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  Service Meeting says "Leave Everything"

  by Billy the Ex-Bethelite in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  this has probably been addressed, but i'm in a rush and wanted to get this out asap while it's fresh and before i have to run off again.

  and i don't have the km with me to note the exact instructions and passages discussed, anyway.... last week in the service meeting, there was an unusual part that i wish i would have been prepared for.

  the only material was to read a couple passages from luke and discuss how they affect our attitude toward our ministry.

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  Taking back re-defined words

  by onefootout in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i was trying to think of all the words that wts re-defines to mold the thinking of anyone who will listen.. truth, or the truth.. i am going to try to use the word 'truth' in conversation in it's proper context, describing things that are actual truisms to try to get people to view the word not as describing the religion they belong to, but to things that are actually true.

  emphasize that actual truisms never change.. generation.. this one takes some sublty because it has been latched onto by us doubters and could raise the forcefields.

  example: so many of the people our parents or grandparents age of the 'greatest generation' that experienced ww2 have died.

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  More on Saturday's drama: Endo-symbiotic theory mentioned not once but twice

  by sir82 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i don't want to give a full synopsis of saturday's drama, for fear of inducing stupor among this thread's readers, but.... .

  the drama deals with a jw family with 3 kids, 2 of whom are in various stages of rebellion against all things jw.. the older brother is one of the "rebels", while the younger brother is a thoroughly annoying piece of brown-nosing crapola, completely buying into the jw mindset.. anyways, the younger brother is asking the older brother about why he doesn't want to attend the family study any more.. the older kid's rambling answer touches on something along the lines of "i'm learning things in school about how life really came here.

  it's not as simple as you think!".

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  Hi, Newbie Here

  by Iseenow in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  well i have been lurking for the past couple of weeks and have finally decided to create an account.

  just wanted to introduce myself and relate my life story in the borg, specifically from the past few weeks- which i think has been a lot easier than many on the board.

  anyway, my mum began to study when i was 10 (2005) and since then has been babtized; she strongly believes it is the truth.

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  Becoming of the anointed & seeing the light

  by discreetslave in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i was recently born again and thus am anointed because of this i have come to realize that though there are sincere people who are jw, some teachings are fine but the wt organization is a fraud.

  here is my story sorry if it's a bit long but i need to tell it.. 16 years ago today i was baptized as one of jw's.

  i was 17 years old the only one in my family.

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  Numbers exiting

  by onefootout in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  does anyone have a running tally of the average numbers leaving/inactive each year?

  if i calculate right, 2009 saw 59,269 leave and then 2010 saw 115,857 leave.

  if i am looking at this right, that is a huge jump.

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  They May Have Hit The Bottom Of Dumb

  by metatron in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the new brochure, learn from god and live forever", is a new low for the watchtower society in descending into illiteracy and ignorance.

  it dips lower than the old "enjoy life" brochure.

  it is hard for me to imagine what the thinking behind this work is, when the intended reading level is so profoundly abysmal.

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  Why not leave?

  by ifonly789 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i've noticed on my brief time on these forums that there seems to be quite a few that have serious doubts about the org or know of all the lies etc of it but still go to meetings or even still serve as a ms or elder.. i'm just curious as to why you still bother going?

  no offense meant here...i'm not being all judgemental like typical jws but am curious.

  i'm guessing a lot of it is down to not wanting to break up the family or losing relatives etc.

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  Strategizing against the WTBTS

  by Essan in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  could we be doing more brothers and sisters?

  i'm sure i'm not alone in wishing that there was more we could do to hasten the demise of the wtbts and to speed up the exodus of it's members.

  and i'm sure i'm not alone in thinking of possible ways to do this.. one which i have been considering lately is to make use of the fact that many who leave the organization actually leave the area, move away, and start a new life.

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  "Offer for July" - what should i do???

  by Lied2NoMore in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i have the service mtg part tonight..."the offer for july" which is the "was life created" brochure which has the flawed .

  statement about a large sized spiderweb stopping a jumbo jet mid-flight.

  the society has offered a retraction of the .

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