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  converting to catholic

  by SloppyMcFloppy in

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  hello i was wondering if any ex jw have converted to catholic?

  i have been tossing the idea around a bit and wondering if it was woth it from personal experience?

  thoughts?

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  ihunt

  Hello,

  The members of this forum hold a wide variety of beliefs, and you'll likely get a wide variety of answers to your question from them. The one thing we all have in common, however, are our experiences in a high-control religion and the struggle to make independent religious decisions. It seems strange to me that a person would exit an environment such as the wtbts and then continue rely on other people for information about religion and spirituality. What about Catholicism do you find appealing?
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  Singapore does the right thing

  by jdubhub in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  http://blogs.reuters.com/faithworld/2015/11/25/singapore-slashes-publication-bans-but-not-for-jehovahs-witnesses/

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  ihunt

  I wouldn't say they are necessarily doing the "right thing". Banning literature (of any kind) is a dangerous slippery slope, and I feel that their are better ways to counteract the jdubs teachings than to censor people's writings.

  Also, it feeds their persecution complex - remember, that last days are close! :P
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  ATT: WARNING

  by EJ257 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  please be aware of everything that is happening around the world at this moment in time.

  this goes to anyone, ex-communicated, removed, serving, believer and non.

  at this point in my observations i have realized many religions/ideologies know there is some sort "end of time" or a transition into a new order of living in this earth.

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  ihunt

  Sparky, I think someone should throw a trademark on that "I MEAN IT". It's real catchy when used like that.

  I MEAN IT
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  "Most women would prefer to be stay at home housewives. Women's lib did alot of damage to women!"

  by purrpurr in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the above is a quote from a jw female relative.

  this was in response to a discussion about the suffragette movement ( and the movie about it that's currently in cinemas).

  she seemed to think that it would be so much better if women were just daughters/ wives/ mothers and didn't go out to work and have career's?

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  ihunt

  Let's break this down into a non-gender based argument, shall we?

  A) I would argue that most PARENTS would like to spend as much time as possible with their children, especially when they are young.

  B) I would argue that most PEOPLE would prefer to have some career where they are able to apply themselves and feel rewarded.

  C) I would argue that most PEOPLE, when indoctrinated over the course of their lives to believe that they are inferior to a different group of PEOPLE, will internalize and perpetuate those doctrines.

  Just sayin, there's certainly no "womans' place" or even a "mans' place".
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  ATT: WARNING

  by EJ257 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  please be aware of everything that is happening around the world at this moment in time.

  this goes to anyone, ex-communicated, removed, serving, believer and non.

  at this point in my observations i have realized many religions/ideologies know there is some sort "end of time" or a transition into a new order of living in this earth.

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  ihunt

  Attempting to stir up paranoia within a group of ex-doomsday cultists? I like your style.
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  For the Supporters of Those Who Love Jehovah

  by lovesjehovah in

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  2. friends

  i am jehovah's witness, despite some of the questionable teachings, crimes, and other outlandish behaviors of specific people affiliated with the religion.

  i know that my relationship with jehovah is not influenced by any outside factors.

  i do not condone any crime.

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  ihunt

  From the OP,

  "i am jehovah's witness, despite some of the questionable teachings..."

  This line strikes me as awfully strange. As others have noted, a lot of the terminology used isn't correct. No long term witness would ever say "I am jehovah's witness", but rather "I am one of jehovah's witnesses", or "I am a jehovah's witness". Also, I feel that this correlates with his(her?) other posts (the clouds, the rain, the drugs...). This person may legitimately believe they are, more or less, a prophet of jehoobah.
  
  This is a link to a study that was conducted in the 1990's regarding mental illness and religious tendencies, and there are others available online.
  http://ps.psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/appi.ps.52.5.660
  
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  Songs that have a JW meaning?

  by GrownMidget in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  do you have any songs that you have listened and then thought that it also works from an apostate point of view?i have always liked this song, but one time realized that i was thinking how it sounds awfully familiar, if you think about those who have lost family/friends due to leaving.this song was originally made/written because one of the actors died in a car accident.

  movie was still being filmed and many spots he was needed were never finished with him.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgkafk5djsk.

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  ihunt

  Lauryn Hill - Mystery of Iniquity.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wc3WYkqH2E
  
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  Farewell

  by EdenOne in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  "don't be dismayed by good-byes.

  a farewell is necessary before you can meet again.

  and meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.

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  ihunt

  If people continue to post on this site in the manner Viv often does, and without moderation from the site admin/moderatorals, I believe that this

  "and provide a friendly, tolerant and informative environment where you can ask questions, share information and make new friends."

  should be edited to more accurately describe what this community is (has become), a place where long time posters will lampoon and harass anyone with a differing opinion, where moderators do not moderate, and where empathy is more scarce than it is inside a doomsday cult.
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  Antimatter not so different after all ... poor old Freddy wrong again,another light dims in the JW heavens.

  by fulltimestudent in

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  back in the years after ww2, newly discovered antimatter was perceived as destroying ordinary matter, so in one of old freddy's insane nightmares (forget which book, but it was the early 1950's) he envisioned yhwh-jesus hurling antimatter at the hated humans who refused to submit to him, and destroying their bodies bit by bit.. now, his vision dims:.

  antimatter not so different after all.

  scientists help make first measurement of antiproton attraction.

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  ihunt

  To clarify, the linked article does not claim that antimatter and matter do not annihilate one another (in fact, it reinforces such an idea). What it does claim is that the forces between antimatter's elementary particles, in this case antiprotons, are very simar to the forces between normal matter particles (protons). This leads to questions about the relative abundance of matter and antimatter in our universe, namely, why there is so much matter and (apparently) so little antimatter.

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  This has already been clarified, sorry for the repost
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  Heroes

  by done4good in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  in jw land having such was verboten.

  who are some of yours and why?.

  1. nikola tesla - greatest inventor ever, and the only one i know of who was a true scientist as well.. 2. elon musk - there is a reason he chose the great inventor's name for his masterpiece work...also has a serious pair.... 3. jim morrison - brilliant and mad poet.. 4. mike krzyzewski - the epitome of success.. 5. maya angelou - brilliant humanistic poet and writer.. 6. albert einstein - do i actually have to qualify this?.

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  ihunt

  To name a few, (and my favorite work from them)

  1) Leohnard Euler - Euler's identity

  2) Albert Camus - Exile and the Kingdom

  3) Friedrich Nietzsche - The Antichrist

  4) John von Neumann - First Draft

  5) Paul Dirac - Dirac Equation

  6) linus Torvalds - Linux

  7) Carl Guass - Modern mathmatics, matrix algebra

  8) Linus Pauling - bonding theory

  9) Dante Alighieri - The Divine Commedy

  10) Lou Reed - The VU