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  Conversation with a JW

  by VanillaMocha73 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i wrote: .

  i saw your email address on the post about the arson at your church.

  i was wondering if you could answer some questions about your church?

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  TheKings

  explain how false prophecy is "unimportant"... false prophecy in a religion that claims utmost superiority as the mouthpiece of God should be a red flag to anyone who isn't lobotomized. Divisions? try an attempt at education. would you accuse jesus of causing divisions when he denounced the pharisees just because it rocked the boat? No, because he was right...just like it is absolutely right to name the watchtower bible and tract society a false prophet.
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  Conversation with a JW

  by VanillaMocha73 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i wrote: .

  i saw your email address on the post about the arson at your church.

  i was wondering if you could answer some questions about your church?

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  TheKings

  religion, like everything in life, is a mixed bag. it's a force for good for some people, and others don't need it to live happily. will you not agree, Beroean, that in the name of religion great evils have been commited. This is where you will probably assume that JW's are superior, but doctrine has claimed lives in JW-land. this is not acceptable.
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  Conversation with a JW

  by VanillaMocha73 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i wrote: .

  i saw your email address on the post about the arson at your church.

  i was wondering if you could answer some questions about your church?

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  TheKings

  i hope you realize that proving another religious teaching unfactual is merely a distraction from the rafter in thine own eye... two wrongs don't make a right.
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  Curious about what ExJW's Preach and Teach

  by BEROEAN in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i've noticed many of you that have your own ministry.

  i'm curious as to what doctrines you teach.

  is it "jesus is love.

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  TheKings

  "So am I getting this right that most of you just want to do whatever YOU want to do and make up your personal rules as you go along? And if so, at what point do you tell another person what to do?......Say, your neighbor likes having sex with animals....do you intervene? What if your neighbor loved veal and kept baby calves in his basement? The blood-curdling cries at night sending shivers up your spine. What if you found out your neighbor and his "son" were members of NAMBLA? Would you report them?"
  
  
  what someone does in the privacy of their own home is none of my business... nor are their beliefs. everyone must render their own account to the higher powers at the end of their days. judge not lest ye be judged. i believe in being a good person, that's all.
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  An "Apostate" partakes at the JWs Memorial

  by dedpoet in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccote1skw8a.

  this is a video sent to me by brenda lee, the author of "out of the cocoon",.

  of her partaking of the emblems at the jw memorial last month.

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  TheKings

  firstly, i doubt a JW's opinion of "apostates" could ever be worsened. As a JW i didn't think for more than two seconds about what "apostates" did, and i had glimpsed a couple online "apostate" videos which were very 'rabid' while stille active. When the time came for me to want to leave the organization those memories didn't keep me form realizing the truth. you must remember that when someone starts to leave the org they never think of themselves as an "apostate" ... so that has nothing to do with them having doubts.
  
  
  secondly, ...she stated that it was for the benefit ex-jws, not for current jws. i got a laugh out of it. ;)
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  HAVE SOME FUN WITH THE MAY 2007 AWAKE!

  by Mary in

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  2. friends

  ok, here's the original:.

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  and here's a blank canvas for you: .

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  Knocking forum is now open on PBS website

  by Jourles in

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  2. friends

  here we go folks.

  a newly opened forum for knocking is now open on pbs's website.

  let's not let the jw's overrun this with crap.

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  TheKings

  http://discussions.pbs.org/viewtopic.pbs?p=551223#551223 ^i'm a bit proud of myself after that one ...
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  Did An Elder or "Brother" or "Sister" Ever Lose It With You???

  by minimus in

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  2. friends

  some persons are tempestous.

  they may fly off the handle just like that!.

  have you ever experienced a witness who just "lost it" with you??

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  TheKings

  "My dad sat down with me and read me the scripture in 1 Corinthians 6:7 and convinced me that it would be better to "let myself be wronged and defrauded" than to Bring Reproach on Jehovah™. " sheep to the slaughter mentality. what would jesus do? he'd walk straight up into their house and turn their money-changing tables over, figuratively speaking.
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  Did An Elder or "Brother" or "Sister" Ever Lose It With You???

  by minimus in

  1. jw
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  some persons are tempestous.

  they may fly off the handle just like that!.

  have you ever experienced a witness who just "lost it" with you??

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  TheKings

  the only reason i didn't rip my arm away forcefully and make my exit was because it would have killed my mom (everyone was staring-waiting for me to make a scene). she is already bottom rung in the pecking-order at the hall. people would have 'marked' her. it *was* abusive, i feel sorry for his wife.
  
  and LHG , smart move. did you have any trouble? when i went to the memorial (last year, not this year nor ever again) everyone ignored me except one brother who had a crush on me. he hugged me as soon as he saw me (it was not sexual at all) and it made me feel better. i hope that guy finds his way out...he was a truly kind soul.
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  the lenths jws go to to avoid you

  by winnie in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  went to the chemist the other day parked near my brother in laws car in car park.he saw me and turned away.my wife went into chemist had to wait 10 minutes all the time my elder brother in law sat in car.we moved closer to supermarket as soon as we had moved i watch him go into chemist he was waiting for us to leave so he could go in.. i then went into supermarket i watched him do a whole lap of the car park walking so he wouldn,t have to walk past my car with wife and kids in.

  he thought the coast was clear didn,t know i was in there so i ambushed him in an isle smiled said hello he smiled said hello then the jw shunning part of his brain kicked in head down walk straight and frown.. saw my mother in car latter and she covered her face .

  i think they feel uncomportable.

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  TheKings

  at college i ran into a sister who is a friend of my mom's and she said hi to me and asked how my family was doing etcetera, because she had moved congregations and had not been in touch with my mom since i quit going to meetings and moved out with my boyfriend. i told her everything was fine and went to my next class.
  
  the next time i saw her i said hi and she barely looked up and simply gave me this look like "don't f-ing talk to me".
  
  apparently, she had related her experience of seeing me to someone and they filled her in on how i left. the thing is, i've never been baptised so technically she doesn't have to shun me. i guess it makes her feel more "christian" to do so. i see her every week at school and she ignores me vigorously.