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  Formal Introduction - Hi!!!

  by Gustv Cintrn in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  been lurking here for yyyyyeeeeears, but was too busy with school, jw life and other interests.

  now that i'm done with education for the time being anyway, plus the jw life is under pretty good control, i can spend some time and throw my views here and there in some attractive topics.. born-in, and deeply indoctrinated, but with life experience came better comprehension of my lot in life and have come to accept that, just like the family one is born into, jws are my family, friends, my ultimate and overall identity.

  a jw is what i am; like the song 'hotel california', and like so many on this board, check out anytime you'd like but one could never leave.. remember like it was yesterday the failed 'the wolf is coming' calls of 1975, mid-80s, late 90's, y2k, 2004 or so, and same will be with the latest effort to get people overly excited about 'the end'.

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  whathappened

  Nice to have you here.
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  Turns out it was true - "the truth" was the only reason my marriage lasted so long

  by Shattered Reality in

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  2. relationships

  i haven't really been on here in like, a year.

  my stbx introduced me to this site and then a whole buch of life happened and i just sort of never had time for forums.

  but here i am at 3am, another sleepless night, and i feel like i am simply lost.

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  whathappened

  Kick this bumb to the curb...the sooner the better.
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  WT makes comic books now!

  by wifibandit in

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  2. bible

  full set http://imgur.com/a/jvcla .

  i put that album together so you don't have to give www.jw.borg any more traffic .

  sample:.

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  whathappened

  This is all part of their new "trendy" JW.org persona.
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  New - JW Flash Mobs...

  by konceptual99 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  ... all this emotive stuff they have been gorging on recently is making some dubs go really vocal.... .

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vc2cra-rwm8.

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  whathappened

  Yes, this would never have been tolerated in the old days. They would all be reproved for "conduct unbecoming a Christian" and not keeping Jehovah's house clean and spotless from the world. Kingdom Halls are all dedicated to furthering Jehovah's Kingdom and not for anything that would be considered fun. I am so glad I am out.
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  How to Avoid the Faithless Spirit of most here-

  by DocHouse in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  1- pray to god (whomever you may imagine him to be) asking for understanding.

  2- study the background about the bible (from non-religious sources) to see where it came from.

  3- discard (or at least set aside) chuyrch claims and dogma.. 4- read it, looking up archaeological/historical sources about the places and peoples referred to.

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  whathappened

  DocHouse,

  To save a great deal of time, just go to www.thethinkingatheist.com. After reading there you will not be able to defend the Bible or its God any longer.

  Just saying...

  Besto wishes to you in your journey for the truth.
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  just what am I supposed to believe now??

  by purrpurr in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  while i'm glad i found this site, it has also crumbled to bits everything i've believed in my whole life.

  i feel like the certainty, magic and wonder has gone out of my life.

  this has left a huge hole in my soul.

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  whathappened

  I felt the same way since leaving almost four years ago, up until recently. Now I feel ok about it. Once I accepted that the Bible is not and could not be Gods word, my search lead me to atheism. Find a cause you believe in and get involved. For me it is educating others about the truth about Jehovah's Witnesses and politics.
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  1 Corinthians 10:9

  by lambsbottom in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  sitting here reading about 1 corinthians 10:9 and how the wt uses "jehovah" instead of "christ" in the nwt.

  looking in the interlinear and it says "xbc".

  anyone know what that means?.

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  whathappened

  56 views and no answer...guess no one knows. Any good guesses?
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  Do Witnesses still go door-to-door??

  by MsShockJock in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  just wondering if they still go door-to-door?

  i never see groups of people walking around the neighborhoods all dressed up or out in fastfood restaurants on saturday mornings or groups of people driving around in cars.

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  whathappened

  My still in daughter goes out all the time. She doesn't like to, but she goes.
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  This is the activity you can see in the midwest

  by troubled mind in

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  https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10201968499767932.

  yep !

  this is the kind of excitement that goes on in my area :).

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  whathappened

  Poor cow. She must have been terrified!
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  not on JW.ORG: Why did "Holy Spirit" direct Jehovah's Witnesses Governing Body member JF Rutherford to build a private luxury compound ( Beth Sarim) during the great depression?

  by Balaamsass2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  beth sarimfrom wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

  coordinates: 324616.36n 1170556.70w.

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  whathappened

  This is public record and there is no way they can deny this. We have an old conventionpamphlet which shows a photo of it. This is also briefly mentioned in the Proclaimer's book.