Along the same lines as Gophers thought....we've had the Org. saying the preaching work is completed 20 years ago and they're saying it is completed now, yet the act of preaching continues.
Somehow they try to re-define the accepted meaning of words.
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For Lurkers: Is the cover of the March 15th Watchtower deceptive?
by seek2find inthe cover of this issue pictures a group of modern day people standing looking up as if looking to the sky and the title says something like "christ comming what does it mean to you?
" i think it's deceptive because witnesses teach that jesus already came in 1914. the article is talking about his comming to exucute the wicked and does not even mention 1914, but the photo and title on the cover would lead people to beleive that his comming is still in the future.
isn't this deceptive?
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"It was Jehovah leading me..."
by Fleshybirdfodder inmy best friend and his wife had hired an elder to do some refinishing work in their basement.
they kept their tv and vhs tapes (pre dvd era) down there.
it seems dear brother was a bit of a nosy fella, so he just happened to pop in one of their home movies of a trip they had taken to cuba and found some footage of my friend smoking a cigar.
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"an organization where ratting out your friends is not only encouraged but rewarded?"
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Old Bible Student Hunts Me Down
by bigmouth inwhen i first got the courage to sign up to jwd all sorts of emotions flooded in.
mostly i was angry at having wasted years of my life struggling to please the watchtower society and god.
in one of my first posts i asked if anyone had gone and apologised to former bible students for teaching them lies, and i thought perhaps i should.
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SSSNNOOOOOOORRRRTT !!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOL :)
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Old Bible Student Hunts Me Down
by bigmouth inwhen i first got the courage to sign up to jwd all sorts of emotions flooded in.
mostly i was angry at having wasted years of my life struggling to please the watchtower society and god.
in one of my first posts i asked if anyone had gone and apologised to former bible students for teaching them lies, and i thought perhaps i should.
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"I'm bumpin this for bigmouth because it was a really interesting story and some of us may have similar stories to add or advice on how to keep this ex bible study investigating wthout getting into trouble."
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Ridiculous teenager counselled at Assembly.
by Duncan inthe ridiculous teenager is me.
this story takes me back to 1969, when i was 15 years old.
we were attending the international assembly at wembley stadium, near london, the only time, i think, that wembley was ever used for an assembly.. if youve ever read any of the stories i posted on jwd over the years, youll know that i was never one of those kids growing up in the truth who always had doubts about it or was unhappy and miserable with the religion, just waiting for the chance to get out.
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LOL. At least he didn't say "Oi!, Noddy!, keep it down over there!"
My mother, however, was one of those who would sit listening with her head flapping to one side or the other as if it was easier to hear that way. Used to annoy the living crap out of me. Her clap was a sort of stacatto rapping of the hands together, the sort of exercise that would have had me sweating. -
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OutKasted ;-P
by SpaWn of MeDusa inhello in there ;-p. wow wow wow.... i never knew such a place existed.... unfortunatly i don't have a lot of time to type right now & believe me i'd need days, perhaps even weeks & i'd probably still feel like i wasn't done.... in short... my name is jodie, i'm from australia, i'm about to turn 32 & i am a jehovah's witness outkast... i wasn't kicked out, i left of my own accord when my parents divorced & i was about 14... my father, my younger brother & me - the 3 black sheep !!
my father was disfellowshipped, he was an elder who also happened to have bi polar... the day ( or technically night ) my father was disfellowshipped was the saddest time of my life - it was more like a death or a funeral, something tragic... when my parents divorced i went to live with dad, i was always closer to my father plus when he left he had nothing... he lived on the river bank in the middle of winter for 6 weeks in a tent ( while his good christian jehovah's witness father & sister slept warm in their beds in the same town... ) dad bought a little caravan & he & i lived in it, eventually he bought some land & built a house & my younger brother joined us.... anyway to cut it all short... i've suffered badly from depression - so badly it's almost killed me & my brother also... the crux of our depression is our mother, our sister's, our grandfather, our aunt's & all of our relatives are jehovah's witnesses - most of them live in the same town as us altho they may as well live on the other side of the world.... you know, sitting here thinking about it all - it all makes perfect sense... how can families be torn apart like this, how do they not realise it is wrong & sad & wicked ??.
i've spent more than half my life trying to have any sort of relationship with the rest of my family.... anyway i have to get going.... hasta la vista .
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Gidday Jodie, from across the ditch. There's about 5 or 6 of us from here. (Not Blondie though, she's just a Kiwi wannabe)
I hope you stay and get some emotional support. Let us know some more of your story.
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Old Bible Student Hunts Me Down
by bigmouth inwhen i first got the courage to sign up to jwd all sorts of emotions flooded in.
mostly i was angry at having wasted years of my life struggling to please the watchtower society and god.
in one of my first posts i asked if anyone had gone and apologised to former bible students for teaching them lies, and i thought perhaps i should.
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When I first got the courage to sign up to JWD all sorts of emotions flooded in. Mostly I was angry at having wasted years of my life struggling to please the Watchtower Society and God.
In one of my first posts I asked if anyone had gone and apologised to former Bible students for teaching them lies, and I thought perhaps I should.
Well, two days ago, from out of the blue, I get an e-mail from a student I had contacted in the D to D work, she studied and got baptised. That was about 15 years ago. She faded and then got 're-activated' last March and wanted to let me know how she was.
Now what do I do!?
I sent her a couple of messages about how I've got through my depression and other things and made it clear that I'm so much happier these days now I'm faded and not struggling to keep up with prayer, FS, study, magazines, meetings etc. etc. But I gave nothing away in the apostate department.
So I passed comment about how shocked I was when I heard of the Org. being involved for 10 years with the UN and how I'd confronted two elders 14 months ago to find out about what the society was up to. They have never returned with information.
Well, here's her short reply today:
"Sorry I took a while to get back to you. What you said about the wild beast
really shook me up. I have been talking to xxxxxxxxxxxx and she is going
to get in touch with her friends at the Bethel as she thinks it has
something to do with the apostate web site about JW's. I'll let you know as
soon as I hear. I am not putting too much stock in it though, just another
means for satan to turn us away."
I replied:
"Thanks xxxxxxx, that's cool!!
If it was just a bunch of apostates getting all bitter and twisted I wouldn't bother but it was the subject of a couple of Guardian newspaper articles which I get each day on my PDA and they're pretty respected. I went straight to the United Nations website and there have been thousands of enquiries about it and they even had official letters stating what happened. I can't imagine the UN having the time to bother with apostates.
I hope xxxxx can get some answers because the brothers here just don't think it's very important. (I just thought it was like joining the YMCA or something so you can use their swimming pool!!)
Love Pete"
The hierarchy are going to smell a rat, but it looks like I'm going to get a chance at undoing all the bad I've done to her all those years ago!
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Do you know what your last name means and where it comes from . . .?
by Justahuman24 ini have always been interested in what last names mean and where they come from and if someone famous in the past is related to us because of the same last name.
my last name comes from greek but my family is not greek.
it dates back to the year 700ce and it was around the time in europe when people were starting to get last names - i'm talking about the general people not monarchs.
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13th Century, Scotland meaning 'dowry'
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UN-BE-FLIPPING-LIEVABLE chance JW meeting moments ago...
by Confession inthis is trippy.... the set-up: every weekend, 45 weekends per year, a company flies me to a different city in the u.s., and has me lead group presentations to families of college-bound high school students.
we then offer to sell them our college preparation program.. a few weekends ago we were in fresno, california.
he asked which organization it was.
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LOL Thanks Confession, the dictionary definitions are nearly as cool as the word.
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UN-BE-FLIPPING-LIEVABLE chance JW meeting moments ago...
by Confession inthis is trippy.... the set-up: every weekend, 45 weekends per year, a company flies me to a different city in the u.s., and has me lead group presentations to families of college-bound high school students.
we then offer to sell them our college preparation program.. a few weekends ago we were in fresno, california.
he asked which organization it was.
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The first thing that came to mind was 'how tripindicular this is!'
Thanks Confession, I'm going to use this in a sentence tomorrow and then I'm going to find out what it means.;)