Posts by QuestioningEverything

since being out mentally and missing meetings my children mention people from the hall and i cant help but feel bad that they are missing the association.

my daughters are 4 and 2 and we live in a small town with not a whole lot to do.

what activities did you do with your kids?

QuestioningEverything

Are there any youth/toddler athletic activities or dance classes in your area? I know a lot of those places start out at very young ages. And kudos to you for upping your 'dad' game!

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Didnt I tell you that there is something wrong with this organization?

by exWTslave in

thats how my grand mother responded when all of our family members came out of jw organization, either by disassociation or by disfellowshipping.. when we all started studying with jws, my grandmother too was there, but she stopped the study when the discussion over the dead happened.

she told the study conductor: i am convinced that there is only life, but no death.

because when my husband died of heart attack, i was not shaken by the incident.

QuestioningEverything

OMG really?!! evil spirits? PEOPLE STILL BELIEVE THAT CRAP? It's always some old woman from some far off country that remembers

some incident from childhood. I'm a middle aged man...was a jw for decades and have never heard of anyone of a right mind having

any experiences with evil spirits. I have heard 100's of stories of old times and demon activity but absolutely no one that personally saw anything..GROW

UP

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Hello, I am new

by LillyC in

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i am not a jehovah's witness but i am very interested, i have many questions and hope they can be answered here.. i do believe in god, privately.

i do say my prayers daily and do believe god helps me in countless ways.

but i don't go to any church.. i have always been impressed at how smart, polite and nice jehovah's witnesses are and i always make time to speak to them when they call at my door.

QuestioningEverything

welcome and I'm so glad you researched here first. I have but three words for you....don't do it!!!

My expert opinion {based on 20+ years} is that they are nothing but a cult. I spent my formative years completely engulfed by

this organazation. I have spent my entire adult life in therapy trying to lesson the anxiety and stress that comes from living every day

expecting the end of the world to come. My mother said that my brother and sister would never graduate from highschool {college is looked down on}.

That was in 1975! I graduated 10 years later...two of my sons have now graduated and going to COLLEGE...oh and my brother died, needing a blood

transfusion, which is forbidden by jw's. Your life will change completely, in ways you couldn"t now imagine. The list of jw no no's is so arbitrary and silly

I can't list them all...but I hope you don't like lucky charms cereal or girl scout cookies...cause you won't be allowed to purchase them. Anyways welcome

and good luck!! Oh yeah jw's can't use the phrase good luck either!!!!!!!!!!

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Lies taught by the GB about ....Life, Worldy people & apostates

by williamhconley in

the governing body not only lies to it's members about their true history but also about life itself, worldly people and former members.. here are some of those lies that come to my mind.. .

"jw's are the happiest people on earth" -.

fact: depression, anxiety, fear of punishment, paranoia, is what jw's live with every day.

QuestioningEverything

great post!!! I was raised a witness and even in my mid 40's I still suffer from depression and anxiety. Now that i've been away from them awhile...whenever I see a witness, I can see the sadness in some of their faces. It's so sad!!

Does anyone know of data on this issue? Depression amongst jw's?

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What happened to the "Armageddon hasn't arrived" post?

by QuestioningEverything in

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just wondering, i enjoyed checking it out from time to time.

and i apologize in advance if it is still on here.

it wouldn't come up in my search.

QuestioningEverything

Glad to see I wasn't the only one unable to find it. If any of the mods can explain what happened to it, that would be great. That is, as long as it's not top secret or confidential.

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What happened to the "Armageddon hasn't arrived" post?

by QuestioningEverything in

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just wondering, i enjoyed checking it out from time to time.

and i apologize in advance if it is still on here.

it wouldn't come up in my search.

QuestioningEverything

Just wondering, I enjoyed checking it out from time to time. And i apologize in advance if it is still on here. It wouldn't come up in my Search.

Happy Friday everyone!

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Any active jws, without using the phrase "God must have..." Can you prove that Noah's ark actually happened

by DuvanMuvan in

i have a number of problems with the noah's ark story that i could never find the answer to in the bible and so i thought i could ask here:.

1.how did noah get animals that are indigenous to areas he could not get to (e,g penguins, koalas, kangaroos, moose etc) .

2.the flood supposedly happened around 4000 years ago but there is evidence of civilisation dating back a lot further.

QuestioningEverything

The best...worst thing about the mighty flood is that it didn't even accomplish anything. For all that effort and murder...what did we get?

The really bad people ie..the angels that assumed earthly bodies all escaped LOL??? and how good was Noah's kids they tried to rape him the second they got off the boat