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  Accidental Instantaneous Sex

  by rebel8 in

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  2. friends

  the litter-ature over the years has teachings that imply jehovah's special people are all on the verge of having unplanned sex on a moment's notice, with anyone, at any time.. you must have a chaperone if you are to be alone with someone of the opposite sex, even briefly.. this applies to people of any ages.

  you could be a 99-year-old raisin whose flagpole hasn't risen since rutherford was living in beth sarim, but you still shouldn't be alone with a pimply 16-year-old shy obese virgin who still plays with barbie dolls.

  she's a seductress!

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  Baptism valid or not?

  by RaraAvis in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i am curious to those of you who were baptised as jws and who have left the organization, but still consider yourselves christians, do you consider your baptism valid?

  how many of you out there felt the need to be rebaptised?.

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  Question for Any current Elders or recently departed elders

  by geevee in

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  2. beliefs

  i have been asked about a situation in which a former witnesses ladies now ex-husband has been caught exposing himself, and this has gone on for at least 15 years.

  he has also exposed himself to some close family members.

  the question relates to the wt explaination of "porniea".

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  So my undercover "exposing the lies" is still working

  by BonaFide in

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  2. beliefs

  yesterday in the car group in service, 5 of us in one suv.

  so someone says that on friday, a worldly family member of their bible study had died of a drug overdose.

  then he said, "well, that the protection that we have being in jehovah's organization.".

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  Why is Jesus kept side stage ?

  by iknowall558 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  john 5 :39 ' 40 "you study the scriptures, because you think that in them you will find eternal life.

  and these very scriptures speak about me!

  yet you are not willing to come to me in order to have life.

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  So what happened in 1995?

  by RaraAvis in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i keep reading about new light or some big change in 1995. i left in 92, so what is everyone referring to?.

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  My mom- and Hi! I am new here.

  by RaraAvis in

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  2. friends

  i have been reading this site for a while now but have never posted.

  i am an ex-pioneer, who left the organization 15 years ago.

  i served as a need-greater in a foreign country and when i came back i walked away.

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  Why do they never invite you for a meal but always encourage you to attend meetings?

  by truthseeker in

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  2. friends

  today, an elder in my hall phoned and left a message saying he would stop by with a memorial invitation.. this elder has never bothered to encourage me in the past when i was missing meetings, yet suddenly he remembers me in the run up to the memorial.. i got to thinking about this - a few in our congregation called us when they found out we were inactive, encouraging us to go back to meetings.

  or they would say, "it's the co visit next week, you have to come listen to his talk.".

  i would give these "genuine ones" their due - they made an effort - but, when i think about it what effort have they actually made?.

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  How Long Have you Been Out of the Witnesses ? Have you Moved On ?

  by flipper in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i have been out over 5 years now.

  i feel we all start healing at different speeds depending on how much hurt we went through in exiting ; and how much we've educated ourselves about how and why we were sucked in by a mind control cult.

  at first i felt anger towards the organization , but after learning about mind control within 3 years of leaving the cult i felt sorry for those who are still trapped inside the witnesses being deceived.

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  Emotional Blackmail and ex-JWs

  by Lady Lee in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  based on a discussion last night and a request to write something about it i went hunting through some old posts and found this one.

  emotional blackmail and jws.

  we were discussing whether it is emotional abuse when the elders visit us after we have left and wind up being nasty or try to pressure us to go back.. so i was thinking - what are some of their tactics and would they fit into this category?.

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