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  Babies Who Are Not Dead From An Abortion

  by minimus in

  1. jw
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  a woman gets an abortion.

  the baby is supposed to die because of the abortion but doesn’t.

  should that living baby be put to death or should the baby be given medical help to survive?.

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  wannabefree

  Republicans vs Democrats

  Conservative vs Liberal

  Jehovah's Witness vs Worldly Person

  How convenient that everyone can be categorized as one or the other.
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  Should I do this?

  by CivilServant79 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  hi there this is my first post as i’m not sure what to do.

  my family (both sides) are well known in our circuit and very dedicated to the truth.

  but we’re relatively normal people and i love them all so much.

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  wannabefree

  When I was going through my obvious change in participation and meeting attendance, an older elder friend asked if he could meet with me, just the two of us.

  We met for coffee at a local restaurant, I figured a public setting was much better.

  In my case, I already knew that I would have to be cautious in the way I said things as I had already had private conversations with a couple of elder friends and had been given advice here on this site.

  I guess you could say I've successfully faded, although I'm not living anything in secret in my opposition to my former faith and my wife still is a believer.

  It seems that the longer you go without making a scene, once you've gone long enough for the elders to stop trying to shepherd you in some way, they just let you go as long as you aren't an obvious threat to others. At least that's how it's been for me.

  JW's have an art of double speak and misdirection. Use that when talking to an elder. Don't say things in a way they can be taken as a direct statement.

  Talk in a way like you have questions about something, but don't commit to an answer. I made a comment about not understanding something about the faithful slave and gave details, the elder then asked if I believed it was God's organization ... I only reaffirmed that I just didn't understand this point for whatever reasons.

  Unless you are sure because this elder confides in you that he is with you, treat him as any other JW elder. His goal is to bring you back, but if you show yourself to be a threat, judicial action is a very likely outcome.

  Welcome and best wishes.
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  What Music have you Been Listening to this Last Year ? Post You tubes if you Like !

  by flipper in

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wktxjuyiat4.

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  https://youtu.be/4WSkHvvRIP0
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  What Music have you Been Listening to this Last Year ? Post You tubes if you Like !

  by flipper in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wktxjuyiat4.

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  wannabefree

  https://youtu.be/7hMaHDTw-pI
  
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  Great Announcement

  by Tiana in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  am a newcomer.

  had a starnge metting in local news last night.. check it out.

  actual info starts at 50;12. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plxdjs13l0k.

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  wannabefree

  Jeez! I watched. I feel so dirty 😭😫

  Are the sheep eating this up for the most part or rolling their eyes?

  What the hell is going on?

  Are elders believing this?

  Cult!
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  10 years ago I woke up and found this site

  by cantleave in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  this was my first post on here...... https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/177753/hi-hope-am-welcome .

  there have been a lot of changes since then .. i am healthier, happier, wealthier.

  i have put the jw's well and truly behind me.

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  wannabefree

  Congratulations and Happy anniversary! Good for you! You're a year ahead of me.
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  Sell your home and pioneer already!

  by wannabefree in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  a few weeks ago i took the jw channel off of our roku.

  i was just cleaning off unused channels and wondered if my wife was actually watching this.

  yep.

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  Longhairgal ... Sell your home and pioneer? I guess you could call it a joke ... Sarcasm maybe. The start of the talk was so dire. I have no idea how it ended or what else was said at any point in the annual meeting. It was sickening. Just pisses me off. Wasted so many years believing. Family still stuck in eating it all up.
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  Sell your home and pioneer already!

  by wannabefree in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  a few weeks ago i took the jw channel off of our roku.

  i was just cleaning off unused channels and wondered if my wife was actually watching this.

  yep.

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  Are you ready?

  They could really spice that talk up with a laser show and using part of Disturbed's song as an introduction.

  With the urgency they really need to put some excitement into it to move the audience.

  Somebody should do a JW video version to this song.

  https://youtu.be/GOfwgyun1Hk
  
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  Sell your home and pioneer already!

  by wannabefree in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  a few weeks ago i took the jw channel off of our roku.

  i was just cleaning off unused channels and wondered if my wife was actually watching this.

  yep.

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  wannabefree

  A few weeks ago I took the JW channel off of our Roku. I was just cleaning off unused channels and wondered if my wife was actually watching this. Yep. It's baaaack.

  Anyway ... It has been a while so I took a look.

  I watched the introduction of a talk at the annual meeting. The obese, overlapping generation governing buddy (Sanderson?) introduced by exaggerated expressions funny guy.

  Oh my Gawd!

  Are you ready?! The return of the King of the North? The fear mongering. Everything going on in the world is all about us! Russia took Watchtower property and fulfills prophecy of standing in the holy place (or whatever) Attack of Gog of Magog suspense (I had to shut it off at this point, just couldn't take anymore.).

  Come on!

  This is obviously it! 50 years after JWs were selling homes for 1975 end and cashing in life insurance, taking out loans, pioneering.

  Surely this is even bigger today! I mean all of the blood moons of the past couple of years. 100 year anniversary of Jah choosing his organization.

  Why isn't my wife pioneering? I'm not sure where she even comes up with her 2-4 hours she probably reports (most likely talking to our minor child).

  Why do JWs go on vacations? If you were standing outside of an apartment complex that had smoke pouring out of it what would you do? Go through as much as humanly possible and bang on doors to warn people until as many escaped as possible? For sure you wouldn't head out on a selfish leisurely vacation and risk the opportunity to save just one more person.

  This is no time for slacking! It's so close! Doing anything other than preaching could possibly make one bloodguilty and lose their own salvation.

  For GAWD's SAKE! Sell your home and pioneer already! It's the right thing to do!

  Rant over for now.
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  My Letter to President Trump Requesting That IRS Revoke Watchtower's Tax-exempt status

  by Roger Kirkpatrick in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  january 23, 2019. the honorable donald j. trump,.

  president of the united states;.

  the white house.

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  wannabefree

  Good points.

  In my opinion, if you want to appeal to President Trump, the key is to make the message as short as possible with a heavy dose of appealing to his ego. Also, even if Obama was right about something, Trump would likely take the opposite position just because it was Obama.