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May 1969 :on a highway, somewhere this side of a life unlived
by TerryWalstrom in
1. jw
2. friends
may 1969. i didn't know i was in trouble.now, years later, i suddenly do see it.. we're not talking drugs.

i never did drugs.

ever.nothing is worse than stone cold sober.what i did was more destructive: i had mainlined on god.a weird brand of god: jehovah god.. i was shredded and unaware.
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2017 Annual Meeting
by Jules Saturn in
1. social
2. current
this just in from the 2017 annual meeting:.

1. watchtowers and awakes won't be released regularly, at least three watchtower and awakes per year.

6 magazines a year.. 2. a new book is being released: remain in god's love, more of an update like how they did for the what does the bible really teach book.
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My problem with Original Sin
by leftbelow in
1. watchtower
2. bible
i found this quote in a book i was reading and it struck me this is why original sin is a problem for me.. damnation is the start of your morality, destruction is its purpose, means and end.

your code begins by damning man as evil, then demands that he practice a good which it defines as impossible for him to practice.

it demands, as his first proof of virtue, that he accept his own depravity without proof.
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Have you heard Judge Rutherford give a sermon?
by Terry in
1. jw
2. friends
the phonograph records recorded by judge rutherford have been uploaded to the internet archives.. you can stream them and listen.. https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3a%28j.%20f.%20rutherford%29.

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Had to go to meeting today for the first time in years
by leftbelow in
1. jw
2. friends
visiting my mom and dad with my daughter and they want to show her off.

i understand and because i knew i would take her out of the hall so she could move and do the things 4year old kids do.. anyway discovered a new game the brother were playing with me.

disfellowshipped/inactive/or worldly.
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Humility? Screw Humility.......
by AllTimeJeff in
1. jw
2. friends
.....said the exiting jw.. this jw saw it all, the games, the politics.

oh, and how this quality of "humility" was used as an anvil to keep, not just your actions in line, but your thoughts and feelings as well.. the leadership of jw's is an extremely talented bunch.

they know exactly how to reframe concepts to their own ends.. so, once you have your awakening, and you leave, and you remember how often you were symbolically on your knees all the time, you say "never again!".
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1984, Big Mother, and the Watchtower on freeminds2.org
by DS211 in
1. watchtower
2. bible
1984 and big motherby randall wattersno one thought much of the book when it was first published in 1949, nor, in fact, did it stir much attention for a number of years thereafter.

in the last two decades, however, the book1984 by george orwell has drawn a much greater reading audience.

orwell portrays a society brainwashed by political ideologies to the point where they are intolerant of any other mindset.
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Hello, its good to be back, seriously!
by AllTimeJeff in
1. jw
2. friends
for the last year or so, the opening lyrics to gloria estefan's "always tomorrow" have been howling at me.. i've been alone inside myself, far too long.

never really wanted it that way, but i let it happen..... .

(btw, the message in that song is great for former jw's, if you want to think about the lyrics that way....).
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Feb 2014 WT Study article
by molybdenum in
1. watchtower
2. bible
the caption under the picture in the first article.

hail christthe glorious king!says:.

birds will be called on to cleanse the earth (see paragraph 18).
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First post
by thedog1 in
1. jw
2. friends
this is a very strange thing for me to do.

i have been an active witness for over 25 years.

i currently serve as an elder and i conduct the watchtower study.