Posts by Amelia Ashton

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Automatic Donations Introduced Online

by JW_Rogue in

this was announced a couple of weeks ago on the clam.

you can now donate to any congregation, the worldwide work, and assemblies online.

further they have implemented recurring payments "because the hard part about donating is remembering to donate," they actually said that!

Amelia Ashton

How soon before spirituality is measured by the size of your donation?

If God needs your money so bad why doesn't he remind people to give?

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Sincere question to those who no longer believe in God

by nowwhat? in

i get it, not a fan of yahweh the desert god.

but what about jesus?

anything wrong with his teachings like the sermon on the mount and the example he set.

Jesus believed in the flood story. If he were truly God's son, divine, came down from heaven etc he would have known it was a myth and corrected those who believed it......or he lied about it. Whichever is right he was wrong so I don't believe he was anything more than an ordinary man.

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When You See A JW Approaching What Are Your Thoughts?

by minimus in

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i used to get a weird feeling in my stomach when i would see a witness approaching.... almost a sense of dread.

now, i really don’t care.

i have even made it a point to do the approaching when i see a witness trying to convert an ignorant person..

Amelia Ashton

I used to feel sick and shaky when I saw them. I rarely see any I recognise now so not sure how I would react if I met one I used to know. I can talk to ones I don't know at my door no problem now.

I would greet any from my past and not mention the JW thing and treat them like "a normal person". If they brought it up (you know they would lol) I would just say I haven't been to meetings for a while and change the subject. I hope I am well past the feelings of sick and dread after 9 years of abstinence.

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Some Good News About A Local Boy

by Amelia Ashton in

they must be so relieved after all they've been through..

Amelia Ashton

They must be so relieved after all they've been through.

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CRISIS OF CONSCIENCE

by Newly Enlightened in

https://youtu.be/dpq7j8lkc98.

Amelia Ashton

Every library needs a copy. It's where I was able to borrow and read it from.

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Hello to everyone in Devon, England!

by jdubhub in

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friends

this is my very first post.

i wonder if there is anybody out there who lives in devon, england, where we now live.

would like to here from you.. jdubhub

Amelia Ashton

There are a few in Cornwall regularly have meetups arranged thru facebook

I am in sunny Southsea (snowy atm)

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In one sentence, can you pinpoint a single event that woke you up?

by Brian J in

my turning point: serving on a child abuse judicial case.

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Amelia Ashton

No one single big aha moment but seeing lots of "unchristian like" and un loving behaviour that stayed in my mind and niggle away making me dissatisfied.

The first apostate website I stumbled across showed the plagiarized images and mentioned Jimmy Swaggart.

I faded and now 9 years later they've forgotten I ever existed.

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Born again or born from above

by Steel in

last year i was at the memorial and the speaker was saying something about how the phrase born again was actually a mistake and it should say born from above.

jesus was actually referring to those with a heavenly hope.

last night i was flipping the channels and there is a religious program talking about being born again.

Amelia Ashton

From my understanding all JWs were all considered "born again" and going to heaven until the numbers grew to more than their very limiting and short sighted number of 144,000 and then "new light" had to be invented to account for the rising numbers of those selling their literature and still recruiting more but no Armageddon and where would these go if heavenly places were already taken.

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The Dark-Skinned Early Briton.

by fulltimestudent in

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friends

i'm sure many others noted in yesterday's news feeds, that scientists deciphering the dna of the skeleton remains of a man thought to have died some 10,000 years ago in the south of england, have presented him as:.

as blue-eyed (now that's quite english) but as dark skinned.

and, that's not very english, to the horror of many.. (link: https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/02/ancient-face-cheddar-man-reconstructed-dna-spd/ ).

Amelia Ashton

And some comments from Daily Mail readers show many have not evolved very far at all.

Check out @Grumples_’s Tweet: https://twitter.com/Grumples_/status/961212982045892609?s=09

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Using Watchtowers Own Reasoning Against Them RE: The Governing Body

by pale.emperor in

something occurred to me today.

quite randomly as i was working away at my desk i remembered an illustration from the bible teach book in which satan claimed he knew better than jehovah about ruling mankind.

here's the illustration from chapter 11 of that book:.

Amelia Ashton

That illustration always bothered me.

How many children woud need to die before the teacher stepped in and stopped the "experiment" and deemed it a fail?

If God was really settling an argument about letting humans rule themsves then he shouldn't have interfered with a flood. (I know it didnt happen but bear with).

What if one of those who drowned was the one person who could have risen up to rule fairly, wisely and unite all mankind to end injustice, poverty and war. God killed them.

If God reads hearts so well and he wouldn't have drowned this one person why save Noah (and drown innocent animals) which achieved diddly squat?

If this was really all true the first death (Abel) should have been the end of the experiment.