Posts by Magwitch

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Ran into some JW's.......but this time I did the teaching ;) x

by snare&racket in

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so i went out today with my broken leg and got accosted by an old lady, with some magazines.. it was my first ever encounter with a jw in ten years, and i had said 'i know you are jw's, i'm not interested thank you.

" twice.....then she started talking about my broken leg and how wonderful we are made and how amazing the healing process is.... and that's when it all started...."i used to be a bethelite pioneer, now i'm an atheist doctor...".

she was with me a good 30 mins, her elder husband left very annoyed but she stayed, and she was dying to hear everything i spurted out, despite aggressively defending every point, from military engines to paedophilia.

Magwitch

Loved reading this! Thank you so much snare&racket.

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A Renewed Friendship After 10 Years

by confuzzlediam in

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friends

a little background first....i have been dating my boyfriend for a year.

both of us are disfellowshipped.

we attended the same congregation 7+ years ago when we were both married.

Magwitch

So nice to read this post. Thank you so much for sharing. I am so happy for you.

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Looking Back In Retrospect To 1975...

by titch in

greetings, folks: so, it's been 40 years since 1975. and, if you were actively involved with the witnesses back then, the mindset of many was, that by early autumn of 1975, it would mark the anniversary of 6000 years of human existence.

and, the hope was then, that it would mark the start of the 1000-year of christ, from the heavenly realm.

but, looking back now, 40 years ago, in june of 1975, only 3 more months remained until early autumn.

Magwitch

I was 10 and terrified of what was about to happen. My parents, who lived through terrible religious abuse during WW2, prepared us kids for some very horrible days ahead. We were about to be beaten, starved and put in camps similar to Nazi Germany. We were going to be separated from everyone we loved and my mother told me that most likely we would have to eat my beautiful Persian cat Niki.

But, I am happy to report Niki lived to the ripe age of 18, passing away in 1978 and we never had to eat her to survive the Great Tribulation of 1975!!!!!!

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How do you manage to keep JW friendships after you left the organization?

by Bonsai in

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it seems incredibly difficult.

those who leave the org.

(or fade) no longer have anything in common with jehovah's witnesses, nor do they want to stick around to get radiated by the fear and guilt that saturates every aspect of a witnesses' life.. i've lost all but one of my jw friends quite simply because i can no longer condone the evil things that they condone.

Magwitch

How do you manage to keep JW friendships after you left the organization

Why would you want to keep their friendship? I judge friendship by two things.....How interesting you are and how much interest you show in others. My interests this week include Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump, the new strain of weed and the confederate flag. I cannot think of one witness that could show interest or be interesting on any of those subjects and in return I cannot show interest or be interesting regarding anything they want to talk about. It is a lose-lose situation.

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Irreligious- Bill Maher

by purrpurr in

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friends

i just watched this film on netflix.

if you haven't seen it its worth watching just for the ways he demolishes the religious advocates he interviews.. the most worrying things i saw in it were the us senator who says that having a high iq isn't a criteria for being senator and also all the muslims he interviews who despite claiming to have read the quran also claim that islam is a religion of peace..

Magwitch

Bill Maher is brilliant! The movie is fabulous, but his live show on Friday nights is such a treat week after week. He does stand up in my town on the 18th of July if anyone wants to join me.

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MASTER'S THESIS on Charles Taze Russell's sources and ideas

by TerryWalstrom in

http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a226955.pdf.

click on the above link and have a most enjoyable read!.

below, the opening paragraph.

Magwitch

This looks like a great read for a Friday night!!

Thank you Terry!

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New Watchtower-- the End is coming in our lifetime again now??

by FusionTheism in

they just posted the simplified august study watchtower on jw.org.. paragraph 11 of the "expectation!

" article says this:.

"so even if we feel that we have been waiting a long time, this does not mean that the end is far away or that it is not coming in our lifetime.".

Magwitch

FT: "So even if we feel that we have been waiting a long time, this does not mean that the end is far away or that it is not coming in our lifetime."

Yep, I'm confident that they have it right this time for sure.

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Does What We Say Here Or In Person Really Help JWs To Get Out Of The Religion?

by minimus in

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friends

if we are in the congregation, do you think our comments or questions actually reach elders or others in the congregation?

do our comments on this board affect witnesses to the point of questioning their faith?

Magwitch

Yes, my faithful father related to me Monday that one of his very progressive bible studies looked at an "apostate sight on the Internet" and quit studying after reading about the pedophiles within the org. My mother gasped at the horror of such a lie and my father looked so sad at his loss. I looked at a dirty spot on the rug for what seemed like forever, until I knew it was safe to look up and change the subject.

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