The same happened to my father. He had faded for personal reasons (men not teachings) and regularly visited the German board. Then he went back, says the Internet is full of lies and shuns me. I do not get it but I have to accept it. Maybe Platons Cave Analogy is the answer.
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Diary of a thinking to return ex-Jw
by reniaa ini thought long and hard about posting this but the mis-information on this site finally persuaded me, i already accept many may not accept what i say on face value and get their appologist pens ready for making sure no pro-witness propaganda slips through the net on this site but here goes....... i've been on this forum for a few months my first post was about how i was thinking of returning to jw's and at my sisters recommendation to look at this site for both sides of the story before taking that step.. i faded from jw's 10/11 years ago now i left my hubby at the time divorced him to going on to have more relationships and kids, i was definately given the impression after asking on this site and with what i read that if i tried to return i might face df or at least a jc but definately a couple of elders questioning me over what i've been upto these last few years - none of these have happened.
i talked with an old jw friend (yes i do have then and she never shunned me quite happily accepted an offer of coffee from me and my asking for a chat) i told her i was interested in going back and was very frank about what i done in the last 10 years but not sure how returning was done now, she quite happily said she go ask for me to find out.. result!
she came back this week and said "all i had to do was goto meetings again" and an offer of a study was there for me if i wanted it to explore the open doubts that i had expressed i now had.. not quite the fire and brimstone welcome this site led me to believe would happen.. i will keep you posted with further updates if i feel the need to put them in future.. .
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Finnish CO centenced for molesting 5 to 11 year-old girls
by Aaac infinnish co was sentenced for three years for molesting little girls in estonia and his finnish congregation years 2003 to 2005. man had been a co in estonia.
the mother was not believed at first, but laughed at.
she is a jw herself.
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GermanXJW
"Victim" is "Opfer" in German so I assumed that is what you meant. Is it "offer" in Finnish?
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Finnish CO centenced for molesting 5 to 11 year-old girls
by Aaac infinnish co was sentenced for three years for molesting little girls in estonia and his finnish congregation years 2003 to 2005. man had been a co in estonia.
the mother was not believed at first, but laughed at.
she is a jw herself.
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GermanXJW
Maybe this guy is mentioned in the yearbook?
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Austrian man admits holding daughter captive
by Lady Lee ini have been seeing reports on this over the day so thought i would bring it here.. austrian man admits holding daughter captive.
an elderly austrian man has confessed to holding his daughter captive in a basement cell for 24 years and fathering seven children with her, police said monday.
the 73-year-old man allegedly held his daughter elisabeth, now 42, and three of their children in a soundproof chamber below an apartment block in amstetten, a town near the austrian alps.
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GermanXJW
Police says they have no reason to believe that the wife was in the know. The perpetrator is said to be highly intelligent having woven a net of lies and deceit.
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WHAT MADE YOU LEAVE? Doctrine or people?
by chuckyy inhi.. just wondering what made you take the final leap out of the org?
was it doctrinal in that certain things just didnt add up or was it because of the actions of people in the org.
that made you leave?
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GermanXJW
Doctrine. All in all, I liked the companie.
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Dirty joke in the Awake magazine!
by TJ - iAmCleared2Land inok, not the awake!, but in consolation, it's predecessor.
refer to this thread: http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/10/128918/1.ashx.
there appears to be a "dirty joke" in the first issue (november 29, 1939) posted in the thread.
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GermanXJW
Meat in due season.
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I thought meeting in small groups was a protection when persecution comes
by JimmyPage inso they're doing away with the book study?
i thought that was the safe haven when the authorities finally banned the meetings at the kingdom hall and persecuted us (according to jw prophecy), meeting in small groups at people's homes.
any thoughts?.
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GermanXJW
They have recently emphasized that the elders should have all the adresses of the congregation members. This might have been preperations to keep the control after the CSB is done away with.
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The Big Announcement!!!
by oneairhead ini heard the big announcement was about restructuring the meetings.
when i told my source he wanted to know how i found out about it and proceeded to tell him it was all online.
i told him about other things that only elders would know about that are online.. one.
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GermanXJW
They will not do away with the CBS. They consider it as the mother of all meetings starting with the "studies" of the Millenial Dawn volumes. On the other hand, they do not really care about their own history. BTW, is this confirmed? I thought the announcement would be about the upcoming tract campaign.
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Danish film, "Worlds Apart," (about JW girl) reviewed by XJW author
by AndersonsInfo inonce again i'm posting information about the new danish film.
this time, the xjw, who saw the movie, updated his original e-mail to me containing additional facts.
"to verdener" / "worlds apart.".
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GermanXJW
Does the movie make use of JW terms? Nordic Film would need help when creating foreign version.
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Why the WT Society is DOOMED!
by Gill inyesterday morning i was listening to 'thought for the day', on radio 4 bbc.. a rabbi was discussing why the jewish faith had survived for thousands of years.. he pointed out that the centre of the faith was the children.
because the children were put first they wanted to stay in the faith as the faith respected them and so they respected the faith in return.. the problem with the wt society is that it puts itself first and the children are just a nuisance to be sat silent in meetings, disciplined for wriggling, talking, and just being children.
the leaders of the wt despise children and only love themselves, giving only lip service to the care children should receive and more importantly the respect children should receive.. therefore, with offspring of jws leaving the wt at the rate of only 1 in every 8 children remaining, the writing is on the wall of the watchtower society.
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The difference to the Jewish faith is that Jews do not look for adherents from outside, so they have to focus on their offspring. The Watchtower do focus on missionary work and neglect their kids. But I agree that they would be more successful if they more supported they young ones beyond giving written rules. In Switzerland they used to have a suborganization "Jehovah's Youth" but Rutherford put an end to that.