The best advice that I can give you is this: if you are called into a judicial meeting for the purpose of investigating whether or not you are an apostate, do NOT try to show them the evidences that the Watchtower is a false prophet. You could show them the most concrete, solid evidence that the Watchtower is evil, and because of how they are programmed to reject critical information, they won't even comprehend it. The sole purpose of that meeting will be to determine whether or not you believe that the governing body of Jehovah's Witnesses is the "faithful and discreet slave" and that the Watchtower organization is God's one, true organization on the earth. If you want to keep your family relationships, then you must lie when answering this question.
deaconbluez
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feeling for the edges of apostasy
by inkling inno matter where at the end of this journey i actually end up spiritually andphilosophically, one thing i am sure is that family ties are worth fighting for.
i distinctly want to avoid being disfellowshiped for any reason, if at all possible.
and, (since i am not about to go on a hedonistic crime spree) my biggest riskof being disfellowshiped is on the grounds of "apostasy", i am assuming.
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Stumbled by 1995 "light", Researcher needs your insight!
by yknot inmy name is rodney wilson i am currently researching a graduate paper about the jehovah's witnesses and the recent "new light" on the application and interpretation of the 1914 "this generation shall not pass away" teaching.. .
i am particularly interested in hearing from anyone who was active in the watchtower society during the period in which this doctrine was reworked -- specifically the mid-1990s.
i am interested to learn how this change was made known to members; the impact it had on congregations; how much congregational discussion there was about it; the impact on members and membership; if it sowed seeds of doubt in member's mind, etc.. .
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deaconbluez
I was very active during this time. The change in the teaching was done through a series of study articles in the Watchtower magazine. I'm sure you've already located the exact issue. There was also reinforcement of the change at the convention that year, but it was tied to the need of "keeping awake" since the end was so near! But since the Witnesses are the most theologically naive people on the planet, for the most part, they didn't think twice when the change was introduced. You see, the Witnesses are thankful that they have their "faithful slave" in Brooklyn to tell them what to think about Scriptural matters. If they didn't have that, then they would have to actually comprehend what the Bible says. As an experiment with this very thing, I made a fake scan of a "Watchtower article" (much like my parody "Questions From Readers") and e-mailed it to a Witness family member of mine. It was written in typical Watchtower language and indicated that the "faithful slave" was certain that the end would be within the next 5 years, and that Witnesses would need to start winding down all of their affairs on this earth. I presented the fake article to this family member as something that was simply passed on to me, that would appear in an upcoming issue of the Watchtower. Their response to it was typical, involved no thought process, and indicated to me even further that individual Witnesses don't care about how ridiculous or unscriptural the "spiritual food" is. They're just glad that they don't have to make the tough decisions. The Watchtower makes those decisions for it's members. As payment, the Watchtower demands complete acceptance, and that's what they get from their members.
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How many efforts to sway JWs have actually worked?
by sweetface2233 ini keep reading these threads about exposing the wts and sending letters to individual jws.
how many of these efforts have actually worked?
i've read books written by xjws and watched videos produced by them, but only after becoming one.
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I am glad to say that I have gotten one person out of the organization. And that person was DEEP in it. I have also convinced my non-Witness family members, who didn't think of Witnesses as much of anything, that they are indeed a dangerous cult. It's hard to get Witnesses into a dialouge about the stuff, though. They are programmed to block it out.
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Favorite Uncyclopedia Articles
by Nosferatu init's promising to be a slow day at work today.
it would be great if you could post your favorite uncyclopeida articles to keep me entertained!
i'll start off:.
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I love Uncyclopedia. Here are some of my favorite articles:
http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Jehovah%27s_witnesses
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It makes me sad to see Ray Franz looking this feeble...
by deaconbluez inhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yqj0-huvvw
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He and I talk on the phone fairly often, and you can definately tell that he gets fatigued even at having a phone conversation. But he's done a great deal to help people in his long life. What a wonderful thing.
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It makes me sad to see Ray Franz looking this feeble...
by deaconbluez inhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yqj0-huvvw
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call me a conspiracy theorist.....
by ninja inbut is nvr posting less?.......its the tortoise and the hare scenario with me and him
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deaconbluez
I think the bigger conspiracy is that you'll have 1914 posts if you post just two more times!!! OMG YOU ARE UNDERCOVER FOR TEDDY JARACZ AREN'T YOU?!
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Hello everybody
by JulieM inhi everybody, my name is julie, and this is my first post.. i'm a third generation jw, or at least i was until a two weeks ago, when i was announced as no longer a jw.
i'm really happy about that, ecstatic in fact, although i'd been a jw all my life, and i'm 37 now.
i could have disassociated like my friends, but i couldn't be bothered to play their chikdish game, so i let them do it for me.
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Julie, did you read the part of Crisis of Conscience where it talks about some people who leave the organization end up trading in their old set of values for a completely new set of values, i.e. smoking, pre-marital sex, and such, so it turns out that they're really not that much better off spiritually than when they were in the cult.
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Did Anybody Besides Me CHOOSE Not to Respond??
by journey-on ini saw danny haszard's video before it was removed.
did anybody besides me choose not to post an opinion to.
the many threads about it, especially those that got a chance to view it?.
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deaconbluez
For those that didn't see it, it was an act of violence toward two elderly men. If you have grandparents or parents that still go in the door to door work, I think you would understand how terrible it was for him to do it.
