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  What does having a Free Mind mean to you?

  by zengalileo in

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  2. friends

  i am working on a couple of articles on the topic.

  one is called "the heart of the free mind," and the other is "diary of a free mind.

  my belief in christ is based on a supernatural experience that i had.

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  Just tired of the label "Apostate".

  by rjl15225 in

  1. jw
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  bare with me on this post.

  i just need to get it off my chest!.

  i find it interesting that in so many threads here in this forum and in others, to find the reference to apostates.

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  I guess I am no more a girlfriend in dilemma

  by DilemmaGF in

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  2. experiences

  i think my boyfriend just dumped for jw.

  he is an inactive jw, he was the the one who started tp pursue the relationship and now he kind of shunning me.

  i don't why, maybe because he sensed that i am trying to tell him a lot about the true jesus and because he felt like he can't convert me, but that's okay, i understand.

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  What was the first thing you did...

  by OneDayillBeFree in

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  when you left the man-made organization currently known as the wtbts??.

  and for those still "in" but mentally "out" what have you started doing thats against the silly, stupid and non-scriptural watchtower policy/law/rule??.

  i know the question has been made before on another thread but i couldn't find it and also there's been quite some growth in new ones here to jwn, so just wanted to see if we could all share some lovely/funny/random experiences.

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  Anybody frequent noblood.org?

  by zengalileo in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i want to encopurage all jwners to go onto the noblood.org forums and participate freely.

  it is one of the more disgusting jw forums on the web.

  they are trying to say that it is not a jw owned and operated website, but everybody i've enteracted with via telephone calls, emails and forum exchanges is a jw.

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  God: The Abusive Boyfriend

  by baltar447 in

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  2. friends

  http://conversationalatheist.com/general-essays/god-the-abusive-boyfriend/.

  ways the christian god is like the most extreme version of an abusive (and possibly psychotic) boyfriend:needs constant praise and makes you feel guilty for just being human.has severe jealousy issues.he lets painful experiences happen to you that he could easily prevent, just to test your devotion to him.claims credit for everything good in your life; claims nothing bad in your life comes from him.threatens you with eternal torture if you ever leave him.he is constantly swearing that he loves you and you need him.

  (thanks richard collins).ways to tell if you are in danger of being taken advantage of in a relationship with this abusive god:you are highly defensive of him from even the slightest criticism of his flaws.you talk to him every night, and he never responds yet still expects unwavering devotion.

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  What can ex-JWs learn from Harvey Milk?

  by zengalileo in

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  if you haven't seen the movie "milk" starring sean penn, or is you have not seen a documentary or read up on harvey milk, then it'll be hard for you to have an opinion on this.. this is not a "gay" thread.

  the fact that harvey milk was gay and was a civil rights leadewr for the gay movement has nothing to do with the point i will make here.. harvey milk when he was campaingning for city supervisor for san francisco and fighting against prop 6 in the mid 70s came upon some marketing research that said, where a person actually knows a gay person, they vote favorably towards gay civil rights 2 to 1. this made him come up with his policy that everyone working on his campaign that had not come out as gay to their freinds and family, had to come out.

  i'm not sure if there were any consequences if someone just refused to come out; the movie didn't say and neither did the documentary.. .

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  Fallen humans are the MEDIATOR between God and man - WBT$ reaffirms

  by Fernando in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  some have been wondering if the watchtower might reinstate jesus after disfellowshipping him as the one mediator between god and man.. apparently not.. "future light" from march 2012 reaffirms that jesus has been indefinitely replaced by a ruling religious clergy class of mediators.. "those in the covenant are few, a mere 144,000. through them, millions from all nations will be blessed with everlasting life in an earthly paradise.

  " (w2012 mar 01 p17, http://download.jw.org/files/media_magazines/wp_e_20120301.pdf).. "the anointed" in the nt/nc scriptures is always "ho kristos" or "the christ" - who the wbt$ has openly replaced (for several decades now) with a small group of fallen humans (11,824 false christs in 2011) who the blind sanhedrin (gb) lyingly claim to represent.. .

  (thanks to "therevealer" for posting the above watchtower mar 2012 quote two days ago)..

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  QFR WT MARCH 15TH - PORN - D/F

  by stillajwexelder in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i assume you are all aware of this by now.

  qfr could a christians practice of viewing pornography.

  become so bad that it results in his being expelled.

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  untitled

  by exwhyzee in

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  we hooked up with a family member who is married and in bethel 15+ years.

  it's almost too exhausting to go into the details here so i'll condense everything into a few main areas that were talked about over a few days.. bottom line, my wife and i finally let them know that we are not jw's anymore and so far it looks like they aren't going to shun us.

  we had a really nice time with them and their witness friends who assumed we were jw's too and couldn't have been nicer.. our bethelite family members had no idea what we had been through at the hands of he elders that was the final shove out of the organization and were in agreement that things were handled badly.

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