Those were great responses. How dare he!
Posts by rowan
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22Facebook message from ex brother-in-law
by jeremiah18:5-10 inmy ex bil (who is df'd for 3+ years) sent me this message saturday night:.
"...it is with a sad heart i write this.
after seeing your post concerning celebrating halloween and running into christi and her telling me that you guys were celebrating christmas with a tree and everything ... along with other postings you have made and testimony from others it is apparent you have chosen the path of apostasy.... i write this wishing that wasn't so but the fact is the fact... i wish you and your family the best in this system but i can not associate or be friends with you anymore... i am chosing to be on jehovah's and his organization's side... thanks for the friendship thru the years and may you enjoy the time left in this system... :'(".
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What being cheap costs us.. Fatal accident involving bus full of JWs
by pubtruth inthis happened about last week here in florida.
a bus carrying 32 jehovah's witnesses driven by a hired bus driver got lost on the way to west palm beach and crashed at the entrance of miami int'l airport.
dozens were injured and 2 passed away.
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rowan
When the same thing (minus the fatalities) happened in my country 30 years ago, they blamed it on kids on the bus playing with smurf stickers
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Did you have to try another church or religion on your way to unbelief?
by donny inback in 1992 when i was slowly extricating my way out of the wacthtower, there was no internet, smart phones or any other type of quick data download available.
i had basically 3 choices to obtain viewpoints from ex-jw's.. #1 - go to go to the library and look for books critical of the society.
#2 - go to a christian book store to look for the same.. #3 - order item like these from addresses or phone numbers listed in the back of these publications.. and while doing any of these things, you were always looking over your shoulder to see if any "brothers" were around.. the problem i experienced is that virtually all of these books, while giving you good reason to doubt the watchtower, always pointed to "christendom" as the way you needed to go.
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rowan
Yeah, I did. I tried hard to go back into believing in an invisible sky daddy, this time of the good kind. The Presbyterian services I attended felt cagey and boring like the KH. And I just didn't swallow it. And then I bumped into the "God Delusion" and it made so much sense...
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Anybody a fan of MI-5/Spooks tv show?
by rowan ingerard and i got netflix about 5 months ago and are having a blast watching british tv shows.
the latest one is mi-5.
anybody else a fan?.
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rowan
Gerard and I got Netflix about 5 months ago and are having a blast watching british tv shows. the latest one is MI-5. we cannot get enough of it. anybody else a fan?
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Disfellowshipped!
by Las Malvinas son Argentinas inlibertad!
though my story is a bit more complicated than that.
i live in argentina.
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rowan
So Emilie does not fit in a stereotype conceived by a person who stereotypically does not want to understand different cultures. How very unsettling and threatening.
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Would this offend you?
by Disillusioned Lost-Lamb ini am remaining "in" for the time being, for my family, so with that said.... i fear my niece (9) and nephew (6) will be assimilated into the borganization therefore i try to covertly undermine their indoctrination hoping that if they choose to be a witless it will be just that, their choice.
regardless of their path, i know my sister and bil will not plan anything for their children's futures, i don't want them to needlessly struggle because they never got the opportunities a normal child wouldve and i believe that, in or out, a higher education at least gives them a chance, i was thinking of secretly starting a small college fund for each of them.. what do you think?
would any of you parents be offended by this?
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rowan
That is a wonderful action on your part. The one scenario I imagine would offend the parents is if they throw the kids out because of the religion, and there you are, offering them a safety net. That would be wonderful (not the kicking them out, may be a good riddance from the religion, but never good).
20, may be 30% chances they remain witnesses. see that you keep control over the accounts, so they don't use the money to go preach "where the need is greater".
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Baptisms decreased critical 26.9% in Mexico
by Gayle infor 2011, jws in mexico had the lowest baptism number in years, a critical 26.9% decrease from 2010. something is going there!?.
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rowan
I can hear them spinning this into "signs that the end is near"
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Disfellowshipped!
by Las Malvinas son Argentinas inlibertad!
though my story is a bit more complicated than that.
i live in argentina.
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rowan
I realize in my post I presume that you are from Capital. sorry about that. No idea where you are from! It's just that I am really familiar with Capital and like hearing about it
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Disfellowshipped!
by Las Malvinas son Argentinas inlibertad!
though my story is a bit more complicated than that.
i live in argentina.
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rowan
Nobody has the right to judge you for your decision. Nobody is in your shoes. As witnesses, I can say, at least from my part, I did live a lie all those years, not a double life, but my mind and heart were not in the religion. and this perverse cult is holding our beloved ones hostage. sorry if we decide to play their games. in the end, this is what they cannot get away from us, this is how we defeat the cult: we live a succesful life, and we get to see our families. In our terms.
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Disfellowshipped!
by Las Malvinas son Argentinas inlibertad!
though my story is a bit more complicated than that.
i live in argentina.
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rowan
hey, Malvinas.
my same hx. same country (what area of Capital are you from, what congo?), pulled the same stunt. what didn't go according to plan is that the elders had a vendetta against me and wouldn't reinstate. regarless, after a few years of going to the meetings abroad I got reinstated. then proceeded to drop 'em like a hot potato. at least I get to see fly. now.
cheers,
Rowan