I found them a little scary but the whole concept was intriguing. How could they turn again Jehovah so much, how could they be so bent on just tearing down, must be the demons influencing them...what turns people that way?
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What view did you have of apostates when you were a JW?
by bull01lay ini can remember being an attendant at one of the circuit assemblies in nottingham, where a group of pentecostals were picketing out by one of the gates.
i was intrigued for a short while, until a guy in a motorised wheelchair type thing, tried to get into the assembly by ramming himself into us.
i could of quite happily baptised him in the trent !!
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What's the word?
by bagpuss inif you could sum up your time in the borg with just one word, what would it be and why?.
for me it would be guilt.
guilt about not doing enough ministry, not enough study,doing too much secular work, the list seems endless.on the odd occasions i felt i'd done quite well you can bet we'd have a talk saying more,more more!.
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Brainwashing (but not totally)
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My first time being shunned in public
by xjwms inso thats what it feels like.. i am not df'ed or da'ed, ... i have just stopped going to meetings.
my wife is trying to be as active as she can.. so all morning i am out of my regular routine.
late getting out of bed and late about everything today.. so i leave the house, and before getting to the office, i decide to stop at the mall for a quick, maybe 15 min, walk.. as soon as i get inside, taking my coat off, here is the elder who did everything he could in his power to get me out...and lied...and added to gossip that ran me outta there.. he and his wife spot me .. and turn there heads away and continue on their walk, .. eyes fixed on some thing away from me.. so thats what it feels like.........now i know.
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Congratulations - you've just personalised discovered that most JW's are totally lacking in human kindness, compassion and love to those who do not 'toe the party line' and in fact treat worldlings better than persons like you. Thus they cannot be the one and only true religion.
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what do you think?
by nicbic ini'm getting the feeling my friend is going more into her jw life and very slowly cutting me out.
i have been maintaining contact whether or not i get responses so far.
is this the right action to take?
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"If it don't fit, don't force it...just relax and let it go".
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Leaving JWs Has Made Me Intolerant of Stupid Thinking - How About U?
by Seeker4 inlori (my girlfriend - a non-jw).
and i had quite a discussion last night.
i am almost always a very tolerant, easygoing person, but there is this one aspect of my personality that has caused us a certain amount of tension.
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I'm the opposite. I've become a lot less arrogant, self-righteous and judgmental, and therefore more tolerant of others stupidity in a religious context.
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JW environment and emotional well being
by greendawn inhow many of you felt that the jw environment you once lived in was accepting, warm, supporting, nourishing, and wholesome, a place where the emotional world of man could flourish experience a blissful state of well being and attain inner fulfillment?
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My increasing awareness that the organisation is less and less that kind of a place seems directly proportional to my increasing age.
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Elders School Notes, Part 7: Trust Us!!!!
by sir82 ini tried to edit part 6, but once again the system ate my notes.
so i will try here.. talk # 22: trust the faithful and discreet slave - brother sico .
synopsis: we can trust the faithful and discreet slave (fds).
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"Even if we don't understand a point, that does not change the fact that they are used by God."
Don't you just love the way they imply that a JW is lacking intelligence if some totally unconvincing WTS interpretation doesn't make sense to them. Instead of humbly saying "Even if our current understanding of something proves in time to have been false or innacCurate", they instead have to say "Even if we don't understand a point", ie, the WTS 'point' is perfectly fine, it's just that you, puny little publisher, are too thick to understand it presently and you should therefore meekly submit to the point cuz Brooklyn has more brain-power in the pimples on it's ass than all you thick little publishers our there.Pompous sods. We totally understand all of their 'points', it's just that we think those points are a load of old cobblers.
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Do the angels guide people to the witnesses?
by undercover ini remember growing up that we used to hear experiences of people who felt lost in life or weren't happy and miraculasly a jw showed up at the door and brought life-saving good news to the distressed one who moments ago was seeking help from god in prayer.. and there were the experiences of people who led a life of debauchery until realizing that they weren't happy and they had to change.
enter jws as a study was started and the former evil-doer was transformed into a zealous servant of god.. we've all heard the stories.
they were always shared at assemblies and public talks to impress upon us that god's spirit was acting upon either the witness who found the searching on or that the spirit moved the searching one to find the organization.
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I knew a sister who claimed to have had trouble with demons all her life, and a week before she got baptized as a JW, the demonic harassment completely stopped and it has never returned.
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i need some advise
by bayrhino inwe'll were do i start i've surfed your board and i now at the point of breaking away from the jw organization .
for about 2 years now i've read and done some research and seen all the lies cover up read "crisis if conscience" ray franz and i got to the meeting and see all these people hundreds just going about not being open minded if wt tells these people the world is flat the thats what they'll believe and never question it.
we'll im 28 and been a jw all my life met my wife got married i have 2 wonderfull kids.
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I would endorse The Lone Rangers comments. Don't make a big scene or go around upsetting everyone with all your newly learned information. Arguing won't work with JW's. Just try and act out of love towards everyone, including those ignorant JW's that can't see the wood for the trees. They need pity more than anything. The org has used you for a long time, so now you can use the organisation for any good you and/or your family can still get out of it, if you want, but mentally go your own way.
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does God change his mind?
by I-CH-TH-U-S in.
in the story of jonah, god says he is going to destroy ninevah jonah 3:3 ..."forty more days and nineveh will be overthrown".
but then god's compassion comes and he spares nineveh, does god change his mind?
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God doesn't 'change his mind' in-so-far as his overall, macro purpose for mankind and planet earth goes, but yes, I think he is flexible and open to adjustment on a more micro level, at an individual level. We make our own destiny. How God will act towards us as an individual, or certain groups of individuals, depends on them and whether they change.