Posts by truthseeker100

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Can someone explain to me ......

by notoneoftheboys in

i was never told before i got baptised that i would loose my family if i got disfellowshipped.. no one told me i would get disfellowshipped if i had a blood transfusion.

no one told me that the gb was all powerful and tolerate no dissention.

that if i spoke to a d/f person i would get disfellowshipped.. no one told me in my marriage bed there were rules if broken d/f shipping resulted.. i was told my brothers would die or care for me.

truthseeker100

Why is it then when I bring these absoloute truths forward I am told Jehovah speaks thru the GB as he did with Moses.

And lastly why was I so blind I did not see????

If you were a born in and are told to associate only with other Dubs and are kept busy as many elders are it explains a big part of it in my opinion.

I have read on here recently about the announcement of the overlapping generation nonsense in the Watchtower how many did not realize or question the import of such a huge doctrinal shift thing that it was. I realize some are trapped in some are there to satisfy their ego's and others are just dumb as sticks.

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New arrangement ...fines in stead of disfellowshipment.

by fulano in

that's wat i heard the other day.

now you pay fines for your sins.. adultery is a 450 euro's ( for a firsttimer).

smoking is a 300 -500 euro's sin ( depents on what the blow was).

truthseeker100

This is a good idea on many levels

You sound like a pope or a GB member.LOL

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How I feel

by wellshii in

heres a something i hope you feel,.

i hope he hears when we kneel,.

i hope this life isn't the real deal,.

truthseeker100

Welcome

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Sick of the nanny state. Polictical correctness can kiss my donkey!

by punkofnice in

i am sick of this bloody nanny state here in the uk.

political correcness has become a drag.

(am i allowed to say drag without offending someone?).

truthseeker100

Maybe Archie Bunker had it right when he said "England is a Fag Country". LOL

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The 1995 Generation Change

by sloppyjoe2 in

jw
friends

i was just a teenager and have a vivid memory of sitting in a chair doing a microphone for the sunday meeting.

everyone was commenting that it didn't mean the end was far off, and it didn't change the condition of the dead, or the 144,000, or the trinity so we should still remain faithful.

this is my first memory as a kid being just a teen that i ever had a single doubt.

truthseeker100

I have wondered since learning about this new light how people like my parents and relatives reacted all I know is that they are still in lapping it up. All it took for me to realize the GB and the rest of religion was wrong was careful research into evolution.

I guess Finkel is right some people can stomach the lies some can't. I'll bet there are people in North Korea that staunchly believe what they are fed by the regime in power. I don't think it's got anything necessarily to do with intelligence either. We see it here in free countries with the intelligent people swallowing some of the nonsense we see politicians push.

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How to get JWs to talk about disfellowship?

by datto in

i have heard a lot about disfellowship from forums, blogs & youtube clips.

and all of them are real experiences from ex-jw.

however i have never physically met an ex-jw before.

truthseeker100

datto it depends on who you are. If your are newly associated with JWs I am sure they will explain it as a loving provision to get the wayward sheep back into the fold. They will read scriptures about not associating with disfelloshipped or unrepentant wrong doers "not even eating with such a person" to paraphrase.

I'll give an example ask them about a brother or sister that has a recurring addiction to cigarettes. They will explain that you are not supposed to associate or even talk to a sister or brother that has fallen of the wagon and gone back to cigarettes, family or not doesn't matter.

If you have been associated with witnesses for a longer period of time you should already know these things.

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What kind of errors in the Bible?

by TheWonderofYou in

the new testament specialist daniel wallace notes that although there are about 300,000 individual variations of the text of the new testament, this number is very misleading.

most of the differences are completely inconsequential--spelling errors, inverted phrases and the like.

a side by side comparison between the two main text families (the majority text and the modern critical text) shows agreement a full 98% of the time.[18].

truthseeker100

In the beginning god created the heavens and the .........

The word In might be historically accurate? As for the rest of it....... pure lies.

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The end of a Chinese 'nail' house

by fulltimestudent in

disputes between residents of resumed property in china, often become dramatic, as in these two cases.. .

these problems are not unique to china, but can arise in any society when the community (government) wants to use the land on which a house stands for somethings different (e.g.

a new school, roads, railways, etc).

truthseeker100

Full time student

Your posts on this site are appreciated by me and others I am sure. Thank U

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@ RC: "For evolution to be true..."

by Scully in

according to a jw contact, one of the speakers at the regional conventiontm stated that "for evolution to be true, two of the same kind would have had to evolve at the same time; one would have to be male and the other would have to be female, and then they would have to find each other".

apparently the crowd had a good laugh over how evolutionists overlook such a simple "fact".. i mentioned that bacteria and viruses use asexual reproduction, and that many sea creatures / fish, etc.

are hermaphrodite and do not require a sexual partner to produce offspring.. oddly enough, the conversation stopped there.

truthseeker100

It's not that hard to realize how evolution works, even with languages.

http://tv.jw.org/#video/VODStudio/pub-jwb_201507_1_VIDEO

The governing body know that to understand and translate a language it's most efficient to go to the source where the language developed. No different than studying the evolution and development of diseases and microorganisms.

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My sister is being harassed by the elders

by opusdei1972 in

sometime ago i wrote here in this forum about the case of my sister, who decided to stop attending the meetings because she realised that the watchtower society is an evil organization.

this happened more than one year ago.

i am not living in the same country of my sister, so i learn about her case when she calls me or when she write me through whatsapp.

truthseeker100

I don't know if the correct English word for that is "molestation".

Maybe the correct English word you are looking for is harassment?

I'm not sure how to advise you on how things work legally in Latin Countries. It seems to me though, that if she is being chased down and intimidated by a bunch of men she may have a card to play.