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my first post! (long read sorry in advance)

by Letts Party in

long time lurker, first time poster here finally looking to get some things off my chest.

i've always been a very curious person with tons of questions about everything, and i also care deeply particularly about societal issues like social injustice, racism, and homophobia.

that, coupled with how boneheaded all the elders in my congregation are (except for one), led me to ask even more questions that led me to find ttatt.. .

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I read your whole post and really enjoyed it.

You're obviously very intelligent and articulate.

You are re-joining the human race after WAKING UP to the fact you grew up in a fantastical, utopian CULT inherited from your parents.

The snake of superstition lies at the foot of the babes cradle.

Take it easy on yourself and don't overreact or feel the need to do anything right now. Just keep reading and truth-seeking and soaking it all up like a sponge. Then let istsimmer and percolate in your mind. You're young, evidently; time is on your side. Go West young man!

Trust your own intelligence and critical thinking ability.

Just take it slow.

You're escaping an ILLUSION. Don't let waking up to nothing more than an illusion damage your great marriage.

Don't do anything to provoke anyone not the elders or your wife. Keep loving your wife and being very sensitive to her emotional needs right now. Don't push her buttons too hard ok. You are very fortunate she appears to love you very much and is cutting you some slack on this.

Take it easy, be wise.

Remember, it's a cult illusion. Just humour it. It's better to be happy than right sometimes.

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ISIS war sounds like a money scam

by EndofMysteries in

ok, if you have been reading news reports, they are saying it will take years to defeat isis.

maybe somebody can explain to me how that is so after considering what i've been led to believe are the facts.

1. isis spreads and takes over cities and military camps by hording and overwhelming them.

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Considering all of those facts, if ISIS is alone in any camps currently, bomb them, if they are in cities, the moment they horde and march to another, bomb them.

Christ, you think it's as simple as that? Just 'bomb them' when they are 'alone' amongst innocent civilians and women and children in the camps and cities they are occupying?

What, Iron Man is going to fly down and zap them? Go back to playing your video games.

They have now started bombing them when they are isolated in case you didn't notice.

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December 1,2014 watchtower saying buying house is bad

by hoser in

page 15.

"take for example a christian couple in asia.

in their younger years, they admired those who could afford to own a house.

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Disgusting and irresponsible hypocritical statements by the greedy, money-grabbing global property development empire otherwise known as the Watchtower Society.

Written by mostly childless men in ivory towers at Watchtower headquarters jealous for JW's funds to come to their monstrous religious corporate, not on mortgage payments, who have never lived in the 'world' with a proper job having to support a young family.

A$$holes!

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AD1914.com Coming Soon!!

by ABibleStudent in

i visited the jehovah's witness report website today.

i read the following article:.

on october 1st 2014, barbara anderson will join in and participate in the launch of a new website ad1914.com.

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It is expected that at the 2014 Annual Meeting, usually held the first Saturday in October, will serve Watchtower leaders well to cover-up all the 100-years of prophetic nonsense. Rumor has it they are going to celebrate their 100-years of announcing the kingdom in an adroit way by featuring a move of "GREAT" significance to do with the expansion of the Governing Body to an "apostolic" 12 or some other fantasy idea.

Very interesting rumour.

If they did announce at the AGM a bunch of new GB members suddenly increasing the group to 12 members, it would appear to be in direct imitation of the Mormons. The LDS' have a "Quorum of the Twelve Apostles" as their "second highest governing body" according to the official LDS website.

If the rumour is true I can't help but wonder if the new members might include some members of the 'other sheep'?? Now that would be radical, and carry on the theme of 2012's AGM when they announced 'new light' TM that the 'other sheep' are also part of the 'domestics'. So why shouldn't members of the 'other sheep' be included on the GB?

By the way, if you think the JW's governing body are old check out the ages of the Mormon's quorum of 12 apostles.

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THEY'VE DONE IT!!!! The WBTS set a new date!

by dmouse in

the latest watchtower, dec 15th 2003, is an out and out attack on the rank and file for dropping into a drowsy state spiritually.

ok, so armageddon didn't come before the generation of 1914 grew old and died.

but does that mean that the big a isn't near?

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Now that we are nearly past the 100 year anniversary of Christ's invisible reign over nothing, does anyone think this 1914 + 120 years = 2034 hint might get another airing by the Watchtower Society soon to try and keep a 'sense of urgency' going post-2014?

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AD1914.com Coming Soon!!

by ABibleStudent in

i visited the jehovah's witness report website today.

i read the following article:.

on october 1st 2014, barbara anderson will join in and participate in the launch of a new website ad1914.com.

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Should be a great website, look forward to seeing it. Well done to all involved.

Words like 'soon' and 'generation' have been rendered meaningless in the religion that time forgot.

http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/beliefs/53930/1/What-does-SOON-mean-to-a-JW

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How to modify profile

by itisme in

jw
friends

does anyone know how to modify my profile here?.

i see my picture appears, which is my picture from gravatar.

i do not want to remove my gravatar picture because i am registered on some sites where i want to have my picture, so i imagine if i would change my e-mail adress, that would delete my pic, but where can i modify my profile?

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That's pretty awful your photo is showing when you didn't intend that.

There are a lot of people wanting to modify their profile and it's rather infuriating that it appears Simon can't or won't do anything to fix this.

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JW.org statistics and the decline in first world countries.

by OneEyedJoe in

cross posting from another thread.

it seems that i might not be the only nerd here that's interested in statistics like this so maybe it deserves it's own topic.. so i was playing around with google.com/trends with some jw related search terms.

i found the results a bit surprising, and certainly interesting, so i figured i'd share.. first off, the link to what i tried.. one of the most surprising things that stood out was the regional interest.

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That's roughly 1 for every 6 people in the US. if only a tiny fraction of those googled jw.org, there would've been a HUGE spike in august. There was a tiny spike, but it was barely more than the spike caused by the AGM and release of the new bible, and less than the spike at the beginning of 2013. Both of those spikes were probably caused almost exclusively by JWs themselves, so it stands to reason that the august numbers probably included effectively zero interested non-believers.

Excellent! There's going to be some banging of canes on the GB boardroom table over this.

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A few questions for believers

by keyser soze in

jw
friends

when confronted with all of the inconsistencies and atrocities of the bible, many believers invariably claim that they don't base their faith in christ on what's written in the bible.

so what is the basis then, if not scripture?.

and please don't tell me "the lord has revealed himself to me".

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Essentially we are under condemnation from the womb. If you think we have a right to life, then MUCH of what God has done will appear wrong.

Too silly for words.

As for the CARM apologist site Perry posted a link to: the few paragraphs devoted to Divine Command Theory, one of the biggest philosophical obstacles to honest belief in the Bible, are pathetic, like something written by a 14 year old.

An antidote: http://www.christianitydisproved.com/bible/robert-g-ingersoll-on-the-bible.html

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Did Jesus Christ Have A Messianic Superiority Complex?

by frankiespeakin in

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/messiah_complex.

a messiah complex (also known as the christ complex or savior complex ) is a state of mind in which an individual holds a belief that they are, or are destined to become, a savior .

the term "messiah complex" is not addressed in the diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (dsm) , but symptoms of the disorder closely resemble those found in individuals suffering from grandiose delusions (gd) or delusions of grandeur.

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Whatever the truth is of what Christ really was or thought he was, the hearsay accounts of him, written decades after his death, are so inherently fraught and so far back in the ancient past they cannot be held as reliable, historically trustworthy documents by any rational, enlightened person.