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  Gas Pump "Witnessing"....Is this a thing?

  by Bob Loblaw in

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  i've seen this twice now within a month.

  a car group hanging out at a gas station.

  one of the cult members jumps outs of their car and runs up to a "worldly" gas pumper, arm stretched out, tract in hand, and here comes the juvenile at best question.

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  I can never forget an Elder who was complaining about the Mormons who kept coming to his door and trying to convert him , ( they must have seen him as a potential convert ) yet he never twigged that householders viewed us in the same way.

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  Next steps for the Austrailian Royal Commission

  by Coded Logic in

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  2. scandals

  since the watchtowers' lawyers have (a) failed to make any recommendations to the arc that would bring the watchtower up to date with "best practices and procedures" (b) have failed to submit a proposal for victim restitution (c) have failed to secure funding for a redress scheme and (d) have completely dismissed all the arcs' findings - what's the royal commission's next course of action?.

  i see two possibilities:.

  ) negotiate a settlement with the watchtower.

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  Whatever happens , it wont be anytime soon , and in the meantime , the abuse of children will continue to occur within the religion , and the Judicial system will be partly to blame for not acting promptly enough , allowing it to drag on for months or even years , by their own admission.

  Part of the problem is that the ARC has no teeth , it , in itself cannot prosecute anybody , they can only make recomendations to the relevant authorities .

  And they need not necessarily be acted upon.

  Justice is a rare commodity in the real world .

  smiddy
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  feeling blue about loss of faith?Grimly holding on in the face of your mortality?Dust that sings

  by Diogenesister in

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  2. links

  as i am aware a lot of posters are feeling down or grieving the certainties lost when their faith is revealed as nothing but the stories of mortal men...i am posting one of my favourite youtubers, philhellenes who, like the ancients you studied, contemplates that sense of awe that he is indeed fearfully and wonderfully made...and when faced with the inevitability of mortality he imagines the plight of the mayfly...and wonders" would it be cruel to tell an adult mayfly that it only has that afternoon to live...would it still fly as far and as high as it could?might it fly further and higher than usual?or would it forget about it's wings and sit on the water, head bowed, sufficiently traumatised to invent religion?".

  we are privileged that after millennia we are some of the first life forms to know exactly how we came to be..and what we are made of ...and if that isnt miraculously awe inspiring,i don't know what is.

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  The J.W.`split hairs with this , one their terminology is rock-mass and Congregation , not Church as we all know .

  Mat.16:18 NWT

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  how do most of you now feel about the military?

  by sowhatnow in

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  2. family

  was not sure where to post this, but i was curious, how do some of you now feel about the military?

  would any of you let your children enlist, or would you yourselves join any military field?

  how do you feel about the idea of women in the military?

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  Jehovah never had any problem supporting the Military did he.

  smiddy
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  Where do I start telling a psychologist about the mental trauma I feel as a fading jw?

  by Simple Minds in

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  2. medical

  i am on a pension, so i could not afford to pay for a psychologist, but my good doctor referred me to a free clinic for people on a low income, for my anxiety and depression, so i have finally got my first appointment with a psychologist since i started my fade, so where do i start trying to explain the mental trauma i feel as a fading jw?

  i would appreciate your advice.

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  smiddy

  I`m certainly not qualified to give you any professional advice , hopefully someone more experienced in this field will be able to offer that kind of help for you.

  My personal lay mans suggestion would be : Just be your normal self in expressing how you feel , what is troubling you , and how it makes you feel as a person.What your fears are and how this affects your marriage and relationship with your wife .

  Your psychologist is just another human being like yourself , don`t be intimidated by his /her profession .Their there to help you .Just be your natural self when discussing your situation.

  Sometimes just pouring out your heartfelt feelings to someone can be therapeutic for you .

  I feel for you Bro.Take care and don`t stress out about your appointment.

  And let us know how you are doing when you are able to .

  I hope I have been of some help

  smiddy
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  THE END is no longer...

  by Martini in

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  ...at the tip of my tongue!.

  question:.

  i know we are not into end time dates anymore.however suppose you are in your.

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  Maybe the two prophets are buried somewhere in the 40,000 or so Christian sects that are currently operating in the world today .

  Just saying.

  smiddy
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  Something isnt quite right.

  by atomant in

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  2. friends

  l was wondering if others get the feeling that the world we live in seems not quite right.l can not pin point anything specific but since childhood days l often get the feeling something isn;t correct.you know the feeling of deja vu.

  am l the only one to feel this way?ld love to hear from others and any storys they may have.having been raised in the jdubs maybe lm just suffering mild bouts of paranoia .

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  Hi , atomant,

  The greatest deception is Christendom convincing people over the centuries that their is a fallen Angel called Satan , who apparently is having more success than the Almighty God.

  The Jewish people were the so called chosen ones for 4000 years and never heard of a Satan as Christianity describes him .The concept was alien to them.

  Of course I stand to be corrected if I am wrong here.

  smiddy
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  Article: "Why God Won't Go Away" (Contains an example of a JW) An excellent read!

  by AndersonsInfo in

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  2. friends

  http://committingsociology.com/2016/01/15/transcending-religious-ideas-is-easy-transcending-religious-thinking-is-hard/.

  why god won’t go away.

  january 15, 2016 john faithful hamer .

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  smiddy

  Another way of putting it if I may :

  Many Jehovah`s Witnesses of many years , mainly born ins , of many years , for one reason or another fall away from the religion and they stop participating in , or attending meetings anymore.

  However :

  They may by all accounts have left the religion physically , but not emotionally , or even Physcologicaly , nor factually , in other words they left the religion but the religion has never left them .

  The reason , in part , is because they have not based their beliefs on facts , or evidence , or reason , but on emotion

  These people usually have no knowledge of the Bible scriptures to back their beliefs , or even the basic knowledge of the beliefs of the faith they profess .Many of them just following on from the faith of their parents,

  So when a disaster occurs somewhere in in the earth , they storm back into the religion , until it all dies down , and their gone again , till the next disaster happens , and then , their back again ,

  smiddy
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  Measuring my progress by past threads....

  by The Rebel in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  my conclusion is, i hope this site is :-.

  a) first about solving practical problems of people leaving the w.t,.

  b) secondly about if god exists or not.. so what have i learnt since reading my first posts from 6 months ago?.

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  Like DJS , I too , was out about 20 years before i eventually found this site.And even then I had apprehension , doubts about becoming involved in such a forum. ( Oh , the power of indoctrination )

  Thankfully I did persevere , and I think I have become a much more tolerant person to people whose lifestyles are so different from mine .

  I have learnt so much more about the Bible , it`s pluses and it`s negatives than I ever learned from 33 years as a JW. , and we considered ourselves as Bible students. What a Joke.

  If anybody wants to get a real education about the Bible , Christian beliefs , and Christian Cults , but also a range of other topics that are discussed not always religious , this is the site for you.

  You can speak your mind freely and get feedback , an interchange of ideas ,without sanctions .

  smiddy
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  Not One of them is missing

  by pandorasbox1914 in

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  here is a question, if "not one of them is missing" how does the org explain super nova's, the destruction of a star at the end of it's life cycle?

  because by definition it is missing, i have never heard of any explanation from the org to explain this contradiction..

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  Of course their is no mention of Asteroids , Meteors , Meteorites , Comets , Black holes , Colliding Galaxies , Etc.Etc. ,in the Bible that just might point to a more chaotic Universe than what the Bible indicates.

  And we only have the tip of the iceberg so to speak about the Universe., if that.

  smiddy