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  newbie seeking others thoughts

  by brokenfairy in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  basically i have been reading the bible lately & doing extensive research on the web and have come across many things in my search...any imput put on various scriptures or sites i would appreciate.... .

  first of all i found more than a few religions that resemble the teaching of the jw's...so can they honestly say they are the only ones with the "truth"?

  scriptures i came across in my studies this week (if you have any other translations of these same scriptures please quote them in ur response i have 2 kjvs as well as the nwt that i am using...thanks!

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  Diets, exercise and misery

  by Mulan in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  well, it's getting near to the time that i determined to begin a weight loss program again.

  (after the holidays).

  i am really sick of diets, and hate the idea of it all, but i have to do something.

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  1,200,000 Publishers left between 1993-2002

  by Bluegrass Tom in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  i have been bothered for some time by the sneaking suspicion that the publisher increases published annually are never realized in a tangible way.

  therefore, i sat down and studied a 10 year period of what has been published by the society to see if i could get a warm and fuzzy feeling about these increases.

  after hours i have realized the following:

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  The Global Flood

  by coldfish in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i've just read an intersting article on the flood to do with dates and whether is was truly global or a regional flood.. http://www.commentarypress.com/essay-flood.html.

  my father used to be an elder for many years and the flood was one of the things that made him walk away not just from the jw but also belief in the bible.

  he was hung up on issues like the flood taking place about 3500 bc and how that fit in with the pyramids.. i don't know much about egyptian history or the ages of the big pyramids, but his reasoning was if the flood wiped out every human on earth except noah etc then at 3500 bc there were only 8 people on earth.

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  fell away.......wanna come back...please help.

  by Tiggerchick1012 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  ok, so here's the situation.

  i am 24 yrs old.

  married and have 1 child.

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  The need for "Fellowship"

  by maybesbabies in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  it seems to me that a recurring theme for exiting witnesses is not their questions of faith (most have researched mightily before coming here, or had their own crisis of conscience), but the lack of fellowship that will happen if they leave.

  it feels good to be part of a group, to feel wanted and needed.

  the problem arises when that fellowship is not based on you as a person, but by what image you present, or how much you "produce".

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  Education - How encouraging low self esteem creates better witnesses.

  by BigG in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  funny title you might think but consider this point and apologies if i am covering old ground here...its not intentional.. i was raised by my mother who was and is a devout jw and as such until i was 20 (10 years ago) i was the same...trying my best to fit into the social environment i clearly was not made for but benefiting from good wholesome association with fellow brothers and sisters (note the sarcastic tone...make what you will of it).. althought at the time i didnt realise it but i was what others consider intelligent and quite academically able; i had a mind like a sponge and would spend hours in the jw library at the kh (which surprisingly enough contained non jw literature)...it was this that i read and would digest endlessly where i could.. one of those books (why it was there i dont know), was what i later undertood to be criminal law reports concerning cases that had gone before the courts.

  my childish thirst for knowledge was intrigued...(i was then about 12).

  the legal arguments i hadnt a clue what they meant but the facts surrounding these crimes were good reading.. i then knew i wanted to be a lawyer and that was what i said when an elder asked me what i wanted to do when i grew up; i mentioned trusting this man that i had read a book in the kh library and found it interesting...and that i wanted to be lawyer...i remember him smiling and saying that it was better to pioneer rather than seek a highly paid job...personally i didnt know what he meant properly but i felt a bit sad...and demotivated...i later in the week went back into the library and found the book had gone...!!.

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  DID ANY ELDER DO anything questionable?

  by badboy in

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  2. friends

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  i have read ozziepost's post on those tasmanian elders who raided a sda church.. does anyone know of similiar behaviour by elders?

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  Do you know of any "baptized" JW's that committed suicide or attempted?

  by booker-t in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i remember one of my childhood friends was found dead and the police said he committed suicide.

  i just could not believe it because my friend was a "devout" jw almost franatical about it.

  now years later since i have seen both sides of the coin i am beginning to wonder if my friend did indeed kill himself.

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  What are good versions/translations of the Bible?

  by coldfish in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  hi i'm new to this site.

  i was raised a jw, i'm now 28, and left about a year ago.

  the only bible i've ever looked at is the new world translation.. objectively.. how good do you think the nwt is?.

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