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  Are you a better person now?

  by bluecanary in

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  [endif] i'm curious about how people who have shifted religious beliefs feel about their own morals.

  has the religion you've chosen made you a better person?

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  AlexHall

  I think that the experience have helped me "grow" as a person, but i don´t know if this new path is leading me to salvation or not. It took me some time to organize what I wanna do, and what i need to "relearn" There were so much I used to to without a thought about it. Stuff I now have the controll over myself.

  That makes it easy to make misstakes sometimes, since I no longer fear Gods anger when doing "bad" stuff. But I still have do consider the rules in the society.

  But yes, I believe that Im a better person today, atleast more of me, less of a religious slave
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  what is the one thing that made you want to NEVER go back???

  by NINfan05 in

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  for me it was when my elder dad put brusies on my arm, drug me down the hallway making me hit my head and broke my finger which resulted in surgery...and then he blamed it all on me!!!!

  made me go to the meeting with my cast all druged up on pain killers and tell everyone that asked me what happened that it was an accident.

  f***ing loser!!!!!

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  Knowing that they don´t have the trutht they claim they have. The extreme shunning from family and the hypocrisy of it all
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  Did the elders in your congregation give counsel to those that were DATING? Good or bad counsel?

  by BonaFide in

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  i have heard some doozies.

  some elders forbid the couple from sitting together at the meetings unless they are engaged.

  i have heard that said from the platform.

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  AlexHall

  haha, this brings back memories :) I was 17 when I meet my ex-wife. And in the progress of moving from my old cong. The body of elders in my old cong asked to meet with me and had a long talk about the seriousness about dating. And all I remember was the warm fussy feeling in my body when I got to hold hands with the ex for the first time. So naive and harmless ;)

  After a couple of months my brother talked to me because he had heard rumors about me and the ex kissing in puplic spaces.. haha, that cracked me up :)

  I love the fact that the Jw tries to micromanage everything so that nothing can happen. What they don´t understand is that if you want something to happen, it will, and the elders can´t do anything about it... well well
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  Did You Personally Believe "The End" Was Going To Come In Your Lifetime?

  by minimus in

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  honestly, i never believed in the chronology.

  "no man knows the day or the hour" was pretty clear to me..

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  I belived. For a very long time. When 9/11 came and we all saw the changes that came with it "yes, even people from sweden reacted :)" I thought the end was very close.

  When I got kicked out, I had bad dreams about Armageddon and everytime I heard a loud bang or anything else wierd, I jumped. I still do sometimes
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  2009 Global Peace Index: atheist nations are more peaceful

  by behemot in

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  interesting .... http://mwcnews.net/content/view/31030&itemid=1.

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  Woho! Sweden i top 6. With Norway/denmark and Finland all in top 10. Its good to be scandinavian sometimes :)
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  Haha, I dont think he likes me anymore

  by AlexHall in

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  a couple a weeks ago i wrote a couple of e-mails to my brother.

  i ve posted them here earlier.

  he had answered with that i shouldn t continue sending e-mails to him, because he wouldn t read them anyway.. this ticked me off, and i promised myself i would continue sending them until he reacted.

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  its about how it should be okey to change your religion witouth people shunning you for it. The witnesses show very clearly that they don´t approve of that other org. shun their relatives and close ones. But they fail to see that they do the same thing.

  And in this awake, they show their own hypocrisy
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  Haha, I dont think he likes me anymore

  by AlexHall in

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  a couple a weeks ago i wrote a couple of e-mails to my brother.

  i ve posted them here earlier.

  he had answered with that i shouldn t continue sending e-mails to him, because he wouldn t read them anyway.. this ticked me off, and i promised myself i would continue sending them until he reacted.

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  A couple a weeks ago I wrote a couple of e-mails to my brother. I´ve posted them here earlier. He had answered with that I shouldn´t continue sending e-mails to him, because he wouldn´t read them anyway.

  This ticked me off, and I promised myself I would continue sending them until he reacted. Perhaps not the smartest thing to do, but if he doesn´t respect me, I will not respect him shutting me down.

  When the awake july 2009 came out, we all saw the irony of it, and I thought it would be fun sending that to him, to see what happened. And so I did today. A picture of the article and the qoute with that no man should have to shoose between religion and family.

  A couple of hours later he answered that he will change to a new email-adress and that I could call him if something happens I need help with...

  I don´t know what to do, eccept laugh about it, and feel sorrow for his narrow-minded view
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  Topics for discussion with JWs - part 3: Homosexual animals...

  by Albert Einstein in

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  god hates homosexuality very very much ... right?.

  being wicked homosexual ... you are to be destroyed in armageddon ... right?.

  people were created by god as heterosexual, but some are today homosexual as a result of imperfection - punishment for disobedience of adam a eve..... but why there is so much homosexuality among god created animals?

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  The only answer I´ve ever heard was that God created man to be above animals, and have given us ethical norms to follow. God wants us to be perfect and pure, but animals don´t have that responsibility. Plus that man is allowed immortality, and animals are not
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  Show-down with elder at the kingdom hall

  by Hobo Ken in

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  this is podcast 8 in the death or obedience series.. this was recorded on christmas day 2008.. after our last visit from two local elders my wife felt she could no longer be known as a jehovah's witness and had chosen to disassociate herself in november 2008.. we had been on a family holiday and had returned to find that one of the local elders who had visited us had warned off my mother-in-law from having anything to do with my wife - her daughter.

  he also made false statements about one of my children.. i decided to confront this elder at the kingdom hall.

  this podcast is the recording of our conversation.. notice how he denies making such statements to my mother-in-law and falsely accuses me of teaching her beliefs contrary to jehovah's witnesses.. i ask whether it's a sin to no longer be a jehovah's witness?.

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  Im impressed about the way you explain yourself to him. To keep that calm and logically answering him. Keep up the good work, your doing something good!
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  Would I still be a JW in Europe?

  by Brocephus in

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  so some of the interesting things i have learned from this forum:.

  1. italy jw's have powerful powers to predict earthquakes and other natural disasters.. 2. spain jw's have choir with cool uniforms and preform at assembly halls.. 3. danish jw's drank light beer until very recently at their conventions.. so i pose this question: are european jw's given more slack than american counterparts?

  do you think a european jw would be shocked at the rigidness of american jw's?

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  AlexHall

  Well, you can get away with everything if you don´t tell anyone about it, or you repent ;)

  But honestly, I don´t think that european jw`s are less strict. I always heard that Canadians could to what ever they wanted and still be a Jw. In sweden its frowned upon to get a tatoo, but in Canada, almost everyone seem to have one.