DesirousOfChange

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  Question for Current and Ex Elders

  by Iamallcool in

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  have you ever reinstate somebody even if they are not that repentant?.

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  DesirousOfChange

  What Fulano said.

  If they were attending meetings, "highlighting" their WT with multi-colored markers (so the bro's walking the microphones could see), singing, and following along in the Bible, then you assumed repentance.

  Either that or the Holy Spirit would sent a message to you in your sleep to reveal their repentance.
  

  Still, more recently there is talk of it needed to be a year before reinstatement (+/-). They are wanting to try to be sure that a person isn't just faking it to sneak back in and the just disappear.
  
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  105 yrs.of Jesus Christ Rule is About To End ....What has Been accomplished ?

  by smiddy3 in

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  at this pace its going to take more than a thousand years to make earth a paradise .by my reckoning.. what have the g.b.

  been saying about his kingdom reign now that its gone over 100 years ?

  and what he has accomplished ?.

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  What is the general feeling among JW`s that it has gone this long and still no G.T. ,or Armageddon ?

  For some reason, they don't even seem to think about that fact.
  

  

  BTW -- They call the The Last Days because...............they last and they last and they last and ........
  
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  "Get Over It!"

  by The Bethelite in

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  this is what my children tell me... get over the whole jehovah's witness thing!

  yes, they tell me they have gotten over the whole thing and they tell me that and i need to also.

  my exgirl friend who was raised as a jw also has said the same thing.. my children say they got over it, however they are quick to point out how messed up their lives are now because of no college education and other missed opportunities.

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  Get over it?

  I don't think that will ever really happen completely. My wife have discussed numerous times all the things we postponed thinking we would have plenty of time to do "all that" later. For now, we needed to be pursuing Kingdom Interests first in our lives.We needed to do more, and more, and more for Joe Hoover.
  

  Fast forward and now we are getting old and I no longer believe there is any "later time" for us to make up for all the things we have missed out on. WT stole the best years of our lives. While we are doing our best to make up for lost time, there is really no way to regain what we sacrificed for all those false promises.

  
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  Cart Witnessing....They deserve the same ''cold shoulder''

  by RULES & REGULATIONS in

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  here is a man named jerry.

  on a public sidewalk, he asks attendees leaving a jehovah's witness convention in san diego a simple question, ''do jehovah's witnesses have the truth.

  not one person acknowledges him.

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  "They deserve the same cold shoulder"

  Trust me. That's about all they get (unless it's a former JW attempting to help them awaken). I've never seen anyone interacting with the JW's at the carts. They are just "counting time".
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  Watchtower Propaganda Techniques

  by Ding in

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  is there a book (books, articles, etc.

  ) that systematically examines and exposes wt propaganda techniques?

  if not, do you think such a book would be useful in helping people escape the borg or in recovering from their own indoctrination?.

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  "Combating Cult Mind Control" by Steven Hassan

  It is actually about his involvement with the Moonies, but it is textbook perfect for how JW's operate. JW's are the "poster child" for Cults.

  I put off reading this for a few years when I first awakened, but when I finally did so, I WAS SHOCKED! It cannot be explained away by mere coincidence that JW's fit perfectly in the Cult mold.
  
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  2019-11-25-BOE--Watchtower Wants More Money!

  by Atlantis in

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  2019-11-25-boe.

  donations in support of kingdom interests worldwidehttps://docdro.id/mqpxklf petra!

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  Is a jw condemned for lack of belief.

  by Crazyguy2 in

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  if someone lacks belief is that somehow mean he’s done in their eyes and no way back?

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  Hardliners would claim that Paul states that “Lack of faith” is the worst if “sins”.
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  How old is old?

  by joey jojo in

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  having a conversation with a pimi elder and i asked him how he deals with the fact that he never expected to get old.

  i get the feeling that some dubs still have the original generation explanation hard-wired, even though they claim to accept the new version.

  so my question is, how old do you have to be to be considered old?

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  I think it has a lot to do with how you feel and how you act. My mother is close to 90 and says she doesn’t feel old and she certainly does act/live as tho she’s an old lady. Still lives alone. Still drives.

  On the other hand I feel so old I refuse to even buy green bananas.
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  Just for fun...

  by Vidiot in

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  …(and for the very first time), i thought i'd post a new topic completely non-wt-related... about a subject matter i have a particular affinity for.... ..i'm a major movie geek (most people here already know that), but one of the many things i especially like are what i call "middle-finger victory lines".. they are memorable (and extremely quotable) moments of dialogue, wherein the protagonist says an extremely cool or badass comment to a very deserving defeated opponent.... ...usually (but not always) said when victory has just been literally snatched from the clutches of certain defeat, and serving as a tall, proud, and victorious flipoff to the often (but not always) shocked-at-the-sudden-turn-of-events enemy.. my ten favorites:.

  "smile, you sonofabitch.

  "sheriff brody to the shark......just before firing his last bullet into a scuba tank lodged in the charging shark's open jaws.jaws (1975).

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  DesirousOfChange

  Good reminder for someone who lost years in a Cult:

  
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  Is it me or does Stephen Lett come across......

  by JimmyYoung in

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  i get the feelings that stephen lett tries to come across as mr. rogers but there are times it oozes through that he is a lot more dominant and controlling then he lets on.

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  DesirousOfChange

  Here ya go LoveUni: