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  How would you/did you categorize the elders in YOUR hall!

  by Truthexplorer in

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  i would consider some of the elders in my hall genuine shepherds ( though g men) there are a couple others i would consider robotic/wooden (boring) but ok. then of course there is the complete knob (pharisee wannabe) who grinds my wife and i's gears.

  every hall seems to have one!!!

  so how do/did you view the elders in your hall?

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  I would catagrise the elders in my " former" congregation as wolves. Whilst the elders were the dominant leaders, the congregation was actuallya pack of wolves, and co-operation between wolves within the pack was apparent. And when the weak were hunted down and hounded out of the congregation, another was soon found to be hunted down.

  It should be noted the dominant leaders in the pack would never try to lower themselfs to a compassionate level and this spirit was passed on throughout the congregation. As generally being a witnesses is all about image and superficiality, I think describing them as wolves in sheeps clothing is an astute and fair observation.
  

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  Why Do You No Longer Believe in God?

  by Tenacious in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i know this question has popped up from time to time but i really would like to know how you guys, those that no longer believe, came to that conclusion?

  was it the wts and all its crap?

  was it something you read?

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  According to the bible God sacrificed his son to allow for the redemption of humanity....other times he just drowns us.

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  Why do people kill each other?

  by The Rebel in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  why do there have to be wars?

  why is there so much hatred?.

  the collective answer i came up with is natalisam, or maybe the correct word should be politics?

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  Money.

  Ego.

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  Did Jesus really die on a cross?

  by macys in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  being raised a catholic we had lots of crosses around the house.

  when my family converted to this cult they were all removed and destroyed in case they had demons in them lol but at this juncture in my life i do not even know if jesus as the way he is portrayed in the bible was real.

  yes a man named jesus did live and die 2000 years ago and probably on a cross but he was definitely not the son of god.

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  Who cares?

  And does it really matter?

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  Why Do You No Longer Believe in God?

  by Tenacious in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i know this question has popped up from time to time but i really would like to know how you guys, those that no longer believe, came to that conclusion?

  was it the wts and all its crap?

  was it something you read?

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  Maybe because I am not about to die.

  Now i have lost my faith in God, I often wonder if the moment before i was aware of my last breath would I would pray?

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  Did you like hymns as a jw?

  by jean-luc picard in

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  2. friends

  i was just explaining to mrs picard........ never a jw, and not english, how we used to celebrate the harvest festival, when i was 7 and younger, before my parents converted to jw'ism.. i loved to sing "we plough the fields and scatter".

  of course, singing such hymns is, to a jw, paramount to apostasy,with the death penalty like punishment the ensued.. how really stupid their harsh rules.. did you have any favourite hymns?.

  i think we would all agree, that they beat the pants off the "kingdom melodies".

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  Yes.
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  Why do people kill each other?

  by The Rebel in

  1. jw
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  why do there have to be wars?

  why is there so much hatred?.

  the collective answer i came up with is natalisam, or maybe the correct word should be politics?

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  I would also add drugs and alcohol to my list...Or as a rock- star would say, "die young and leave a good looking corpse"

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  Why Do You No Longer Believe in God?

  by Tenacious in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i know this question has popped up from time to time but i really would like to know how you guys, those that no longer believe, came to that conclusion?

  was it the wts and all its crap?

  was it something you read?

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  Viviane (Q) " So you don't want your accountant knowing how maths works?

  The Rebel ( A) if my accountant was any good I would own more than a pair of shoes.

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  Why Do You No Longer Believe in God?

  by Tenacious in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i know this question has popped up from time to time but i really would like to know how you guys, those that no longer believe, came to that conclusion?

  was it the wts and all its crap?

  was it something you read?

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  If my accountant told me that knowing 2+ 2 =4 is a fact that can be proven, then I am employing the wrong tax advisor.

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  It had sounded to good to be true.

  by The Rebel in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  because it wasn't true anyway.

  it was a dream.

  the insanest dream, to believe that i was going to live forever.. but today i am alive, and i am determined to travel the seconds between life and death aware of my mortality.

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  Tornintwo, thank you for your post, it was a fantastic read. May I say In my exsperience I liked to think the clock is ticking and with each second I was healing a little more. It takes time but I hope in a years time you are living that authentic life, without self doubt you wish for. And I would add you have no reason for guilt, for leaving the W.T and being true to yourself and family.

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