Topics Started by ania

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1975 end of times i found this link:
by ania in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
someone asked if anyone had a post of one of the awake declarations of 1975 end of times i found this link:.

http://images.google.co.nz/imgres?imgurl=http://www.dannyhaszard.com/danny29.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.dannyhaszard.com/colitis.htm&h=380&w=630&sz=35&hl=en&start=7&tbnid=addhbznxbnrscm:&tbnh=83&tbnw=137&prev=/images%3fq%3djehovah%2bwitness%26svnum%3d10%26hl%3den%26lr%3dlang_en%26safe%3dactive%26sa%3dg.

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If the Apostles "expected" Jesus to return in the first century is that fp?
by booker-t in
1. jw
2. friends
what is the "difference" between what early christians and biblical prophets did in expecting jesus to return in the 1st century and what jw's have done for over 100 years of false expectations?

i am in no way trying to excuse jw's and their false prophecies but why is it so different when born-agains and other christians set a date for something but when it fails no body says one word about it.

but when jw's and mormons do the same thing all hell breaks loose.
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You think the jws have some odd ideas? Read this
by fullofdoubtnow in
1. jw
2. friends
man inhabits dog?

rabbis ponder case of straymonday september 18, 10:07 am.

jerusalem (reuters) - a stray dog which refused to budge from the home of a recently deceased rabbi has finally moved on after a "redemption ceremony" at an israeli cemetery.
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How many people in this forum are from NewZealand??
by ania in
1. jw
2. friends
hello i am a newbie and just saw another person in the forum from nz.

it hadn't even occured to me...now i wonder how many there are??

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Agent Smith's story
by AgentSmith in
1. jw
2. experiences
i was born into a jw family.

my father's parents were jw.

my mother?s family was a big mix.
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What does your REAL name mean?
by Peaches-n-Cream in
1. jw
2. friends
jordon is hebrew and it means "to descend or flow"....ha~!

not very interesting, .

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another evolution thread...
by anakolouthos in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i've been scanning thru geronimo's recent thread on evolution, & have really enjoyed reading all the fascinating responses.

i was going to post in there, but was worried it might get buried.

many may not know me here, as i've barely posted, but in a nutshell, i'm still in the org (somewhat trapped at the moment) but consider myself a christian with somewhat leftish leanings.
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Favourite Biblical verses
by greendawn in
1. jw
2. experiences
did you have any favourite biblical verses as jws or after leaving?

for me it was: "everyone believing in me will have eternal life" as spoken by jesus.
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i was born into a violent abusive JW family
by ania in
1. jw
2. experiences
the abuser was my father, we were all (7 children) abused severely (including our mother) as a child i did not understand what exactly was going on but after many years of councelling and so-forth (my counceller tells me, my case is the most severe she has had in her 12 years as a counceller) i discovered that my father was (is) a sado-masichist.

he got sexual enjoyment from beating us all.

i already knew this to an extent i just never realised there was actually a name for what he got out of it.. after 20 odd years of this abuse, my mother had tried to go through the right channels (the elders, in several congregations we moved to etc) in order to get permission to take her children and live separate to her husband who was a constant threat to our very lives (he was a diagnosed paranoid schizophrenic & incrediably unpredictable) she was however told time and again that if she left her husband she and her unbaptised children (under 18) would most certainly lose out on everlasting life.
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Eve and Adam
by MsMcDucket in
1. social
2. humour
"lord, i have a problem.

god asks, "what's the problem, eve?

"i know that you created me and provided this beautiful garden and all.