Posts by mentallyfree31

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JWs REFUSE to Reason!

by brotherdan in

so last night my wife brought the situation up again and kept telling me how sorry i'm going to be for what i'm doing to our family.

i kept a mild attitude and tried to reason with her.. she refused!.

i went about it in the way that sweet baby cheezits recommended.

Talking to a person under mind control is very similar to talking to a rock that you pick up off the ground. I have had many conversations over the last 6 months with active JW's. The idea that their beliefs could be wrong won't even register. It's like a computer program that gets hung and won't process. They just keep repeating the same things:

(1) Where else can we go?

(2) The light is getting brighter

(3) You know this is the truth.

(4) Who have you been talking to?

(5) If God didn't choose this organization, then who did he choose?

(6) You will never find true friends in the world

(7) You will be miserable

And then they just start over at the top and go through them again.

:-)

-MF31-

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Understanding Revelation (According to the JWs)

by brotherdan in

debator (or any other current jw on the board),.

will you please explain to me the understanding of how the 7 trumpet blasts in revelation were fulfilled?

has it already happened?

mentallyfree31

Evidently, WT has been right all along with the Revelation prophecies. It's just that the "scene of this world is changing"

:-)

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Remember when assemblies were fun?

by Aphrodite in

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i just remembered when i was a kid and we would go to the assembly, it was fun because we got to buy new clothes and put extra effort into looking good.

when we would get there you could save your seats and even save some for your friends, then go off looking for them.. i used to love our circuit assembly because of the food.

it was at the assembly hall and there was a big kitchen, some of my favourite brothers worked in that kitchen, sometimes i was allowed to go in and help.

mentallyfree31

The only fun assemblies I remember are when I was a kid, and it was fun to stay in motels and go swimming. And then as a teenager it was fun to cruise the corridors looking to meet girls. Other than that, they were pretty much a drag..

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2010 partakers.... lets bet!

by cyberjesus in

lets see who gets closer to the number.

bets will end when the new yearbook is ready (when is that?).

i say 11000.

mentallyfree31

Let me just put this out here: there is no reason to assume they will give us the TRUE numbers. So if they need to adjust them a little, there's no reason to think they won't.

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1975 recording "Stay Alive 'til '75"

by Pathofthorns in

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this real audio recording of a district overseer in 1968 is one of the most disturbing things i came accross in my surfing.

it perfectly demonstrates the misleading nature of the "we never said 1975" statement.

while perhaps technically true, see if this talk doesn't make any loyal jw rethink what was really said about 1975.. download real audio if you don't already have it to listen to this talk.

mentallyfree31

My former PO told me in March of this year in our last conversation, that he is 70 years old and he believes Armageddon is only weeks away.

LOL

49

How do I cut off pioneering?

by bottleofwater in

i'm 19 and trying to get a job.

my dad won't pay for my college if i don't pioneer.. if i get a job, i can't pioneer while in college.. i can supposedly work and study, but i need a good way to get rid of pioneering (it was never my idea in the first place - blame the parents with their social coercion).. if i stop pioneering, i will be told by my parents that i don't love jehovah (not that i care what they say).. how can i do this as painlessly as possible?.

i want to move out someday and have enough money to do this.. by the way, if you read my started topics you will see my situation in more detail and that my dad is the coordinator of the boe..

mentallyfree31

Outlaw - LOL

I pioneered 5 years. It was a complete waste of time. I gave up a college scholarship to do it. Now I'm back in college, and I'm paying full price for it.

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What's a really good movie you'd recommend that most people probably haven't seen?

by A.Fenderson in

what's a really good movie you'd recommend that most people probably haven't seen?.

my personal recommendation: synecdoche, new york.

it's one of those movies that words fail utterly to capture--which really is the hallmark of a good movie, i suppose.

mentallyfree31

The Talented Mr. Ripley

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Is there anything that could actually bring down this farce of a religion?

by stuckinamovement in

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it seems as if they have survived it all.

bad press such as articles on molestations, neutrality, blood, defections of high ranking officials, crazy changes in doctrines, financial stresses, passage of a 100 years without one prophecy coming true.

yet they are still going strong with new members being recruited at a faster level than those who leave.

mentallyfree31

It's been around over 130 years, so don't expect a shutdown anytime soon. But more and more people are leaving. And they are struggling with increases. And it appears that the money is drying up. So in time, the increases may turn to decreases. Until then, we aren't over the hump yet. The internet has been a big factor. Before the internet, where could you go to find somebody to help you deconstruct WT lies? There were books out there, but how many people found them? It was much harder then.

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Fallen! Fallen is Babylon the Great!

by sacolton in

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$79 million tax demand on jehovahs witnesses threatens freedom of religionstrasbourgon september 21, 2010, the european court of human rights (echr) ruled unanimously that the complaint filed by jehovahs witnesses in france is admissible regarding alleged interference with their freedom of religion.. the government of france had imposed a retroactive 60-percent tax on all religious offerings donated to association les temoins de jehovah(also referred to as the christian association of jehovahs witnesses of france) over a period of four years from 1993 to 1996. the government initially demanded a total payment of about 45 million euros.

the amount demanded is now more than 57 million euros (more than $79,000,000 usd), which far exceeds the assets of the association.the echr took note of the fact that throughout the court proceedings within france, jehovahs witnesses had consistently maintained that the contested tax was a direct attack on their religious freedom.

in fact, it had been imposed on them within the context of the france governments fight against so-called sects.

mentallyfree31

Evidently, the governmenet of France is run by apostates, and they are seeking to destroy God's organization.

:-)

-MF31-

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12/15/10 study WT page 10, more 'faithful slave' stuff

by EndofMysteries in

page 10, par 14, (get a bucket incase you get sick).

14 in prayer to god, jesus clearly stated:.

your word is truth.

mentallyfree31

Thanks EOM, for breaking this down. I never know what's in the current magazines, unless somebody does a recap on here.

Funny stuff. Amazing that we ever believed that stuff.