What keeps people undecided and clinging is fear. Fear for your eternal salvation. Remember Jesus said whoever seeks to save his soul will lose it. It's because you fall victim to men's teachings to save yourself. Let go, have total trust in your Creator and don't worry about being wrong. He's not killing anybody!
onesong
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anyone ever wonder whether IT could be the TRUTH?
by Cordelia ini cant believe im posting this either!.
but ive got a huge decision to make wont go thru it all again its on my last thread, and i have decided that i am stopping going to the meetings completly (ive been dfed 7 months and because i didnt want to hurt my family even more i continued going to all the meetings and hid my boyfriend, wno was wonderful about it, put a letter of reinstatement in which they refused but relised by the way i paniked when i thought they might reinstate me that it is not what i want!).
i love my bf and want to be with him without any secrecy but i also want my family to accept him and still speak to me but i know that will not happen, so i have two choices either get reinstated and then leave (and risk losing mybf) or tell them now i dont want it and stop the meetings altogether before i go insane.. thing is to be free of the meetings and be with my bf, i will lose my family they are all so strong in the 'truth' they will not have any contact with me and my husband is divorcing me so ill lose finacially and my house and have to share time with my daughter, not to mention all my old friends who are wanting me back, and if i stop now all those months of trying to be reinstated will be wasted id be set right back,.
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Another dream...
by toby888 ini have been having what i think are some rather theraputic dreams, had one again last night... mind you i have never been interested in dream anaysis or believed that dreams are anything more than mental garbage but since my mental trauma a few months ago when i discovered my belief system was false, well, have been occasionally having dreams i can remember.
i suppose some of you may recall my last post about another dream i had... but here is my new one.. i am in an open grassy field when snow, wind and lighting begins, very fiercly.
the wind becomes so strong i feel i must anchor myself somehow.
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onesong
Toby- THAT is cool. I wish I had dreams like that.
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Ideas for bumper stickers/signs...what can you come up with?
by AuldSoul infrom kid-a's post on another thread: millions once living are now dead!.
607 bc?.
watchtower bedded the beast (1991-2001).
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RELIGION IS A SNARE AND A RACKET!
courtesy WBTS
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A brief History of Me...
by Truth.Seeker ini was studying with jehovah's witnesses during my college years.
i found that they somehow was able to make me understand many of the meanings from the bible that i had never understood before.
i had a clearer sight of what it was to walk as a christian.
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onesong
Welcome Truthseeker, I can relate well to how you're feeling. It wasn't long ago I was there myself. The fact is there is a place God's word hasn't been tarnished. It's all to close and it's called your heart! The very thing they teach you not to trust. You're intellect can be fooled but not your heart.
Simply ask yourself how something makes you feel. For me if it's true or from God :
God, True : you feel joyous, happy, strong, peaceful, free, alive
vs.
Man,false: you feel sad, guilty, weak, anxious, fearful, bound, dying
Or just make comparative statements and reason on which rings "true"
Example: God is not partial, loves all his children equally
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God is partial, has favorites, loves some more than others
Another: God's love is unlimited and unconditional
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God's love is limited and conditional
For me finding "truth" is easier than ever. Trust yourself! No one else.
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Penton & the drama this year
by carla inin the book apocalypse delayed by james penton he describes a 'drama' on pg 101-. the greatest emphasis was again placed on the preaching work, and jesus was described as a pioneer.in an assembly drama or 'morality play' on the apostle paul's companion timothy, young persons fresh from high school were strongly discouraged from attending academies of higher learning, and an always laten watch tower animosity towrads university education bacame more evident.. this sounds just like the drama from this summer.
i was under the impression that some jw's thought this was a new drama.
do they just recycle this stuff all the time?
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It bothered me viewing a drama that depicted Jehovah performing an execution (ex. punishing Korah) and having 6000 people gleefully applauding. We wouldn't want to view violence like this in the privacy of our homes but at the Assembly anything goes!
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Bible prophecy clearly indicates 1914?
by gringojj ini was reading the nov. 22nd awake "who will feed the cities?".
on page 14 a german brother relates an experience of coming into the wts.
2 witnesses were at his door and asked him "did you know that the year 1914 was a very special year according to the bible?".
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Thanks Auldsoul- that was classic! lol!
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Hi
by finallyfree05 ini'm new and this is my first post......mine is a long story i will share later.
i'm at work and just wanted to say hi to you all
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Hi finallyfree,
I just posted yesterday for the first time. Welcome and look forward to your story!
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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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onesong
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!
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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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onesong
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.