Some of us can't walk out without running the risk of losing close family. The question aimed at me would be, "what made me wake up to the truth about the truth?".
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30What made you walk out on the "Truth"?
by Overrated ini had a legal divorce from my ex wife( law of the land).
i was told not to expect to get remarried because my divorce was not legal to watchtower.. my divorce and situation seem to be a talk of gossip and even a many local needs talks.
i wanted to take some more schooling to get a better job, there was a local needs talk on higher education and it's dangers.
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What Do You Know of JWs Getting Away With Stuff?
by minimus ini realized that teenagers and young witness adults were getting away with murder per my daughter.
she told me that all these exemplary young people featured at assemblies and conventions were not real good examples.
after she got married years ago to a “ worldly “ man, she told me about all the kids who were fornicating and getting drunk and high, including elder’s kids.
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skin
The same was going in the congregation I first attended when I joined WT in my early 20s, was told through my Bible study that witnesses don't have sex before marriage, drunkenness is forbidden. Then I started getting to know and hanging around with the young JW crowd, first thing I remember saying to myself after spending my first weekends with them as a new JW, was that these people aren't any different, they are all heavily drinking and swearing. I was surprised 😮. Then as time went by, and getting to know the young ones better, I started hearing about who had done what to who sexually, even out country witnessing, I even walked in on my first witness girlfriend at it with a single brother who had only moved into our congregation a week earlier. I know a lot more that never got reported, then there were those who did get their names mentioned (reproved) at the meetings. Thinking back, there was a high percentage doing these things.
I did type up more real life experiences in this post, but after reading them, I decided to delete them, it sounded like it could be made up, even though it wasn't.
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wt's tale of the two mothers.
by waton inin retrospect, for lurkerking fence sitters.
, today's( may 30 ) study article.:.
a mother un lovingly, on "apostate" advice, does everything, right and wrong to keep her daughter from becoming a wt slave.
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skin
If true, this insurance agent will soon start joining in on the zoom meetings, very unlikely.
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Why haven't they re-started the 'cart witnessing'?
by eyeslice inwe are nearly 18 months into this pandemic and lot has been learned and our behaviour modified to make things safer for us, e.g.
the wearing of face masks and social distancing.. many countries such as australia, new zealand, the uk and usa either have things under control or have vaccinated a large portion of the population.
therefore, given the very passive nature of the 'cart witnessing', i can't see why this hasn't be re-started.
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skin
About 6 months ago our congregation slipped up by announcing that cart witnessing was all go again, read out a list of rules that you had to met to be able to use the carts. Week later they had to make a reverse announcement saying the cart witnessing has not been approved yet.
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JWD oldtimers
by Gorb inhi friends,.
are here still some oldtimers from the earlier jwd time?
gorby .
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skin
Welcome Gorb, I see you have just joined.
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Remember how it felt before you woke up. Living forever in a Righteous World.
by pistolpete ini woke up early in life.
it’s not because i was smarter than my brothers and sisters.
in fact, reflecting back, i actually don’t know why i didn’t embrace the watchtower teachings?
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skin
I woke up just before the internet came along, it was thanks to WTs very own pre 1930 publications that cleared it up for me, the history lessons that we learnt about the organization during the 1990's WT studies, then to read the early publication's to discover the real history of the organization.
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When and Where Chinese Rocket Debris could fall today or tomorrow?!
by Iamallcool inhttps://www.11alive.com/article/news/nation-world/when-where-chinese-rocket-fall/507-14ff3b78-daf6-40b9-b7ed-3840a65a6bd2?fbclid=iwar1a-fuczov5biryyy-ozycgawshyxladh0nb23u400lkz5upn3gayepdfu .
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Jws failure to protect their vulnerable follower
by Fadeaway1962 inhttps://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9545969/amp/jehovahs-witnesses-criticised-failing-stop-devout-followers-plan-stab-wife-49-times.html .
elder should face some kind of criminal prosecution..
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skin
"This article calls the JWs a church, has to be made up lies from Satan, we shouldn't be reading and putting these false thoughts into our minds". Well thats the answer i would be told if I showed this news item to the JWs i know.
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Double Speak from last night's CLAM
by eyeslice innow that there are no meetings to physically attend, i am in a position where i listen in to my wife's zoom calls.
i thought some of the ideas in last week's clam were a bit strange, for instance they harped on about being 'friendly' to non-jws but not to become 'friends' with them.
the poignant question being put to the audience; 'what is the difference between being friendly to an unbeliever and being his friend?'.
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skin
I had the same thoughts too when I sit through that part.
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Welsh Witness in court
by Lost in the fog inmust be a very understanding body of elders there is all i can say.
lol.
successful graduate spared jail after being exposed as paedophile by police.
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skin
Havnt i been told that the media is controlled by Satan? And Satan wants to bring reproach upon Jehovah's people with all kinds of slanderous lies. Of course the JW community around where he is will support him, because they know the truth behind the lies that the media publish in this time of the end. Sad 😥.