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  I am now 73 and the road has been filled with wonders

  by Terry in

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  i appreciate all my friends who stop to read what i write and post.

  you help me more than you know simply by being there as a sense of 'family of friends' for me to talk to and 'share' thoughts with.i guess if i didn't have stories left to tell or people to listen, i could pack it in and join elon musk in a colony on mars.january 15, 2020. .

  which world is this?_________________when the doctor pulled my screaming body out of mom all those 7 decades ago, i landed in a post-wwii world.it was--compared to today's world--an alien planet.the world i live in today has nothing in common with the world in which i grew up.there were no cell phones back then--there were black telephones with a dial-tone and an operator who placed your call.everywhere you found telephone booths!

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  OnTheWayOut

  I'm glad I'm on the way out, frankly.

  Steal my forum name and you are glad about it. To avoid confusion, you get the "glad I'm" as part of it. GIOTWO for short.
  
  
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  I am now 73 and the road has been filled with wonders

  by Terry in

  1. jw
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  i appreciate all my friends who stop to read what i write and post.

  you help me more than you know simply by being there as a sense of 'family of friends' for me to talk to and 'share' thoughts with.i guess if i didn't have stories left to tell or people to listen, i could pack it in and join elon musk in a colony on mars.january 15, 2020. .

  which world is this?_________________when the doctor pulled my screaming body out of mom all those 7 decades ago, i landed in a post-wwii world.it was--compared to today's world--an alien planet.the world i live in today has nothing in common with the world in which i grew up.there were no cell phones back then--there were black telephones with a dial-tone and an operator who placed your call.everywhere you found telephone booths!

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  OnTheWayOut

  When the doctor pulled my screaming body out of mom all those 7 decades ago...

  
  Always the dramatic story-teller. Hey, we were all "born" one way or another, most of us similarly.
  Thanks for continually screaming all these decades later.
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  What Books Have You Read That Been Critical Of The Jehovah's Witnesses?

  by The Bethelite in

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  please rate your top choices .

  1. crises of conscience.

  ray franz.

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  EXITING THE JW CULT: A HEALING HANDBOOK by Bonnie Zieman
  
  COMBATTING CULT MIND CONTROL by Steven Hassan
  
  CRISIS OF CONSCIENCE by Raymond Franz
  
  I'M PERFECT, YOU'RE DOOMED by Kyria Abrahams
  
  CAPTIVES OF A CONCEPT by Don Cameron
  
  FADE FROM THE TRUTH by Alan Miller (Ok, I wrote it. Still, it's a good book)
  
  
  
  
  
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  Don Adams has passed away

  by RubaDub in

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  i received a call from a friend in new york city that don adams passed away late last evening (30 dec 2019).

  many of you bethelites know him and he was the president of the society for a number of years after the gb got out of the corporate structure business.

  from what i understand, he was generally liked by many there.. some in my family knew him.

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  OnTheWayOut

  Don Adams has passed away,and he missed his
  heavenly calling by just that much !

  Would you believe ....the new sytem is perhaps just days away?

  -I find that hard to believe.

  Would you believe ....it is within the lifetime of a group of people now alive whose lives overlapped with people alive in 1914.

  -I would say that is ridiculous.

  Would you believe ....around the next corner?

  -No.

  How about ....we made the whole thing up?
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  Are JW's unknowingly part of a CULT?

  by The Fall Guy in

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  some points for awakening jw's to consider in 2020: .

  "joining a cult: religious choice or psychological aberration" by dena s. davis.

  some of the following characteristics are listed:.

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  The vast majority of people in the JW cult say "It's not a cult."

  But they are very much in a cult.
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  Has Anything Really Changed For JWs In The Last 10 Years?

  by minimus in

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  2020 is days away.

  has anything really changed for the witnesses or the religion?

  ?.

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  The organization was fairly stable when I joined it in 1988. They were past the Ray Franz thing and 1975 was already dropped.

  So when they changed the generation doctrine in a major way, it really was a surprise to me. But older JW's said "They change things sometimes" and treated it like no big deal.

  So since then, I learned that the organization constantly has to change things according to their needs on the calendar or the wallet.

  I want to say that the more things change, the less important and meaningless those changes are. But that is only doctrine. Their big changes already mentioned like just standing by a cart for hours, sanitizing the talks at the hall and assemblies to remove personality and liveliness, using JW videos more....many more things...it all adds up to seeing them disappear down the road due to lack of real retention and recruitment. Members are dying off.

  Add in the biggest change- bigtime lawsuits over child abuse and other money woes. And the atrophy will continue.
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  If You Had The Choice To Live Anywhere In The World or Any State Where Would You Be?

  by minimus in

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  i do like the usa but winters suck!

  florida has some charm but it gets brutal with heat and humidity.

  california is too looney.

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  I am considering retirement in Hawaii. The wife and I would live in a small studio and I would have to cook most every meal at home, but I can really enjoy reading books at the beach most every day.
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  FlyingHighNow

  by Ex-Witless in

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  hello forum.

  my aunt, flyinghighnow, has passed away.

  i don't know if you remember her, but she was a long time member.

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  OnTheWayOut

  I loved her way of thinking. My condolences.
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  Bible writers must of loved the number 3

  by RULES & REGULATIONS in

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  here are some examples where bible writers used the #, 3!

  were these stories ever true, or were they just fabrications and laziness on the writer's part where it just made sense to use the #, 3?.

  12-year-old jesus stays in jerusalem, joseph, and mary find him 3 days later.

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  The number 3 in the Bible means these "3" things: divine wholeness, completeness and perfection.
  
  3 confirms a matter.
  
  God's attributes are 3: omniscience, omnipresence, and omnipotence.
  
  On the third day, the earth rose from the water, symbolic of resurrection life.

  And lest we forget the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
  
  But also- We have a human habit of looking for patterns of 3. You hear people say all the time expressions like “three’s company” or “three’s a crowd” or “the third time’s the charm,” or “bad news (or deaths) always comes in threes.” So I would not be so quick to think that all the 3's in the Bible were supposed to be Holy. Maybe it was just people writing in that pattern.
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  local, strange jw thinking

  by lancelink in

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  i was reading today that the last star wars movie will be playing next week.

  doing a little searching, i found that there have been 12 movies in the saga total, ( box office, total (12 films): $9.323 billion.)..

  it got me thinking about when the empire strikes back came out, it was the second movie ( 1980).

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  I remember about 15 years ago, a bunch of JW's who would proclaim that there is "NO WAY THIS SYSTEM LASTS 15 MORE YEARS!" I am pretty sure today they are saying "NO WAY THIS SYSTEM LASTS 15 MORE YEARS!"
  
  And you know what any of them alive 15 years from now will be saying.