The Watchtower's world view is very rigid and makes so many assumptions that are incorrect. It is right to challenge their viewpoint as it highlights how their followers are constantly being misled.
Posts by nugget
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12Rebuttal of the "JW Defense" apostates video
by Watchtower-Free infyi.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgpk-swadf0.
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How can i continue my fade vs the rubber band theorem that pulls my wife in
by DS211 inim at a crossroads my friends.
im beginning to feel that my oppurtunities to get my wife out are waning.
weve misssed many meetings she still smokes a cig a day.
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nugget
People who feel weak spiritually are also those more likely to find fault in others and cling to the organisation. Your wife still believes but also thinks she is not doing enough this makes her vaccilate between sinning and then guilt and wanting to be more spiritual. But she is also looking for someone to blame as it is easier than facing her shortcomings.
In addition this is the season when JWs feel most isolated from the world and most different. The place where you get validation at this time of the year is the Kingdom Hall so it is not surprising she is making noises about meetings.
This is not a time to make any decisions or force any issues especially as you are at the start of your journey in relative terms. Why has your wife started smoking? And why does she not feel the need to confess to the elders? She is quite a contradiction and things may not be as hopeless as you think. As it is early days it is important to invest in your relationship rather than force the issue of religion.
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Besty .........
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Thanks for posting Jgnat love the picture.
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Thank you for the comments this took a little longer to do due to a family virus right in the middle which meant nursing took priority over drawing. Now to get him printed and framed ready for August. The problem now is what to do next. Need something with a good contrast and lot's of texture. Any ideas gratefully received.
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The packages will arrive today... What do you think will happen?
by Faithful Witness ini have decided that ignoring my niece and nephew during the holidays, is the most unloving thing i could possibly do.
they stopped celebrating christmas and birthdays, after my sister began studying with jw's about 6-7 years ago.
we did not celebrate either, until 3 years ago, when my son was 2 and my daughter was 4, and we'd figured out that the jw's are wrong about this decision.
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Sadly for JWs everything is about them, they may keep the gifts and let the children have them when they arrive rather than at Christmas but it will not occur to them to send a thank you. This is something I was pulled up on very soon after my exit and I now am fastidious about thanking people.
For JWs so much thought is given to working out what is allowed and what isn't, what is a compromise, how it affects their standing in the congregation, how other people will interpret their actions that there is no time left to consider the feelings of the giver.
If you wish to give gifts and can afford to do so then continue. Your contact will let the children know that there is someone outside for them and that is priceless.
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My sister died
by poppers injust got word that my sister died.
she had surgery for heart valve replacement about 5 weeks ago, and when they opened her up for it they found cancer.
we had an extra special relationship since i was her "birthday present" when she turned 10 in 1951. this is my second sibling to die of cancer in 14 months..
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So sorry to hear about your loss. It is such a shock to loose a sibling especially in such circumstances. Will be thinking of you.
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Ever read back your own posts and thinking WTF?
by DeWandelaar inas time goes forward people tend to change... expecially if you get out of a cult.
your brain for some reason gets de- and reprogrammed and you get other insights and new opinions.
you become a other human.. when reading back some of my previous posts (of about a year ago) i could not help but have a wtf-moment... i even felt a sudden way of "shame" of all the bullshit i was writing.. if you want to read some of mine just check my posts of about a year back.
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occasionally then I rrealise Cantleave was using my laptop and hadn't logged me out first.
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1973 "Divine Victory" International Assemblies
by Bungi Bill inhow many here attended the "divine victory" international assembly that was held 12- 16 december in christchurch, new zealand?.
the venue was lancaster park.
if the truth be known, that stadium was probably a casualty of the february 2011 earthquake?.
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went aged 8 was so totally bored.
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Christmas - love it or leave it?
by Xanthippe ini am just watching my neighbours across the road putting up christmas lights while their children run around bursting with excitement.
i am feeling all christmassy now.
can't wait for my daughter to come home from uni next weekend so we can go and buy a tree from the garden centre.
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My children look forward to Christmas they love the excitement and our family traditions. The stockings are handmade because I couldn't go out and buy decorations the first year as we didn't have the money. I do stockings for Christmas morning but the children prefer that they are left downstairs rather than at the end of the bed.
Christmas is a time to create happy family memories and share times together. It doesn't have to be overly fussy it is the freedom to chose to celebrate that is important.
