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  Greetings

  by Anomalous One in

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  a warm and friendly hello to all !!.

  i've been lurking and learning for a few months.

  former elder who drifted away due to congregation hyprocrisy and politics.. went through many of the feelings of inadequacy and/or lack of confidence for a while but the longer i was away the stronger i became.. i'll tell more about myself later but right now i want to thank all of your for sharing your thoughts and comments.. it's truly amazing how bright the light can get when you really learn the truth and get out of the "organization".

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  crazies

  Welcome home!
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  Thanks!!!

  by crazies in

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  i think it's high time i do some sort of an introduction.

  i've been lurking on here for the past 5 months or so, and you guys have helped out a lot.

  i've posted a few times, but mostly just research i'd done, never really saying anything about myself.

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  crazies

  I am the same way, I double checked everything for myself, and I'm glad I did, I keep thinking how horrible it would be to still be stuck in there. Not that you know that when your in, but being out it is sure easy to see.

  I do remember the last few meetings we went to, I could hardly keep from laughing at the stuff that was coming out of their mouths on stage, I think those might have actually been the only few meetings I had any fun at! Or at least came home laughing!

  Its good to be free!
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  My Birthday

  by Madame Quixote in

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  2. family

  april 21 was my birthday and only one person knew or cared (and it was not my mom or dad).

  it was my daughter.

  the delights of having a jehovah's witness family do not end.

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  crazies

  Its still the 21st where I'm at, so HAPPY BIRTHDAY
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  Thanks!!!

  by crazies in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i think it's high time i do some sort of an introduction.

  i've been lurking on here for the past 5 months or so, and you guys have helped out a lot.

  i've posted a few times, but mostly just research i'd done, never really saying anything about myself.

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  crazies

  
  I think it's high time I do some sort of an introduction. I've been lurking on here for the past 5 months or so, and you guys have helped out a lot. I've posted a few times, but mostly just research I'd done, never really saying anything about myself.

  I grew up a JW (I keep starting to write "truth" then have to catch myself--damn brainwashing) and faded in good standing, but never happier to be out, although I have gone through a little hell with my family and an old old friend, or I should say someone I thought was a friend, but to be honest nothing compared to what many of you have gone through, or are going through.

  I've been out for about 6 months now, 12/2005 was the last meeting we went to, and thank god! I can honestly say I don't miss them!

  About two months before that, one of our fellow posters on here told me his situation, and since he is a close friend I gave him the benefit of at least doing my own research on the points he was making. I thought that if it truly was the truth, it would hold up to being factually true. Well as they say...the rest is history, as we all know it does not hold up, and I found that the points he was making were in all factuallity, real truth.

  I want to thank all of you for your posting, I was able to get a lot of quite a few of your threads, many of your threads helped point me in the right direction to do my own research. I also want to give special thanks to a couple of you that personally helped me out and made our fade almost impossible for anyone else to track in the cong. You of course know who you are.

  I look forward to being more active with all of you on here now that I'm completely "inactive" elsewhere (not that they have my records anymore--).
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  Doesn't Surprise me at ALL!!!

  by DirtyFace in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  it doesn't surprise me at all that the man in mexico that killed his family was a wacko jw.

  april 13, 2006 man slaughters family - update

  eloy leon kings was, apparently, a well liked and respected man in his local community.

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  Wow,

  I can't believe how sick people are, how can you do that to little kids? I hope the Mexican Authorities take proper care of this guy.
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  My dad's continuing journey.....

  by freedomlover in

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  any of you who have been following the saga of my life and my dad will appreciate how another person is finding the truth out.

  i sent him the scans of lady liberty's addition from grayson's book.

  (thanks ll!

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  Amazing!

  I'm trying to help my dad see as well, its not going nearly as good as your dad is, but at least he still talks to me almost everyday.

  Good job on your dad!
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  HAPPY 18TH BIRTHDAY RICHIE RICH

  by DevonMcBride in

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  my thoughts are with you on your first birthday as a free person.

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  HAPPY BIRTHDAY RICHIE!!
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  Who really has the "TRUTH"???

  by architect in

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  2. beliefs

  even if all else looks bad, due to the fact that jw's preach the goodnews of the kingdom in harmony with matt 28, doesn't this make them the true religion since technically no other religion can make this claim?

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  crazies

  Architect,

  Your logic seems quite flawed. For one thing they are not the only group out there preaching. What about the Morons Mormons? They put many hours into preaching what they consider the good news. In talking to work mates that were mormons and did their 2-year thing, they would preach 6 days a week from early morning to at night. That much more time than even special pioneers put in. They also have over double the numbers that Witnesses have from their "preaching work". Does this mean they should by defualt win at fulfilling Mat 28? Of course not, what they teach is easily disproved.

  The same with JW's, their good news is Jesus came in 1914, which is EASILY disproved, so are they really fulfilling what the bible says?
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  Another Elder bites the dust!!!!

  by Lady Liberty in

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  my sister and her husband finally told a elder friend of theirs why they have been absent from the meetings for all these months.

  ) our family has chosen to only use the 607 issue when dealing with the elders.

  because it seems to be the only issue they cannot answer!

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  crazies

  has anyone compiled this info as a printable (easy to understand) page?

  I'm working on it. It should be done within a week, I'm trying to cover all of it in a very simple, easy to understand format. I will post on here when it is done.
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  Another Elder bites the dust!!!!

  by Lady Liberty in

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  my sister and her husband finally told a elder friend of theirs why they have been absent from the meetings for all these months.

  ) our family has chosen to only use the 607 issue when dealing with the elders.

  because it seems to be the only issue they cannot answer!

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  crazies

  Here is one also. The society in the IT book lists the destruction of

  *** it-1 p. 236 ***

  In such glory it continued as the capital of the third world power until the night of October 5, 539 B.C.E. (Gregorian calendar), when fell before the invading Medo-Persian armies under the command of Cyrus the Great

  Well in the NWT if you turn to Daniel 5:26- this is where the handwriting on the wall is.

  (Daniel 5:26) 26 “This is the interpretation of the word: ME´NE, God has numbered [the days of] your kingdom and has finished it.

  If you look at the marginal reference at the end of the verse it links the numbered days to Jer. 25:12. So the NWT is linking the numbering of days to the 70 year prophecy, and that the 70 years are over.

  (Jeremiah 25:12) 12 “‘And it must occur that when seventy years have been fulfilled I shall call to account against the king of and against that nation,’ is the utterance of Jehovah, ‘their error, even against the land of the Chal·de´ans, and I will make it desolate wastes to time indefinite.

  (Daniel 5:27-31) 27 “TE´KEL, you have been weighed in the balances and have been found deficient.

  28 “PE´RES, your kingdom has been divided and given to the Medes and the Persians.”

  Thus the nation of was no more, which would only happen when the seventy years were fulfilled.

  29 At that time Bel·shaz´zar commanded, and they clothed Daniel with purple, with a necklace of gold about his neck; and they heralded concerning him that he was to become the third ruler in the kingdom.

  30 In that very night Bel·shaz´zar the Chal·de´an king was killed 31 and Da·ri´us the Mede himself received the kingdom, being about sixty-two years old.

  Belshazzar was killed that night—No more king of .

  Two actions would be taken once the seventy years were fulfilled. According to the bible and the WTBS own bible the NWT, God putting the handwriting on the wall was fulfilling the Seventy Years.

  In 539 BCE God called to account against (1) the king of and (2) against the nation of . Both were no more.

  In 537 BCE there was no nation of and NO king of . In fact not only was Belshazzar killed that night, his father was also killed in 539 BCE.

  Hope this helps,

  Crazies