Posts by jookbeard

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After leaving the JWs - Has anyone stayed with Christianity?

by rulehayl in

i recently made the decision to stop studying with my study conductor, due to a situation i found myself in that led to a high possibility of my unbaptized publisher "rights" being taken away from me.

i have since told my study conductor i have joined a new church (to which she dropped me like a hot rock, of course).... last time i posted on here, i was progressing nicely towards baptism, and was well into it.anyhoo, i like my new church, very hillsong-esqe.

so just wondering if anyone else has stayed the course of christianity after leaving the jws, and if so - where did you go?

jookbeard

have a little nose around the evangelical Christianity scene after leaving the Borg, not for me, atheist all the way now.

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Elder to visit me this Saturday to invite for the memorial

by EverApostate in

just a brief history of me.

me and my wife got baptized into the jw cult in 1997. we were both protestants before and in fact it was me who dragged her into the cult.

during 2009, another jw friend of mine raised suspicions about his research on the blood and 607 bc theories.

jookbeard

I'd start with the huge child abuse epidemic, mention Silentlambs, ongoing court cases and the huge list of convictions, the rest you mention is important also, give them as much info as you possibly can.

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Help Elders poking nose in

by Formerbrother in

jw
friends

what can i do when elders want to poke their nose in?.

they want to have another chat with me and my wife, but we dont want to, it just gets us down..

jookbeard

its very easy to make your point and demand these pests stop contacting you, very easy indeed from politely requesting that they do not contact you to threatening legal action if they do, be more pro-active.

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Life update

by campaign of hate in

jw
friends

i haven’t been on the forum for a few years, took a major break to sort my life / head out.. a lot happens in a few years!

is there any meet ups planned in the uk?.

hope everyone is doing well and look forward to getting stuck in..

jookbeard

Terri O'Sullivan on FB plans exjw meet ups in London usually twice a year , one in the summer and one at Christmas, XJW Friends UK.

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Quick and vague Memorial invitations

by RULES & REGULATIONS in

this morning my doorbell rang.

i opened the door thinking it was a package delivery person or local politicians thanking my community for voting in yesterday's election.

there was a middle aged man standing by himself.

jookbeard

never let them leave without an antiwitness, they've called unannounced, inconvenienced you, give them back some of their own medicine

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The utter absurdity of the "universal sovereignty issue", chapter 4,786

by sir82 in

so on the jw broadcast channel, there is a new 4 minute video entitled "why does god permit suffering".

i won't give them free advertising by linking to it, but you'll find it under the "latest videos" section.. it looks like it will be something that will eventually be used in field serve-us as a video to show householders.. anyway, it gives the illustration of the teacher and a "rebellious student" who says he has a "better way to solve the problem".

the infinitely wise teacher allows him to try, he fails, and the teacher is "vindicated".. other posts on this site demonstrate how inane the illustration really is - it breaks down nearly effortlessly.. anyway, the video goes on to explain that god allowed "rebellious humans" to continue on because (more or less direct quote) "millions of angels were observing.

jookbeard

its never made any sense, since the original sin and the ransom, how and why can a called loving god wallow in such a sickening voyeuristic position and watch such unspeakable suffering for 1000's of years disgusts and sickens me all because of a dick waving competition with his adversary, what an evil,perverted,bloodthirsty piece of work, not one single theist has ever satisfactorily explained to me the reason why.

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How soon is soon?

by Sour Grapes in

i guess if the jdubs have no clue how long a generation is they also wouldn't know how long a time period the word "soon" refers too.. 60 years ago my mother would hammer into my brain how soon the great tribulation was.

soon jehovah would destroy the wicked.

then a few years later there was no need to go to college because the end was so soon.

jookbeard

I had the same rhetoric at the cart in my town centre this week with the two ladies that work it, I've become quite good friends with them so all conversation is extremely light hearted, I told them and all the other doomsday groups have been saying the same thing for many many decades!

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My take upon reading CoC for the 1st time

by nowwhat? in

wow!

the gb.

1.0 demanded absolute loyalty back then too.

jookbeard

the original GB were clearly worse, there were too many of them and they had the evil Jaracz ruling all those years, although I dont see many changes with this new group

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