sparky1
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Thankful for our community of friends!
by stuckinarut2 ini just wanted to express a sincere thanks for the amazing community of friends we have built up thanks to sites like this.. the genuine people we can now call true friends is outstanding.. to all those who are newly awakening, or are just starting to contemplate a life outside of the jw bubble, please be reassured that you will indeed make good friends if you put yourself out there.. true,not every ex-jw will be an instant friend.
you will not click with everyone.
but as with life in general, if you put in the effort, a new circle of genuine friends exist out there!.
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Mom won’t get a blood transfusion with a bc of 7.
by Darkknight757 injust beyond frustrated with my jw mother.
she’s a prescription drug addict.
she’s been that way since before i was born.
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sparky1
"She is a horrible human being. She is my mother." - Darkknight757
In the year 2000, my mother died. She was a very difficult person. Dyed in the wool, fanatical, god intoxicated, Jehovah's Witness indoctrinated religious zealot. She would not take blood, either. My mother was in the hospital for about 4 months most of that time in critical care. When she was lucid she continued to be difficult even though I helped make all her medical decisions and was with her almost every day. The doctors were respectful of her not taking blood, but a physicians assistant told me that 'I was killing my mother' because I would not override her refusal to take blood. She aspirated one night and nearly choked to death. From that point on, she was 'brain dead' and I had to sign the paperwork to unhook her from life support. I have both empathy and sympathy for your situation. Sometimes our parents don't realize what they put us through. I hope for your sake that she goes peacefully and that you needn't carry more of her personal burdens than necessary. Best of luck to you and don't take the process and outcome too hard. She is an adult and made her own life choices.
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The Hypocrisy Of Jehovah’s Witnesses
by minimus incelebrating holidays is wrong if you are a witness.
but almost every jw that i know of has turkey on thanksgiving day.
they say , every day is a day of thanksgiving.
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sparky1
Here you go, minimus. One of my friends at the time was a Circuit Overseer and he gave the talk at the District Assembly 'commemorating' this event. In regards to Thanksgiving, we always went to our non-Witness relatives house when I was a young boy. Post 1976, my dyed in the wool, fanatical mother (who would turn anyone in to the elders if they had a hangnail) always had a delicious traditional Thanksgiving meal and a few different Witness families that were our friends would always attend. And this was when we had our 'midweek' meeting on a Thursday night and no one bothered to go to the meeting that night.
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Ken Cook's Biography
by Iamallcool inhttps://www.jw.org/en/publications/magazines/watchtower-study-january-2019/new-member-governing-body/ .
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sparky1
'There are NO new remnant! The 'door' was essentially closed in 1935 when Jehovah turned his attention to the ingathering of the Great crowd.' Look what they've done to your religion, Nate.
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The Jehovah's Witnesses religion founded upon aggressive opportunistic people.
by Finkelstein intaking a reflective look back onto the founders of the jw religion such as c t russell and j rutherford we can see very opportunistic people who were avowed to themselves more so than being actual true bible interpreters and adherents.. indication of that is just how closed in these men were in their individually devised theology such as pyramidology, end times doctrine, jesus has returned and so on, where there was no effort to substantiate these claims from outside sources by other christian religious organizations .. c t russell was not an trained bible theologian by any imagination he just absorbed any outside information that he thought was engaging or provocatively interesting and went about publishing what others had found or expressed.
j rutherford was one these people who was lured into what russell was preaching and saw what the wts was as a publishing house and grab it including the money that russell had put into it.. the literature circulation and distribution continued on from him, what is realized now is the wts/jws preaching gospel work is not an faithfully accurate preaching according to scripture.
more or less the wts leaders created a working cult around its own public sales representatives in the pretense of preaching the gospel of jesus christ.
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I totally agree, Vidiot. As the old saying goes: 'In the beginning God created man and then man returned the favor'.
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It's My Birthday Today
by pale.emperor intoday is my 34th birthday.
or, my 3rd birthday that i've actually acknowledged seeing as i was raised in the cult.. i woke up this morning to my 4yo running into my room and wishing me a "happy birthday daddy!".
i got a card from my ex-jw brother and i bought myself a birthday gift - a new 50mm lens for my nikon camera (photography is a hobby i took up since leaving the cult).. i dont know about you guys, but birthdays is still something i have to make a conscious effort to acknowledge and enjoy.
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Best wishes for a Happy Birthday.
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Watchtower Tax Return
by Tahoe inphoto credit: dallas canadathis is from only one of the corporations and before the recent kh sell offs.
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You are correct, sir82. We would need a profit and loss statement, a balance sheet, and a cash flow analysis in order to get the complete picture of WATCHTOWER'S finances. However, the average corporation can operate successfully with a debt to equity ratio of 3:1 and cash on hand of about 8%. It would seem unlikely to me that they would have long term debt of about 4.2 billion dollars. My contention has been all along that they are in a cash flow crunch because of their kingdom hall building scheme but that their long term financial health is just fine. Of course, only the WATCHTOWER accountants, lawyers, and Governing Body know for sure.
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Today in Rotten History
by Marilyn intoday in rotten history we live in a slightly mad world .
may 24 1997 wade thomas poyner, a prominent jehovah's witness in woodland, washington, is arrested for a lewd incident involving a preteen boy.
while not charged with that crime, poyner was charged for a summer 1991 rape of a 6 year old boy, and is suspected in nine other incidents involving preteen boys.
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Timay777.......I hope that you and your brother have been able to move on with your lives and find some semblance of peace, happiness and success.All the best to you!
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Be Honest in All Things - New video exposes a problem with honesty at Bethel/Construction
by George One Time inon tv.jw.org kenneth cook jr. discusses how important it is to be honest when applying for special assignemts.
he mentions health and viewing pornography.
those who viewed pornography during the last year should not apply.
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This is a picture of possibly the only 'honest' Bethelite in the history of the Jehovah's Witness religion.
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Explain Your Avatar
by new boy ini know this thread has been done before.
however maybe some of the new comers might like to know.. my avatar is the cover of my first novel "your crazy life.
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sparky1
My Avatar is David Bohm and Jiddu Krishnamurti in 'dialogue'. This represents for me my own inner dialogue. David Bohm is the rational, logical side of my nature devoted to reason and clear thinking without falling prey to scientism. Jiddu Krishnamurti is the loving, spiritual side of my nature devoted to love, honesty, kindness and spirituality with out falling prey to religiosity.
"Individuality is only possible if it unfolds from wholeness." - David Bohm
"When I understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding comes love." - Jiddu Krishnamurti