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  What does the book "What does the Bible really teach?" really teach?

  by googlemagoogle in

  1. watchtower
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  what does the book "what does the bible really teach?

  " really teach?

  i'm a assembly 2005 survivor.

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  Goldminer

  The book teaches us that the WTS really doesn't have anything new to teach,they're just re-hashing the old stuff under a new format.
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  Hi everybody

  by Cellist in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  we "faded" more than a decade ago.

  at least, we began to fade.

  it took a few years before they gave up on us.

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  Goldminer

  Hi guys!

  Welcome! Glad you joined us,lots of interesting topics here.
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  Told my nonJW brother-in-law I'm done with the JW thing

  by ithinkisee in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i am slowly ramping up the wheels of apostacy and have begun telling a few people to help brace the fallout of me telling my wife.

  i have many relatives that aren't jws - both on my side and on my wife's side.

  i've already told my dad (who was never a jw - to which i am eternally grateful), and some nonjw business people that i am also friends with.. my wife's brother was never a jw.

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  Goldminer

  Good for you buddy!

  As for me,the more intelligent,reasoned-out material I present my wife,the more "depressed and sad" she gets.It's a very hard situation.I hope you succeed and please keep us up-dated.Thanks.

  Goldminer
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  Do you think any GB Members will have the courage to pull a 'Ray Franz'?

  by GetBusyLiving in

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  2. friends

  do you think any current gb member could have the courage to come clean and leave the org.

  a la ray franz?

  gbl

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  Goldminer

  Nobody among jehovah's witnesses is doing anything to reform their many problems;they're all... Waiting ...on Jehovah,that's why anybody with a real conscience will eventually leave the jw's,willing or unwillingly.

  Goldminer
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  Reason for getting disfellowshipped.

  by greendawn in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  what were you all disfellowshipped for?

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  perhaps a frequent topic overall but i never happened to notice it.

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  Goldminer

  I'm not df'd or da'd,I just don't attend meetings anymore.I don't claim to be a jw and I've written a list of 30 questions that some elders have seen through my wife.Nobody's talked to me yet.

  I have the same attitude as uncle Gary B.,if they come after me,I'll disfellowship them for teaching lies as "truth".

  Goldminer
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  50 years from now, How will The Watchtower Change?

  by VM44 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  do you think that the watchtower organisation will still be in existence 50 years from now?.

  if it is still around, will there still be thousands left of the annoited, partaking each year at the memorial?.

  how will the watchtower have to change in the next half century?

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  Goldminer

  My wish is that the WTBTS no longer exists 50 years from now.
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  The Return of Ozzie's Weekend Polls - # 139

  by ozziepost in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  a note from the publishers:

  when her majesty some years back spoke of her "annus horribilis" she was not alone!

  ) of us have years like that!

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  Goldminer

  10.

  I figured there to be some truth to those stories.
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  My wifes struggle

  by gringojj in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  hi friends.

  well its seems my wife has hit a standstill with the dubs.

  some of you may know my situation, but i guess its all relative anyway.

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  Goldminer

  Hey there!

  I wish my wife was willing to look into the religion a little closer.I've told a lot and showed her many things from the WT that don't make sense but she's still clinging to a religion that doesn't make her happy.As far as having love among themselves,that is a real joke.The sister who is studying with your wife is a real hypocrite.She's getting hours,return visits and a bible study off your wife's back and she's trying to force to attend meetings to keep her study,basically black-mailing her.Since when do jw's tell people they'll stop the study if they don't attend meetings?Most of them are ready to study for 10 years with you as long as they can count their time.

  As far as the elder stopping in,I'll bet it was in the morning service.Trying to look genuine but really looking for some easy time to fill in his morning,he was out anyways so why not stop in and make it look like he cares.

  My wife asked me for a list of questions that I had so I wrote up 30 of them about 2 months ago.She's called a few elders from distant congregations who didn't give her any answers to them and one finally told that if I didn't have the truth in my heart it didn't matter what they gave as answers.Sounds like an easy cop-out to me.

  I would recommend that you purchase the books Crisis of Conscience and In Search of Christian Freedom and read them both,if you haven't already done so.After reading those 2 books you will be convinced that the WTS is not the truth.

  Goldminer
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  I am new here, former JW left years ago.

  by out of the box in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i want to discuss my experiences with the witnesses.

  how it began: i was recruited during the time i was escaping from a violent husband to a shelter.

  a witness came to my door as i was preparing to move during the day without him knowing (while he was at work).

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  Goldminer

  Welcome out of the box!
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  Am I doing this right?

  by RichieRich in

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  2. friends

  she did this when her parents were going to be able to support her, but then her dad lost his job etc.

  and shes out on her ass.

  so here's our convo... and this was mid way in, the first part is irrelevant... .

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  Goldminer

  You did good Richie,at least you got her thinking.I'll bet you 2 years from now she won't be pionneering and bitter that she's got no skills to advance herself.If you get another opportunity to talk to her just keep asking her those questions that will make her think.Even after you're done talking she'll still be rolling this stuff in her head and digesting it,give it some time and have fun.

  Goldminer