OnTheWayOut

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  Looking for a bit of advice in a difficult situation

  by Oversteer in

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  i'm looking for a bit of guidance here and not really sure where to turn.

  maybe someone has been in a similar situation and can help me out.. currently i'm an awake, baptized jw.

  have been for a few years.

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  Any updates?
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  Indoctrination or Education? Grooming Minds

  by Tech49 in

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  dear friends,.

  i came across this video a while back.

  after thinking about it for some time, i wanted to share.

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  OnTheWayOut

  I always like theramintrees vids.
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  The Book of Mormon

  by dubstepped in

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  my wife and i went to see it today at the encouragement of some of our new friends.

  we laughed until we cried, and it was so cathartic to sit in a room full of hundreds of people laughing at the ridiculousness of religion.

  sure, the subject is mormonism, but it was very poignant and applicable to all religion.

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  Yeah, Blondie and I went together (with her husband and and 12 others).
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  Have any ex-jws considered joining the Bible Students?

  by Rainbow_Troll in

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  2. beliefs

  their fundamental beliefs are much like jehovah's witnesses sans the paranoia, authoritarianism, stifling rules, and end-times enthusiasm.

  you don't even have to become a bible student to be saved, you could be an idol worshipping heathen and still get resurrected in the milenium.

  if i still believed in the divine inspiration of the scriptures, i would be a bible student.

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  OnTheWayOut

  Lucky for me, along with research to reveal that JW's were a cult, I also researched the roots of JW's which would include the crap that Russell developed from his Millerite beginnings and would include the Bible itself.

  So I won't be led astray by any religious crap anymore.
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  The Book of Mormon

  by dubstepped in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  my wife and i went to see it today at the encouragement of some of our new friends.

  we laughed until we cried, and it was so cathartic to sit in a room full of hundreds of people laughing at the ridiculousness of religion.

  sure, the subject is mormonism, but it was very poignant and applicable to all religion.

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  OnTheWayOut

  I bought group tickets about 2 years ago and went with 14 other ex-JW's.
  
  As long as you can laugh at "religion" it's funny. To our group, it was hilarious.
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  If You Could Ask the GB Or One Of Its Members...

  by Cold Steel in

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  ...one question about anything and get a straight answer, what would it be?

  historical, philosophical, theological, eschatological, anything.

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  OnTheWayOut

  To me, saying "and get a straight answer" puts your question in the realm of that riddle where you have to choose the safe door from 2 doors where one is guarded by a liar and one is guarded by a truthful guard.
  There is an answer for that riddle, but it's not realistic. Where and when would that actually really happen? Same question with getting a straight answer from a GB member. Where and when would that actually really happen?

  So in the realm of philosophical riddles, my question would be, "Do you really believe God works through you and the 2/3rds vote and actually accepts the doctrines of you men like the overlap generation to be representative of what HE meant?"
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  Is everything a sign to the jw's?

  by karter in

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  of publisher numbers go up its a sign jehovah must be blessing the work if they go down it a sign the end must be near .

  if there's an earthquake it a sign.if there's a war it's a sign ..i'm sure donald trump is sign.

  karter.

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  Every last big event, trend, news event- all of it are signs.

  Wars, famine, all that bad stuff are signs that we are close to the end.
  
  Good economies, advances in science or education or medicine- signs that Satan is drawing people away from God therefore the end is near.
  
  Somehow, efforts and results toward "peace" are part of the cry of "peace and security" so not only wars, but peace is a sign that the end is near.
  
  Just as Barack Obama being elected American president had to be a sign of people "putting their trust in men" instead of God, therefore the end is near, somehow Donald Trump will also be a sign of "the love of the greater number cooling off" and therefore the end is near.
  
  Good economies are signs of the love of money, therefore the end is near. Bad economies are signs that people are ready to throw their money into the streets as Revelation mentions somewhere, therefore the end is near.
  
  The Australian Royal Commission and lawsuits against Watchtower because of pedophiles are signs that the governments of Satan's world are ready to attack true religion, therefore the end is near.
  
  Somehow, JW's now manage to lump any natural disasters in with their thought that earthquakes are a sign that the end is near. So forest fires, hurricanes, tsunamis etc. are all part of that.
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  Warwick and transport to meetings

  by berrygerry in

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  i would imagine that most brooklyn bethelites attended congo meetings via subway.. how do they manage transport from warwick?.

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  OnTheWayOut

  Duplicate post. Ignore this post. Hi, how are y'all?
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  Warwick and transport to meetings

  by berrygerry in

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  i would imagine that most brooklyn bethelites attended congo meetings via subway.. how do they manage transport from warwick?.

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  meaningful field service

  Now that's a HUGE oxymoron.
  
  
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  Warwick and transport to meetings

  by berrygerry in

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  i would imagine that most brooklyn bethelites attended congo meetings via subway.. how do they manage transport from warwick?.

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  OnTheWayOut

  Like sparrowdown, I am sure they will keep many "in the compound." Sure, they will send many out, but when there is no way to get them there or the congregations are saturated, many will be assigned to stay at the "Compound Congregation." That is a great congregation name.