i dont have any statistics but am curious if there could be any truth to it; that it might be easier for a witness to stop believing vs a christian.
i dont see this at any of the churches i have attended; people leaving in droves with some totally discarding any belief.. 1 the jw org is the only truth.
you question its authority, then you question god.
its easy for anyone who is abused, as most of us were, so heavily by a group that was supposed to represent a loving god, to no longer believes he exists... i mean ilook to other religions and i figure, what the hell is the point? i mean god let us almost get beaten to death, mentally abused for so long, and he expects us to continue to worship him? its easy for anyone to stop believeing in him
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hey gang, ive been away for a while so i thought i would come back with a bang, and share my good news - im 4 months pregnant.. but heres the really weird thing.
littletoe knew before i had told anyone.
he texted me and said "hows the pregnancy going?
well congrats!
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we have many "lurkers" here who read this board but feel stuck because they might have mixed feelings about leaving their religion, their way of life, their friends and family.
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do you have any helpful suggestions??
they need to really question... do the research themselves... read books, read what ex jws say and really honestly start to question... then they need to decide whether or not it is worth lying to themselves and to those they preach to, just to keep family and friends who would drop them on a dime if they started thinking for themselves... then they will know its time to go!
all we can do is encourage them to open up their minds, and not take the GBs word on everything... if they dont want to be blind, they will figure their way out
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quickie.
>there are two statues in a park; one of a nude man and one of a nude woman.
>they had been facing each other across a pathway for a hundred years, when .
LOVE IT!!! i will be telling that joke tonight... LOL!
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as witnesses, you are trained to feel guilty.
i don't know if i'm rare regarding my guiltless feelings but i have not had any guilt whatsoever after leaving the witnesses.
not even a little bit.....what about you?
sometimes we all feel guilty.... i dont think this is necessarily an exclusively Jehovah's Witness trait... guilt is a human trait... but anyways, how do i get rid of it, I run away!! lol, i mean honestly we all screw up... if you think of it as a learning experience, well things end up ok!
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i wanted to apologize to all the protesters who used to stand out in front of dogers stadium in la ca.. i hated it when you guys were out there.
i really wanted you to go away and leave alone.. now i understand.
you've been hurt.
there was a guy who used to sit outside the assemblies and would be sitting there in his monkey suit... literally, he was dressed like a monkey... back when i was there i thought to myself, what an idiot, why doesnt this guy have anything better to do with his life... now looking back, this man did me a favour... he helped me realize that there must be something wrong to make people angry enough to sit in a sweltering suit like that all day in the middle of the summer...
in some ways, i owe him my freedom... i dont want to say im sorry, i want to say THANK YOU!
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millions now living will never die!!.
j dubs stop giving and pigs will fly!!.
(ok, that's my poetry attempt for today.
so the babies born that day may not have died yet... the problem is, in the original talk, i think i remember hearing that he said he didnt mean babies, he meant people capable of understanding... lets put understanding at 6 years old, to play devils advocate here; the people would be 95 by now... if theyre still alive, well then the new system better come soon, cuz they wont be for long
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both, i think its all bs... i mean this guy is a nutter...
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pretty sure its bs... i read a book by david icke, a nut job, admittedly, but he says there are secret entrances to subterranian places for sacrificial child murdering.... but its prolly bs too
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dear brothers and sisters: please read 1 samuel 14:32 and matthew 12:7 for commenting on later.
dear brothers and sisters: please read 1 samuel 14:32 and matthew 12:7 for commenting on later.
dear brothers and sisters: please read 1 samuel 14:32 and matthew 12:7 for commenting on later.
yeah i got it tooo... BS... i wishi knew how to delete emails... lol
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