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  Did you ever have a discussion with an apostate that helped your journey out.

  by jwfacts in

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  2. beliefs

  there seems to be a number of different ways that apostates try to get jehovah's witnesses realise they do not have the truth, ranging from subtle comments to aggressive attacks.

  do you have any that looking back helped you finally leave.

  some of the methods include:.

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  The brother who took me out in service for the first time, circa 1966, had left Jehovah's Witnesses. We had phone conversations and letters back and forth over the years where he discussed his reasons for leaving.

  Among other pieces of apostate literature he sent me were copies of The Free Minds Journal. The story of Terry Walstrom was the first. Later, that of Nils and Sherry Jansma, friends from Bethel. That was the eye opener; how could my friends, so devoted to Jehovah, abandon their beliefs and life's work?

  That was just the beginning . . .
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  "Privileges"

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  within the organization, jehovah's witnesses know that they must be dutiful and set an example for "worldly ones" as well as for their own brotherhood.

  if a witness fails in setting the proper example, they may lose some 'privileges"..... what privileges did you look to have and what privileges did you lose?

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  I lost my privilege of being the KH and assembly piano player due to domestic issues.

  Since it occurred at the very time we went to recordings (vinyl), it didn't require too much explaining away why I was no longer tickling the ivories and the embarrassment.

  Some elders didn't like my rockin' out on the piano, but the publishers sang their hearts out.

  What a world, what a world. . . .
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  Humourous reactions to beards worn at the kingdom Hall

  by UnshackleTheChains in

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  2. humour

  is this the reaction you get when you walk into a kingdom hall sporting your new beard 🙄.

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  Well, whether or not they say it, many people, JWs included, like long hair and beards on men. I always got love bombed at the KH.

  "Oh, don't cut it! It's so romantic!"

  Okay, ladies and gentlemen. Yes, the men, too.
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  Humourous reactions to beards worn at the kingdom Hall

  by UnshackleTheChains in

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  is this the reaction you get when you walk into a kingdom hall sporting your new beard 🙄.

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  "In my local area I note that a lot of the witnesses now have beards." -- jambon1

  Here, too.
  
  
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  Humourous reactions to beards worn at the kingdom Hall

  by UnshackleTheChains in

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  is this the reaction you get when you walk into a kingdom hall sporting your new beard 🙄.

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  Good morning, fellow bearded and non-bearded members of the board.

  On occasion, I will run into old JW friends and greet them by name. The response? "Do we know you?" they ask. "Why, yes!" I respond. "We used to serve Jehovah shoulder to shoulder preaching the Good News."

  With non-JWs, the response would be different, of course.

  
  
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  They Can't Admit They're Wrong ...

  by compound complex in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  as 1975 approached, we began to hear the preliminary murmurs of denial from the society rather than any honest admissions or apologies for their dreadful mistake.

  finally, i remember sitting at the watchtower study one sunday listening to the brothers and sisters parroting the information from the study article and innocently taking all of the blame for misinterpreting what the society had said about 1975. it was the first of several occasions when i longed to jump up from my seat, run to the podium, and argue for the apparently forgotten truth.

  instead, i sat there and thought how much the society was like the scribes and pharisees in jesus dayburdening the people with heavy loads that they were not willing to budge with their finger (matthew 23:4).

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  "And even though I knew they were not being totally honest about their involvement in promoting 1975 and then blaming the rank and file for reading too much into what was said in talks and print, I still didnt wake up until 1993. . . ." -- smiddy

  You're welcome, smiddy, and thanks to you, stuckinarut2, and Bungi Bill for your replies.

  Yes, we lived through it, but has our history been rewritten, too?!?!?!?!?
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  They Can't Admit They're Wrong ...

  by compound complex in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  as 1975 approached, we began to hear the preliminary murmurs of denial from the society rather than any honest admissions or apologies for their dreadful mistake.

  finally, i remember sitting at the watchtower study one sunday listening to the brothers and sisters parroting the information from the study article and innocently taking all of the blame for misinterpreting what the society had said about 1975. it was the first of several occasions when i longed to jump up from my seat, run to the podium, and argue for the apparently forgotten truth.

  instead, i sat there and thought how much the society was like the scribes and pharisees in jesus dayburdening the people with heavy loads that they were not willing to budge with their finger (matthew 23:4).

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  Thought you'd find this timely . . .
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  How do I quote on this site?

  by Nevuela in

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  2. tech-support

  every time i've asked this in an existing thread, i've never gotten an answer, so forgive me for starting a new thread in order to ask again.

  i simply cannot figure out how to quote someone with the standard yellow box.

  i can copy/paste the quote, sure, but nothing i do makes it appear in a yellow box like everyone else.

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  Well, this is how I show the quotations of other posters since, I, too, can't do even the simplest procedure:

  "Every time I've asked this in an existing thread, I've never gotten an answer, so forgive me for starting a new thread in order to ask again. I simply cannot figure out how to quote someone with the standard yellow box." -- Nevuela

  "You have got me I dont know how to do it either ,It took me donkeys ages to do what I did here ?LOL" -- smiddy

  The info cited below is helpful if you are writing a paper and need to quote outside sources; this is above and beyond what we need here when making a casual reference to what a fellow poster has written:

  http://www.roanestate.edu/owl/usingsources_mla.html
  
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  2017 Convention Video To Be Shown Regarding The 1975 Failure

  by pale.emperor in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=go3arnnsfkk&feature=youtu.be.

  no mention whatsoever that it was watchtower themselves that strongly hinted towards this date.

  instead they blame those who "put their trust in a date, not jehovah".. let's recap... .

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  House, M.D., Season 7, Episode 18: "The Dig"

  House picks up "Thirteen" -- Dr. Remy Hadley -- upon her release from prison. She asks him to take her to a certain location in order to take care of a personal matter. They pull up to a house in a nice neighborhood, "Thirteen" gets out of the car, walks to the front door, and knocks. A man answers, whom she subsequently knees in the groin. He collapses to the floor; she departs nonchalantly, reenters the car.

  "I didn't know you were a Jehovah's Witness," remarks House.

  "Yeah, the weak lost faith when Christ didn't return in '75, but I still believe."

  House wants to pursue this line of inquiry further, but "Thirteen," like many a good JW, cuts in and says she's starving, and can we get going.

  https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/4659761393958912/house-m-d-jehovahs-witnesses-75
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  Feigning illness to miss a meeting

  by dozy in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  as jws , we all remember the thought of dragging oneself out of bed on a nice sunny sunday meeting or getting home tired after a hard day at work contemplating another boring , pointless , repetitive weekday evening meeting.. as the only legitimate reason for missing a meeting is illness , the only way for anyone to avoid a meeting that they really couldn't be bothered to go to ( ie most of them ) is to "pretend" to be ill. so given an average meeting attendance of 60% or so , invariably many people would be missing , presumed dead ( or "ill".

  we used to have a congregation game of football ( soccer ) on a sunday afternoon and it always amused me how many jws who were "too ill" to attend the meeting on the morning would suddenly recover , lazarus style , to play without exhibiting any signs of the apparently near fatal acute health condition of that morning.

  one of the more officious elders tried to introduce a rule that the only ones who could play would have to have been at the meeting that morning , but in practice it was very difficult to police and the better players tended to be the ones who missed most meetings.. one of the problems was the risk that some well meaning and / or nosey jw would phone up ( or even turn up , unannounced ) at the house to see "how you were" and clearly it didn't go down too well if they found you in rude health chasing the dog or kids around the garden..

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  So glad you, Sylvia -- all of us -- are doing better now!