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  Spiritual AMNESTY -- Return to Jehovah

  by FusionTheism in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  basically, from what i can tell from the new return to jehovah brochure, is that the governing body is now offering amnesty to anyone who has been gone from the congregation but now wants to return.. it claims it doesn't matter what sins you've done, or what caused you to leave, if you repent to jehovah and ask the elders to help you, and return to the meetings, you'll be warmly welcomed with no disciplinary action or judgment against you..

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  Mad Sweeney

  Their success rate at conversions is abysmal. Their success rate at getting inactives back in is slightly better. It's just a numbers game.

  I had a JW who used to be a neighbor of mine stop by with an elder to invite me to the "special talk" a month or so ago. He's a genuine old guy but the comment earlier in this thread about taking advantage of the less educated reminded me of that visit. Neither the former neighbor or the elder are particularly deep thinkers. He had just run into my parents a week or two earlier at some event and it reminded him he hadn't seen me in five years. I actually felt bad for them for wasting their time with me and wasting their lives in a cult.

  I guess my point is, they're going to have to make it somewhat easier to return (for inactives, not apostates) if they don't want their growth numbers to keep shrinking.
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  Help? :(

  by BlackWolf in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i apologize for how rantish this is but please hear me out.

  anyways i'm a 15 year old girl and i've never really wanted to be a jw.

  its just never been something thats made me feel happy or loved.

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  Mad Sweeney

  BlackWolf, as you can see, you came to a place with a lot of support and kindness. I am glad you were strong enough to take the step to post here and start this thread.

  My daughter turns 15 next month and I'm so glad we stopped going to the Kingdom Hall five years ago. Kids, especially teenagers, need to experience life and be free to make choices for themselves without coercion or indoctrination. If you would like to meet my daughter online through email or skype please send me a message and I'll connect you both.
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  Still waiting ... since 1975 !

  by Amazing in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  what have i done with my life since 1975?

  became a jw in the late 1960s ... looked forward to 1975 as early as 1968 ... so, out of a sense of duty and spirit inspired organizational hounding ... when 1974 arrived, i sold the house, sold the car, sold the wife and kids ... then moved to where the great are needed ... 1975 came and went ... .

  so did ... 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992 walk away from the organization ... 1993, 1994 then it was 80 years of a special mighty generation since 1914 ... finally, 20 years later it was 1995 when i was forcibly disassociated by wts legal department ... 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000 ... yikes!

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  Mad Sweeney

  This thread started twelve years ago. It was only 28 years after 1975.
  
  Now it is 40 years after 1975 and STILL NO ARMAGEDDON!
  
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  A Question for Underground Apostates, How Many Are There?

  by Village Idiot in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  when i first came to this forum i was of the belief that those of us who were still in due to family reasons were few in numbers perhaps one in a thousand in the jws.

  soon i came to the realization that there were many more.

  we have dozens of posters here who are mentally out but still in.

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  Mad Sweeney

  What scares me about the half-in, double-lived teens is that they're not really mentally out and a good scare like a close friend dying or something can usher them right back into the arms of the cult.
  
  I suspect 1-2% is probably an accurate number for fully-awakened active JWs.
  
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  If you are single and have married friends, . . .

  by compound complex in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  is your sense of loneliness (if you are lonely) heightened when you see what they share?

  how do cope (if you are coping) with a sense of isolation, of not having a significant other?.

  i know some single persons who are very happy as they are.

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  Mad Sweeney

  I married young as a JW. After we got out my wife decided to leave. I've been alone just over three years but only felt truly lonely for the last several months.
  
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  Conti Respondent’s Brief - Can AnnOMaly’s theory Rescue Simons’ CRITICAL FACT ?

  by 4rationality in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  simons critcal fact = defendants assigned candace to perform field service with kendrick.

  martinez testified that she saw candace and kendrick in field service together.

  was candace ever assigned to anyone else?

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  Mad Sweeney

  Suppose 4rationality is legally correct and the Borg wins its appeal.
  
  That changes nothing about how evil and morally culpable the local elders and the Watchtower Society are. If 4rationality believes in Jehovah, he/she really ought to be afraid for the eternal salvation of his/her beloved "brothers." Any just God will destroy them.
  
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  A sensible fix for the Jehovah's Witness "two witness rule" when dealing with child sex abuse

  by Watchtower-Free in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  jehovah's witnesses could retain their two witness rule for internal judicial.

  congregation matters .

  but in the case of a child abuse allegation they should .

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  Mad Sweeney

  Answer to all those "lets keep secrets" scriptures above:
  
  1 Peter 2: 13-17:
  13 Submit yourselves for the Lord’s sake to every human authority: whether to the emperor, as the supreme authority, 14 or to governors, who are sent by him to punish those who do wrong and to commend those who do right. 15 For it is God’s will that by doing good you should silence the ignorant talk of foolish people. 16 Live as free people, but do not use your freedom as a cover-up for evil; live as God’s slaves. 17 Show proper respect to everyone, love the family of believers, fear God, honor the emperor.
  
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  PBS program

  by wannaexit in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  watching the pbs program as i write...........

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  Mad Sweeney

  It's especially disgusting to pawn off the responsibility on the secular authorities when they KEEP THE PEDOPHILE'S SECRET from the secular authorities.
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  PBS program

  by wannaexit in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  watching the pbs program as i write...........

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  Mad Sweeney

  Just the segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-w3smjZUgM&
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  Another subliminal picture in the WT!!!!

  by DATA-DOG in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i just happend to wonder if the current issue had any hidden goodies.

  imagine my delight!.

  a gold star to the first person to correctly identify the image!.

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  Mad Sweeney

  If you can see it, it isn't subliminal. It's just an easter egg.