Doom and Gloom in October?

by Sassy in

my ex husband (who is dfd but not a professsed apostate) told me yesterday that in october there is going to be a big push for preaching doom in service.. like the last chance to get people in before the end.. .

has anyone else heard this?.

i assume either his brother who is a dub or his mother have passed this on to him, in order to scare him to come back quick before everyone dies.. .

jaredg

oh i want to hear more about this!

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Could someone search the internet and trace your name back to this site?

by Netty in

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how would that work?

i know that if they typed in jehovahs witness or whatever, and this site came up then they could surf the site and may happen to stumble on your posts and find you.

but what i dont know is, say your name is jane doe, they type jane doe in google, or whatever they use to search, and jane doe comes up with posts you have made to this site.

jaredg

damn looks like i would be fuxored if someone came looking for me. my handle is my first name and last initial. hahahaha....oh well f*%k 'em!

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AHA! Moments. When you were a JW; what struck you the hardest counter?

by Terry in

sooner or later every jehovah's witness encounters an intelligent person with facts at their disposal who can unload something that causes a doubt.

naturally, you defend against it.

but, the wind has been knocked out of your belief-system however briefly.

jaredg

my "AHA" moment was in the KH during the SM. there was a talk about the blood issue. as i sat there all by myself in the back of the KH (i was df'd atthe time) and followed along reading scriptures i realised that i just don't agree with the interpretation being explained on the stage. i thought long and hard and made up my mind that i just did not agree. my idea of a loving god would not permit such and action. and if life is so important why wouldn't god want us to use whatever means available to stay alive. i'm worth more to god alive than dead right?? then i started thinking about other things that i didn't agree with like only JW's will survive, disfellowshipping, not being able to read apostate lit (i figured what harm is information right?). so i started doing my own research and found a lot of dubs and x-dubs that felt the same way i did. eventually i had to be truthful w/ my parents and tell them that i don't believe it's the truth and i'm not going to get reinstated. and that was that.

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A Short Story I Wrote, About Witnesses

by SYN in

i know i haven't posted anything substantial here for a while, but damnit, this idea just grabbed a hold and wouldn't let go until 4500 words later!.

if you like it or hate it, please post a comment.

also big thanks to valis for allowing me to host stuff on his ftp.

jaredg

i believe, i believe...great story

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Please help! ( I have a question?)

by bsylva in

my question is this,.

and she loves me as well.

however i was baptised as a catholic as a child.

jaredg

bsylva,

let me give you some info fron another perspective. i was a jw who got involved w/ a non-jw. for over 2 years while dating i had hopes of her converting. i was even willing to mqarry her as a non-jw thinking that if we got married that i could get reinstated since i would no longer be living in sin and once she met all of my family and friends that she would convert. i realize now that my hopes were just dreams. she broke up with me b/c she is a very smart girl and had the balls to leave someone she loved for her well being. i am so glad she did. after our break-up i was determined to get reinstated. i started going back to meeting after not going for over a year. i then realized how much mind control i had been under. i had doubts and finally had enough guts to come here and do some research on my own. now i'm am back with the love of my life and things are wonderful. THE BEST THING YOU CAN DO IS GET HER OUT OF THE JW CULT. if you can't do that than it is better for you to leave. sorry man i know this is really really really fucking hard. best of luck!

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Dad said JW's number 6.5 million and are growing -- can anyone verify this?

by Gopher in

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i had one of my infrequent phone conversations with my jw-elder-father yesterday.

he's been "in da troof" all his adult life, over 5 decades now.

it's all he knows.. so naturally, on those rare occasions when we talk, he launches into a "come back into the truth" soliloquy.

jaredg

86.4% of all statistics are made up on the spot

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Opinions on a letter i am sending my family

by jaredg in

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hey guys.

both my mom, dad and sister have asked me to write them with my reasons and concerns for leaving the wts.

this is what i wrote them.

jaredg

thanks everyone for the replies. i wrote my dad but forgot to svae it so i could post it here. in a nut sheel i told my dad that i disagreed with him and said that the WTS claims to be a prohet by definition without actually calling themselves one. then i posted the following quotes. afterward i asked him to explain to me how the WTS is not claiming to be a prophet.

*** w79 9/1 p. 29 The Royal ?Shepherd? of Bible Prophecy ***
Unlike the clergy class, those of the Jeremiah class have been sent by Jehovah to speak in his name? ? True, the Jeremiah class back up their message by quoting the words, ?This is what Jehovah has said.?
*** w79 11/1 p. 25 Divine Judgment Against the False Prophets of Christendom ***
. Whom, then, did Jehovah send and who are the ones that speak in his name, Christendom?s clergy who prophesy oppositely, or the Jeremiah class of today? Future events will identify the truthtellers.
*** w56 8/1 p. 463 Jehovah?s Message Against Gog of Magog ***
As Ezekiel was merely the spokesman used by God, so also are those today who are privileged to speak in the name of Jehovah as his message-bearing witnesses.
*** kj chap. 4 p. 66 Commissioned to Speak in the Divine Name ***
24 Why, though, are all these facts of history brought to our attention? It is to show the fulfillment of prophecy. Jehovah has found and commissioned his modern-day ?Ezekiel.? It is a composite Ezekiel. It is composed of those dedicated, baptized proclaimers of God?s kingdom, who have been anointed with His spirit for their work. (Isaiah 61:1-3) It is manifest that in the year 1919 the invisible heavenly organization of Jehovah, like the celestial chariot seen in Ezekiel?s vision, rolled up and stopped, not before Christendom?s advocates of the League of Nations, but before the anointed proclaimers of the heavenly kingdom of God in the hands of Jesus Christ. From atop this celestial chariotlike organization Jehovah commissioned this dedicated, baptized, anointed class of servants to speak to all the nations in His name. Thus, like Ezekiel, they became Jehovah?s witnesses.
*** w55 5/15 p. 305 Jehovah?s Channel of Communication ***
. Thus Jehovah?s earthly channel of communication is identified. The earthly channel is either a prophet or a collective prophetlike organization.
*** w55 5/15 p. 314 Christian Channel of Communication ***
20 What of Jehovah?s Christian channel of communication today? Which of the hundreds of sects and denominations of those who claim to be Christian is Jehovah?s spokesman today in the earth as his divinely appointed and organized channel of communication? ??Only the remnant of Jehovah?s anointed witnesses.?1 John
*** w56 8/1 p. 467 Delivering Satan?s Death Notice ***
AS THE previous article stated, Jehovah?s witnesses, of all people, are the ones commissioned by God to deliver his special message just prior to this world?s end. The message is one of doom directed against Gog of Magog, that is, Satan the Devil, and against his allies. And there are very good reasons why Jehovah God in these ?last days? passed over all others and chose what at the time was a small and obscure group of people to speak in his name and by his authority as his witnesses. Whom else can God trust to speak for him?
*** w56 1/1 p. 32 Announcements ***
. What a privilege to be serving with Jehovah?s channel of communication and to have the joy and pleasure of inviting others to receive the water of life!
*** w57 6/15 p. 370 Overseers of Jehovah?s People ***
7 Let us now unmistakably identify Jehovah?s channel of communication for our day, that we may continue in his favor. ??..It is vital that we appreciate this fact and respond to the directions of the ?slave? as we would to the voice of God, because it is His provision.
*** w58 2/1 p. 79 Cultivate a Good Mental Disposition ***
We must always remember that we learn the truth from Jehovah?s channel of communication, the ?faithful and discreet slave? class. (Matt. 24:45-47) We receive of his spirit by our continued association with his channel.