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  Need help. Daughter wants to leave org but does not know how.

  by Indian Larry in

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  long question, but very important.. i can use some help.

  my daughter wants out of the organization and i need some advise.. here is my background in a nutshell.

  i am fully faded for 10+ years.

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  dogisgod

  Thank you for being a good father. Your daughter is somewhat stuck and she has needs that despite the love of the JWs, are not being met. She could consider some meet-up groups. Any interests/hobbies she could gradually investigate....not advertising in the congregation....and start making friends there. When I left I just did it. I did not have outside friends and that was really hard. She can start filling her own needs slowly but surely. She can and will be happy but she has to work at it.
  
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  Do You Condemn Anti-Semitism?

  by minimus in

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  i do .

  for me , it’s a nobrainer!.

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  dogisgod

  Of course, however, I do not back the Netanyahu or his eradication of Palestinians.
  
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  Is The Watchtower Society Just Copying The Mormon's Model?

  by pale.emperor in

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  when i was a faithful jw i was pretty much obsessed with the mormon religion.

  to me it was like lord of the rings.

  i knew the characters, the history, the events, the joseph smith stories, the religion's history etc etc etc and i long suspected even then that the watchtower society has been copying certain things from the lds church.. for example, the first thing i noticed was when the book study was dropped and family worship was started.

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  I just heard that the 2 yr missionary commitment is rewarded with free college.
  
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  Lets face it. Baptism is a lie.

  by nowawake14 in

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  i remember when i did.

  i was in hs when that happened.

  i wasn't even awake yet.

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  dogisgod

  My mother had me study with this pioneer woman. (not the cook on tv) It was in the mid sixties. She asked me who was going to survive Jehovahs day of anger. Answer: only those in the great crowd. How do you become one? Ans....baptism. I was scared enough to get baptized behind my mom's back. She was mad. So don't give your kids to other people.
  
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  OK, We Need To Talk About The Crazy New Great Tribulation Video...

  by pale.emperor in

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  if you haven't seen it already, skip to 1:14:30 in lloyds video and watch the craziness unfold.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2y7f7-k5wo.

  i'd love to hear everyone's thoughts on this.. they're digging themselves a great hole here, in about 30 years time they'll be claiming this video was a mere "speculation" and that "some people" got the wrong ideas..

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  dogisgod

  Is there a link to watch the great tribulation video?
  
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  Waking up can be a scary time

  by Leopold theseconed in

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  as a person that has recently come to terms with the reality that the truth is not really the truth .

  does anyone else remember the feeling when they realized things were just not true.

  it’s wierd all the years i spent preaching i never really considered what it must have felt like to have two people at your door trying to convince you that your religion of birth was a lie.

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  dogisgod

  I was angry, of course, but mostly at myself for being so gullible. The grief I felt when I lost my god is still kindof raw. And all those bible characters that were "friends" in lieu of all those worldly friends I couldn't have......not real. As the twig is bent so the tree grows. It's just a hard path. There is no fix. You do the best you can.
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  An atheist sermon on grace (my second UU* sermon)

  by rawe in

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  i had a fair bit of fun giving my first ever post-jw religious sermon.

  so i asked rev.

  andy if he would like me to deliver another.

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  dogisgod

  I had a part recently at my UU place....it was on Cognitive Dissonance.
  
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  What new cuts might be coming

  by pepperheart in

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  what new cuts might be coming for the watchtower ?.

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  dogisgod

  The farm will go.
  
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  If you had to

  by rolliepollie in

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  if you had to follow one religion, what would it be and why?.

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  dogisgod

  I attend the Unitarian/Universalist group. There are no official doctrines. I like their community involvement, their inclusivity, I have joined a group working on behalf of climate change. There are some politics due to humans being humans which I avoid. So far so good. They encourage education, involvement, respect and inclusion. I skip December because they do honor different beliefs (without embracing them) and they have Pagan groups that have ceremonies/meetings which I have attended.
  
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  Disfellowshipped

  by Pinky in

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  how long is one disfellowshipped for committing adultery?.

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  dogisgod

  AT the very least a year.