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  Intelligent JWs only outside the KH?

  by GapingMouth in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  hi to everyone out there and thanks for all the amazing posts on here i read every day.. there are a few people in my area that i would consider intelligent - there is one guy who used to be a chemistry teacher, for example.

  another one knows his sciences too, and his job revolves around that knowledge.. but he confuses me a little... he knows all this stuff and then at the same time he completely ignores it and casts it aside and says the earth is only 7000 years old.

  (yes, he holds to this - he told me himself and grew annoyed when i tried to show that the new wts leave it a little more open for explanation -- the bible agree with science 'special' one for example).

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  how are the JW's viewed from the outside?

  by tigeress in

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  2. friends

  i know while in the org we get told alot to tell everyone that we are jw's, cos its reputation is so good.

  but that dosn't explain why people still refuse to answer the doors to them, or hide when they come aknocking.. so how are jw's really viewed by the outside world?.

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  My poem about the meetings

  by BorgHater in

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  2. friends

  i wrote a little poem about being at the meeting.

  i apologise beforehand if all the commas and full stops are in the wrong places, i'm not very good with punctuation .

  it's 10am, i'm bleary eyed,.

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  I've just seen Smurfs 2 minutes ago

  by jookbeard in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  this is no way a lie, i'm sitting here typing on my laptop, and a big group of smurfs walked through my garden, over the fence into the next garden all speaking in a demonic way, anyone else seen this phenonima?.

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  Serving Jehovah Doesn't Take Much Effort

  by God_Delusion in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  when you where at the demon hall, did you ever get a talk about how easy it was to serve jehovah?.

  i was having a conversation with a friend recently about this and i wrote down what is expected of a jehovah's witness;.

  go to 4 meeting per week.

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  Does everyone else get this reaction from their JW family when discussing objections to the religion?

  by jambon1 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  when pointing out my objections to the jw religion with my wife, i have noticed a worrying trend which even after 3 or 4 years shows no sign of relenting.. after speaking calmly for an hour or so and logically pointing out my objections, my wife starts to put forward outrageous assertations about my points.

  for instance, if i am refering to the fact that disfellowshipping is a form of extreem punishment & i mention the terrible effects that being d/f'd can have on people, she will eventually retort with something like "so what you are saying is that we should tolerate paedophiles, rapists & thieves in the organisation then?".

  of course, i've never at any point said anything of the sort.. or if i have been overly critical of the amount of control the society wants over peoples lives, she would reply "so what you are saying is that we should all just go out & do what we want, get drunk & live an immoral life?

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  Disfellowshipping reasons

  by GapingMouth in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i grew up as a dub, and i was taught that there weren't specific reasons why people got disfellowshipped.

  i was taught they didn't announce what the wrong was as they were df'd because they were 'unrepentant'.

  now i know the wts is full of **** and i see a few posts about tattoos and piercings etc being cause for df'ing.

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  Asking for money at the hall.

  by GapingMouth in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i don't go to the meetings anymore for i am fading, but a short while ago something happened in a meeting i'd never seen in my entire life as a jw.

  the local needs discussed the fact that the local branch had bought a new kh for a whopping 1 million euros.

  that's insane, but not the part that got me.

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  Pastafarian blog

  by GapingMouth in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  after leaving jws i have found myself increasingly impatient with religion and just how stupid some things are that people believe.

  i understand not all of you on here are atheists, but i wanted to point out my new blog.

  in my blog i am a believer that the spaghetti monster exists and base my writings as such.

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  WTS causing more anguish

  by GapingMouth in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i don't really know where to start on my first post; i feel i have so much to say and yet i am so emotionally tired that it is hard to go through it all again in my head.

  but, i do need support and advice and so i will make the effort.. i started having doubts about certain beliefs of the witnesses about 2 years ago and did research since that i now come to the belief there is no god, and witnesses definitely are a cult.. at first it bothered me more on the god issue, but now i am more bothered by the cult issue, mainly because it dictates my life even though i am aware of it.. when i was a child, my mother and father divorced and my mother told me i will live with my father because she was going to die at armageddon being a non witness.

  i think, as well as many other pressures i cant list for fear of a very long post, this was the main pressure that made me get baptized even though i wasn't that happy being a witness.

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