I will definitely be tuning to that. I never understood the whole thing about homosexuality being a choice, and was not something someone was born as. I was taught that there was nothing wrong with being homosexual growing up until I started studying with the JW's.
Igot2bme
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JW Talk Radio Launches This Month
by PublishingCult injw talk radio will launch this month on wed 5/11/11, 12pm pst.. .
here is a sneak peak of jw talk radio's first discussion topic.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ft83y58xyy0.
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ARE YOU READY FOR ARMAGEDDON 5/21/2011?
by botchtowersociety injudgment day.
the end of the world is almost here!.
holy god will bring judgment day on.
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Igot2bme
I would like to know what you bring to a "rapture party"......I mean besides yourself?
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Introducing Myself
by StandFirm inhello to jwn!
this is standfirm.
i mainly post on the topix jehovah's witness forum, but i decided to give it a try over here also.
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Igot2bme
This is going to be interesting.
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Hi from Andy from state of Montana, introduce myself
by andys inhi wanted to introduce myself, i wanted to intoduce myself once all the dust cleared more and i am thinking more clearly, in feb. 2011 is when i decided to leave jw, my way out of the organization has actually been since july of 2010 gradually over time i started to question the jw religion, in july of 2010 i was still living at home with my parents, my dad at the time told me he was going to force me to go to meetings but i started to drift out the other way it got to the point where my dad told me i had to eventually leave, in november of 2010 alot of things happened, i was finally able to find my own place, just at the right time i found a very good deal on a duplex for $350 a month something that i can easily afford even on low income, usually alot of places even where i live are around $600 a month, in alot of ways i just about nearly was homeless.. in feb. of 2011 is when i decided to read the book crisis of conscience, the very first night getting through 80 pages is when my blindfolds came off, i immediatley accepted christ as my savior, also in the process i did alot of extensive research, i did research on alot of mainstream religons, also jwfacts.com helped me out alot on where to go, i decided to check out the baptist church, everything was beyond what i expected, i am not afraid to walk into a different church to me its helping me heal all the pain that the jw religon has caused, also recently i got baptized and now am a born again christian.. .
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Igot2bme
Hello Andy! I am from Montana also, welcome to the board!
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Jehovahs Witness Suicides
by sister x inim noticing that alot of witnesses commit suicide.
one sister i knew a few yrs back, in her early 40's, was having marriage problems in the hall for yrs and everyone knew it.
they only told her to rely on jehovah and asked the elders for guidance.
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Igot2bme
I have often wondered this same thing myself. I had been very suicidal off and on throughout my time in the org and had went to others in the congregation for help but I was told to pray to Jehovah, go to more meetings and read more Watchtowers. I had it all planned out, I was going to hang myself in my art studio. The only thing that kept me from doing it was imagining my children coming home from school and discovering my body. If it weren't for my children I wouldn't be here. Within the last 5 years I have known of 6 people who have taken their lives, 4 were baptised and 2 were young men raised in the org. There needs to be more of a concerted effort to help the ones crying out for help from the ones who are in charge of shepherding the flock, such as pointing them in the right direction when they need professional help.
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Does creating low self esteem in the R&F play into the hands of the GB?
by highdose inofficaly they say that they don't want the r&f to have low self esteem, they say that low self esteem is from the devil.. .
but they create a culture that cannot help but give their r&f crippling self esteem, the constant empasis is on looking at the flaws in oneself.
"pummeling" yourself because of your sins, all the publications tell us over and over again that we are "dust" and deserve nothing.. .
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Igot2bme
I believe that the GB uses this and that it is typical cult tactic. People are more controllable, and malleable when their self esteem is low.
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God is sexist! Let's spread the word! THIS IS FOR YOU LADIES.
by whereami inhere you go ladies, a good christian man.
every christian womans fantasy.
you just better make sure you keep quiet.
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Igot2bme
What a bunch of misogynistic BS!!! That is one of the reasons that I am never go back to a bible based religion again, I got tired of being treated as if I were sub-human because of my gender.
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What was your "aha" moment....
by botchtowersociety in....that made you decide to leave the botchtower society?
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Igot2bme
Mine was when I stumbled across a topic on the truth about the Malawi/Mexican cards, then after that the 1975 failed prophecy. I eventually started looking up everything I could on the WTS and it's origins. It was both an eye opening and liberating time for me.
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How Many of Them Do You Know About?
by clarity inafter flipper's thread about the wt child abuse cases, i started to think about how many children i know of personally who have been sexually abused by a jw!.
as someone who is not especially 'in the know', it's amazing that i do know five of them.
one who was a small baby, at the time!.
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Igot2bme
My niece was molested when she was 8 years old and the perp was an elders son. Her parents found out a couple of years later but by then he had moved out of state. They had reported to the elders of his hall but never reported to the authorities.
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Star Trek was pivotal to me growing up and here is the best of it, imo
by sabastious ini saw this episode when i was a little kid and it has stuck with me since and will so until i die.
i highly recommend taking the 42 minutes out of your life to watch it.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5djw1kzcki.
-sab.
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Igot2bme
The inner light episode was my favorite one out of them all. I pulled it up on You Tube about 6 months ago for my daughter to watch, she enjoyed it. We both had teary eyes at the end.