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  My Son and I have about 5 Months Left

  by bavman in

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  hello, i haven't been on here in awhile and it looks like a whole new crowd.

  i disassociated myself about 8 years ago.

  went through a divorce and shunning from most my family.

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  So sorry you are in that situation. I too had a countdown going...conversations with my kids at 14 and 16 had me in the same boat. Fortunatley for me and them, they did not get baptized and have both abandoned the JWs.

  what really boiled my blood was learning that the elders had told him that he had to curtail his time with me...even though the law said he had to see me.

  I told my son when it looked like was going to commit to them something like this: "that that will be your mistake to make and trust me, you will live long enough to regret it. The fact that you won't let me explain why they are wrong is going to be your problem, not mine."

  Oz
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  I didn't expect to be here at age 49. Here as in my employment

  by wha happened? in

  1. social
  2. family

  it's been a terrible economy these last few years.

  i had a very successful loan brokerage and watched that crash and burn in 2011. i went back to my previous firm in the computer industry that was struggling after i left.

  it seemed like a good match.

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  employ yourself small time

  put a sign out the front, in the local rag, start an internet biz setting up blogs for people...you may (or may not be) surprised at how many people just want a snazzy blogspot without paying thousands for a website

  Oz
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  I finally told my parents

  by nolongerconfused in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so as some of you already may know, i have stopped going to meetings for good and have nothing to do with wbts anymore...did not write a letter of disassociation because i dont believe an organization should spiritually execute me for rejecting men's tradition and false doctrine...some of you may recall i spoke to my wife and are in good terms, even though she's still an active jw.

  my parents are both active jw's...when i visited them yesterday, they clearly did not expect me to tell them i had left the "org"...to my huge surprise, after i explained to them i had found ttatt (truth about the truth) and gave compelling evidence of my reasoning, and using the scriptures, they totally sided with me...i was dumbfounded...one of my parents even brought up ray franz and his book coc....i was like wtf??.

  they told me all of these years they never had the guts to say anything about the hypocrisy in this org and they were glad that i as their son was able to step up and believe what is right and what is on the bible...they re-assured their love to me and they were happy i had found happiness in jesus christ and the need to have a personal relationship with him and not through a man made organization.... i totally did not expect this response from my parents...but it just leaves me to think that there are thousands of active jw's out there feeling the same way and don't have the courage to step up to the org...still don't know what they are going to do, but i got the feeling they will do the same eventually and move on from the wbts.... have a great week everyone.

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  fantastic outcome

  maybe their support will wake up your wife...

  Oz
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  Power Struggle At Head Quarters Reason For Governing Body New Light?

  by frankiespeakin in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  well could it be that we overlooked this little idea in our reasonings on why the governing body is comming up with new light they love the idea of?

  about the f&ds?.

  you know to keep any type of rebellion at bay before it starts.. have you ever woundered what many that are closely associated with the governing body are feeling about these new guys called the governing body right now with all this new light loved by the governing body,,i smell trouble a brewing for these guys right there at headquarters i'm sure thier dealing with everbody they meet they reflect this same attitude so they got to be making enemies..

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  the only power struggle at HQ is how to hang on to it.

  And that they do be rolling out new light as it suits. The remnant have never had any power and that is the way the GB want to keep it, the pesky fact of rising instead of falling numbers could have lead to some annointed (esp younger ones) wanting a say. The new light firmly places them as largely insignificant now, the numbers rising is no longer of consequence

  'power struggle' over before it starts.

  Oz
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  WT Letter Regarding A Certain Elder

  by Bangalore in

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  Shameful really that instead of addressing the Elders concerns or accusations to HIM they go behind his back, alert the whole body that they have a potential apostate in their ranks and look for more 'dirt' than they already have.

  No doubt the 'Elder' is long out of the WT

  oz
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  The Internet has been a lifesaver for victims of Cults of all sorts .Is it then the beginning of the end for Cults ?

  by smiddy in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  since the internet has been available to people all over the earth, their has been an explosion of information going out that is unprecedented in the history of the world .. and one , just one of the beneficiaries of this knowedge are victims of cults who can relate to people who have undergone similar experiences and can offer help and encouragement to other victims .and this is done on a global scale .with what we are witnessing on this site with newbies joining on an almost daily basis , i live in hope that the writing is indeed on the wall for cults of all sorts.

  do you agree ?.

  smiddy.

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  not for those trapped in cults that forbid or control internet use...

  Oz
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  Cell Phones Distracting from the LIfe-saving message

  by AuntBee in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i dont' use my cell phone when with friends, to show them how important they are to me, and i am focusing on them, etc.

  i turn it off completely.. i'm doing a free bible study with 2 really nice jw ladies.

  but today, one of their phones went off loudly twice, and she had to check each time who it was etc.

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  its not free aunt bee...they want your life!

  but I do admit, you can run out after the meal and not pay the bill....

  Oz
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  Islamic Prevention Of Molestation

  by metatron in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2013/02/03/264031.html.

  i still have trouble believeing that this isn't a satire from the onion.

  only a religion could come up with something so insane.. metatron.

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  what the males that run these cultures seem to not realize is that they make it plainly obvious to the world that they are monsters who simply have no self control. Essentially they tell the world, "seeing that we as men just cannot help ourselves you must cover up in a bed sheet otherwise we cannot be held responsable for behaving like the animals we are"

  see a woman showing her nose...must rape.

  see a baby...must molest.

  Sheikh Mohammad al-Jzlana, former judge at the Saudi Board of Grievances, told Al Arabiya that Dauod’s ruling was denigrating to Islam and Shariah and made Islam look bad. NO shit! Maybe that's because Islam IS bad.
  sometimes i wish there was a god to fry all these animals

  Oz
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  Human beings can be a funny lot. You start a thread ,where did it go ?

  by smiddy in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  surely most of you have had this experience at least once .

  you start a topic / thread and before you know it somebody has taken it way off on another tangent, completely away from your original topic , and evrybody has gone down that path .and you come back and think wtf ?

  happened here .?

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  Probably because everyone has their own agenda and see's what they have to say as the most relevant.

  Now, stay tuned for a bunch of people taking this off topic....

  oz
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  NEW STUDY AT THE KINGDOM HALL. ADVICE NEEDED.

  by DATA-DOG in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  as the title suggests, there is a young man studying the bible teach book and attending meetings.

  at every meeting that he has attended, there have been some really cultish comments.

  of course i hear them loud and clear now, and for years then were coming through, that is why i woke up.. anyway, at the meeting i was sitting there, hating it, listening to all the emotion comments from the audience.

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  Find out more about him first. I mean as bad as the WT is, just say he was a drug addict trying to find a purpose and the JWs may be the medicine to go straight. Pull the magic carpet out from under him may make him return to worse.

  Extreme example i know, but not everyone should be woken up. I beleive that if you wake up another you are responsable for what may follow.

  Oz