The longer I was in the cult, the more unhappy marriages I knew the details of. Since I was already unhappy as a single guy, I didn't see marriage as something that would improve my life.
Billy the Ex-Bethelite
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Why JW marriage is a huge problem for the organization.
by kneehighmiah inthe difficulty of finding a marriage mate is well known for sisters.
but i would say it's hard for brothers also.
i was talking to a jw last night.
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Today's wt "study" obfuscations
by prologos inparagraph 9 : " jesus blood validates the new covenant -- makes posiible the forgiveness sins for all time#.-- [and]--.
god could apply the value of jesus' shed blood to adams descendants--*.
--he could** also adopt certain --humans "as sons"--".
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Billy the Ex-Bethelite
"Baffle them with bullsh!t." That seems to be that Watchtower way.
After all, this is the cult that brought you the "overlapping-generations" generation.
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The Watchtower explains the sheep and the goats
by runForever inthe march 2015 study watchtower finally solves the mystery of the sheep and the goats:.
" first, note that jesus is teaching bymeans of an illustration.
obviously, he isnot talking about separating literal sheepfrom literal goats.".
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Billy the Ex-Bethelite
So if he wasn't really talking about literal sheep and goats, what was he talking about?
"Obviously, he was talking about separating people: separating the tight-pants wearing people who will be destroyed, from the good people who worship me, ToMo3!"
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One thing that's good about being a witnessi
by dothemath ini went to the mall recently .....omg!
glad i don't have to go through all the craziness over christmas shopping..
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Billy the Ex-Bethelite
I'm not much of a shopper, but now that I'm making money, shopping isn't so bad. Some places and stores are worse than others. I like the lights, the food, the booze, the festivities, and some of the music. And speaking of music, here's a holiday classic...
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Caleb talks to his mother about the new system.
by LogCon inmom: yes?.
you dont want to make jehovah sad, do you mom?.
mom: okay.. .
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Billy the Ex-Bethelite
Love it!
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Arguably the best debunker on YouTube
by Terry inthis fellow's channel is called watchtower examination.. he is clear, reasonable, thoughtful--but best of all--his teaching method with visuals is perfection!.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukcep7v1i1o.
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Billy the Ex-Bethelite
Much better than anything to be found on JW.org
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Here we go again. The next hate letter from our 2nd Son.
by Still Totally ADD inyes it happen again with our youngest son.
this last monday we got a letter from him telling us how unloving we are because we are no longer jw.
cult and not had kids.
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Billy the Ex-Bethelite
Don't you just feel the holiday cheer from Watchtowerland?
Such a bounty of misery and disappointment in the lives of the sheeple, but they can't face the fact that it's WT and the GB that are making their lives horrible. So instead, they have to find someone to blame, like family members who have woken up and left.
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Advice Needed...Again
by wallievase incurrent update- the wife and i are separated.
i dont go to the meetings or in service but im not df, or da.
she is not budging.. problem- my wife has made it clear that she doesnt want me back unless i do all the witness stuff, i have even offered to attend meetings but not participate in commenting or go in service and this is not good enough.
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Billy the Ex-Bethelite
Bottom line is, despite the fact that WT claims to not break up families and they tell women to be obedient (remember Selma who was expected to take a beating from her unbelieving husband), the cult mentality is to abandon and persecute someone that questions or leaves.
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does the wt always carefully phrase sentences so as to never take blame?
by sowhatnow inim recalling a time when i sat and circled words in a watchtower article, indicating strongly the fact that it is in fact the writters opinion.. however just the suggestion in the sentence these words are ignored.. for example.
it is our understanding.
we believe this to be the case.
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Billy the Ex-Bethelite
Everything in the WT litteratrash is carefully worded. It's in the talks where elders, COs, DOs, and the GB have really put the lies out there. And that's why they don't want "the friends" to record the talks.
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The Faithful Slave - An Obvious Question I Haven't Heard Asked
by berrygerry insince the big 7 have appropriated this "blessed" title for themselves, and disavowed the existence of this slave prior to 1919, an obvious question comes up.. was it not the apostate maria russell that proffered that ctr was "the slave," and was the coiner of the term "the faithful slave"?.
if the slave did not come into existence until 1919, then how was it possible that prior to 1919 that anyone knew that it existed, or would have been able to foretell that it would come into existence?.
was maria a prophetic apostate?.
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Billy the Ex-Bethelite
"If the slave did not come into existence until 1919, then how was it possible that prior to 1919 that anyone knew that it existed, or would have been able to foretell that it would come into existence?"
These were "running ahead" of Hojovah's celestial chariot. Kind of like the millions of Christians that expected armageddon in earlier centuries. How foolish of them to recognize that such Bible prophecies couldn't be fulfilled until after CT Russell used pyramid inches to analyze the Great Pyramid of Giza and establish 1914 as the year of armageddon... later postponed.
"Was Maria a prophetic apostate?"
Unless you have a quote where she talks about gays designing tight pants, she wasn't a prophet.
