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  Has there every been a JWD census?

  by feenx in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i'm curious if there's ever been a poll or some kind of jwd census.

  how many apostates, active jw's, faded, df'd, da'd are there on the forum?

  how about how many who were once jw's but now have moved on to another religion versus those who now have no affiliation?

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  What do you feel God wants you to do at this moment in time?

  by EndofMysteries in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  open question, please list scriptures that give you that direction or what you base your answer upon.

  i know there are so many different viewpoints on this forum, it will be interesting for all to see them and what scriptures or reasoning they are based on.. some examples are,.

  do you feel only one needs to have love, faith in jesus, and those basics and that is what you must proclaim.. do you feel true knowledge must be taught to all, and as much as is known.

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  How fast can you "prepare" a Watchtower lesson?

  by Open mind in

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  2. friends

  over the last 3 years i've gotten much faster at making a wt article look "studied".. .

  how fast can you get one ready for inspection by snoopy elders and microphone handlers?.

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  As a JW Did you Feel " Guilted " to go to Meetings /Service if Injured /Sick ?

  by flipper in

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  2. friends

  many people in the jehovah's witnesses , older ones, younger ones have been expected to pioneer, go in field service with physical disabilities and are even considered "martyrs" if they push themselves to their physical capacities beyond reasonableness .

  thus many witnesses feel sick, exhausted, tired, and essentially fight depression due to high expectations to " burn out " for the wt society.

  have any of you experienced this while in the witnesses ?.

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  Written Reviews...what did you really do during them?

  by xeracia in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  remember these silly tests they make you take?

  i don't remember how often they were, but thinking back on them, boy does it seem silly!

  sitting there for half an hour trying to remember stupid stuff as if you are in school.

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  A Sister and a Brother alone

  by Lilycurly in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i've been looking in the watchtower library all morning and can't find anything.. i know that jws have this rule (is it unwritten??

  ) where a brother and a sister should not be left alone in a car, a house, or any private place.

  but my jw father says it's not so, and he spent a part of yesterday installing a computer program at a jw couple's house while the man was at work and the wife was at home.

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  Why do Ex-JWs start celebrating pagan Christmas?

  by DubR in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  hiya guys and gals.

  im not trying to be self-righteous but i want to understand the thought process of someone who knows the origins of christmas, but starts celebrating it (putting up christmas tree, exchanging wrapped gifts; repeating merry christmas to everyone they see in the month of december)??

  it seems very silly to me (imo) after knowing how and why christmas was created (to cater to pagans sun worship and convert to christianity)!!

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  Greetings

  by AggieNostic in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  first new topic for me.. i have observed this site for about 4 years.

  haven't been to a meeting since oct 2005. definitely feel jws are a high control group that mirrors many of the definitions of a cult.. i was raised as a witness since age 5, left at age 38, now 43. happily married to a wonderful woman for 24 years, except for 1 year of separation when i was failing miserable in a search for my true self - hard to do when you were completely sucked into this religion.

  yes, i was a true believer pretty much up into my late 30s.

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  Greetings

  by AggieNostic in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  first new topic for me.. i have observed this site for about 4 years.

  haven't been to a meeting since oct 2005. definitely feel jws are a high control group that mirrors many of the definitions of a cult.. i was raised as a witness since age 5, left at age 38, now 43. happily married to a wonderful woman for 24 years, except for 1 year of separation when i was failing miserable in a search for my true self - hard to do when you were completely sucked into this religion.

  yes, i was a true believer pretty much up into my late 30s.

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  Can a witness avoid ever being disfellowshipped or reproved?

  by dgp in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  people, a simple question this time.

  since the society has such a complex set of rules, how likely is the average witness to be disfellowshipped?

  reproved?

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