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  New Here

  by Grey Goose in

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  hi one and all.. i've lurked for 3 years, about time i signed up.. i'm a still in ms due to family.. fully awake.. i look forward to getting to know all of you..

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  A big welcome from down under ,OZ .

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  Witnesses killed my friend today.

  by WasOnceBlind in

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  today has been a horrible day.

  what began as a day of joy finding out that one of my lifelong friends had her baby, turned into a nightmare when her brother called me to let me know she had passed away after birth.

  i was in shock and didn't ask how.

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  The doublespeak of the GB of Jehovah`s Witnesses :

  On the one hand they demand absolute obedience to them , even if you don`t understand the reason for doing so.

  On the other hand they try to absolve themselves of any responsibility for any adverse effects caused to anyone who obeys them , by claiming they are volunteers who must take responsibility for there own actions.

  The GB should be held responsible for all deaths resulting from the blood policy.

  So sad my friend.

  smiddy
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  I'm A Pacifist but My God Wasn't!

  by new boy in

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  were is the sense...to this?.

  i wouldn't go to war...i was a conscientious objector in viet nam.

  i couldn't even get into a fight at school without getting into trouble.. yet my god...jehovah was is a jealous god an angry god....a god who when he got pissed off could destroy a whole planet...remember the flood....(the bible said he felt bad afterwards)...that was nice.. now he is getting ready to do it again....7 billion people worth....and why?.

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  Landy your right

  J.W.`s have never claimed to be pacifists , because they believe in the War of the great Day of God Almighty of Armageddon .

  That is a war they look forward to and even pray for , the sooner it comes the sooner they can enjoy peace in a paradise on earth .

  They themselves have no part in it because it`s the Angels of God who are to bring on this destruction they pray for and not humans on earth .

  However it still means every Jehovah`s Witness prays for the destruction of 8 Billion people , man ,woman, and child , who is not a Jehovah`s Witness

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  The Many Faces of Judge Joseph Rutherford Part 1:

  by unclebruce in

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  you never saw these two in the same room..

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  Would YOU buy a used car from the Judge ?

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  I'm A Pacifist but My God Wasn't!

  by new boy in

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  were is the sense...to this?.

  i wouldn't go to war...i was a conscientious objector in viet nam.

  i couldn't even get into a fight at school without getting into trouble.. yet my god...jehovah was is a jealous god an angry god....a god who when he got pissed off could destroy a whole planet...remember the flood....(the bible said he felt bad afterwards)...that was nice.. now he is getting ready to do it again....7 billion people worth....and why?.

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  Jehovah has killed far more people than Satan ever did , and he promises to kill even more.

  And he does`nt` confide in us at all .

  Why is Jehovah ,Allah , the Eternal ,the Almighty , or whoever you want to call him such a recluse ?

  Why is he in hiding ? Doing everything , or nothing , behind closed doors ?

  And don`t give me that crap , we are imperfect and he can`t communicate with us .

  He has had no problem meeting and conversing with Satan the Devil for thousands of years .

  Even Jesus had no problem conversing with Satan the Devil during his ministry.

  But God talking to humans , being up front with what he wants us to do ? Being transparent , with his door to communication always open , is obviously not one of his strong points .

  After 2,000 years of atrocities in his name , he is still silent , with nothing to say.

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  If YOU had to make the decision, would you respect a JW relatives wish to refuse a blood transfusion?

  by nicolaou in

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  a few years after i quit the meetings my mum needed her medical directive signed and witnessed and she asked if i'd do it.

  i was surprised to say the least!.

  i think she was just angling to include me and maybe find some lever to get me involved again.

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  I look at it this way:

  If you honestly believe the J.W.`s are wrong in there interpretation ,why would you respect a relatives decision to refuse blood.? Wouldn`t that amount to helping one commit suicide ? Needlesly ending one`s own life?

  Many Jehovah`s Witnesses have rationalized taking there own life , would you assist them in some way to achieve that aim ? Supply the gun , the bullets , the rope , drop them off at a bridge ? etc.

  The parents and Elders that assisted those many children shown on the front cover of the 1994 AWAKE magazine , Youths Who Gave Their Life , by refusing blood surgery ,should have been charged with Child Abuse causing death .

  Children do not have the right or mental capacity or life experience to make such a life or death decision.

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  For Martin Luther King's Day: Freedom Songs

  by flipper in

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  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpubgcng6tw.

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  On another note I saw an E.T. segment while I was out , that the Afro Americans were thinking of boycotting the Oscars next year ?

  I wouldn`t blame them if they did .

  I was disgusted with the Oscars when the Colour Purple was nominated for so many Oscars and they did not score one , unbelievable ,

  I thought they should have received at least 10 Oscars.for that movie. It was and is a classic.

  I have never viewed the Oscars in the same light since , it is definetly biased .

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  For Martin Luther King's Day: Freedom Songs

  by flipper in

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  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpubgcng6tw.

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  Thanks for posting those guys , I haven`t got time right now to play them all but I will do so

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  WT Study 1/10/16 Encouraging Child Baptism And More Nonsense

  by JW_Rogue in

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  2. beliefs

  i've noticed that each wt lesson really only has one or two points they want remembered.

  normally they build up to these by about the third subheading.

  this week's lesson though was different, the main point was insidiously made through an experience in the first paragraph:.

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  Not old enough to do all those things stuckinarut , says

  However old enough , by Jehovah`s Witness standards , to make life or death decisions about blood questions imposed on Jehovah`s Witnesses that even adult J.W.`s find difficult and confusing as to what is acceptable and what is not , in there ever changing views regarding " New light" or new medical procedures available in hospitals .How is a teenager , let alone a pre-teen ever going to make an informed life or death decision as to what fractions he/she can or can`t use , what other alternative options are available according to the Governing Body of Jehovah`s Witnesses is just beyond the comprehension of a teenager , and certainly a pre-teen .

  If ever their was a case of child abuse against the Watchtower/Jehovah`s Witnesses , this should take priority .as hundreds of youths have died following the G.B. direction world wide , since this policy was introduced around the 1940-50s`s as a disfellowshipping offence for taking blood.

  And in the " AWAKE" magazine of May 1994 on the front cover , many youths , 26 ? , they held up as martyrs for sacrificing there lives refusing blood.in obedience to their religious instruction from the G.B.

  If that is not child abuse I would like to know what is.

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  I can't let go of this obsession...

  by juandefiero in

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  i really want to let go of the exjw obsession.

  but i can't.

  i keep coming here and other sites several times a day.i want to shout from the rooftops to my family and friends and say, "it's all a lie!

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  Kairos , I think I know where your coming from , history has shown us all to often that the recipients kill the messenger .

  Lets hope they all do find out from another source .....and exit the cult.

  smiddy