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  How Long Did It Take To Finally Leave The Organization Once You Realized It Was Really Not The Truth?

  by minimus in

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  it actually took me a few years to finally leave the organization so i was mentally out for a while before i simply stopped all meetings altogether.. how long did it take you to finally make the break?

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  blondie

  @WC

  Here is a quote from a 2006 WT Comments about how I left at the announcements in the morning on the first day of the circuit assembly. I left in 2001 never to return.

  I can say that when I stopped attending all meetings at the KH and conventions and assemblies that my despondency disappeared. How quickly the oppressive fog lifted. No more hearing that I was an elephant conditioned to stay chained to a post, that non-JWs were only corpses, and that Jesus only picked up shiny new quarters and left the dirty pennies on the sidewalk. No more wondering why the love of God and Jesus weren't seen at the WTS gatherings. If you haven't already, why not take a vacation from the WTS grind?
  
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  Post convention grumps..

  by zeb in

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  hm of you with a divided house have to put up with this?

  in this house its walking a mine field.. also our little cat has been gone for some 24 hours and her absence is also my fault apparently..

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  blondie

  I can say that if that is the case, now that I knew that that my cat was missing, I would be calling the place that lost pets are taken as soon as they open. I had a dog and cat both who would dart out the door in a second. Both would disappear. The dog ran as fast as possible until she got somewhere she didn't know at all (the short term is "lost.) Fortunately, some kind person would take her to the animal shelter and when I called and she was there, I went down and picked her up. We finally got her a tag on her collar with her name, and our phone number. (we finally got a chip put in her with that info on it).

  Neither one was ever allowed to run loose outside. But the desire to be outside can be strong in animals.

  Sorry, zeb.
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  Another comment from an Advanced Reader for S. Identity vol. 2

  by vienne in

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  i'm almost done reading it myself.

  i'm impressed but since my mom was one of the writers, i am prejudiced.

  here is the latest comment.

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  blondie

  Thanks for sharing, vienne. It has been a long road with a good ending.
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  Cain and the Kenites

  by peacefulpete in

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  i'm at work, so i'll be brief.

  the kenites are mentioned many times in the ot, usually associated with a semi nomadic pastoral herding lifestyle and metal work, centered/originating in the south of israel but found throughout the land as resources required.

  they are regarded as a branch of midianites which is relevant for the introduction of yahweh to israel called the kenite hypothesis (another time).

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  blondie

  It can be like untying the Gordian knot.

  Gordian knot. A complex knot tied by a Greek king. According to legend, whoever loosed it would rule all Asia. Alexander the Great, according to some accounts, undid the Gordian knot by cutting through it with his sword.
  
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  How Long Did It Take To Finally Leave The Organization Once You Realized It Was Really Not The Truth?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  it actually took me a few years to finally leave the organization so i was mentally out for a while before i simply stopped all meetings altogether.. how long did it take you to finally make the break?

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  blondie

  I left the same day and never went back. Right in the middle of the first day of a circuit assembly.

  No meetings, assemblies, conventions, memorials, weddings, receptions, funerals, visitation, special events, etc.

  I have never regretted it. That was 20 years ago.
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  KH sale resolution, alternative

  by waton in

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  to the be read from the podium 2 weeks after the initial proposal, command from gb/branch :.

  we the central hall*** congregation resolve, in the forced sale, that the hall at no.

  1 first avenue *** be bought back from wtbt corp inc. and continue to be used by the current members.

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  blondie

  Going against the WTS wishes, is going to have some negative feed back. Even if you end up being right, you are wrong to question WTS decisions. They will say they have the overall picture which an individual congregation does not have.

  The WTS is the parent religious non-profit, which gives them the legal authority to dissolve any lower non-profit in its organization, in the US.
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  Cain and the Kenites

  by peacefulpete in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i'm at work, so i'll be brief.

  the kenites are mentioned many times in the ot, usually associated with a semi nomadic pastoral herding lifestyle and metal work, centered/originating in the south of israel but found throughout the land as resources required.

  they are regarded as a branch of midianites which is relevant for the introduction of yahweh to israel called the kenite hypothesis (another time).

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  blondie

  I have always wondered how the WTS came up with its interpretations, not by their "holy spirit inspired" utterances by by independent reasoning based on non-jw sources for sure. They also take whatever supports their thesis sometimes quoting their sources, sometimes just saying "one Bible scholar" with out naming them or the source of the material (almost always a non-jw person/source).

  I give you credit doing the research through such a maze of information.

  Blondie
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  Need help in finding some information regarding the Adam and Eve tale.

  by Tameria2001 in

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  i am finally at the point in my life i no longer believe in the tales of the bible.

  my husband feels for the most part that it too is stuff made up.

  there are just a few things that he wants to get cleared up, and one of those being the story of adam and eve.

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  blondie

  https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/73244/tree-life-asherah-her-snakes

  Asherah by Leolaia
  
  
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  Cite one scripture in the N.T. that chargers Christians to be witnesses of / for Jehovah.....Not one.using K.I ./ WTB&TS

  by smiddy3 in

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  i think the wtb&ts publication titled "the kingdom interlinear of the christian greek scriptures" speaks for itself.. the word for word translation of the greek into english.. that publication does not even contain the name or word jehovah either in hebrew letters or greek letters anywhere in the word for word texts.. their is not one scripture in the n.t.

  where christians ,followers of jesus christ are instructed to be witnesses of jehovah ,however there are something like twenty scriptures that explicitly state followers of jesus christ are to be witnesses of, for, and about jesus...

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  blondie

  I should have added a qualifier, where Jesus used the name Jehovah or equivalent outside of the scriptures he quoted.
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  See you in a couple weeks

  by Biahi in

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  leaving today for rome, and then a mediterranean cruise.

  will not be online, i will miss you all.

  hopefully, when i get back, the wt will have declared bankruptcy.

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  blondie

  Biahi, when you get back let me know. I'm sure you are having a great time. The closest I ever was to the Mediterranean was my visit to Italy.