Topic by littlebird

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Debunking the "Faithful and Discrete Slave" concept

by Awakened at Gilead in

my latest video... check it out.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzyjca1-q60.

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Your thoughtful opinion is requested, please, on a possible proposal to free my wife from JWs

by lifelong humanist in

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six years 'jw free', my wife is still in, although she's now nowhere neary as zealous as i was when in.

for this i'm grateful.. please take a moment to review my current situation as far as my wife's involvement is concerned with our 4, adult male children:.

my wife regularly contacts my dfd son, invites him and his wife to visit us, along with their 4 year old son, and thinks absolutely nothing of it!

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Why don't they do more to protect the children from sexual abusers?

by Lady Lee in

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flipper asked this question and got me thinking about it.

why don't they do more to protect the children?

why not hunt the abusers down and get them out of the organization?

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What's the best way to reason with and help your wife to give up her JW religion?

by lifelong humanist in

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i dad myself 6 years ago, and was quite surprised that my wife (of 38 years) did not follow suit.

perhaps this is because her father and brother are still active jws, and she doesn't want them to shun her the way that they have done to me.. so, my wife is still a jw, albeit losing interest in her religion.

as far as i know, she doesn't even go door to door anymore.

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How many here actually still believe that there is a God??

by annalice in

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after being gone from the jw's for many years now , and having done extensive research on the history of god and the belief in him , i can't seem to find any logical way to have a belief in an invisble being up there ruling over us.

how many here still believe?

how many don't?.

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Littlebird's Introduction "Hi!"

by littlebird in

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hi, i've been lurking hear for awhile and just registered this week.

you're an interesting bunch and i look forward to getting to know you better.. i started studying with the jw's when i was 16. i was dating my husband, 10yrs my senior, and he heard they had the truth.

i was in an abusive household, so i moved in with him, studied, got married at 17 and baptised at 18.. i believed in it hook, line and sinker for 22 yrs.

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What is the mission of those on this board?

by The Berean in

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venting, closure, confession, social networking, advocating a new direction, building a case to leave the borg, kicking a dead horse, assisting the abused, warning the public, cursing god and religion, justifying actions, filling time, belonging to something, education, identifying mental disorders, condemning hypocracy, highlighting errors of the past, making fun of other people, self pity, hope for recovery???.

as a newby, i can't tell ....

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Satan- Perfect Scapegoat for Witnesses Ignoring Real Causes of Situations

by flipper in

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in a recent thread i started on music i couldn't help noticing how many had to throw their alleged " worldly music " out because parents, or elders told them their music brought them " under the influence of demons ", or listening to music was how " the demons got inside us ".

this superstitious belief that " satan " is to blame for each witnesses demise is really a passing of the buck of responsibility so it sidesteps real issues involved.. for example : check these familiar expressions out we all heard while we were jehovah's witnesses .. .

1. if a person was stumbled and said, " i don't want to go to meetings anymore.