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  Is a jw condemned for lack of belief.

  by Crazyguy2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  if someone lacks belief is that somehow mean he’s done in their eyes and no way back?

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  carla

  If he doesn't tell anybody his personal beliefs and can still spout the company line he's all good. (from what previous posters have said)
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  Jehovah's house for Sale?

  by JohnTron72 in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  when i drive by the kingdom hall i grew up attending at but, was sold directly to a church, i get angry.

  the elders who handled the sale didn't even remove the watchtower shaped bricks on each side of the sign near the street so, now they advertise for a baptist church.

  how many times as i grew up i heard things like: you should not do work ( such as clean carpets for a church) you wouldn't want to work at a cigarette making plant or a facility that makes bombs for the military.

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  carla

  What would Jesus say?-

  Hallelujah! one less building holding false prophets and teachers. One less place using my name to hide pedophiles, protect abusers, and one less to break up families with their ungodly shunning policies. And the list could go on........
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  Grace Gough ( RIP ) left the JW cult in her 70s and went on to help 1000s to escape the cult

  by Not_Culty in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yj7ilnoxvu4.

  she helped me.

  sent me my first copy of crisis of conscience (free) grace has been featured on many talk shows, including sally jesse raphael, raising awareness of support for cult abuse survivors.

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  carla

  She sent me some tapes years ago and I sent them on to a cult ministry in Colorado. I think it was CO but I no longer remember the group, sorry.
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  Besides Everlasting Life What Do Jehovah’s Witnesses Offer To Anyone?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i have been thinking... why would anyone want to join the religion or actually stay in the organization.

  i understand that people don’t want to lose their loving family and dear friends so some stay in.

  but what does anyone really ever get because they are jehovah’s witnesses??.

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  carla

  @Vidiot,

  They don't even do that much anymore do they? Don't they go to the doors with their devices and tell people to go the website now? What are bird owners to do now?
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  They are Still preaching against careers!

  by LongHairGal in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i saw on another forum a post somebody made about the melbourne assembly.

  it seems the religion is still knocking full time jobs/careers and saving for retirement.. you would think at this point in time - after thousands of bethelites were sent home; many thousands of rank & file jws are at or near retirement age with no preparation - that the religion would change its tune, but no.

  they are still stubbornly sticking to their guns on this issue.. i’m sorry for any young jws who listen to this.. i’m just glad i never followed their advice and certainly would not want to be in any congregation surrounded by these desperate people!.

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  carla

  I wonder if some financial advisers out there could do well with the ex cult communities? How to build wealth or at least a bit when you leave a cult later in life!
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  Besides Everlasting Life What Do Jehovah’s Witnesses Offer To Anyone?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i have been thinking... why would anyone want to join the religion or actually stay in the organization.

  i understand that people don’t want to lose their loving family and dear friends so some stay in.

  but what does anyone really ever get because they are jehovah’s witnesses??.

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  carla

  I see Bourneidenty has already covered what Simon said, "They only offer the promise of everlasting life, that is a long way short of actually getting it." - I thought they only have a hope of everlasting life if they are associated with the borg and then only if they are 'good enough'. Is this still correct? I remember in their literature it said something to the effect, "you must be associated with the jah's organization to have any hope...." Maybe I missed some new light?

  They offer black and white answers to everything, no need for pesky research, thought and effort. You also have immediate 'friends', never mind they are completely conditional to your standing in the cong.

  You get to feel superior to everyone else except when you don't depending on the brow beating sessions when they tell you to do more. Then you get to feel like a piece of crap that deserves to be zapped out of existence, but then again, maybe, just maybe another day in fs will stop the madness? hmm, don't think too hard just do.

  If your family has issues and some are, shall I say, the black sheep of the family you have the warm fuzzies knowing you will not have to deal with such riff-raff in the 'new system'.

  I am on a roll! I could keep going but will leave it to others to expand upon.
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  Life Update 2019

  by passwordprotected in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  it's been a while since i was anywhere close to being active here, or on any other ex-jw forum or facebook group.

  i rarely think about the religion and have little-to-no interest in it.. however, i do, very occasionally pop in here.

  hence this update, 3 years on since my last one - https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5720228449222656/update-on-my-journey-8-years-after-end-watchtower-control.

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  carla

  Congratulations on living life your way! wishing you all the happiness, prosperity and love for your future.
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  My first encounter

  by SB10 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i don’t know if the woman i met yesterday will ever see this.

  but i will forever remember that day for the rest of my life.

  my grandfather has been in icu for the past 3 days.

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  carla

  Sorry about your dear grandfather.

  Basically this jw stalked you to mark time. She probably saw you in the hospital and followed you. Don't you find this creepy? Isn't it creepy that they are trained to behave this way? Lurking around hospitals, cruising obituary columns to send tracts to the grieving and even lurking in cemeteries to 'offer' their particular brand of 'comfort'.

  Their 'comfort' comes at a very high price, please do your research at jwfacts.com

  I suggest anyone who would have given you a religious tract of any kind in your emotional state would have made an impact.

  Please, please read the horror and painful stories of ex jw's who have endured this so called religion which is really a cult.
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  Double Standard of Proof

  by neat blue dog in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  there's a new article about john the baptist (not sure why they reverted to baptist instead of the modern english 'baptizer'), and it goes into several areas of his life followed by quotes from josephus showing that these specific things were historically documented.

  the article is summarized by saying:.

  the first-century historian josephus viewed john the baptist as a real person.

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  carla

  I always thought it was weird when my jw would say 'John the baptizer'. I had never heard it that way, it was always 'John the Baptist'. Naturally that was in the non jw world.
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  The Latest From The Loony Left

  by Simon in

  1. social
  2. current

  so apparently, not only can people identify as men or women, regardless of reality, but they've now declared that people can identify as black or white as well!

  no word yet from rachel dolezal, who will no doubt be declared a visionary, and sadly michael jackson didn't live long enough to celebrate.. i must say, now that i am a black woman, my views on reparations have completely changed.

  y'all owe me some reparations bitches to make up for slavery yo.

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  carla

  When can we start identifying as over 70 to collect social security and other senior discounts? (not that I object to senior benefits or ss, I just could use the help sometimes).

  Other days I would like to identify as being a hot young 20 year old.