They're told that reading so called "apostate" material can turn you away from "the truth". That some that have allowed themselves to read it have left the org. But they never ask themselves WHY these people decided to leave after reading it. Many can't comprehend the idea that they may be wrong (which is just how the GB likes it).
As a child I just assumed that what my parents told me was always right. I didn't doubt it, just assumed. But as I got older I realized that to be an adult I had to weigh each new thing I learned and decide for myself. Most JW's never get past that childhood thinking listening to the GB, the ones that do, leave.
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by BLISSISIGNORANCE inremember how my daughter's boyfriend's step-dad was now going back to meetings?
and he was a dub years ago but never told anyone?.
well, after printing out 31 pages of wts quotes on the un being the wild beast etc...............then showing how the scandal was addressed and reponses by the wts.................he refused to read anything!
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Did you just get up, or are you STILL UP??
by Eyebrow2 in.
well, here in tx, it is almost 6am.. i have been up all night....i have had a lot of insomnia lately, ack...and since i went to bed really late friday(actually saturday morning about 5am) and didn't get up until the afternoon saturday, i figured it would be better to just stay up all night and try again to sleep like a normal human being sunday night.. ack....how about the rest of you?.
i am listening to tori amos and surfing the web in between loads of laundry hahah.
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Spent last night at a friends house watching her kids while she stayed with her husband at hospital. Slept in a recliner for about 5 hours.
Had my laptop with me and I posted to EF's "The One" thread last night but can't find the thread at all today. Doesn't even show in my Post History. Maybe it was a dream...
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Most Hated "True Stories"
by Ingenuous ini was inspired by the "most hated analogies" thread.. a brother giving the public talk one sunday told the most ridiculous story.
i couldn't even swallow it when i was "in.".
i'll try not to laugh while i'm typing this.. once upon a time, in a land far, far away... someone planted a bomb in a kingdom hall.
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I heard what's most likely the same story but some facts changed:
The speaker went through the roof and outside, but survived. The only person killed was a brother sitting in the front row.
Then it's followed by comments about how this just proves that Jehovah can exterminate who he wants no matter who is around them, just like he'll do at Armageddon.
I have no idea if it's a true story, but I feel bad if some guy got killed and then people are chatting about how it must have been God that killed him and he must have had some hidden sin. Just goes to show what a sick bunch they are (and alot of us were). -
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Wonderful Whimsical Sayings Said To You After You Left The Borg...
by TresHappy in.
my favorite one was my father's statement to me after i enrolled in college: .
we can't drag your carcass into armageddon!
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"If the elders ask you anything, don't get your self disfellowshipped. Lie if you have to." (cuz God loves a cheerful liar?)
"You wouldn't go to a church would you? Because you couldn't handle it." (I'm so immature)
"Is she worth giving up your life for?" (because my family thinks I feel guilty for dating a "worldly" girl and that guilt keeps me from the meetings) -
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Chelsea - Black lab/ German Shepherd mix. 16 1/2 years old, plans to outlive me. Keeps all the others in line.
George - 7yo big Basset Hound (85 pounds of muscle to knock everything down)
Keta - cat we found living off garbage about 10 years ago.
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Ever feel embarrassed when buying condoms?
by tsunami_rid3r in.
i dont know if i could do it, it'd almost be like buying tampons.
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---"Why should I be embarrassed? I'm letting the whole world know that I'M GETTIN' SOME!!!!"---
LOL :)
It never bothered me to buy condoms. I would pick up pads for my wife too and now for my daughter. Can't imagine that the clerk would think anything more than the real reason I buy the stuff. -
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If New Light (TM) is so important...
by Elsewhere in.
why doesn't the wts point out the new light (tm) when it is published and do a compare and contrast study so jws are fully aware of the change and the ramifications of the change?.
to this day there are many jws who are unaware of the generation change in 1995.
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I was always irritated by people that would get a new book or get the Watchtowers early, sent to them from someone at Bethel. They'd walk around making sure everyone knew that they had information nobody else had yet. Saying things like "Don't miss the (whatever date) WT when YOU get it! It's got some new information. I've been studying it and wow, it's great!"
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how much money did you give the borg???
by kid-A injust curious....because i left before being baptized, my parents handled all the donations and i never gave them a penny.
how many posters on this board actually gave large or not so large sums of money to the jws, either directly, or as 'gifts' to pioneers, cos, etc??
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---I hope it was a "PINTO"---
Hehe, nope, a 4-door Dodge Spirit.
I always felt guilty for not giving much, as some others have said. I never put money in the contribution box for literature, and I never asked for money at the doors. I'd volunteer to do alot of things but mostly I only gave cash at the conventions and assemblies. If I forgot, I felt bad.
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JWs are not a cult................
by vitty in...............or so i thought.
when you were an active jw, how did you feel when ppl accused you of being a cult !!!!!!!!!
and do you think its a cult now your out ?
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---"No one in a cult believes they are in a cult."---
So true. I remember seeing a survivor of the Waco fire being asked if she still thought Koresh was Christ (or whatever it was he claimed to be). Her answer was, "I'm not sure".
When I was a JW I thought how lucky I was to have been born into it. How I was one of the few that would survive Armageddon, how if I wasn't exposed to it as a child, I would never have taken to it. It's exactly that idea that started me thinking that no, I never would take to it and neither would 99% of the rest of humanity. It was then I realized that my faith was just based on the common thinking we all have of "that won't happen to me", that somehow we're different than everyone else. I realized that I was just like everyone else, took for granted what I was told as a child and never bothered to think that maybe it was wrong. -
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how much money did you give the borg???
by kid-A injust curious....because i left before being baptized, my parents handled all the donations and i never gave them a penny.
how many posters on this board actually gave large or not so large sums of money to the jws, either directly, or as 'gifts' to pioneers, cos, etc??
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I gave a car to a pioneer. Used to put in $50 at each CA/DC.