OnTheWayOut

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  My JW boyfriend broke up with me

  by DrunkinLove in

  1. social
  2. relationships

  i am so crushed right now.

  i have been dating a witness for over a year now.

  we love each other so much.

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  OnTheWayOut

  So sorry to read of your loss, but you say "Now we have no choice but to stop..."
  
  So not true. He has plenty of other choices. But now you know that the religion is firmly in first place in his mind right now.
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  Any ideas about what the ‘special’ talk is on Memorial Day?

  by Bubbles001 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the family are very excited because there’s a special interruption happening this friday which has supposedly only happened once before when rutherford announced jesus’ ruling in heaven.

  requires tuning into jw.org.

  meant to be this coming friday before the memorial.

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  OnTheWayOut

  I have no idea, but a total guess is that it has something to do with money or with counting the anointed partakers.
  
  I would bet it's something to highly discourage partakers.
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  Is there no Mid Week Meeting, April 15 -21, this week because of the Memorial?

  by Acluetofindtheuser in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  pimo here.. i must have missed an announcement or something because there is no workbook online for this week.

  are they cancelling the mid week meetings between april 15 - 21 because of the friday memorial?.

  i don't want to text anyone that i know so i'll ask you guys.

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  OnTheWayOut

  Yes, there is NO MIDWEEK MEETING this week. My wife's Wednesday meeting is cancelled for that reason.
  
  I know, in the past they didn't cancel meetings on other nights, but apparently this is a thing now, maybe for a couple/few years.
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  Unky Punky just wanted ...

  by punkofnice in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  ...to drop by and say, 'ayup, mates', to you all, my old friends.. i am so totally over the jobo thing i have surprised myself.. if anyone asks, 'what do you think of the jobos?

  ' my reply would be, 'i don't think of them.'.

  all my rage, anger and sadness have dissipated over time.

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  OnTheWayOut

  Unky Punky, I can often go days or even weeks sometimes without posting here. I will always have more of a connection to ex-JW's because I have so many JW's still in my life- my wife, her family, my mother.

  But otherwise, all things JW have started to dilute themselves in my life. I am really forgetting all the doctrine and scriptures- good riddance. The more I forget them, the more I realize it's all the same old story anyway. I am going to visit Flipper's Lake Tahoe Fest again this year. That's like 8 or 9 in a row, I lost count.
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  What woke you up?

  by HappyBlessedFree in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i’m fairly new so i don’t know everyone’s backstory.

  how did you realize the organization was false?.

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  OnTheWayOut

  It's a long story, available for free:
  
  http://watchtowerdocuments.org/alan-miller-shares-his-story/
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  Was There An Occasion Where An Entire Congregation Broke Away?

  by pale.emperor in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i remember reading somewhere (perhaps on here?

  ) than an entire congregation disassociated and started their own congregation after decided that the gb were apostate.. was this an urban myth or is there any evidence of this?.

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  OnTheWayOut

  Bonham, Texas:
  
  https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/197640/real-story-on-why-watchtower-society-lost-kingdom-hall-bonham-texas

  Personally, I would skip Kool-Aid Man's links to Six Screens.
  
  
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  Brain Teaser

  by BourneIdentity in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i’ve always wondered about this one.

  if the bible says there will be a resurrection of the righteous and the unrighteous, does that mean all mankind that have died will come back to life?

  if so, what’s the incentive for jws to have an urgency to preach and save people?

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  OnTheWayOut

  The "resurrection of the righteous and the unrighteous" is for those that died before the judgement at Armageddon.....or some similar thought to that- in Watchtower teachings.
  
  As a JW, you can be faithful so that you can see dead loved ones who died already, even if they were not JW's. You must be faithful so that you can live through the Great Tribulation that is just around the next corner and has been for way more than 100 years. But if you live to see God's judgement, and you are killed at it, there is no resurrection for you.

  
  Someone can smooth out the details, but I thought generally all JW's would know this at least in a basic understanding.

  So really, they would be better off just mass killing people so they can get a resurrection.
  
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  So I've been warned about whether I should reveal my feelings of a Deity

  by HiddenPimo in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  all i have to say about that is that i agree with the following quote attributed to marcus aurelius:.

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  OnTheWayOut

  As for Lee Strobel, if you wanna sell more Christian books, you need a new angle that people haven't tried.
  An atheist investigative reporter out to prove Christianity wrong winds up a Christian.
  
  Kinda sorta the new angle people will buy.
  
  I tried looking at one of his "The Case For..." books. It was full of strawman arguments and seemed to accept what the Bible said without question. As far as a man joining a belief after investigating it because his wife joined the belief, we are all aware of that happening all the time in JW's, so it must be common in other Christian religions.
  
  I get that some here will circle the wagons around welcoming or rejecting someone because of their atheism or lack of it. That is sad. We can have our belief arguments but they should not change our support for each other.
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  How Do You Think The USA Should Allow Illegal Immigrants To Freely Flow Into The Country?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  many people have said there is no emergency at the border for people illegally coming into the country and furthermore we have an obligation to help these people in a humanitarian way come through.

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  do you think we can just keep on taking in all of these people?

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  OnTheWayOut

  Your original title and first posted question and statements are too "loaded" as if you are setting us up for absolutes.

  I can ask "When will Minimus stop beating his wife?"
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  If shunning were no longer a JW policy, how many would leave the Org?

  by HiddenPimo in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  additionally - if this shunning rule was removed and everyone was made aware of the dirty secrets of the org.. (e.g.

  csa-arc / un membership / malawi - mexico contrast / etc.).

  would those leaving be higher?.

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  OnTheWayOut

  I am "inactive." Rules change all the time. Shun, don't shun. I would be concerned that the decision next year is to shun those that they said not to shun. So I wouldn't just go DA myself.

  They have too much to lose if people who woke up freely discuss this with people who did not wake up. I don't see such a thing happening. If anything, they will make more hard rules to shun inactive ones eventually.