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  How a Gay Jewish Boy from New England Came to Be and Leave the JWs (and what he did next)

  by CalebInFloroda in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  born in cambridge, ma to a liberal couple that escaped the conservative south, my parents raised me better than to become a jehovahs witness.

  funny thing was they got mixed up in it first.. while that is a story for another time, i myself had to go along as the third of five children in my family.

  dads job transferred him to texas and my mom worked fulltime herself, but eventually we found ourselves drinking the kool-aid of ambiguity intolerance and full-fledge belief that the bible was literal fact and that salvation was found only by those who were smart enough to enter the confines of the watchtower.. its weird how many people claim they fear children raised by two gay parents will grow up to be gay.

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  Shalom CIF (is floroda a misspelled State reference?)

  I'm also from Sephardic stock (from my mother's side of the family) and spoke non-standard Castilian, but unlike you, quite happily straight, married to a very loyal JW wife, who like me was born in Europe and moved to this country as a kid, so both thoroughly Americanized. I too studied languages in school, liked to research, and got taken to the back room of the KH to answer for using the ASV and the KIT (the WT's Diagott) at the meetings instead of the NWT.

  What's your ancestral connection to the Nazarenes?

  I know a family who we are very close to, named Chavez, from NM and they too have these quaint kasher customs that are done because that's how it's always been done.
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  Hold Me, Thrill Me

  by Hold Me-Thrill Me in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i'm going to be honest and from the heart when i say that for 40 years in the jw religion i was very happy in my ignorance!

  man, what a trip it was.

  i loved every minute of it but then i was absent the bad in my religion.

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  Welcome, HMTM.

  I still attend as well, for family reasons. When I woke up I went through a lot of soul searching and questioning. I came to see the trinity teaching as not something that prevents one from being saved through faith by God's grace. Wheat grows among weeds and that's ok by me, there's a lot of good people out there and none are perfect just like me and you, and we are all searching to know ourselves better as we try to make sense of the world we live in. Wouldn't you agree?

  Agape' my brother.
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  ...Which Way is the Cat Going?!...

  by OUTLAW in

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  2. humour

  i found this on yahoo news... while it doesn`t raise an important question... it raises an interesting question... .

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  cat's goin' down!
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  In a nutshell, what is the wackiest jw thing?

  by stuckinarut2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  what is the wackiest...strangest....most unusual jw teaching or practice?

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  That a baptized young brother can't ride alone with an octogenarian pioneering sister because worldly people may think that some dating/hanky-panky may be going on.
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  Moneybox's Slit Smile

  by TheFadingAlbatros in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  the gb member's smile in the shape of a moneybox's slit speaks volumes about predictable entries in cash expected by jw's org.!!.

  i.

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  Two things that cry more money, more money and there's three that will always want more money. The contribution box slit, Mr. Splanes tight lips, and the accounts department at WT Bethel.
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  Inactive ones are not JWs

  by gone for good in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  years ago, the insinuation was often presented, that those who were inactive were actually not witnesses at all.

  the point being made was that ''...winesses is a verb, not a noun...''.

  i know there were published assertions to this end in the older books and magazines, with possibly even quotes from the likes of rutherford or knorr ,.

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  If you want to be inactive and not be held to judicial action by any JW committee, just send the congregation you were last an active member of a letter saying you are exercising your legal right to leave the so-and-so congregation but that your letter of resignation as a member of this congregation is not to be regarded as somehow no longer in association with other JW's.

  You are separating yourself legally from this congregation and reserve the right to join another JW congregation when you find one that you feel would better meet your spiritual needs. Since you are not breaking association with JW's you will consider any effort or threat by the JW elders to disfellowship you as reason to take legal action (as supported in the U.S. by legal precedents such as GUINN V THE CHURCH OF CHRIST OF COLLINSVILLE decision by the Supreme Court of Oklahoma, January 1989 and THE NORMAN HANCOCK LAWSUIT of Mesa AZ 1985) to defend your good name and reputation without fear of intimidation or retribution.
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  Shutting down the Judicial Committee "invite".

  by kairos in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  judicial committee invitation comes, with be there or be square consequences.. ( come or we will df you ).

  what are the sure fire, tested and true tactics that will keep the elders off your back?

  ( for good ).

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  I don't think I've ever heard of their sending you a letter for a JC, usually you'll get told verbally.
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  With two questions, i recieved two lies from some cart witnesses.

  by brandnew in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  today i walked up to a group of cart witnesses and picked up a watchtower.

  i opened the watchtower up to the first page , and asked one of the witnesses if he had read it.. lie # 1... he said he read it.. i ask my second question to a woman witness sitting next to him , who by the way was hard to tear away from her cell phone..... "whats this watchtower about?

  , "........ lie # 2 ... she said she read it , but forgot "exactly" what the main points were about..

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  funny thing about wt articles

  once you've read, studied and highlighted it

  you still forget the meaningless drivel

  no sooner than you put the mag in the bag
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  I just stumbled across this rabbit hole!

  by kairos in

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  2. friends

  just wow!.

  some of the comments i read were hard to stomach.. https://www.facebook.com/myministryideaz?fref=photo.

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  they deleted all my comments from last night!

  did you catch their math about the 8 GB members and one dying so that now there's 9 left?

  I know we witnesses aren't supposed to go to college, but maybe paying attention during elementary math classes may have been helpful, 8 - 1 = 7 not 9.
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  Does everyone here know they are on record with JW's forever?

  by runForever in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  richard ashe a full-time special servant of the order of jehovah's witnesses testified in the lopez case that every single disfellowshipping and disassociation and other things have all been scanned in 2011 and are and will be on permanent record with jw's forever.

  is this legal?

  another completely ironic and warped thing is the disfellowshipping form is called the s77 form.

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  If an inactive publisher moves and the former elders find out which congregation the person moved to, they'll forward the address and name of the person to the new local congregation elders to make a call on the inactive and "discern" their situation. That's the usual procedure from what was practiced in the BOE when I was an elder.