Posts by alanv

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Define "Ex jw"?

by highdose in

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inspired from another current thread.

i note some people are asking if they are allowed to participate in a questionaire for ex jw's if they are just fading or have not been df'd?.

my own situation is this: tecnicaly i am a jw, baptised as a young tweeny and never reproved, df'd or da'd.

alanv

Totally agree. I used to belong to a tennis club, but now I dont, therefor I am a an ex tennis club member. It's not rocket science is it.

Like you I have faded because of the terrible consequencies if you are in a JW family and you formally write to tell them you no longer wish to be one.

There must be thousands of ex witnesses that have faded and would love to tell the WT what they think of them but the WT has made that impossable

So we do the next best thing, and that is warn others about this evil cult, and that way hopefully we are stopping many others make the same mistake as we did.

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motherin law mixes with a molester but not her daughter .

by looloo in

this really confuses me , a few years back when i told her of my daughters abuse , she told me they have someone in the family who is a bit "funny" i asked her to explain , she said her bro inlaw had been accused of touching up her neice and older daughter in the past but her sister wanted to stay with him !

i cant believe she hadnt warned me about him till that point as we had stayed overnight with them and my kids , it appears it was all brushed under the carpet and life carried on , a few years later she takes her 16 year old daughter and her best friend to stay with him and his wife but didnt think it appropriate to take a daughter to visit her other disfllowshipped daughter , who is a wonderful wife and mother and sweet lady because it would be a bad witness to her daughters friend !

yet it was ok to take this young girl to stay over with someone who she knew "liked young girls" i wonder who the girls parents would rather their daughter visited !

alanv

The whole religion is very mixed up. Normal feelings and relationships are often not there.

If you think about it, any religion that can cut you off dead from your family simply because you no longer believe what they do is really one you want to avoid like the plague.

There are many, many cases where sexual abuse has been covered up. Just go to the silent lambs website and read all the horrific stories of JW victims of abuse.

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Immunizations?

by crazy2try in

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friends

i have a question.

today at work a woman was saying that she was upset because the foster mother of her children had taken the children to the dr and they received their immunization shots.

she told a co-worker that she was mad because they did not respect her beliefs.

alanv

All the above is true, but these days as far as I am aware most witnesses would not even question this. They simply have injections as a matter of course

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so why dont they cut to the chase at the door???

by oompa in

as in..."hi, my name is soa fraid and i hope you will accept my offer for a free home bible study.

the reason you should accept this free offer is that our leaders, the men who have compiled the material for this study receive direct communication from god, and he speaks to no other religion on earth.

they then write down what god has told them to, and publish it in a zillion languages so that we can teach people what god really meant in his new world translation of the holy scriptures...you may refer to it as the bible.

alanv

People used to say to me regularly 'I'm not interested in Jehovah's Witnesses. I would say innocently. We're not here to talk about them. We're here to talk about the bible.

Yeh right.

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What's your plans on the JW Memorial night?

by dissed in

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for the last 13 years, we haven't attended and didn't even care about it.

but since we became card carrying members of jwn in september, we have an interest in what are friends here on jwn are doing.. for us?

we will be watching 'dancing with the stars'.

alanv

In the UK it's Eastenders night so I shall be watching that. Also be hoping the memorial partakers goes up again and looking forward to the JWs sq uirm in embarrasment when the figures are published. Remember this from WT 1980 October 15th p31

And if the wicked system of this world survived until the turn of the century, which is highly improbable in view of world trends and the fulfillment of Bible prophecy, there would still be survivors of the World War I generation. However, the fact that their number is dwindling is one more indication that “the conclusion of the system of things” is moving fast toward its end.

Classic!!

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Is it okay for JW to be deal or no deal contestant?

by asilentone in

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alanv

I would say no. The whole programme is based on good or bad luck. Anything to do with lady luck is a JW no no.

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At last peace and security

by alanv in

http://latestnews.virginmedia.com/news/world/2010/03/26/us_and_russia_agree_to_nuclear_cuts.

what's the betting certain people will be getting very excited again.

alanv

http://latestnews.virginmedia.com/news/world/2010/03/26/us_and_russia_agree_to_nuclear_cuts

What's the betting certain people will be getting very excited again

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Armageddon Survivors-- Welcome to Jehovah's Vegetarian New World........

by Room 215 in

..... just don't trip over those 7 billion cadavers on your way in!.

alanv

There was a really good programme on BBC 1 in England last night. It was called Inside the perfect predator. It was about the four greatest predators on the planet, namely the cheettah, a great white shark, a Nile crocodile and a peregrine falcon. It showed in slow motion and very close up what happened as they gave chase for a kill.

How anyone can think these ones will eat vegatation in a new order really must have a screw loose.

They spend their whole life tearing other creatures apart for a meal.

To be honest I felt sick just watching it but there is no way these creatures are ever going to eat leaves and apples.

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One year in jail for JW man who circumcised son at home

by behemot in

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one year in jail for metro vancouver man who circumcised son at homeby andrea woo, vancouver sunmarch 25, 2010comments (46)metro vancouver -- a metro vancouver man who circumcised his four-year-old son at home with a razor blade and blood coagulant meant for horses has been sentenced to one year in jail followed by two years probation.

in april 2007, the man, identified only as djw due to a publication ban, gave his son, dj, honey wine before placing him on garbage bags on the kitchen floor.

djw then cut away the boy's foreskin with a razor blade.. .

alanv

This really turned my stomach just thinking about him performing this.

And yet presumably this happened all the time in olden times, particularly with the Jews.

Surely there must have been problems then on a much grander scale.

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I got to apologize to a former Bible study

by JerkhovahsWitless in

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i spoke to someone who was my best friend almost 10 years ago when we were still kids (late teens and early 20s).

he wasn't a jw, but unfortunately got interested in it due to me.

i studied with him for a while and tried my hardest to pull him into the cult.

alanv

You need to remember that you were a victim as well. Your motive was good, because you believed you were doing the right thing.

My best friend got me into the organisation, but now 30 years later he is out and so am I. I don't feel anything but friendship with this guy, I am just so glad that he got out as well.