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  What was your breaking point?

  by soundbox_guy in

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  okay, i'm new as you all probably know, so my question may have been discussed several times in the past.

  i'm just curious as to when some of you came to the conclusion that enough was enough and that you didn't want to attend the meetings anymore or not be a jw.

  was it in field service, at home, at the hall?

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  I guess I've just always been an apostate.
  

  My mom told me recently that when I was 10 years old I was always asking her questions about concepts in the Watchtower studies that she couldn't give a good answer to. It actually got her doubting things so she told me never to question the society. I found a typo in a Kingdom Ministry and after pointing it out to my older brother I got the same lecture. "Be very careful, that's what APOSTATES do!" It scared the shit out of me at the time.
  

  
  
  Then there was the Revelation book. What a pile of cultish bullshit that was. I would comment at the bookstudies and exagerate points that were so obviously bullshit, and nobody was the wiser. That book made me laugh out loud so many times. It was better than watching the Simpsons. After a while even I lost enjoyment of listening to the bullshit in morbid facination and faded. But I always tried to make it all fit together for my friends and family, so I came back and the cycle continued like that for over ten years.
  

  The very last straw for me was thinking long and hard about the societies permission of certain blood fractions. I just knew its policy was totally f*cked and I COULD NOT be a part of it anymore. My friends were starting to freak me out too, the insanity of their bouts of spirtual self righteousness then crashes of drunkeness and self-loathing were too much.. it was scary. I took the plunge into educating myself and I've never been happier. I'm open to learn about the world, to be critical and make sure that what I believe is, in fact, what I believe.
  

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  “We don’t even want to be in the company of unbelieving men or women.”

  by frogit in

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  2. beliefs

  so said the watchtower july 15 2005pages 8,9,!

  this article is about single and contented in jehovahs service.

  the quote (we dont even want to be in the company of unbelieving men or women.

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  I really feel sorry for them too frogit. In my old hall there were so many young married couples it was stupid, and they all pretty much hung out with each other exclusively. If you didnt choose to give up your life at 18 and get married you were pretty much SOL. The mentality is so cultish that these same insanely young married couples would poke fun at some of the singles for not being married. Such a funny little community.

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  It took them exactly 13 hours from the news broadcast ...

  by kwintestal in

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  ... to ring at my door.. i didn't answer, why bother.

  i got a phone.. kwin

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  For a while I thought you were a sincere poster with doubts, defending the Watchtower AFIN. I'd like to be able to think you are a troll now at best.

  If I saw you in person I'd spit in your face.

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  Underated Joys

  by PaulJ in

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  2. humour

  what things are absolutely fantastic, but go unrecognised?

  rubbing your eyes.

  having a good scratch.

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  the smell of an old book, wood.

  rain in the middle of a jog.

  freshly squeezed veggie juice.

  the first kiss.

  coffee, mozart, sunrise on a patio.

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  Question for agnostics and/or atheists

  by sonnyboy in

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  i've just recently declared my agnosticism to myself and to one other person in my life.

  i don't necessarily consider myself an atheist because i believe there very well may be some higher power or non carbon based entities in existence with 'godlike' abilities.

  my question is, do you still find yourself secretly believing in god?

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  Excellent post Funky. A conversation I had with a dub recently went somewhat along these lines. He actually stated that "Satan could have planted all of those bones there." What do you say to that? What do you SAY TO THAT?

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  Why the Jehovah's Witness religion will live on and on

  by free2beme in

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  i have read in here a few post, and would expect to see these kind of post.

  where people hope the religion will end some day and perhaps then all that has happened as a former witness to us, will be stopped and the witnesses will see the error of their ways and life will be good again.

  i never think they will end, and here are some reasons why i think this way.. third world countries thinking.

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  It reminds me of a conversation I recently had with a witness. I went through it all, why the witnesses are wrong, all the false prophecies, all the dishonesty in their publications, the real meaning of the faithful and discreet slave parable, the bogus 607 B.C date, the murdurous blood policy, the unchristian practice of shunning, the myth basis of bible accounts, the unbreakable wall of evidence supporting evolution. I explained how its not hard to get out of the Dubs, and that their is plenty of support out there these days. His reply? "But I don't want to leave the Witnesses."
  

  
  
  That was that.
  

  
  
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  Daniel's Prophecy, 605 BCE or 624 BCE?

  by Little Bo Peep in

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  2. bible

  hello all, i've been reading your site for a couple of years now, and have found, for the most part, it to be very helpful.

  i must say, at first i was very "scared" at what i might find, but contrary to what i grew up learning, there is a "wealth" of information outside of the watchtower organization.

  i haven't attended meetings for about two years now, and like many i've read about, have spent many hours researching, telling myself "i'm not wrong for searching", and doing more research.

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  As we all know, without 1914 they can't claim to be chosen as God's channel in 1919. I can't see how they can get around this. There are going to be guys like scholar that will accept any old bullshit they spew but if they get rid of 1914 there would be a mass exodus of dubs. Its the hinge that holds all of the smoke and mirrors together, and its a lie.

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  Where can I read the history of the WTBS? Russell, Rutheford, etc....

  by Buck in

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  is there an authorized book?

  is there a website that has really good, accurate info.

  iam not looking for something that just smears the history.

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  "Crisis of Conscience" by Ray Franz.

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  To shun or not to shun...

  by kj in

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  has there been any "new light" recently about how to treat disfellowshipped family members?

  my cousin got dfd a few months ago.

  i noticed that she had been spending quite a lot of time at my aunt's (her mother, an active jw) home.

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  Maybe try relating the account of the prodigal son to your mom, about how when he was repentent his father just accepted him back right away.. no groveling to the pharasee's elders to get back in. It might make her think a bit.

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  The verdict is in! Michael Jackson is . . . . . . . . NOT GUILTY!

  by nicolaou in

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  2. current

  the full list of charges faced by michael jackson at his child abuse trial.

  count 1: conspiracy to commit child abduction, false imprisonment and extortion between 1 february and 31 march 2003. not guilty.

  count 2: lewd act upon a child between 20 february and 12 march 2003. not guilty.

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  Maybe Jehovah's holy spirit helped him after all..?
  

  
  
  GBL