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  Great News in the EX Jehovahs Witness World!!!

  by Christian Gutierrez in

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  2. friends

  we are so overjoyed with what is happening in the exjw community!

  it is places like this forum where many can have a place to interact anonymously and be felt like they are understood.

  you guys are awesome!

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  smiddy

  Actually JW Gonebad I find it happyfying that baptisms are so far down in numbers and the only onezeez or twozeez are poor children of the brainwashed JW. parent.

  How humiliating this must be for the elders assigned to give the baptismal talks at these venues!

  And ro me I think that is great news ,hopefully that will wake a few more up out of their delusion.

  ( I know what you meant though LoL}

  Its good to see Christian and Katja ? his wife interacting with this community now than when they just promoted their own videos and never commented further

  Kudos to you both for your humility and sharing not only your vids but also contributing to discussions taking place

  I wish you both well
  
  
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  My 89 year old father will be standing by a cart tomorrow.

  by longgone in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  yes, that's what he just told me.

  unbelievable.

  this cult had no shame.. 😞😞😞 .

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  smiddy

  longgone while I feel your frustration given his age ,I dont think anything would be accomplished by bursting his bubble.

  Not that i think you would try to do this

  However I know it sucks to think he is doing it believing he is serving the Lord.

  Take care , my thoughts are with you.
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  Does the Average R&F JW understand what grace is in Christianity ?

  by smiddy in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i`m showing my ignorance here , not being an active member of any church before joining jw`s as a 19 yr old ,whenever i was ever confronted with the question of "grace" i was always at a loss to give an effective answer from a jw point of view.. was it just me ?

  or did anybody else have a similar experience ?.

  (ps , i dont think i ever heard the expression " grace" in a religious sense in all my 33 years in the borg.studying the wt.).

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  smiddy

  I`m showing my ignorance here , not being an active member of any church before joining JW`s as a 19 yr old ,whenever I was ever confronted with the question of "grace" I was always at a loss to give an effective answer from a JW point of view.

  Was it just me ? or did anybody else have a similar experience ?

  (PS , I dont think I ever heard the expression " grace" in a religious sense in all my 33 years in the Borg.studying the WT.)

  In contrst to that I wouldnt be surprised if many nominal Christians didn`t understand the terminology of Watctower speak .

  JW`s just had to be different from mainstream Christianity
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  What was it like being a JW in the 1960's and 1970's

  by UnshackleTheChains in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  this is obviously a question for the older generation.

  i'm really curious what it was like to be a witness in the 60's and 70's?.

  was the society as strict as it is today?.

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  smiddy

  My wife and I attended 4 congregations in Melb.Aust. in the decade of the 1960`s .They were pretty conservative and took the "truth" seriously,Not much socilising at all it wasn`t encouraged back then.

  When the book "life Everlasting " came out in 1969 ? with the 6000 yrs since creation speculation was rife that 1975 would usher in te "New System of Things" and the special brochures that were to be distributed around the world that time in the early 1970`s rumours were abound that 7 were to be distributed with the last couple denouncing false religion and the Governments of the world that would bring on the Great Tribulation.

  Of course nothing of the sort happened.

  We were in Qld. by that time where the 3 congregations we were in were much more liberal and relaxed though we did have a couple of really loony Elders.
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  August 2017 Watchtower - Screwing with J.W.'s minds again

  by The Searcher in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  in the latest issue of double-speak, i'd like to highlight these two statements:.

  page 3, par.

  2 - "...how encouraging it is to know that jehovah’s faithful servants in the past felt free to express the same question that may loom in our minds, and they were not condemned for asking it!

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  smiddy

  Are the Jehovahs witnesses in Russia urged" to be willing to wait on the outcome" of the appeal to their being banned ?

  No ? They are defying that ban by continually meeting as a congregation.

  Then they are not being in subjection to the superiour authorities are they , disobeying such an authority by defying what Jehovah has put in place. Rom.Chap.13
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  u can speak against Christ but not the GB

  by Damascus in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so i am in trouble for questioning the whole rats nest of deceit and lies.

  in matthew 12 jesus says: whoever speaks a word against the son of man will be forgiven, but whoever speaks against the holy spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the one to come.

  " the gb seems to replace 'holy spirit' with themselves.

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  smiddy

  Then ask the self-righteous interrogator, "Should we accept everything we're told is truth - without question?"

  I would say the average Elder would say yes ....and he wouldnt see the problem with his answer

  Thats how indoctrinated they are .and clinging on to their self importance. in a small pond.
  
  
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  The Governing Body WILL be sued in America collectively and individually in the near future!

  by notsurewheretogo in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so lloyd evans aka cedars says on his facebook page when he attended a reveal jw child abuse event.. .

  interesting stuff but no details!.

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  smiddy

  40 years ago even going back to the beginnings of the 1960`s I was a die-hard JW ,however I noticed even then that the public talks that were advertised and given out by leafletes in our local community they never ever brought in any members of the public.

  The Jehovahs Witnesses are delusional. Full stop.
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  Mental Illness

  by Tallon in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  over many years i have been pondering how mental illness has impacted upon jw's due to the effects of indoctrination.

  in my case; when i was 21 i had a breakdown and was hospitalised for 6 weeks.

  i was diagnosed with anxiety tension state disorder.

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  smiddy

  Their have been a few investigations in the world linking the mental capacity of Jehovahs witnesses and whether the religion improved their mental position or was responsible for decreased mental capacity in its adherants.

  Was the religion responsible for decreased mental capacity ,or were the mentally unstable more likely to have joined the religion.

  From memory I think one might have been conducted by the Netherlands ? (in Europe anyway)

  Another I believe was conducted by someone in Western Australia.
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  Ban the Watchtower

  by biblexaminer in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  the watchtower magazine of january 1st, 2000, which was preached worldwide, made clear that "the anointed" at watchtower headquarters "have shown lionlike courage in exposing false religion", false religion being any and all religions other than jehovah's witnesses.

  this same issue made clear to you, that we "god's watchman class" have used the watchtower "magazine in vigorously proclaiming to mankind that the vindication of jehovah's sovereignty by christ's kingdom is at hand.

  as far back as the watchtower of december 1, 1966, we, god's spokesman, warned that armageddon could not be avoided.

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  Do the Watchtower publications named in biblexaminers post constitute hatefill speech ?

  Maybe not so much when they were written but now in 2017 such language is not permissable and could very well come under hate speech against other religions.

  Could that language also be identified as Cult speak ?

  Shouldnt the powers that be whoever they are in Government circles look at the tax exemption ,charitable status of an organization that produces /prints and disseminates such hatefull literature in our communities ?
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  If an elder decides he wants to report child molestation to police.

  by poopie in

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  2. friends

  can he be sued for violating clergy pertinent privilege by the person that confesses to him?.

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  smiddy

  Jehovahs Witnesses speak out of both sides of their mouth .

  On the one hand they are on record as saying they have no clergy / laity class .

  On the other hand they claim Clergy penitent Priviledge in a law court.

  Clergy penitent privelidge is between a a confessor and a spiritual head/priest/pastor. of a religion a one on one confession.

  Nothing of the sort occurs within the Jehovahs witness so called confessions.

  For one thing their are three "Elders" who hear the confession that is then passed on to the legal dept,God knows how many view that ,so its certainly not a one on one experience.

  And sometimes more than one body of Elders are involved in a Judicial confession which means another three Elders are privy to a confession.

  Another point to be considered is most Judicial Committees convened are not inititiated by the confessor but are brought about by a third or second party making an accusation against the one under investigation .

  So those cases are not to be considered as a person seeking a confessional for absolution of a sin.

  In other words most Judicial Committees should more likely be termed as prosecutions against a person guilty of a sin or crime themselves .

  Which in any case is never reported to the appropiate authorities by any Elders.