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How did you feel when you found out Jehovah's Witnesses were a cult?

by The wanderer in

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finding out jehovah's witnesses were a cult on a number of occasions individuals would warn.

me about being one of jehovah's witnesses and.

say that the religion was really a cult.

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Hondo: No, that's not an exaggeration, I know exactly what you mean. Many JW converts have that bossy person always hanging over them. My mom sounds exactly like your ex. She is glassey eyed, she has violent and emotional mood swings, she never seems to know where she is or what she's doing. It's so frightening to watch her mentally decaying before my eyes. Yesterday, she said she was disconnecting the internet because she saw me on this website and is terrified of being disfellowshipped if being "discovered." They have her body and soul, and there is no reaching her at all.

As for that bossy person, they're the ones the convert calls when they're having family problems, like when we staged an intervention for my mom. They also do the dirty work of the watchtower, suppressing all the converts questions and giving them what to wear, how to talk, how to think, how to piss. They're the wolves in sheeps clothing.

To all you ex-JWs who weren't born in the org, but instead converted as an adult, do you remember a specific person who was there from the beginning, who showed you the dozens of rules and groomed you to be the perfect witness? If so, did you ever secretly hate that person? I mean, they were nice in a leacherous way, the way a snake is nice right before he eats a hamster. Did you ever think, in between the time you converted without knowing the truth to the time you learned they are a cult, "what the hell have I gotten myself into?"

I think that moment has to come right about the time when your sitting and dozing off from boredom in the kingdom hall with your hand me down suit and your cheap dollar store cologne, clutching your magazine for dear life, singing "Loyally Submitting to the Theocratic Order," after you've thrown out your wind chimes, and your beer mugs, and your flag, and your computer, and your education, and your Bible, and your cross, and your Christmas tree, and your Ouigi board, and your shotgun, and your push-up bra, and your miniskirt, and your right to privacy, and your freedom of speech, and your freedom of thought, and your friends, and your family, and your sanity.......

Got the picture?

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Who Will Conquer the World in the 1970's? - Public Talk

by Bonnie_Clyde in

july 1970 km page 3 (under announcements) - "a new circuit assembly program is scheduled to begin in september.

we believe you will find it most informative and upbuilding.

the public talk will be "who will conquer the world in the 1970's?".

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Wow, they should be ashamed, but of course we know they never will be. I'm guessing back then they didn't have the rule they have now, meaning that my mom was told by the elders that she's not allowed to give out literature to strangers that's more than three years old anymore. Forget about "old light" and "new light," this light is so blurred and fractured, they're literally tripping over their own backwards feet.

So I asked my mom, if Jesus was a Jehovah's Witnesses, then why would he go door to door handing out magazines that he knew were going to expire in three years?

She didn't like that very much...

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What Happened to all the Baptized Publishers? number lost in space

by Dogpatch in

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http://www.freeminds.org/history/wherebaptized.htm.

what happened to all the baptized publishers?.

the following chart shows the number of persons baptized into the jehovah's witness religion from 1985 to 2005 across the world.

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Randy: That's an interesting choice of words that one is not a real witness unless they are bapitsed and submit their timecards. You know what's weird is before my mom was baptised, she wasn't allowed to pray to God, she said she wasn't worthy. She always says grace before eating, except when there's a man at the table, then he does it.

I didn't know if these were offical Watchtower rules or unspoken ones in her congregation, but I know I was horrifed at the blatent sexism and class distinctions in "the truth."

Ironically enough, she spent six months preparing for baptism and memorized the dozens of questions, and now she doesn't remember a single thing she swore an oath to. I'd think if your going to completely give up your freedom of thought and surrender your life to this totalitarian cult, shouldn't you at least bother to remember why you did it?

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So Who is the Biggest Watchtower Villain?

by slimboyfat in

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who is the biggest villain in watchtower history?

let's have a poll.

here are the candidates with a few possible reasons for voting for each:.

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Is there a need to say at this point that they are all equally guilty, except Ray Franz? As for who was the worst, it must have been Rutherford. Russel was an arrogant mislead fool. But after all, who's more foolish the fool, or the fool who follows him?

By the way, am I the only one who thinks Russel's death is a little suspicious? Rutherford was by his side all the time, and published a postumous book in his name with the ludricus claim that he had dictated it from the grave. Then he seemed to gain instant power in an organization founded by a man who never intended to have a successor. So is it not logical to theorize that Rutherford planned all this? Any thoughts?

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WAYNE CAIRNS - JW Elder EXPOSED - Pleads Guilty to "Indecent Act"

by Scully in

the morning star sept 24, 2006 page a6 vernon bc canada newspaper.

the article reads and i quote in full: .

school bus driver given conditional discharge .

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Tigerman: Maybe we do need to get a life, this certainly is not a pleasant topic to focus on. And maybe we do have a one track mind at times.

You see, the problem is not necessarily the offender himself, he is probably mentally disturbed. The problem is how the fellow elders deal with it. This goes back to a basic JW teaching, that all "Jehovah's People" are pure and noble and don't do things like this. So when they do, instead of trying to get help for the offender, they sweep it under the rug and go about their business. Keep in mind they discourage going to a therapist and using mental help in general. Meanwhile, the offender might go from lewd behavior to child abuse, we don't know for sure. But the point in discussing these things is to warn everyone of a potental predator in a position of authority. He was a school bus driver after all.

The sad thing is, he might have been just a regular guy who had one too many beers and decided to go streaking through the town, like the people you described on the beach where you live. In that case it's just as bad because "Jehovah's People" are not supposed to be regular guys who get occasionally drunk and make mistakes.

My point is, we here on JWD have seen for ourselves what guys like this can become. If by chance he is reading this, I want to let him know that there is help for him, and to please contact his local authorities and get out of the watchtower. This may sound crazy but we would like to help him before he hurts himself or anybody else. Whether this is just a regular guy or something alot worse, it doesn't matter. The WTS should drop their hypocritical act once and for all and admit that they don't have the answers, they are not God's organization; they never have been, and they never will be. There are drunks and child molesters in their organization, just like everywhere else in the world.

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Eve and Adam

by MsMcDucket in

"lord, i have a problem.

god asks, "what's the problem, eve?

"i know that you created me and provided this beautiful garden and all.

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MsMcDucket: That is hysterical. I always disliked how women are constantly put down in the bible. Good for you!

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WAYNE CAIRNS - JW Elder EXPOSED - Pleads Guilty to "Indecent Act"

by Scully in

the morning star sept 24, 2006 page a6 vernon bc canada newspaper.

the article reads and i quote in full: .

school bus driver given conditional discharge .

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"My source made a phone call to the congregation to find out if he was still an elder. The answer was yes.

The individual in question also was a member of the Judicial Committee that DFd and recently reinstated my source."

Scully: Good work, sounds like you caught them red handed. What do you think will happen next?

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WAYNE CAIRNS - JW Elder EXPOSED - Pleads Guilty to "Indecent Act"

by Scully in

the morning star sept 24, 2006 page a6 vernon bc canada newspaper.

the article reads and i quote in full: .

school bus driver given conditional discharge .

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Candidlynuts: Good point. I was assuming that since he's still in good standing, he might have alot of connections or is very important in the congregation. Perhaps it is ironic that being an elder in good standing with the watchtower doesn't necessarily make you in good standing with God.

Peace,
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WAYNE CAIRNS - JW Elder EXPOSED - Pleads Guilty to "Indecent Act"

by Scully in

the morning star sept 24, 2006 page a6 vernon bc canada newspaper.

the article reads and i quote in full: .

school bus driver given conditional discharge .

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You know the sick thing is that if he does get anymore legal action taken against him, the WTS will pay the entire bill defending him using donated money from the rank and file. Yet at the same time, they persecute and disfellowship victims of child abuse.

And yet there were obviously more than two witnesses to this guy exposing himself on the bus, so how does that make any sense? But wait, the WTS has probably already circumvented their own rules for cases such as this. Maybe for those who saw him do it, their opinion is worthless because they're worldy. "Only a JW can be trusted."

If that's the case, than the only way this pervert could be disfellowshiped is if he walked into the KH in the middle of a meeting and dropped trou! Disgusting!

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(Rutherford-Beth Sarim)-The Journal of San Diego History!

by Atlantis in

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for those interested in "rutherford" research!.

http://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/86spring/br-living.htm the journal of san diego historyspring 1986, volume 32, number 2contents of this issue book notes kensington-talmadge: 1910-1985 by thomas h. baumann, san diego: privately printed, 1984.illustrations.

maps.

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Rutherford was NOT a judge. He was not a humble man, nor was he a sober and faithful man. But I guess if you tell a lie often enough, people will believe it.

I wonder if any of Rutherford's family is alive today, what would they think of him? I would be quite ashamed, for I pity him. I know other people feel stronger, and I agree. But I think wherever he is, he is being punished severly for his crimes.

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