Dislike for religion in any of its forms, and distrust of politicians of all stripes. That hasn't changed!
Bungi Bill
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What JW habits do you still have?
by Exelder insince leaving the jw's after over 4 decades, i can see exactly what it is and hate everything it stands for.
however, there are still some jw habits and traits that i can't get rid of:.
1. i can't swear in general conversation (i'd have to be really angry).
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1969 Awake on Education - A Sore Spot for Me
by NotBlind inmy father would have started college 49 years ago this week.
about three months earlier, the week he graduated high school, the awake!
magazine came out with some very clear direction to teenagers.
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Bungi Bill
In its issue of July 15, 1976, The Watchtower,commenting on the inadvisability of setting our sights on a certain date,
It was a lot of bloody good telling everybody this in July of 1976 - the damage was already done!
The old story of closing the stable door after the horse has bolted comes to mind here.
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1969 Awake on Education - A Sore Spot for Me
by NotBlind inmy father would have started college 49 years ago this week.
about three months earlier, the week he graduated high school, the awake!
magazine came out with some very clear direction to teenagers.
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Bungi Bill
You DO recieive a college education from reading Awakes!
It is called a Bachelor of Stupidity, and is awarded by the University of Lower Crackpot in Northern Tasmania.
Seriously, I can only agree with everybody else here’s negative remarks about that certain Awake article in May of 1969. Being 14 when that was printed, I, too was affected by it. Last year, when I confronted some JWs at a literature cart about this, I was assured that “you are not old”. (That, when in 1969, the average life expectancy of a man was only 68!).
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Has Politics Hurt Your Friendships?
by minimus inif you want to believe that jehovah’s witnesses have the truth, that’s your right.
if you want to believe in global warming being the most horrific thing we have to face,that’s your right.
have you been adversely affected by political stands and beliefs?
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Bungi Bill
Punkofnice,
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Has Politics Hurt Your Friendships?
by minimus inif you want to believe that jehovah’s witnesses have the truth, that’s your right.
if you want to believe in global warming being the most horrific thing we have to face,that’s your right.
have you been adversely affected by political stands and beliefs?
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Bungi Bill
In a word, no.
Practically, every one I have involvement with is of a similar mind to me
ie. has little confidence in any of them, and does not allow themselves to get bent all out of shape over the matter of politics.
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London Protest 2018
by josephus inwell today marks the beginning and biggest day of our protest at the london excel.. we believe it's a record number at around 100 exjws at the front door.. we spoke to lots of jw's and one young man studying who has quit after talking to us.
we've been approached privately by jw's who thanked us for coming and the security at the event treated us very well.. if anyone wants to see some clips they are available on my channel the great apostate.. thanks to all for the support and love..
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Bungi Bill
Some of us have likely heard of David A Reed, a former JW elder and later Baptist Minister. He is also a rather prolific author of religious books, including one entitled "How to get Jehovahs Witnesses to Listen".
The following is an extract from a January 1990 interview with him by Investigator magazine, and specifically refers to the role protestors played in this couple (David and Penni Reed) waking up to the fraud that is the JW religion.
What broke the spell and enabled you to leave the organization?
DAVID: "Bible reading! The Scripture is true that says, 'the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword'." (Hebrews 4:12 New King James)
PENNI: "We were at a Witness convention, and. a handful of opposers were picketing outside. One of them carried a sign that said, 'READ THE BIBLE, NOT THE WATCHTOWER'. We had no sympathy for the picketers, but we did feel convicted by this sign, because we knew that we had been reading the Watchtower to the exclusion of reading the Bible."
(For those interested, a record of the full interview can be found at https://ed5015.tripod.com/jwelderdavidreed10)
From accounts such as this and others, it would surely be rather narrow minded to dismiss all anti-JW protests as ineffectual (or worse)?
(Yeah, all-right, I know this is "merely" anecdoatal evidence! However, even anecdotal evidence has to be taken into account).
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London Protest 2018
by josephus inwell today marks the beginning and biggest day of our protest at the london excel.. we believe it's a record number at around 100 exjws at the front door.. we spoke to lots of jw's and one young man studying who has quit after talking to us.
we've been approached privately by jw's who thanked us for coming and the security at the event treated us very well.. if anyone wants to see some clips they are available on my channel the great apostate.. thanks to all for the support and love..
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Bungi Bill
It took me seven years to extract my MS/Reg Pio mind from the indoctrination but it started with a tiny seed.
We shouldn't dismiss out of hand the consequences that can result from introducing even just one element of doubt into somebody's mind.
Receive enough of these for long enough and who knows what might happen. It certainly worked for me! My waking up to the TTAT came from the accumulation of a long series of doubts, rather than one spectacular "Road to Damascus" type of experience. ( And by the sound of things, Farmer Jim 1 experienced something similar).
A certain old expression "The Ordinary rather than The Spectacular" comes very much to mind here!
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London Protest 2018
by josephus inwell today marks the beginning and biggest day of our protest at the london excel.. we believe it's a record number at around 100 exjws at the front door.. we spoke to lots of jw's and one young man studying who has quit after talking to us.
we've been approached privately by jw's who thanked us for coming and the security at the event treated us very well.. if anyone wants to see some clips they are available on my channel the great apostate.. thanks to all for the support and love..
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Bungi Bill
Just because you weren't cut out for it doesn't mean that others weren't or aren't.
Very good point. When it comes to this sort of thing, one size definitely doesn't fit all!
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Why go back to the Old Testament?
by Lost in the fog inwhy do jws insist on still quoting from the old testament to back up some of their wacky ideas?
such as on blood, beards, abortion, tattoos, etc.
surely if the mosaic law code was nailed to the torture stake all of its parts were cancelled.
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Bungi Bill
FTS,
Once again, very interesting.
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Bad teachings for kids
by Freedom rocks induring my time in the cult i sometimes sat during a talk thinking why on earth are they talking about topics like this with kids in the audience.
talking about sex and masturbation was probably the worst one i heard and my daughter was only 5 at the time.. what inappropriate talks or comments have you heard over the years that children should not be exposed to really?.
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Bungi Bill
I give my late father full marks here.
His newly-converted JW mother managed to lure him along to a few public talks (mainly at Circuit Assemblies) and other JW meetings. However, he was quick to note that much of the content was not suitable for the many children in the audience. Consequently, he resisted the pressure from his JW mother to have us kids reared as Witnesses.
For that I cannot thank him enough!