I love these posts, recalling "truths" of yesteryear, exposing the WT's faulty reasoning and hypocrisy. I just love 'em!
What a joke of a religion...
FreeAtLast1914
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THEY DARE NOT DISOWN<CRITICIZE>OR EXPOSE
by clarity intruth is funny isn't it?
the religion that christ chose in 1919 because it had the truth, at that time had this to say................................. .
indeed, even if the transgressor refuse to hear (obey) the decision of the entire church, no punishment is to be inflicted or even attempted.
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FreeAtLast1914
Ever since they told me the paradise would generally be the JW life (meetings, field service, conventions, free labor, gestapo-like tactics, more meetings, endless rules about endless things) I have not been interested in it. In fact, if they're right, they need to redo the definition of "paradise".
As an elder once said, "We're pretty much in the paradise now, except for the fact that we grow old and die. Get used the KH, you'll be seeing plenty of it in the New Order."
Nope, they can have it. I'll take my chances with the Big'n in the sky.
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Anyone still feeling apprehensive about celebrating Christmas?
by Think About It injust go ahead and do it in some way if you like.
put off the wts thinking and enjoy your family and life.
it's really no big deal.
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FreeAtLast1914
Only apprehensive about getting caught...
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Question for witnesses who were married or intimate during their time in the religion
by kurtbethel ini don't want to get graphic with this and get this thread locked, so please don't go overboard with answers.. i was having a discussion with someone about the jw experience, and was wondering if, since "jehovah" is an important part of the religion, during the moments of intense passion in a relationship, would you yell out, "oh, jehovah!
oh, jehovah!".
seriously, would a witness do that?.
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FreeAtLast1914
The Wizard nailed it. To focus solely on God during such a powerfully private moment, thereby leaving out the GB, would be dangerous to a JW's faith, likely leading them to independent thinking and later atheism.
Never underestimate the "slippery slope" angle...
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Happy and nervous for my Daughter in law
by troubled mind inmy daughter in law just called to tell me she just finished signing up for college !!!!
she will start in january .
she was raised as a witness .
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FreeAtLast1914
Good for her. I was in my first semester of college myself when I stumbled onto a history book that placed Jerusalem's destruction twenty years late. I was already on my way out, but info like that really gets the investigative juices flowing.
Congrats on her journey toward freedom in the real world!
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What Don't You Like About Jehovah's Witnesses?
by minimus inyup, this is a negative thread.. there are a lot of things but i'll start with one.. jws believe god will destroy 99.9% of the world simply because they aren't witnesses.
this view produces the "i am better than you" attitude because they get to live forever and you will die forever.
(not a nice religion)..
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FreeAtLast1914
Their religion.
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MIL gives advice on how to "cope"
by AggieNostic inmy wife's parents just can't stand that we haven't been to meetings since 2005. both are pioneers, retired, active fanatical jws.. anyway, today mil called the wife and after pleasantries, stated that we should really think about coming back to the meetings so we can better cope.
my wife answered: "cope with what?
" mil: "cope with this old system of things..." wife: "hmmm... we seem to be coping pretty well now".
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FreeAtLast1914
Aggie,
I've been down the "I'm happier now than I've ever been" road with my JW family. They look at me in stunned disbelief, and then tell me it's impossible without the "truth".
They'll never see it by you telling them. They will only see it when they're ready.
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has anyone ever been "outed" by posting?
by GrandmaJones in.
has anyone ever been recognized and outed?
i am trying to not let too much personal information out here, but is there a real concern?.
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FreeAtLast1914
I spotted an ex-elder on this site that went to the last KH I was assigned to, recognizing him by the details in his posts. I PM'd him and we met up for lunch, and later was able to spend an evening at his home with his family. It was awesome, but the dangers of posting too much unique info when you haven't been outed yet are very real.
Post carefully.
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Governing Body New Directive For Ex Members
by Hairyhegoat ini have just found this out and this is why my family are suddenly 100% shunning me.
it won't get me to go back to the cult, but it will result in a very lonley old man not seeing his 4 grandkids ever again.
what a waste!
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FreeAtLast1914
I'd like to see a copy of this letter. It doesn't smell right. Call me cynical, but the WT is usually smarter than to put this type of policy in writing. The sentiments expressed are definitely the way they feel about us exJWs. But this just seems a little odd.
Can you produce a letter? It would be great.
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Nobody forced us to believe. We CHOSE to follow their crap advice.
by hamsterbait inhave you noticed that the recent trolls are now claiming that if anybody drew conclusions or made decisions based on what the society was printing, it was their own fault?.
kind of "we didn't force you to believe what we said or adjust your life because of it.
you chose to think we were teaching the end would come in <insert time range>".
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FreeAtLast1914
Being born into that religion, I didn't choose anything. It was all chosen for me. It was as if I were born blind, never having seen the real world, and instead lived in a fantasy world of the WT's creation. Every mental image I had was of their making, tooled by their manipulative hands into a kingdom of hell.
Of course, when I gained vision for the first time in 30 years, I ran with it... Right out of their grasp and into the incredibly liberating world of freedom and personal choice.