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  Did This Religion "Screw" You Up & If So--- HOW?

  by minimus in

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  drewcoul

  WOW!!

  FF and Gutted really nailed it.

  I got married at 19.......we all know how those turn out.....We have one child who is 17 now. My ex was df'd and got remarried to an elder a couple of years ago.....I have since been df'd and my ex's husband got removed as an elder last week!!!! I must admit, though it was kind of bogus reasons for removing him....

  I have found that it still "hangs" with me.....the inferiority complex, and the outcast feeling. My wife doesn't understand why I read this site, or why I post here. It is comforting to read posts from all of you who are made of the same cloth as I am.
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  How can they claim that every prophecy in the bible has a greater fulfilment today???

  by highdose in

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  seems that the gb take every story they can in the bible and claim that although it happened then, it will also happen now.

  although this time it will be the gb who is jehosophat, david, paul, jermiah... etc etc take your pick.

  what scriptual basis do they have for this belief??

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  Highdose:

  I have wondered this many times. Things that happened in the OT aren't prophecies. They are stories. There is nothing in the Bible to indicate that anything in the OT would have two fulfillments. The only thing that has a future fulfillment are prophecies. I can understand using OT stories as examples, and showing the moral of a story, but to say that everything in the OT is a prophecy just because it happened once is ludicrous.
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  What Doctrines or JW Views Did You Not Find Too Believable?

  by minimus in

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  the thought that a loving creator would violently destroy anyone not belonging to the jehovah's witness religion including billions of babies seemed just not right.. the fact that you could recieve some "acceptable" blood components but could not donate those same lifesaving yourself seemed strange.

  you could recieve a blood fraction but you couldn't give it.. any others you can think of?

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  The idea that we were engaged in a life saving work since anyone who dies before armageddon without being a witness gets resurrected anyway. If they are a witness and fall away before armageddon, and don't come back they will not be resurrected. If you used Pascal's wager theory, you are better off not being a witness than being a witness. It is completely inconceivable that anyone who has been a witness and died is better off than anyone who was never a witness and died. Even the Witnesses own theology proves this to be the case.
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  Email from mom: First Prophecy in at least 20 years fulfilled in the last two weeks ...

  by Soldier77 in

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  if you get a chance, read the latest daniel publication (about 11 years old ...) on page 59-60. whats happening in the middle east and north africa is a fulfillment of that prophecy.. love,.

  mom.

  so i dust off the ole cdrom and look it up and this is what it says:.

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  According to what I remember, the final world power in this prophecy was the Anglo-American world power. It had absolutely nothing to do with ANYTHING going on in the middle east.
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  What world events would cause you to run back to the JW,s

  by jam in

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  a year or two after leaving the borg.

  i was on shaky ground.. any major catastrophe in the world that took place, i thought.

  today i can not think of one single event.

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  When the WTBS can make ONE prediction that comes true. OR if the UN actually turns on religion like they have said was going to happen (remember the wild beast turning on the harlot?). Then, I must admit, as most of us born in's probably would, I would have to at least consider it.
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  About the Adam and Eve time gap....

  by Lozhasleft in

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  what's got me a bit befuddled is this.... when eve was created she was physically perfect right?

  and apparently god blessed them which counted as a marriage.

  so....that means that satan's deception of eve must have been almost immediate?....because being perfect she would have conceived virtually straight away, surely?

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  Do you know what the first thing Adam said to Eve when he saw her?

  -"Stand back....I'm not sure how big this thing gets!"
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  Discussion involving my Dad & other long timers - Mood is definately different

  by Doubting Bro in

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  i've seen several posts relating to the mood among longtime jws here recently.

  i thought i would add to that collection and recount a discussion i recently had with my dad and a small group of folks about his age.

  quick background on the group:.

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  drewcoul

  as I try to explain to people who don't understand JW's... it's not something you ever just "get over."

  It's truly a difficult thing to explain. I don't even just mean the pain, I mean the pure craziness and complexity of it all.

  
  Right on! That's why I enjoy this forum. You can't just talk to someone at work or a "worldly" friend about the things we were taught all of our lives. They don't understand. My wife doesn't even understand how even though when someone leaves, they still love the people they knew who they spent hours and hours with in Field service and at conventions, and the fact that these other witnesses were our entire social world. Only we know what it's like, and to me this site is therapeutic for that reason.
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  Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia ...

  by compound complex in

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  you can be helped, for a fee, to conquer your irrational fears.

  there is a lifetime guarantee.

  my question is whether the above phobia truly does put an unhealthy number of people into trauma; it is not my fear ... please check this out:.

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  drewcoul

  Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia- Fear of the number 666.
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  I sued the local congregation

  by chukky 594 in

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  several years ago, before my wife and i left, my 5 yr old daughter got up during the watchtower to cross the aisle to sit with someone else.

  she tripped on the roving microphone wire and smashed her head on the foot of a metal chair.

  the bleeding was profuse and an ambulance was called.

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  Chukky,

  Perhaps I should have first welcomed you to JWN.

  There is no question as to liability. Obviously if someone trips on a cord that is strewn over the floor, the property owner is liable. As a recovering insurance agent, I am aware of the legal definitions of negligence and assumed risk. It is my own personal opinion that suing for anything above and beyond medical costs when there was clearly not malice involved is not the right thing to do.

  My sister in law is a personal injury attorney, and I understand how they make their money. By litigating. They keep about a third of any settlement or judgements. IMHO these are the people who have inspired a culture of suing over anything and anytime there is a good chance of receiving a chunk of money that will make it worth their time.

  Again, I'm not saying the KH isn't liable, just that they shouldn't have been sued especially years after the fact.

  I sincerely hope your daughter is doing well, and her health problems have been able to be treated and hopefully cured.
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  I sued the local congregation

  by chukky 594 in

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  several years ago, before my wife and i left, my 5 yr old daughter got up during the watchtower to cross the aisle to sit with someone else.

  she tripped on the roving microphone wire and smashed her head on the foot of a metal chair.

  the bleeding was profuse and an ambulance was called.

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  Does anyone really think the Witnesses saw that the cord might trip this young girl and didn't care? I'm sure there were many who came to her aid, although I'm not sure since I wasn't there. I would also guess the brother who was handling the microphone didn't intentionally put the cord in a place where she would trip. I would see nothing wrong with filing a claim on the property owners insurance, but to sue for damages over this, in my opinion is not right.