Topics Started by WasOnceBlind

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Old Memories Revisited - or - How to Stop Worrying and Love WT Indoctrination
by undercover in
1. jw
2. friends
i remember when i was a kid, how the importance of meeting attendance was continually drummed into our heads.

through the magazines, meetings, and especially traveling overseers, it was stressed that missing just one meeting was akin to allowing satan into our lives and would jeopardize our everlasting life in paradise earth.. one particular bit of 'advice' stood out, even to a small child: even if out of town relatives showed up on meeting day, you shouldn't let that cause you to miss a meeting.

i remember trying to play that out in mind... 'welcome, grandpa!
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New Watchtower and Awake 11 pages of shallow articles...what happened!!!
by Witness 007 in
1. jw
2. experiences
found the latest copies next to the toilet {witnesses must have visited my wife} and had a look after not reading anything for a year.

its a pamphlet not a magazine!

only a few pages long with shallow articles.it felt like my "spiritual food" was now those cheap home delivered diet t.v meals!!
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Help prevent sons indoctrination.
by WasOnceBlind in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
ok so here is the deal, as some of you who might have read my first post might remember, my parents are jw's while i myself have faded.

i have not told them that i don't believe in the borg and i have done my research and concluded it's a bunch of crap.

the main reason i haven't is because it would break my moms heart and probably send her into a deep depression (she suffers from depression).
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Accidental Posting of 2015 Release on JW.ORG
by rosesinbloom in
1. watchtower
2. bible
a couple of weeks ago someone posted that jw.org accidentally posted the 2015 regional convention release.

i can not fine the thread now.. i saw a picture of it yesterday.

a sister had downloaded the pdf and read it that night.. it is a 16-page brochure entitled "return to jehovah", with a purple background.. it has been designed specifically for inactive ones are those who have been raised around the truth but never baptized.
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Questions that were never answered for me
by WasOnceBlind in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i have always been a very rational and thoughtful person.

there where always questions i had growing up regarding things i was taught.

of course asking questions while being a jw is a big no no!
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Got invited to Sundays pep rally
by WasOnceBlind in
1. jw
2. experiences
so my mom who sadly is still in the "truth" asked me if i was going to the circuit assembly this sunday.

she knows i don't go to meetings anymore but usually when she would mention the assemblies i would say yes and go pretty much just for her sake.

however, this time i couldn't bring my self to saying yes, i've been reading "crisis of conscience" and i just can't bring my self to go anymore, even if it's for my mother.
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Crisis of Conscience
by WasOnceBlind in
1. watchtower
2. bible
wow, what a great book.

i started reading it today and have not been able stop.

im already 80 pages in!
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Introducing my self
by WasOnceBlind in
1. jw
2. experiences
i stumbled upon this site about a week ago while googling a question.

the question was "why can't jw's have beards?

" i read the responses and realized the truth in them.
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Why JW marriage is a huge problem for the organization.
by kneehighmiah in
1. jw
2. friends
the difficulty of finding a marriage mate is well known for sisters.

but i would say it's hard for brothers also.

i was talking to a jw last night.
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Caleb talks to his mother about the new system.
by LogCon in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
mom: yes?.

you dont want to make jehovah sad, do you mom?.

mom: okay.. .