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  What nice, interesting thing did you see today?

  by Lady Lee in

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  so often we are stuck in the negative part of life and see so much of the bad.

  the news is full of it.

  i look for the things that are nice.

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  Lady Lee,

  Thank you so much for this thread. It's the first thread I've read in all my exJW years that has brought peace to mind and heart.

  I love you for it,

  IW
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  May 28--Four years since Dateline's JW sex abuse program aired. Results?

  by AndersonsInfo in

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  2. child-abuse

  sunday, may 28, 2006, is the fourth anniversary from when a threshold was crossed into uncharted waters.

  on may 28, 2002, the u.s. television news program, dateline, publicized to millions of viewers the facts about watchtower's deceitful child abuse policies which protect pedophiles who target and molest jws' vulnerable children.

  subsequently, this subject caught the interest of media throughout the world who, through careful investigation, substantiated the allegations made on dateline.

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  Thanks for the reply Barbara, much appreciated.

  IW
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  Why didn't Jesus Give Instructions for a Bible?

  by gumby in

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  matt: 24:14 .."and this good new of the kingdom will be preached in all the earth as a witnesss to all the nations - and then the end will come".. jesus plan was that by the time he was to return, the earth would be schooled as to who and what he was.

  suppose you were going to leave the planet for 2000 years and you wanted the entire earthly society of people who would be alive when you returned to know about you.

  would you tell someone to write down all your words of truth since these words would produce salvation and eternal life to all who believed in you........or would you tell a handful of diciples or say even 500 buddies to spread your words to their children and down through the succeding generations?.

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  So........why didn't jesus command a book about him to be written? If you think he did....please supply some kinda proof.

  What do ya mean? There are four books written about Jesus just how many books do ya think we need?

  Jesus said the holy spirit would help his living disciples to remember his teachings.

  Jews kept their religious history in written form.

  Jesus disciples were Jews.

  Jesus sat on King David's throne, the Christian Jews recorded the life of this new and greater David just as their ancestors did before them.

  This was a natural thing for them to do and Jesus of course would have known this.
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  Was Jesus such a great guy after all?

  by Hellrider in

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  2. bible

  matthew .

  15:21 after going out from there, jesus went to the region of tyre and sidon.

  15:22 a canaanite woman from that area came and cried out, have mercy on me, lord, son of david!

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  If the account under discussion had been recorded in both Mark and Matthew using the same exact wording and order some would find fault with that also. A difference in wording is not enough to throw doubt on the whole thing.

  Just my opinion.
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  What are your reasons for not joining another religion?

  by MARTINLEYSHON in

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  i am going to start this debate of by saying that those of us who were raised in the so called truth, and i being one of them, can only come to terms with our past by accepting that our parents infected our minds like a virus infects a computer.

  we wouldn't categorise children according to their parents' political stance, since they are too young to make up their minds about such matters.

  but they (jw) segregate them from the world.

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  No, I could never join another religion. No Christian religion is able to leave their filthy hands off the teachings of Jesus, they just have to add their own twists on things. Besides, I don't remember Jesus telling us we should join the Catholics or Baptists or Lutherans or JWs....

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  Would you shame someone for going back to the Witnesses?

  by free2beme in

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  2. friends

  i was thinking about this, as i have a former witness friend who is showing signs of wanting to go back, even though they have expressed over the years a lot of frustration and lack of belief for the faith.

  as much as i find their decision to be a mistake, i do understand why.

  after all, unlike myself and family, i have never been shunned by the few family members left in and i moved on over the last decade to build new friendships and hobbies.

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  No! I would never shame anyone who wanted to return. They are free! Free to determine for themselves what is good for them and their family. As was already said by someone on this thread, if I shamed them I myself would be returning to the same JWism I left.

  Great thread!

  IW
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  Finding Jehovah’s Witnesses’ Faith

  by Marvin Shilmer in

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  finding jehovahs witnesses faith.

  i have a question for serious participants of this forum: .

  what do you deem the most reliable means for determining the various convictions held by the population of jehovahs witnesses in terms of the range of what individuals within that group consider as core tenets of their faith?.

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  Marvin,

  You're not saying that JWs are not complete mindless drones, are you? That has been an exJW axiom since my early days on these boards. Now they don't all do what they're told? Amazing turn around!!

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  The Purpose and Meaning of Life

  by streets76 in

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  the purpose of life: is to procreate.. the meaining of life: is up to each of us to define for ourselves, individually.. i've just turned 48. i have not procreated.

  i am struggling to define the meaning of or in my life.. is it just me?

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  Carmel,

  The earth is God's and so are we. Thank you.
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  Brazilian man murder 5 JW

  by rosa in

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  2. scandals

  the mototaxi valdimar lindoso, 34, was imprisoned in instant in the dawn of this wednesday, sao luis (ma), accused to kill the shots the son erick ricardo matos, 7, the former-woman helen rose matos, 31, the former-father-in-law, the former-mother-in-law and a former-brother-in-law.

  the former-brother-in-law eliana rosely matos, 24, also was reached with a shot in the mouth.. .... "on the motivation of the crime, it it spoke that the victims were of the religion jehovah's witnesses and he did not want that the son was part.

  he said that was pursued [for the family of the former-woman] and that they made a wrong judgment of it ", said commission agent pierson raimundo rodrigues, who will go to lead the inquiry.. .

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  Thanks Scully,

  Not for the original post but for the opportunity to see the display of the immense lack of fellow feeling some had in reaction to it.

  Disgusting. And some here claim to have risen above the JWs? No way in hell!
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  The Purpose and Meaning of Life

  by streets76 in

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  the purpose of life: is to procreate.. the meaining of life: is up to each of us to define for ourselves, individually.. i've just turned 48. i have not procreated.

  i am struggling to define the meaning of or in my life.. is it just me?

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  James Thomas,

  All I know is that the happiest people I have known, people who are truly happy and at peace, are those who help their fellow or the earth. People who do good. Peace to you.

  IW