I'm a newbie here but I'm not at all afraid. The monsters in my closet no longer exist, I've grown up! Also my apologies if I bore anyone-but I love this forum!
onesong
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It's all been done before...the newbies got me thinking...
by wanderlustguy inthis isn't a negative observation at all, but i've noticed with all the new people here, there are a lot of things i remember being said before being said again.
some of the things i assumed when i first came here, many are doing again...and it's very interesting to watch.
i guess the human race is very cyclical.
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Why do the WT call ex-jw's "apostate"? Even if we still love Jehovah,Jesus?
by booker-t ini was wondering the other day when my neighbor(who is an jw elder) called me an "apostate" for refusing to return to jw's.
when i left the wt i never stopped loving jehovah and jesus i just could not stomach the wt society anymore.
there are alot of us ex-jw's who still love jehovah and jesus and still read our bibles.
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Thanks Dave, When I first read the article that Ingenious posted from 1986 it scared the sh*t out of me but I'm long past that now. All the sh*t is OUT of me.
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fear not those who kill the body
by John Doe inwitnesses believe that the soul and the body are the same thing, right?
well, i had one of the old songs running through my head today, and it hit me what it was saying: .
"fear not those who kill they body, but cannot destroy the soul.
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onesong
I can't believe you had that experience- I had the same song going thru my head a few days ago! (no lie)
When you really examine the Bible you see that with the exception of 1 verse in Ecc. the idea that the soul lives on pervades it.
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Why do the WT call ex-jw's "apostate"? Even if we still love Jehovah,Jesus?
by booker-t ini was wondering the other day when my neighbor(who is an jw elder) called me an "apostate" for refusing to return to jw's.
when i left the wt i never stopped loving jehovah and jesus i just could not stomach the wt society anymore.
there are alot of us ex-jw's who still love jehovah and jesus and still read our bibles.
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What religions did you seek since leaving? Or not?
by dezpbem ini'm curious how many people on the board have looked into other religions or spirituality groups since they've left the jw.. what have you looked into?
did you join anything else?
read up on any others?
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Anything and everything that does not exert it's "rightness" or control over my life! Paganism, Toltec,Native American, New Age, Wicca, Buddhism, Taoism- you can learn from them all.
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1st post from a former S.O!
by onesong ini'm 36 yrs.
old and was a jw for 35.i did everything from pioneer to bethel to ms to elder, school overseer ect.
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onesong
I was both a TMSO and SO :-( But now I'm simple (and proudly) "worldly"!
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Thank you everyone for the warm welcome
by onesong into answer a few ?'s.
yes i have trivialized a lot, but i'm healing so well.
i was just waiting to explode with exploration of all types of spiritualty that secretly fascinated me.i know i was df'd, i was just surprised i didn't get a chance to appeal, i had a great letter waiting.
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onesong
To answer a few ?'s. Yes I have trivialized a lot, but I'm healing so well. I was just waiting to explode with exploration of all types of spiritualty that secretly fascinated me.I know I was df'd, I was just surprised I didn't get a chance to appeal, I had a great letter waiting. Yes I have read dear Raymond books- very helpful. And yes I now detest the status titles, I only used them to show how deep I was.
A quick story. At a meeting last year with the elders (when my questioning began) one of them made the comment that there is a fine line between being objective and apostate. The next day my mother -in-law told me that my sensitivity, openhearteness, and logic would cause me to leave the Org. So ultimately I was being told that if I could be insensitive, closehearted, illogical, and unobjective (very subjective) then I would be fine! The saddest part is that they don't know how right they are.
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1st post from a former S.O!
by onesong ini'm 36 yrs.
old and was a jw for 35.i did everything from pioneer to bethel to ms to elder, school overseer ect.
, ect.
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onesong
My ?'s started with the "faithful slave" ,being on a body that pushed to form a judicial committee over a young sister's suicide attempt and numerous reports from brothers in a cong. where the D.O. had just visited and hammered them.
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Is Jehovah really gods name?
by dezpbem inin another thread i started someone askedi still believe in jehovah, but now, i'm having doubts about his name???
is jehovah really god's name?
if he wanted his name to be known, he's all-powerful, omnipotent... i know that he has the power to make sure that his name is used correctly.
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onesong
I agree with the thought that God is to magnificient to be caught up in a single exclusive name. It's interesting that what is often called the sound of perfection "ah" (the sound we make without any muscular modification) is present in nearly every name given to the Creator.Ex: Jehovah, Yahweh, Allah, Krishna, Abba, Kahuna ect. For myself , I've been given many nicknames thru my life and consider all of them to be a compliment to me.I think the Creator may feel similar.
Also, it's important to note that there is absolutely no proof that the early Christians, even Jesus himself used Jehovah. It's tucked away in the back of the reference Bible of the NWT that of the 5000 manuscripts that comprise the New Testament the name Jehovah (Yahweh) appears 0 times.The translators made an assumption and added it in. Which is worse, to accuse people of omitting it or adding it?
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1st post from a former S.O!
by onesong ini'm 36 yrs.
old and was a jw for 35.i did everything from pioneer to bethel to ms to elder, school overseer ect.
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onesong
Thank you so much for those of you who have replied. You're warm welcomes have strengthened me already! I've heard thru the grapevine that many cong.'s are experiencing many people leaving recently. Anybody else noticing this as well?
Namaste'