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  Need to help Brother

  by mama1119 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i am trying to figure out a way to help my brother get past the guilt of being a jw.

  we were raised jw, pretty much your classic jw life and childhood.

  i got df'd about 3 years ago, tried for a while to get reinstated in the meantime i did alot of research and found suprise this wasnt the truth.

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  freetosee

  Does he ask you why you don’t go back to the meetings? Tell him why you "feel" the meetings are not what they claim they are. Thought provoking questions would be a good way to get him to think.

  When my younger sister stopped going to the meetings I told her that if she believes it is the truth she should go and not find excuses not to go. Then I told her why I don’t go, mentioning the hypocrisy and enmities among elder families she was full aware off. My main point was always the identifying mark of love. Where is that love?

  It can take years for some, just like it took us time to come to realize things. Questions and living without guilt and fear worked best for me. Salvation only through the WT!? That was another topic to help with the guilt-force. Will Jehovah really kill you for not going to the meetings? Let your brother see that leaving the organization means not leaving God.

  But you just doing fine and coping with life is the best "witness". Maybe let him meet the new friends you have made among the ‘worldly people’. Because you now choose your own friends and don’t let the Society tell you who your friends ought to be. Life is good outside the WT.

  Freetosee
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  Update! Attending Sunday Meeting and Loving it!

  by drew sagan in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  yep that's right folks, yours truely has actually been attending the sunday meeting.

  many will ask, why in the hell would you ever do that?

  well, developments going on in my world have led me to this decision.

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  freetosee

  Very good, I which I was there. What did they say after the meeting was over? Freetosee
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  Elder admits to porn problem

  by doinmypart in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i posted a week or two ago that i would stop attending meetings and being an elder.

  i decided to wait on this after we received the june 7th boe letter.

  i was interested in getting more information from other friends & family at bethel.

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  Why did he ask to speak before the entire body of elders and not just the PO or someONE else??? It is sad he believes to be doing what is expected of him in this matter. The BOE knows he is surly not the only elder watching porn. The whole congregation and every witness that knows him will find out, lastly through the elders wives. This will add to his wife’s decision. His "exemplary" elder’s family will be ditched or treated as a problem family from one day to the next. Poor family, I hope the sudden change in congregation status will serve as an eye-opener to at least one of them.

  Freetosee
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  TODAY'S MY BIRTHDAY!!

  by Mary in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  not my physical birthday, but i just noticed when i logged on this morning, that it was 4 years ago today that i first logged on here.

  i've learned alot on here in the last 4 years i learned about the whole 586/607bce date, i discovered crisis of conscience (which played a major part in my leaving the borg), i've learned about the society's inconsistencies in the blood doctrine, as well as host of other doctrines and issues that i would have never known about in the days before the internet.

  as well, i would have never made contact with those i've become "particularly fond of" on here.

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  freetosee

  HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Mary
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  the "bible teach" book is a bad study, not looking forward to the rev. book

  by ?me? in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i for one have not been going to the cbs much because the bible book is basically a rewrite of the truth and knowledge book (same chapter titles included) and it is so basic i can't take it.the worship book rewrite study was bad enough.

  now i am wondering what will happen with the revelation book.

  i do not think many people will be happy at all to be going through it again, especially if they do it like last time, very, very slowly.

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  freetosee

  As I understand you attend the meetings. Tell us, what have been the reactions and comments by the member of your congregation?

  Thanks, freetosee
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  Should I persue a relationship with a Jehovah's Witness?

  by BNS in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i am 21 and live in ny.

  i lived in sc for 2 years and went to college there.

  while i was there, i met a 27 year old married man and he had an affair with me.

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  freetosee

  Hi BNS and welcome!

  As he is a JW, getting involved with him means getting involved with the highly controlled JW life. In the beginning this control is experienced as caring love and in the ‘best of interest’, only later will you realize the demanding pressure and guilt pressed upon you to move you to more activity and obedience to the JW leadership.

  Please inform yourself well about this religion, to save yourself much trouble and heartache. Ask any questions, I am sure you will get many replies.

  Freetosee
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  To Put My Questions In Context

  by Joe Grundy in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i am, as you will see, a very junior member of this forum.

  i have so far explained my interest in jws in my earlier posts, and i have asked what must seem to many here some very naieve questions about jw beliefs and practices.

  when i raised questions about the young children of my jw neighbours, a post or two implied that i may be a strange old man for taking an interest in children.

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  Hi Joe, I enjoyed your biography and look forward to more of your postings. Freetosee
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  New book on Jehovah's Witnesses

  by slimboyfat in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  can any germans or dutch shed any light on this new book and on robin de ruiter himself?

  :the watchtower society.

  dei zeugen jehovas zwischen us-politik, zionismus und freimaurerei (taschenbuch) .

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  freetosee

  I have read none of Ruiter’s books but by looking at the titles of these and other books he has written it seems like conspiracy theories and nothing more. Freetosee
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  My sis calls & says,"Your dead"&"I wish you'd died in a car accident"(long)

  by morwen in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  ya know... i'm a bit amazed at times at how utterly out of touch with reality jw's can be.

  here's a little bit of a background of what's been going on....

  i've been having an on going issue with my jw family about my husband & i(and our 4 young children) no longer going to meetings and us having questions/problems with this religion.we are not df'd nor da'd (at this point) but have not been to a meeting in about 7 months and have been inactive for probably 3-4 years now.we haven't lived near my parents for several years so they have been a little "in the dark" so to speak as to us being inactive but we kinda were given a bit of "lee-way" since 5 yrs.

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  freetosee

  This just reminds me again that JW are not just a religion but a mind controlling cult. Destructive and dangerous!

  I’m happy you and your husband have freed yourselves from this. Freetosee
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  The WBTS: Accomplices To Its Own Demise

  by AMNESIAN in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  excerpt #1 .

  excerpt #2: (semi-verbatim, highly-reliable paraphrase)

  but whats coming out of their mouths is still from jehovahs table, its still food we need.

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  freetosee

  I guess Herd can’t deny the almost-dead-state of the old GB members. So it might be a smart move to acknowledge that by emphasising Jehovah is still using the sleeping half-dead GB member. Although that what happened during the 1 ½ hours before the "wake-up call" is most revealing.

  The last DC I attended Karl Klein gave a talk. Two brothers needed to carry him to the speaker’s desk. During his speech it became quit noisy because no one could understand what he was saying, his voice was too shaky. When he was carried of the platform I heard a few giggles. Afterwards there were some who compared the scenario with the pope. (At CAs the DO often made fun of the pope being carried all about whilst sleeping most of the time.) I know just seeing that got my sisters and others to think as they were not encouraged but embarrassed by the special treatment and praise Klein received before and after his talk.

  Thanks, I enjoyed reading your post, freetosee