Posts by agapa37

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If it wasn't for "....................." I'd still be in the "Truth".......

by ScoobySnax in

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for me i think if it wasn't for the fact i'm gay, i'd still be an active witness.

this year, even my mum has said that it wouldn't be "appropriate" if i was to go to the memorial.

now the memorial is something i've never missed, so that kind of stings a bit.

agapa37

This is a good question for a topic. I have been inactive for about 3 yrs now. I was pretty happy the first 3/4 of my association with the congregation, did quite well actually. However, when I started to see the forest beyond the trees is when my decline started. What I mean by that is, the people got to me. I could understand the changes in thinking and understanding of the scriptures, I even understood the WTBS. It was the people who took me out in the end. Even though I don't go to the meetings anymore I still love Jehovah and Jesus. I do my best to live by the princibles I learned in the Bible. I still do not celebrate most holidays that were against our teachings. I have balanced out quite a bit on it though.

In my opinion, my reason for not going to the meetings anymore or out in service is not a good one (or maybe it is) but what I do know is, Jesus will be my Judge in the end, not any elder and I know Jesus will be a compassionate and loving and fair judge. So I am counting on that in the end. Will I ever go back to the meetings? It is a possibility, but I just don't see it in my future. I am a different person now than from when I left, if I went back I think I would have a very hard time with the brothers and that is something I do not want to deal with anymore.

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How many DF'd and DA'd ex-JWs still believe it's the truth?

by Nellie in

i just got off the phone with my sister-in-law.

we don't talk regularly at all - but today the discussion turned to our beliefs.

she's da'd herself 15 years ago, but she is still filled with guilt over not being able to live up to the standards of the witnesses.

agapa37

I Disassociated myself years ago but I still believe it is the truth. I have no guilt of not going to the meetings anymore or out in service but I do have a struggle with it. I wanna go but I CANNOT stand the people................I am depending on Jesus to be understanding in my case.

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Wife caught me on this site - have to remember to Logoff Witness 007!

by Witness 007 in

my wife burst into the computer room and found me {gasp} talking with apostates on this site!

now she doesn't go witnessing anymore and only very rarely goes to a meeting...but talking to apostates is not on!

i quickly closed down but had to log-off later so she doesn't find out that iam "witness 007.

agapa37

I must protest that the Administrator of this site has limited my posts to 25 a day and 1 topic a day because of my prank "I need 300 posts by Friday ask me a question." I would have prefered a Personal messege telling me that was not done here. I read the rules and didn't think this was a breach of the rules here....I'm almost out of posts so what am I going to do for the rest of the day? 007 Hey, you have more than me LOL. I can only post 5 per day with no topics and it has been YEARS....I have been disciplined hard, I guess old habits die hard.

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New BOE Letter

by jefferywhat in

all boe have just got a letter telling them to encourage all parents to be more on guard with their children.

suggestions such as not letting your young children go to the toilet on their own, not working with older men on their own and not leaving children in the car on rv's and calls un attended.

the letter basically instructed the elders to remind all family heads that its their responsibility to protect their children whilst at and away from the hall etc.

agapa37

I NEVER needed anyone to remind me to protect my child........I had the sense and brains enough to know that people are people no matter if they are in the truth or not. A parent shouldn't have to be reminded to protect their children.

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How many of you Ex Jehovah's Witnesses married early and it was a disaster?

by isnrblog in

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what a common tale.

you marry early becasue you can't have sex.. i was married at 19 and divorced at 50. the only thing that held it together was our involvement in the jw's.

otherwise it would have been over in less than 5 years.. my kids are not witnesses and have a terrible relationship with their mother, as she is always trying to shove it down their throats.. this is still happening.

agapa37

What a common tale. You marry early becasue you can't have sex.

I was married at 19 and divorced at 50. The only thing that held it together was our involvement in the JW's. Otherwise it would have been over in less than 5 years.

Really, how is that JWS fault? It is the Bible that says sex before marriage is wrong, not the witness.

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Wife caught me on this site - have to remember to Logoff Witness 007!

by Witness 007 in

my wife burst into the computer room and found me {gasp} talking with apostates on this site!

now she doesn't go witnessing anymore and only very rarely goes to a meeting...but talking to apostates is not on!

i quickly closed down but had to log-off later so she doesn't find out that iam "witness 007.

agapa37

Pretty crazy that adults must hide what they are reading online? Shows the cult mentality. I admit that I have to hide what I view and delete the history each time I am here. I beg to differ with that statement. I feel it shows the mentality of those who hide what they are. Just be true to yourself! I know, I have heard all the arguements about having to hide because of being in a family of Witness's and how it would break up entire families and so, but thats the problem here. It is not the people, wife, husband, Elders, friends you should be hiding from, what can they do to you? Jehovah knows what you are doing, doesn't He? I prefere to take Jesus advice.....be either hot or cold, not luke warm. I just don't understand people who continue to go to the meetings when they hate it and live double lives.

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Man not supposed to live forever.

by searcher in

gen 3:22 and jehovah god went on to say: here the man has become like one of us in knowing good and bad, and now in order that he may not put his hand out and actually take [fruit] also from the tree of life and eat and live to time indefinite, nwt

agapa37

What you all fail to understand is that God DID create man to live forever on a paradise earth. For you Bible readers it is right there in Genesis!

Searcher posted this......Gen 3:22 And Jehovah God went on to say: “Here the man has become like one of us in knowing good and bad, and now in order that he may not put his hand out and actually take [fruit] also from the tree of life and eat and live to time indefinite,—” NWT

What searcher forgot to post is the scriptures PRIOR to that one. Genesis 2:15-17......... " And Jehovah God proceeded to take the man and settle him in the garden of E´den to cultivate it and to take care of it. And Jehovah God also laid this command upon the man: "From every tree of the garden you may eat to satisfaction. But as for the tree of the knowledge of good and bad you must not eat from it, for in the day you eat from it you will positively die."

What does that imply? Common sense and the ability to read dictates, along with what the REST of the Bible says about this subject is that God created the earth for mankind as their home. He created them to Live on it forever. Read that verse, it tells us that if they did not eat from the tree ( obeying God ) they would have continued to live. It is right there!

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Does Someone's Religion Matter To You?

by minimus in

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do you care if tom cruise is a scientologist?

or that mitt romney is a mormon?

or that a person is either a very devout muslim or a card carrying communist?

agapa37

No a persons religion does not matter to me.

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Could You Still Love Her If She Were A Man?

by The wanderer in

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could you still love her if she were a man?years, before i was a twinkle in my fathers eye he met an attractive young .

woman at a sock hop.

a sock hop is a dance for those not familiar with the .

agapa37

Im gonna leave this one alone....Big shout out to my long lost friend Lonely

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If the Watchtower ceased to exist right now, what would this mean for you?

by JH in

what would it change in your life right now if the watchtower fell apart and didn't exist anymore?.

maybe some would want to join another realigion right away, because they still believed a bit of what they preached and didn't want to join a false religion, just as the jw's brand all other religions..... .

.

agapa37

Maybe it wouldn't bother you personally, but I'm sure you'd feel some sort of JOY for those still in and would be finally set free?

Are people really free of the WT (as you say) after they leave? It seems to me that they are not. I have seen many who were once loving and kind become bitter and vengeful and hateful. The bagge they carrier will be with them forever unless they take steps to change.