Posts by Honesty

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Fading ... Do You Owe Witness Friends An Explanation?

by What Now? in

i'm curious about what you all think on this subject.

when my husband and i became irregular about a year ago, and then inactive around 5 months ago, i felt that it would be hypocritical to take advantage of the social side of the witness community if we weren`t going to meetings or in service.

we stopped entertaining (which we did quite regularly - theme parties, card parties, movie nights, big turkey dinners, breakfasts on holidays etc), and i slowly stopped accepting invitations for get togethers, playdates etc.

Honesty

What Now?,

Welcome to the reality of JW love.

I advise you to 'widen out' and find some new friends because every one of your JW 'friends' will eventually unfriend you on Facebook and everywhere else they are 'friends' with you.

I lost every JW 'friend' I had when I DA'd except for one and she had been fading for years, although I didn't know about it because we were in different congregations.

I have gained 10 times as many friends since leaving the JW's and every one of them is a true friend who have proved their friendship is genuine many times.

Hang in there and remember that the JW's are captives who have given their minds over to a publishing company that has them convinced hawking books is spreading the gospel of Christ.

25

Your Baptism

by Aunt Fancy in

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we have been going through our literature and throwing away a lot of it which feels great.

my hubby came cross the program from my baptism in 1986. the divine peace dc held in the astrodome in houston, tx.

he always wrote the attendance and the amount baptized so on that day there were 30,894 in attendance nd 531 baptized!

Honesty

wasblind, you just don't know what you missed by not getting baptised.

Congratulations on being too smart to get dunked.

Personally, I got rebaptised as a Christian after I left the cult.

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Advertising the District Assembly on the Radio

by RubaDub in

is this just a local practice to south florida or is it done in other areas too?.

i'm driving to work last week and on one of the most popular radio stations (primarily talk and politics) they were advertising the district assembly in west palm beach florida for next week.. it was about a 30 second spot and was the typical "everyone is invited ... no collections taken" .... etc.

etc.. is this common in other areas ???.

Honesty

'No collections taken..."

Wait until the visitors see the big brown "Contributions for the World Wide Work" boxes at the end of every session.

14

Remember, this is a "Discussion Forum for Jehovah's Witnesses"

by stillin in

the rest of us should remember that we are guests here and should mind our manners accordingly..

Honesty

I found out the truth about the U.N. on this site.

I printed out the emails between the Guardian and the Watchtower, the letter from the U.N. and the

Guardian newspaper articles and showed them to 2 elders after they denied the allegations that the WTBTS had

affiliated with the U.N. in any way.

They called the P.O. and he said that there had been a letter from the WTBTs regarding it but couldn't remember

where he had placed it in his files (uh huh).

This is definitely a discussion forum for JW's who are interested in TTATT.

19

Was the New World Bible Translation Committee pressed for time?

by I_love_Jeff in

....when they did not include a translation of the hebrew scriptures in your special kingdom interlinear bible?

perhaps it is easier to manipulate the new testament to fit with their twisted jw teachings?.

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Honesty

Julia,

Burn the calendar!!!

It's demon infested.

The demons always find their way into an apostate's home and are particularly fond of living in and around shit from Jehovah's organisation so they can make sure no one takes in the good spiritual food it provides through the faithful and discreet slave AKA Octopope.

30

The Orwells are so naughty! Filthy little apostates we are.

by Julia Orwell in

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my husband has started playing violent samurai video games again!

he's grown a beard!

he watched lord of the rings!.

Honesty

I hope you are happy.

Because you have left Jehovah's organisation who taught you that Jesus is stunt double Michael and the angel of the abyss in charge of the locusts AKA 144,000 mentally disturbed individuals except for Octopope at Bethel who came out of the pits of hell and rejected the faithful and discreet slave who were appointed in 33 A.D. uhhh... 1919 A.D., he is going to have to kill you.

Congratulations on your progress!!!

35

my latest UK car registration plates

by bigmac in

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Honesty

Way to go Malcolm!!!!

Love the three 6's he he he he he.

12

Two MORE Classes of Christians at the local Kingdom Hall

by Terry in

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