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  What's the BEST thing about being "out" of the "truth"?

  by B_Deserter in

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  for me, it's having friends that i don't have to hide my lack of meeting attendance/service from.

  it's amazing how they teach you that only jws can be your real friends, but in reality, it's all contingent upon your religious "performance.

  " sure, if you're not going to meetings, they'll try to be "friends," by encouraging you to go back.

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  done4good

  In a word...Freedom.

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  What's Your MAIN Reason For Not Believing In "The Truth"?

  by minimus in

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  my mother had this discussion yesterday.

  basically, my main argument was that if the fds gets jehovah's holy spirit and their "food" is "the truth", yet they always are correcting themselves, how can anyone in all fairness believe it's "the truth"??

  you can't show scripturally why organ transplants are a form of cannibalism and clearly a disfellowshipping offense and a couple of years later after possible disfellowshippings or death, and then believe jehovah god changed his view suddenly.

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  done4good

  Trust those who are searching for the truth, mistrust those who have found it!!!!

  Amen, Alpaca!

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  What's Your MAIN Reason For Not Believing In "The Truth"?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
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  my mother had this discussion yesterday.

  basically, my main argument was that if the fds gets jehovah's holy spirit and their "food" is "the truth", yet they always are correcting themselves, how can anyone in all fairness believe it's "the truth"??

  you can't show scripturally why organ transplants are a form of cannibalism and clearly a disfellowshipping offense and a couple of years later after possible disfellowshippings or death, and then believe jehovah god changed his view suddenly.

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  done4good

  They don't teach truth. If they did, they would not need to protect it from scrutiny.

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  favorite rock gutiarist

  by megaflower in

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  eddie van halen

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  done4good

  Clapton and Hendrix come to mind first..

  Some of the more "stylistic" type like Knophler and Buckingham are pretty good in thier own right, IMHO.

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  Besides weddings and anniversaries, do JW's celebrate life?

  by truthseeker in

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  today is mother's day, but not for the 7,000,000 jehovah's witnesses out there.. next month is father's day but not for the 7,000,000 jehovah's witnesses out there.. the first monday in september is labor day in the u.s. but 7,000,000 jehovah's witnesses would rather labour in the preaching work.. november 25 is thanksgiving day but 7,000,000 jehovah's witnesses would rather do return visits and bother people who are giving thanks to god.. christ's memorial happens once a year (or week) for many christian denominations, but 6,991,000 jehovah's witnesses would rather observe a meal in progress instead of eat it.. every day someone has a birthday but 7,000,000 jehovah's witnesses would rather ignore their birthday and so something else.. all year round people celebrate and attend college graduations but millions of jehovah's witnesses would only attend a high-school graduation.. .

  what exactly do jehovah's witnesses celebrate if anything?

  they have no zest for life, few hobbies and outside interests.. a wt article a few years ago encouraged people to put their hobbies aside to simplify their life for kingdom pursuits.. jehovah's witnesses in my opinion, do not celebrate life.

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  done4good

  No. I can honestly say it was any/all "outside" interests that helped me see the organization was full of lies. "Real" life did not equal the WTBTS's worldview of life...I began to see something was wrong.

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  I Do Not Understand Why JWs Leave & Become Catholics!

  by minimus in

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  out of all religions, catholicism, to me, is wrong and clearly could never be the truth.

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  I'm with AK-Jeff on this. Can't say much for doctrine, but most Catholics I know are pretty respectable people.

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  Nobody is talking about the Generation change!!

  by hamsterbait in

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  every time i have raised the noolite on this, it is met with blank looks and no comment.. on the phone it has been met with silence while they wait to see why i am talking about it.. has anybody else noticed this - it is a trend that less and less witlesses discuss doctrines and teachings when socializing.. could it be that they don't want to acknowledge a creeping disernment that they have been strung along, and so the gibbering buddy can no more be trusted on this claim than all the other failures, or is it that they are afraid of being called apostos?.

  one elderly sister (90) who really thought she would never die, and is now, when i said i was atonished at the recent changes in 1935 annointed, generation and now no book group, just waited at the other end of the phone..

  "so does this mean you think it is all rubbish?

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  done4good

  Most curent JWs are too apathetic anymore to bat an eye over this...

  The WTBTS has created a mindset within its members, (either purposely or not), that keeps the rank and file from caring, (and questioning), things anymore. People that do question things, eventually leave.

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  What Circumstances Cause Some to Decide to Fade or Disassociate ?

  by flipper in

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  this morning in seeing another poster going through this particular dilemma , i thought it would be good to open it up to open discussion to see what various situations occur in our lives that make us come to the decision to fade / or disassociate ?

  everybody has different circumstances in their lives - so one size certainly doesn't fit all .

  everybody has there pressure points in life they can deal with - some cannot.

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  done4good

  In spite of what many say, d/a 'ing is a very liberating thing to do...

  That said, it is expensive. If you can't afford it, don't do it. Only when my entire family decided to treat me d/f'd, did I finally decide to d/a.

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  Do YOU Hate Jehovah's Witnesses?

  by minimus in

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  i don't hate the people.

  i feel bad for many of them.

  i don't like the religion because it is a cult.

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  I hate what JWs do to families. I hate their stupid blood policy. I hate their df'ing procedures.

  These things and many others...but not the people.

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  Update on family reunion and other things

  by dawg in

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  ok, it's been awhile and i thought i'd tell you guys what happened about the family reunion situation.

  to rehash... i wrote a letter telling all the jw's in my family that i wasn't going to take any crap off them anymore, that i would embarass their dumba#* if they treated me badly in anyway at funerals and reunions and the like.

  i told them i was going to bring information about the idiot jw's to every family event and i was going to get in their faces if they chose to treat me badly cause i refuse to follow the fools at the wtbts.

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  done4good

  Good to see you again, man! That's good news there...

  Jason