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  Hello...

  by Incognigo Montoya in

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  well, i've been lurking for a bit.

  first out of cautious curiosity, then, though feeling a bit more comfortable to post, got caught in the confirmation email anomaly, and left unable to post or participate.

  so i remained lurking, reading and researching.

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  Welcome....lot's to learn here. I hope you stay awhile and contribute to the discussions!
  
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  How did the bible fables get started?

  by Tameria2001 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  today while out running errands, i was flipping through the radio trying to find something to listen to.

  i ended up on some christian type of station, and the guy was talking about the ark, and the flood during noah's time.

  personally i no longer believe this fable, because the facts just don't line up.

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  Fables, stories and myths are important for some human beings in order to assign meaning in life and to their lives. Early man and the Bible writers were no exception.

  "A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence. Whether the meaning of existence is only what we put into life by our own individual fortitude, as Sartre would hold, or whether there is a meaning we need to discover, as Kierkegaard would state, the result is the same: myths are our way of finding this meaning and significance." - ROLLO MAY
  
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  Hello!

  by Kathy1978 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i just wanted to give a brief intro.

  i was born into jw world and left it in 2015 along with my husband and 2 little children.

  looking forward to reading the posts and interaction with you.

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  How could I not 'speak the truth', Roshi Steve?
  
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  Hello!

  by Kathy1978 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i just wanted to give a brief intro.

  i was born into jw world and left it in 2015 along with my husband and 2 little children.

  looking forward to reading the posts and interaction with you.

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  Welcome....you will learn a lot here! There are many fine, understanding, compassionate, and intelligent posters here. I look forward to your posting here.
  
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  Thankful for our community of friends!

  by stuckinarut2 in

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  2. friends

  i 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 in

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  just 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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  "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 in

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  celebrating 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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  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 in

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  https://www.jw.org/en/publications/magazines/watchtower-study-january-2019/new-member-governing-body/ .

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  '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 in

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  2. beliefs

  taking 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 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  today 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.