Posts by rebel8

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I Married Someone This Past Saturday!☺️

by minimus in

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i haven't married anyone in over a decade but i was the officiant for a wedding this past weekend.

Going to a bad place when i die

by 060702015 in

i've thought and said too much to ever gain jehovahs forgiveness and love if i want to be a christian again.

i made a topic on my unforgivable sin and blaspemy of the holy spirit.. i feel saddness everyday having no relationship with god, no religion and fear of the afterlife.

even when i was kid i feared death and the end of the world.

rebel8

The great thing about religious belief systems is they are 100% flexible. If your belief system is causing you pain, simply revise it.

(Even better: Free yourself from all of it.)

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this strange photo is from a pioneer school graduating class in russia.. they're hiding their faces because, supposedly they don't want to be identified as jw's and run the risk of persecution.. the picture is very telling.

this very well illustrates how the pioneer school aims to make everyone into faceless drones whose minds are copies of wt indoctrinated automatons and not really individuals.. another thing i noticed when looking at the photo is that some aren't following the instructions to obscure their faces--some peek their eyes above the illuminators textbook and one is quite clearly exposing his profile as if he was talking to his neighbor in mid-shutter instant.. third, it's in russia, and the jw's aren't too welcome there.

communist oligarchs were quite acquainted with indoctrination and brain-washing techniques, they didn't like competition.

rebel8

I am not saying in a normal line of thinking they should be showing their faces, but within the borganization this type of behavior (hiding oneself) is unheard of. Am I missing something? Why take the pic at all...

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Are they trying to make me feel like crap?

by StarTrekAngel in

so i have not reported a single hour of fs or family worship in over 8 months.

have not given a single comment in a meeting for over a year.

a few weeks ago, my brother in law, who is an ms now, approached me.

rebel8

Years after I was inactive, I was asked to go in fs. I hadn't been to meetings or participating in any way. Weird.

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Going to a bad place when i die

by 060702015 in

i've thought and said too much to ever gain jehovahs forgiveness and love if i want to be a christian again.

i made a topic on my unforgivable sin and blaspemy of the holy spirit.. i feel saddness everyday having no relationship with god, no religion and fear of the afterlife.

even when i was kid i feared death and the end of the world.

rebel8

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Need Help! JW Grandmother (may be) Going to Court for Visitation

by Expanded-Mind in

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friends

i am hoping someone may be able to give me some guidance on behalf of my son.

my ex-wife, who remains a jw, is threatening to go to court to get visitation with our 5 year old grandchild.

she had regular visits with our grandchild, but when my son (no longer a jw) and his wife (never a jw) found out that his mother was teaching their daughter the jw religion without their permission and even telling our grandchild not to tell their parents... well to say the least, that was a game-changer.

rebel8

I have no advice, but wish you well in your efforts to protect this child from a dangerous cult and family-splitting behaviors.

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Sad about the past

by Gorbatchov in

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today i feel deep sad memories in my brain.. visiting bookstudy with my parents, doing my best giving answers at 7 years old.. doing fieldservice every weekend and on an evening.. i could write so much story's about it.. we believed from our hart and listened to what the organisation told us.. it makes me sad, what a scam it became.. today i can't stand it.. i can cry about it.

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gorby.

rebel8

Those kind of days suck, don't they? Take care.

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Have you ever shunned anyone after leaving the borg ?

by Clambake in

this isnt particularly a jw question but if anyone knows the world of shunning it would be ex-jws.

i have a friend who about three years ago had an abortion and i havent been too friendly with since that happened.

i havent said anything or done anything rude to her.

rebel8

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2001 Symposium on "Problems of Bloodless Surgery" in Moscow - Sherri Ozawa explains the HLC and bloodless medicine clinics

by OrphanCrow in

a few years ago, prior to researching the field of "bloodless medicine", i was under the mistaken impression that bloodless surgery was a field of medicine that sat "outside" of the watchtower influence and operated as a part of mainstream medicine.

since that time, i have discovered that "bloodless medicine" has been founded and maintained by the watchtower society itself.

bloodless medicine is the watchtower society - it has been organized by people who have been trained by the wts and therefore, the bloodless industry is controlled by the wts.

rebel8

I don't think that the pope should be involved in telling doctors how abortions should be conducted, and I don't think that the pope should be invested in birth control pills.

I had not thought about it from that perspective. Thank you--very apt.

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We can all do something that will take less than 30 minutes and cost under $5--anonymously! Simply look up the major hospitals near you and find out the name of the Chief of Anesthesiology. Print this out and mail it to him or her. Do this once a year. “Jehovah’s Witnesses and Blood” brochure

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JW ended a relationship with me

by V1922 in

my jw boyfriend just ended a year and a half relationship with me.

it came out the blue and i'm deeply hurt by this because we were so compatible.

he did it right before the big annual gathering he is presently attending.

rebel8

"We were so compatible"--you thought so, based on the persona he presented to you, which was not honest.