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  The slow trickle has become a steady stream!

  by freddo in

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  in the last few weeks it seems that instead of one or two new posters a week we seem to be getting several every day.

  many seem to be long time jw's who are troubled by the path of the organisation.

  this is really encouraging to those of us who have been here sometime.. welcome!

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  Half banana

  Yep, quite agree Freddo, JWs are dropping like flies. The GB will say it's a sign of the times.

  With what must a fruitless campaign to restore leavers and apostates back to the fold, will they make capital of this and say that the drawbridge, so to speak, has gone up.They would then put all the emphasis on remaining faithful to the Borg, not so much looking for new members as much as staying on board?

  It would be one way of explaining away the disillusionment within and the lack of interest in the org generally.
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  It's not "new light" anymore it's "new lies" .

  by truth doubter in

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  this is my first post.

  i never dreamed i'd be on a site like this.

  i was baptized 43 years ago and pretty much have done and seen it all.

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  Welcome "Truth" doubter, very glad you made it to these shores.

  Any person or religion which goes on and on about "Truth" has surely got something to hide.

  The Watchtower is one of the most elaborate propaganda machines designed to keep its followers in the thrall of its deluded leadership. Glad to hear you are mentally awake...and looking forward to more of your story.
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  Quality of newer membership

  by Lostandfound in

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  on a previous post mamacita29 pointed up the low quality of new jw converts.. is the quality falling even more as the society use lower than low meeting, talks, broadcasts etc.. when i was active initially the organisation and standards seemed totally different today.

  i have seen hard working intelligent elders fall by death or exhaustion.

  the younger generation that came along never really grasped responsibility hence shortage of good elders, never mind the watered down to almost nothing quality of meetings.

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  @ Village idiot, "Satan eating his children"...That's the way to do it, said Mr Punch. No new converts then it has to be feed off your own children. What happens though when there are no new converts and your own children leave the Borg?...party time!

  @ctrwtf, and what other organisation condemns higher education?

  The future for the JWs is Idiocracy (but without the amusing ironies)
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  What is the alternative to JW?

  by Formerbrother in

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  i mean this with all due respect, i would like to hear from genuine people who think jw have it wrong and then what is the truth?.

  im not talking about silly little quibbles here and there.. is jehovah real?

  the the bible is word?

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  I agree with you Bonsai and Macys, I joined the local Humanist group and heard interesting people who genuinely wanted to help their fellow humans.

  One word of advice though, don't treat such an organisation as a substitute religion!

  The only sensible alternative to JW indoctrination is a broad and evidence based, critically examined education.

  All religion crumbles when examined on the basis of testable facts and events which are sceptically considered.

  To be a JW is to be gullible...be sceptical instead.
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  What is the alternative to JW?

  by Formerbrother in

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  i mean this with all due respect, i would like to hear from genuine people who think jw have it wrong and then what is the truth?.

  im not talking about silly little quibbles here and there.. is jehovah real?

  the the bible is word?

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  People can believe in exactly what they like.

  However the worst thing to believe in is "Belief".
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  Pandora's Box is now open!

  by pandorasbox1914 in

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  hi everyone, i have been lurking for some time now and decided to open the box (hence pandora).

  about a year ago i became aware of child abuse within the org, out of curiosity (just like pandora) i opened the box and the evils have been pouring out ever since regarding the org.

  anyway, this came to a head last summer with the arc.

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  Welcome Pandora, glad you opened your box and thanks for posting. Looking forward to your 'true' story.
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  It's Too Late to Return to Jehovah!

  by naazira in

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  yes friends it is too late for most of you to return to jehovah's org.

  based on the new garlic bread parable in this month's broadcast with the illustration using loaves of bread.

  it is obvious that the doors of the arc has been closed shut by jehovah's hand for some of us.. according to the new parable that can be found on jw tv.

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  Half banana

  The unforgivable sin I would say is that dangerous ignorance decreed by the GB that obedience to them is more important than life. Jehovah's Witnesses have re-introduced what effectively is human sacrifice through their no-blood teaching.

  How many suicides have there been among JWs because of their doctrines, especially on homosexuality?

  Do they care about the welfare of the flock? Not at all! As the Royal Commission in Australia found out, they are only interested in their good name...forget the emotional needs of the abused.

  This is what sin is.
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  Evolution is a Fact #15 - Robinson Crusoe

  by cofty in

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  there are two sorts of islands.

  one sort provides powerful evidence of evolution at a species level.. firstly there are continental islands.

  these were once part of larger land masses but they were cut off by rising water levels or the movement of tectonic plates.

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  Excellent information and defense of reality in the attack made by those who who falsely reason that "God must be true".

  You also have covered the territory often called "convergent" evolution. I think that expression is misleading because the principle of evolution by selection cannot literally converge, radiation is better and describes the developmental element in evolution. (Also useful is the word 'exaptation' by implying how it happened?) Variations of organs are induced in one isolated species which happen to echo the role and forms of other species as your illustration shows. Why? For survival.

  If as a species you haven't got the proper biological kit...you die.

  If God created everything six thousand or even a million years ago, why have all the original species died out or everything developed into something else (as geology proves)?

  Creation is a belief for those desperate for a supernatural explanation when all along evolution has the tried and tested reason for how life is today.
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  The Governing Body does just what they say Apostates do

  by Watchtower-Free in

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  Half banana

  The GB propaganda machinery stops at nothing. Any form of deception is permitted to keep their slaves believing the great lie that they are God's exclusive channel.
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  Evolution is a Fact #11 - Tiktaalik

  by cofty in

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  one of the biggest gulfs that life has had to cross was the transition from sea to dry land.. fish have conical shaped heads, reptiles have flat heads.

  fish have no necks; their heads are attached to their shoulders by a series of bony plates.

  land-dwelling animals all have necks; their heads can move independently of their shoulders.

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  Half banana

  Love Uni, the saying was that all of the pre-human fossils could all be put into a paper bag. That idea went back to the nineteen twenties or early thirties. Nevertheless it was dishonestly quoted by the willfully ignorant WTBTS into the sixties or later, I think it was repeated in their Evolution book.

  Today there are thousands of parts of skeletons of hominins, in some caves up to seventeen almost complete specimens as in the Pit of Bones Cave in Spain. These are unusually small Neanderthal-like humans dated to 430,000 years before present.