I had various resons so ticked the "other reasons" box, the main gripe for me were the countless failed prophecies and the destruction of billions at the GT ,
jookbeard
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Why did you leave the Jehovah's Witness faith?
by God_Delusion inhi guys & gals!.
i've put together a poll on jwb that asks the simple question - why did you leave the jehovah's witnesses?.
i would really appreciate it if you could take part.
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jookbeard
wow , massive roll call of ex elders posting here, and just think of the hundreds that faded away from this forum since its inception , I was close to becoming an MS than found out TTATT, the BOE in our cong liked to fast track brothers who were "reaching out" it came at the right time for me.
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Does anyone in the UK recall the JW story/urban myth
by jambon1 inabout a member of slade becoming a jw in later life & refusing the royalties from their famous christmas song?.
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jookbeard
jamon1 would that have been Kenny Sansom, Tony Adams or Paul Merson?
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Does anyone in the UK recall the JW story/urban myth
by jambon1 inabout a member of slade becoming a jw in later life & refusing the royalties from their famous christmas song?.
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jookbeard
Tambling moved to Ireland some years back to manage and stayed IIRC.
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Does anyone in the UK recall the JW story/urban myth
by jambon1 inabout a member of slade becoming a jw in later life & refusing the royalties from their famous christmas song?.
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jookbeard
the chairman of my JC (decent man, CO now) Jeff Woodfield was in his cong Brownhills ? Woverhampton area, he was interviewed on the local TV about why he was a JW this was just before 1975, and he said if the GT didnt come by 1975 he would rip his bible up, he was given a firm talking to and he admitted he "put his foot in it" I think he was in the same cong as Peter Knowles who I met at Woodfields wedding in the late 80's. Dont believe Dave Hill has been involved with the WTS for some years and still happily performs the Slade Xmas song.
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A DOUBLE LIFE - What's the worst case you've seen
by sizemik inlots of jw's lead a double life.
many are young people that simply go through the motions until they can free themselves .
others have relatives or family still trapped .
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jookbeard
we had a brother move into our cong , middle aged worked as a carpenter and was an excellent tradesman, charismatic, very good speaker , hand up all the time, and had a real heart felt way about the way he spoke and answered, speaking to my elder father he came from a cong about 30 miles away and had moved into out territory, as the months passed he ended up working on various homes in the cong as he did in our place , (fitted warbrobes etc) after a while my father explained to me that he was a recovering alcoholic but hadn't touched a drop for years, after a while he was remade up to an elder, my wordly neighbour popped into my place one day and was very impressed with the quality of the carpentry work this brother had done and asked him to do a few jobs in his place in which he he obliged, so after a couple of weeks I ended up having a beer with my pal and he told me that he was very pleased with the work **** had been doing on his place and that they had gone out for a few beers! I said that I was under the impression he was a recovering alcoholic, my pal told me no chance of that not only did drink large amounts he was also seen in the local store buying bottles of whskey! I was well out of the WT by then and if I'd had told any of the elders that Brother **** had fallen off the wagon I would have been classed as a disruptive gossip !
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dannalight - newbie wants to say hi
by besty insay hi to dannalight here.... she made a post http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/46/12/welcome#4909211 but it made more sense to make a new topic for her....
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jookbeard
Hallo and welcome
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Crazy JW urban legend
by Simon ina sure guarantee that this was bogus (really, any reasoning is required at all?
) was that it did the rounds applied to john denver, annie lennox and others.. basically, they relied on satan (oh yes) for their musical ability (i knew it) and any jws in the audience would be asked to leave because ... (drum roll) ... they blocked the signal to satan so couldn't perform with them present!.
anyone else remember that gem?.
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jookbeard
I had it on a very reliable authority that when The Jesus and Mary Chain played a concert in London they asked all JW's in the audience to leave as they summon spirits during their gigs.
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1973 "Divine Victory" International Assemblies
by Bungi Bill inhow many here attended the "divine victory" international assembly that was held 12- 16 december in christchurch, new zealand?.
the venue was lancaster park.
if the truth be known, that stadium was probably a casualty of the february 2011 earthquake?.
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jookbeard
I was there with Canleave , I was 7 as well and remember it, pissed down !
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Letter I wrote to the person the caused me to be disfellowshipped
by jwfacts ina thread on another forum reminded me of a letter i wrote to the person that went to the elders and started the proceedings to have me disfellowshipped.
i stopped believing in the religion when i was 25 but continued going for about ten years.
i finally started to fade at 35, but about 6 months after i had stopped going to meetings, a person wrote a letter to the elders about my website, which at the time was anonymous.
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jookbeard
the treacherous little snitch simply does not know what an empire he opened!