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  A Great WTS Article

  by AshtonCA in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  hey all, i have been doing a lot of research on my own now that i'm no longer in contact with my mother.

  i can't believe how much she is still in the 'truth' even though she left 10 years ago.

  everything that she has been "learning" over the last 10 years after our departure really isn't any different than it was when we were still in.

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  Tithing

  by AshtonCA in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  okay, i have looked all over this board and i can't find anything on tithing.

  actually, i tried to search for it, but i can never get the search thing to work.. anyway.

  jw's are against tithing, but when i look it up, other religions have scriptures that say we are supposed to.

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  Bible Prophecy of 9/11

  by AshtonCA in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  was wondering if anyone else knew 9/11 was going to happen before it did?

  my mother, when leaving the org.

  back in the early 90's began researching the bible (not the nwt because it was too flawed), she used the kjv and the niv, she also used strongs and a bible that had both greek and hebrew in it right along side the english.

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  Is Wearing a Cross wrong?

  by AshtonCA in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  ever since leaving the org 10+ years ago, i have often wondered about wearing a cross and if it is wrong to do.

  i think the jw's see it as an idol, and i do know that the baptists actually pray to the cross because after i left the org, i became baptist for 2 years and they did pray to the big cross on the wall.

  i'm not sure i believe that praying to the cross is such a good thing to do, but is wearing one as a symbol of my belief wrong?

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  I was Molested by my CO grandfather

  by AshtonCA in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  i was molested by my grandfather from the age of 3 to 7. he was also molesting his daughter (my aunt) and maybe others.

  it was covered over and my entire family was actually shunned when we went to the elders when i was 18. i did not tell anyone about it until then because my grandfather had me believing our relationship was special and it was our little secret.. when confronted, he of course denied it.

  my mother even spoke up of a time when he had tried to molest her when she was 8 months pregnant with one of my brothers.

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