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  Ray Franz Was Wrong

  by Farkel in

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  god rest his soul.

  although i never met him personally, he and i did correspond a number of times, and i have numerous friends who have not only met him, but stayed several days with he and cynthia at their home.

  if nothing else, ray was kind, non-judging, and generous.

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  cheerios

  douglas adams put it best: they're a bunch of mindless jerks who will the first against the wall when the revolution comes
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  JW's are not nice people

  by Nickolas in

  1. watchtower
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  i cut and pasted the subject line from a comment made by one of this board's longtime members.

  it got me wondering if this is the prevalent thinking in here.

  for a very long time i believed that jw's and all fundamentalist christian folk are a cut above the norm.

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  cheerios

  when i was trying to be a good little JW social climber ... i refused to treat other people in the way i deemed disrespectful and unfair, in particular the way several of those in the leadership roles were acting. i wouldnt do it. therefore, i never got promoted. i used to wonder all the time why i never was appointed. i'd always volunteer to do more, do more service, etc. but simply because i chose not to be petty and to not kiss the asses of the elders ... that's when i decided that they are not nice people.
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  Just look at how they changed these lyrics in the new song book

  by WingCommander in

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  this is disgusting!!!

  we've all heard that the new song book is really, really, really bad......but i didn't see many examples cited of just how they changed some of the wording.

  oh sure, we all know by now how incredibly hard it is to sing along with the garbage they wrote, tempo, lack of beat, odd rythm, timing, etc, etc.

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  they really should get phoebe buffay to write their songs ... people would like them better
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  I think I figured out why Jesus ended up being such an important figure in history!

  by sabastious in

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  mary had to make up a story for why she was pregnent after cheating on joseph and it ended up seriously getting out of hand.. -sab.

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  cheerios

  i dont know who this jesus person is ... but the evidence clearly points to Wobble as being the most important person in history
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  What made you start questioning: people or doctrine?

  by In in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  let us know what got you questioning wbts in the first place.

  i've got a theory that it starts with people hurting us and only then does the "apostate" turn to looking at the beliefs.. anybody who started questioning beliefs first?.

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  cheerios

  *edit: oops .. you should all question my posting skills ... as clearly i cannot post the right post on the right topic ...

  /hides
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  I feel ashamed of some of you

  by Lady Lee in

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  i did not sleep well last night.

  i tossed and turned until 4 am .

  got up and decided to see what was going on.. i am so disappointed in some of you.. simon posted a thread requesting people not post links to the new shepherding book.

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  cheerios

  i am sorry if my comments caused offense :( they were not intended to do so. i just wanted bullet points :(
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  Cardboard books for JW children

  by TJ - iAmCleared2Land in

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  http://goo.gl/wvyj.

  i purposely masked the site name and book name; don't want web searches taking the author here.

  it's a new line of cardboard books for jw children.. i found a copy of this one... shall i post a pdf scan?.

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  i cant wait for the later books: My First Judicial Committee, Sitting at the Back, Waiting for Privileges, Yes - Girls ARE Bad, Elders - Thank Jah We Have Them Because We Suck, and finally: OMFG This Religion SUX
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  Are some Jehovah's Witnesses delusional?

  by asilentone in

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  cheerios

  i think you have to be to agree to some of their nonsense. either that or cognitive dissonance is kicked into mega warpspeed overdrive
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  What made you start questioning: people or doctrine?

  by In in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  let us know what got you questioning wbts in the first place.

  i've got a theory that it starts with people hurting us and only then does the "apostate" turn to looking at the beliefs.. anybody who started questioning beliefs first?.

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  cheerios

  it was the people for me too. i had some problems with my now ex ... but ofc i was blamed for all of them because i "didnt study with her more" or some ridiculous nonsense that she used to justify her bad behaviour. then ofc the gossip wheel started turning and i found that people that i was supposedly friends with cast me off without a second thought. i was raised JW (not born in but pretty close), and for these people to treat me this way was devastating. i didnt start questioning doctrine until later.
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  New here..

  by breakfree in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  just wanted to introduce myself.

  i've been reading your posts for a couple of months now and i think i finally have the courage to join in.

  i have written and deleted this post many times.

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  cheerios

  welcome and thank you for sharing! i stopped attending meetings some 10 years ago but didn't start the healing process until about 2 years ago. best thing you can do is find a good therapist and just purge all that crap from your system. it really is a religion full of narrow-minded BS ... just get rid of it.