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  Working on a Sunday morning!

  by lurkernomore in

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  it's coming up to 4 months since our last meeting.

  apart from three visits to the house in the first 4 weeks we've not heard a peep from anyone, except for two 'encouraging' cards from two older ladies in the local hall.. a couple self-righteous, not even exemplary witnesses, have taken it upon themselves to pre-emptively shun me on a couple occasions, which i found rather funny.. anyway my grandad needed some minor building work doing to the front of the house, which my brother and i happily agreed to do for him.

  his house is on a main road running up the hill to the kingdom hall.

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  Interesting conversation today with a very sick JW

  by joe134cd in

  1. watchtower
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  i was talking to a jw friend of mine who is going for tests to see if she needs evasive surgery.

  she was describing to me the look on the surgeons face when she told him she won't except blood.

  i just felt sorry for her.

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  I started off with the vaccination policy quotes after a JW friend of mine insisited I get a flu shot. They weren't happy to see that. Moved onto organ transplant quotes and they were appalled. Somehow, they couldn't see the correlation between those misstatements and the potential for a doctrinal change in the blood policy.

  I was told, "Unlike those policies, the blood doctrine is scriptural."

  So were vaccinations and organ transplants.

  I have come to the conclusion that many Jehovah's Witnesses have a death wish.
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  Joined 11/29/2002

  by lisavegas420 in

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  yep, i joined 12 years ago today.

  just thought i'd do a drive by and a shout out.

  i'm still happy to be free.

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  Think about all the good people you have met and the good relationships you have made since leaving satan's cult.

  The cult members who have shunned and talked bad about you and your loved ones don't deserve you.
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  Awarded a Badge of Honour - I'm an 'Apostate'

  by Joe Grundy in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  (i never was a jw).. just had a d2d (fs) visit.

  older guy (said he's been in since 1958 and is an elder) with a younger guy (20 or so).

  looking out at the street i obviously drew the short straw because further down the street was a pair of not unattractive younger women jws.

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  Honesty

  Congratulates Joe, you caused his cognitive dissonance to jump into hyperdrive.

  The last time I spoke with a Jehovah's Witness elder at my door (I live in a different 'territory' than when I was a jaydubya), I invited him back for another 'meaningful' discussion of the bible and Jehovah's Witnesses.

  That was 7 years ago and I haven't seen or heard from him since.

  I think it may have been because I opened my bible to Acts 15 and showed him why Paul and Barnabas went to Jerusalem.

  His lower lip dropped 3 inches when he read that some so called Christians from Jerusalem went to Antioch and stirred up trouble with the Christians in Antioch by telling them they couldn't be saved unless they had their penises cut.

  Then, he went apeshit crazy when I asked him about the Watchtower Society's 9 year affiliation with the United nations when they teach that it is the image of the wild beast referred to in Revelation chapters 9 & 13.
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  At This Point In Time Would You Ever Subject Yourself To A Judicial Committee?

  by minimus in

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  i certainly wouldn't.

  and if the elders wanted to have a meeting with me, i would respectfully decline.

  if the elders wanted to deal with you, would you talk with them?.

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  Knowing what I know now...

  YES!

  I like to watch Jehovah's Witnesses squirm when their demon inspired doctrines are examined.
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  IS THIS SICK? LYING TO DISABLED CHILDREN!!

  by Bloody Hotdogs! in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  has anyone watched the videos for children on jw.org?

  i feel sick.. in one video a little girl dreams about paradise: the blind can see again, the deaf can hear again, and of course, she gets to hug a cute little panda cub.

  not until the end of the video is her wheelchair revealed.

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  What is the title of that masterfully designed video?

  I want to show it to some people who have been recently contacted and coerced into a study with the only true Christians in the world.
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  do other religions change doctrines like the wt society does?

  by sowhatnow in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i just wondered.

  i mean ok, the catholic church seems to make 'adjustments' more or less , by accepting previously held prejudices.

  against certain things, like gays, or birth control, or rather tolerate it more, but is that a genuine change of doctrine?.

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  Mainline Protestants have believed the same doctrines since the Protestant Reformation in the early 16th century.

  On the other hand, cults like the Jehovah's Witnesses are constantly changing their doctrines because they have a history of constantly going beyond Scripture.
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  NOT on JW.org.: Jehovah's Witnesses butt of talk show jokes..again.

  by Balaamsass2 in

  1. social
  2. current

  democracy & freedom watch.

  reporting on the state of georgian democracy.

  related:.

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  If she had photocopied and shown some of the hatred towards other denominations that the 'faithless and diseased slackers' have printed over the years in the Watchtower magazine do you think she would have been criticized?
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  Went to a non-Witness memorial service

  by CaptainSchmideo in

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  2. friends

  this was a service at a southern baptist church for the father of a teacher at my son's school.

  we had developed a friendship with her over the past few years, and i had met her father, knew about his terminal illness, and i wanted to pay my respects.. i have to tell you, it was a better show than the average jw "ceremony".first, lots of personal tributes about the man they were memorializing.

  uplifting stories, funny stories, serious stories, describing a real life individual that many in that room knew and were going to dearly miss.. lots of singing!

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  Honesty

  Captain Schmideo, the first nonJW memorial service I attended blew me away because it was not an infomercial for the 'faithless and diseased slobbers' and the deceased was actually remembered (memorialized) and not with just a sentence or two bragging how many years he had pioneered or served as an elder.

  The one thing that struck a sour note with me was the assertion that was made by one of the ministers (twice) was that if anyone in the audience was not a "Christian", they needed to be prepared for a destination after death that was not nearly as fun and joyful as the deceased had just moved onto. And of course, I am sure that "Christian" meant "Southern Baptist".

  As a member of the Southern Baptist Convention I can assure you that Christian does not mean Southern Baptist. It means a follower of Christ. The original Greek word was a phrase that means "Little Christs" and was used by nonbelievers as a demeaning and derogatory phrase.

  I have a friend who was a Jehovah's Witness but left the cult arfter she was saved one night talking on the phone to one orf her Christian friends. She became a member of the Southern Baptist Convention. A few years later she joined the Catholic church because she liked the worship services' rigid structure and had been familiar with a religion that incorporates a rigid structure in everything for all of her life until she became a Christian.

  She is still a Christian because denomination doesn't matter to a Christian. The only difference in Christian denominations is the methods they use in their worship services. FYI, the Methodist denomination was named after the method of worship that John Wesley with his brother Charles Wesley and fellow clergyman George Whitfield founded which is known as Methodism.

  The message is the same - salvation by grace through faith in Jesus, not from works.

  It's really nice that you paid your respects to your teacher friend's father.
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  Just saw the new JW.org sign on the local KH sign

  by Still Totally ADD in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i work about a block from the local kh and i notice there was no jw.org sign on it.

  i said to my wife are they not following the cults rules on this.

  will just yesterday as i was driving home from work there it was on the corner of the kh sign jw.org it was about 1 foot x 1 foot in size.

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  Honesty

  One of my friends who is a having a sometimes 'Bible' Study with a uberdub pioneer (until I show her some of the JW's craziness in their own opublications which she shows to the braindead JW and the study stops until the JW needs to make her hours for the month) told me about the JW.ORG sign at the kingdom hall about 2 miles from her home.

  Her words, "Those people are nuts!."