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  I got to apologize to a former Bible study

  by JerkhovahsWitless in

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  i spoke to someone who was my best friend almost 10 years ago when we were still kids (late teens and early 20s).

  he wasn't a jw, but unfortunately got interested in it due to me.

  i studied with him for a while and tried my hardest to pull him into the cult.

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  I spoke to someone who was my best friend almost 10 years ago when we were still kids (late teens and early 20s). He wasn't a JW, but unfortunately got interested in it due to me. I studied with him for a while and tried my hardest to pull him into the cult. In the end, after becoming an unbaptized publisher, he didn't stick around in the JWs, shunned me and my pleas to talk with him about what was going on, (I think that's a great thing to do to JWs, lol). Actually, I never really did find out exactly why he left the cult.

  A few years went by and we did start talking online. He contacted me first and apologized for the way he treated me. He didn't really talk about JWs, which was good because I was still kind of in mentally and had hope for him to come back. Then after a while, we didn't talk much online. No real reason, probably just got busy with life.

  So, since I've become complete apostate , I've been meaning to get in touch with him and apologize for trying to recruit him into a cult. Well, tonight I finally got to do it over the phone. I really wanted to face to face, but I wasn't sure if that'd happen, so I took my opportunity. It felt really good to get that off of my chest, but I still feel guilty over all the hell he went through with his "opposing family," (smart family that knew a cult when they saw one) and his struggle to overcome his "sins," which lead to all kinds of mental and emotional stress. He didn't hold a grudge against me and said he knew I was trying to recruit him because I cared about him.

  Anyway, I'm glad I got to tell him and now he knows that I know Jehovah's Witnesses are a cult. But, I still feel really bad for all the pain he went through from me trying to bring him in.
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  Question Regarding Steven Hassan Books

  by lepermessiah in

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  i just ordered "combating mind control" from an online book seller, but i am having a difficult time finding "releasing the bonds".. i have found it on a few sites, but it is usually going for $40 or more.

  (i assume it is now out of print?).

  is it worth paying extra for "releasing the bonds" or is most of the material from "combating mind control" enough?.

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  JerkhovahsWitless

  I've read Combatting Cult Mind Control, but not Releasing the Bonds. I had the same problem with not being able to find it for a resonable price.

  I ended up finding it at the store leavingwt suggested, which is a great price.

  I ordered it Saturday night and got an e-mail earlier that its being shipped out today.
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  Assembly/Convention Rules

  by IMHO in

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  just been reading the resurrected topic "remember when assemblies were fun".. bought back some good memories particularly regarding the 'holiday camps'.. i was going to add this but decided it warranted it's own topic.. the 'good times' have been replaced by incessant rules.

  here is a selection from the last circuit assembly i attended.

  please feel free to add to the list.. .

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  No one had the no gum chewing rule? At the two WT$ owned cultvention centers I've been to since I was born, they ALWAYS annouce a couple of times a day that "There's to be no gum chewing inside the assembly hell"

  That's my favorite time to pull out my gum, slowly unwrap a piece and chew it like I'm having an orgasm.
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  Out of Left Field...Strange things you were told by elders

  by FollowerOfSet in

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  just curious if the crazy was limited to my town or not.. i remember and elder, during a talk about everyone being resurrected that it included all the babies that had miscarried or were aborted, because the big j knew what their hearts were.

  after the meeting, he was telling a couple of us how it also disturbed him that his wife would have to carry someone elses babies and he would be raising someone elses children.. another elder said that we would colonize other planets, and that since the bible never said the big j didn't make other inhabited worlds that there was a whole universe of planets to colonize after armageddon.. anyone else hear crazy crap like this?.

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  everyone being resurrected that it included all the babies that had miscarried or were aborted

  Another elder said that we would colonize other planets, and that since the bible never said the big j didn't make other inhabited worlds that there was a whole universe of planets to colonize after armageddon.

  Yes! I've had the same load of crap told to me, too
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  Shared Child Abuse News with JW about Nancy Garrido being a JW

  by flipper in

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  2. child-abuse

  went to the post office the other day and saw this older jw , an elder, was outside holding the wall up leaning on it while being frozen standing there like a mannequin holding watchtowers and awakes .

  i had one of my news releases from a sociologist explaining that phillip garrido used nancy garrido and the jehovah's witnesses to get out of prison so he could have access to children for sexual crimes ; thus enabling him in 1991 to kidnap jaycee dugard.

  the title of the article is : " sex offender phillip garrido used jehovah's witnesses to get early parole ".

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  Wow, excellent work!
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  What happened to your marriage after you stopped believing?

  by JerkhovahsWitless in

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  i know some posters here went through or are going through some painful things right now because of no longer believing when they have a husband / wife that still does.

  others were able to free the minds of their spouse.

  i'm assuming the latter is a lot more rare.. anyone that wishes to share their story, please do.. i'm looking to pass the info on to someone who doesn't totally believe, but may marry a jw.

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  Just a quick update. I didn't want to look like I took all of your stories and abandoned this thread without at least passing his thanks on to everyone, but I still haven't talked to him yet. He's been sick. Hopefully tomorrow night he'll feel well enough to talk.

  When we do talk, I will post an update so this thread has some kind of closure to the story.
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  Forwarded JW email: proof of the Nephilim!

  by JimmyPage in

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  and the bible again was right.... all the ones who are familiarized, with the bible know about the nephilim.

  as related in the bible, these man of ancient times, apparently descenced from the heavens (they were angels), having been atracted by women on the earth....for that reason they took form of men, abandoning their original spiritual nature.

  that bible account, leaves many perplexed, which is very understandable, if you don t believe in god, but now archaeologist, have found rest of abnormal big skeletons....what at least make you think of the accuracy of the bible.. .

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  I'm bumping a kind of old thread here, sorry.

  I just got this e-mail today from JWs. I thought you'd enjoy some of these intelligent comments I've taken from the forwarded e-mail.

  I had to reply to poop on the parade of who forwarded it to me with links and more photos showing it wasn't real. It annoys me so much when people pass crap off like this as fact to everyone in their address book without verifying if its real, questionable or fake. Then again, they're JWs who's brains have been shut off by the WT, so I'm probably asking too much.

  "Remember too of the Anakim and the Rephaim, unusually large people (see Insight book under those headings). Truly amazing how archealogy corroborates the Bible's account. Jehovah is surely the God of truth."
  
  "Pics shared w/me so I'm sharing with all of you. Talk about evidence! "
  
  "This is amazing. Not that the scriptures haven't already proven true but now more evidence for our times."
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  Trieste, Italy: JW elder charged with running a brothel

  by behemot in

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  from an italian newspaper:.

  http://ilpiccolo.gelocal.it/dettaglio/tenutario-di-giorno-testimone-di-geova-di-sera/1845231.

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  JerkhovahsWitless

  I guess that Elder was appointed by the Whorey Spirit? (meh... I tried)
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  This good news of the kingdom

  by sd-7 in

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  if you'll open your 'benefit from theocratic ministry school education' books to page 279, you'll notice that it says, "the message jesus said would be preached in our time goes beyond what was preached in the first century.

  " if you actually opened your books, i'm paraphrasing, but that's pretty close to the actual quote.. i remembered this quote from sometime ago, but couldn't understand how people overlooked this obvious violation of galatians 1:8: "even though we or an angel out of heaven should declare to you as good news something beyond what we preached, let him be accursed.".

  of course, the answer is obvious: many jws don't pay attention to what they read.

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  JerkhovahsWitless

  Glad to see you're still here posting good threads
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  new member

  by bokf in

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  JerkhovahsWitless

  Bokf...

  

  (forgot who made this, but ive been waiting a long time to use it)