The idea of a manifesto is a good one. While a lot of people will immediately toss it, I'm sure you'd be surprised at how many will actually look it over out of curiosity if they think no one will see them. It may sow a seed of doubt that will germinate at a later time.
ValiantBoy
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Update on my JC hearing...received the expected news
by SweetBabyCheezits inin case anyone's interested but unaware of my family's case up to this point, here's the original thread:.
http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/198852/5/sbcheezits-judicial-hearing-my-epic-fail-repost-for-ie-users.
so the elders requested a follow-up meeting last week but we were unable to meet at their set time and told them as much.
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What's Your Attitude Toward Jehovah's Witnesses?
by minimus indo you hate them?
do you feel bad for them?
do you not give a crap about them anymore??
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ValiantBoy
I sometimes miss being a Witness. My life is good now and everything, but I miss so many people and sometimes I miss the structured life. But only sometimes. I actually like most witness people. The organization I view just as I view all other religions. I don't hate it, but I hate some of things it does. I actually defend JW's when people say false things about them, but I don't make excuses for them and their wrongdoings.
The poster above who said you can never really get away from it is right. I've been out for 8 years and definitely don't want to go back, but I still think about it all the time. I even find myself looking up Kingdom Halls when I visit a new city. I probably just need therapy LOL
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Exchange of Literature between God's Organization and Babylon The Great
by garyneal ini read a similar thread concerning scars that a boy got from and alligator and from his loving mother and how that was related to scars in our life from satan and god (jehovah).
reading this and other threads here that shows how witnesses use material from "babylon the great" for spiritual uplifting made me think of an couple of experiences my wife shared with me during her field service.. .
one experience was when she was out in service with her dad.
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ValiantBoy
I was actually talking to my sister a few minutes ago and she told me she once reported the sister to the elders for taking worldly literature---we were such self-righteous little jerks :(
To answer your question, I talked to many preachers and preacher wives and some of them actually took the magazines on a regular basis, but none of them ever told me they used them in their churches.
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Exchange of Literature between God's Organization and Babylon The Great
by garyneal ini read a similar thread concerning scars that a boy got from and alligator and from his loving mother and how that was related to scars in our life from satan and god (jehovah).
reading this and other threads here that shows how witnesses use material from "babylon the great" for spiritual uplifting made me think of an couple of experiences my wife shared with me during her field service.. .
one experience was when she was out in service with her dad.
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ValiantBoy
There was actually a sister in my home congregation that would accept religious literature when householders offered it to her, reasoning that she couldn't expect people to take her literature if she didn't take their's. She once even referenced L. Ron Hubbard's Dianetics in a comment during the WT study. Thankfully most of the uneducated JWs in our small rural cong had no clue as to what she was quoting. She caught a lot of hell for trading literature from the elders and others, but she remains an active witness. She's actually quite a cool person and I like her more now that I'm not witness than I did when I was witnes---and I liked her a lot back then.
And even though it's totally unrelated and she was old enough to be my mom, she was a very attractive woman :)
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Getting my GED so I can go to college
by noni1974 ini've been trying to get my ged for a few months now.
i bought some books and have been working through them on my own.
i came to a road block working on my own, and i decided to go for free classes offered by my local school district.
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ValiantBoy
Good for you Noni; this is really awesome. Don't worry about being a little weak in math skills. I dropped out of high school to pioneer. A few years later an elder and his wife helped me get my GED and encouraged me to go to college. Even though I didn't finish my degree then, I went back a few years later. I'll graduate this coming May and will be going to grad school next fall-- despite being a little weak in math :)
It's all gonna work out for you because you're doing the right thing. Way to go!
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ValiantBoy
I was actually contacted by two people in the last few weeks who recognized me from my past posts. On the one hand it made me realize that I perhaps be more discreet in my postings, but on the other hand it was really really great to hear from both of them and to learn that they've both come to realize the truth about "the truth."
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What's your all-time favorite Song by musician ? Name Song and Artist
by flipper inflipper again.
personally my all time favorite song?
stairway to heaven by led zeppelin.one of my top favorite groups ,too.
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ValiantBoy
Ain't Got No...I Got Life by Nina Simone
or maybe Feeling Good by Nina Simone..actually anything by Nina Simone
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Jehovah's Witnesses on Facebook
by slimboyfat ini am surprised how many active jws there are on facebook.. has the society ever put anything in print discouraging facebook in particular?
would someone on facebook be viewed as "weak spiritually"?.
was facebook named in outlines of convention talks?
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ValiantBoy
I've seen many active witnesses with facebook profiles. I've also noticed that most Witnesses have locked their's recently. I've also noticed that some Witnesses, such as my aunt, closed down their facebook profiles that included witness and non-witness friends and then set up seperate witness and non-witness pages.
I actually do have a few active witnesses on my friends list. Some are family members and others are just Witnesses that have sent friend requests to me. One "sister" from my home congregation and I converse fairly frequently---but she's always been a bit of an independent thinker, a trait that made me dislike her when I was a Witness, but that makes me happy and gives me hope now.
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Is the WTBTS mistaken or deceptive?
by exwhyzee inwhen i look back at history, i see the great lengths people have gone to, to prove their devotion to god and to carry out what they though to be his will.. do you think the watchtower organization is truly trying to deceive people and cover things up or do you think they are honestly misguided or mistaken in some of their beliefs and policies ?
if so, what purpose would they have for doing this?.
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ValiantBoy
The Watchtower Society is deceptive. Many, maybe most, individual Witnesses are simple mistaken. I'm not sure that any individual since Rutherford has truly gotten wealthy off his leadership with the WTBTS, but power and control over the lives of millions of people is a strong incentive to keep your subjects in the dark.
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Are the Watchtower numbers right for membership?
by yalbmert99 inaccording to what appeared in written newspapers and that we can add up, the real number of people who assisted the summer district assemblies in the province of quebec, canada is : 13 500.. .
assembly at quebec city: 7000.
1st assembly at sherbrooke : 3500.
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ValiantBoy
A number of witnesses from western Quebec would attend the conventions in neighboring Cornwall, ON where four conventions were held with expected attendance of 16000.