Topics Started by roxanesophia

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Counting time
by roxanesophia in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
forgive me if it's a stupid question, but it's on my brain now that i don't trust the motives of witnesses out to recruit a new fruit loop to the bowl.... .

can they count their time driving "interested ones" to meetings?

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Are Jehovah's Witnesses Chrsitians?
by TimothyT in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
despite being a jw for 20 years, this has just flashed up into my mind?.

of course jesus is important in the lives of jw's, but they worship jehovah!.

hence, are they christians or jehovians?.
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Reasons "love bombing" ceases
by roxanesophia in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i study with a highly esteemed pioneer & elder's kid and i've learned on here that pioneers are right up there when it comes to gossip, as are elders kids, so i've got a double whammy.

unfortunately i didn't learn that until after i'd trusted her.

call me a moron but i'm totally drawn in by the kindness.
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Parroting in the meetings
by dgp in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
in the one meeting i attended, i noticed that some witnesses were creative in the answers they gave to the questions, while others were simply repeating what the magazine said.

i remember that, at the time, i thought the creative ones were also the smart ones, while the others were lazy, and that no doubt the creative ones would rank higher in the watchtower.. well, i think i have changed my mind.

it seems to me that those parroting the questions are, in a way, the smart ones.
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What would you hear if you played a Kingdom Melody backwards?
by watson in
1. jw
2. friends
just wondering....
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For people who are out but still believe in Jesus Christ...
by roxanesophia in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
since the bible speaks of being blood guilty if one knowing the truth doesn't tell others, i'm a bit tortured by the fact i've learned the jw doctrine is false and i've found the truth in the bible, but there's no way in hell i can talk to other jw's about it.

i would so love to just plant the seed of doubt, and turn them to the real truth, but i know how futile that can be.

i was never baptized - with good reason.
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Damn you Kingdom Melodies! Damn you to hell...
by unshackled in
1. jw
2. friends
i haven't been anywhere near a jw meeting or convention in at least 8 or 9 years.

but this afternoon, i'm doing some weed trimming and suddenly realized i had this lyric playing in my head...over and over.... .

"ours is the god of true prophecy,.
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The Bible - is it really the GOOD Book - if so why?
by cantleave in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
afterall , it condones murder, genocide, infanticide and a plethora of other nasty things.

it is contradictory and unscientific.. hell; lets be honest it's hard to read and harder to understand.. so why is it called the good book?.

discuss!.
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Everything is "Satan" ... Now what?
by roxanesophia in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
firstly, i'm a study who initially believed every word of the jw's.

figured "no other religion takes the time and effort to help people understand the bible by publishing the watchtower and the other literature" not realizing that all it does is pick and choose scriptures to suit whatever sentence they'd just written, which can be done using any book, not just the bible.

i felt foolish, after that.. .
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The big bad "worldly" person
by roxanesophia in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
considering this looks to be mostly a ex-jw site, you're probably thinking "coming into it?

run.

" but i have friends in it who have persuaded me to have a bible study and attend meetings, and well, hey... it isn't doing me much harm.