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  Me Before and After leaving the Lie

  by cantleave in

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  when i was serving as an elder.

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  now.

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  mynameislame

  Wow how well that illustrates the transformation.

  You looked like one of those elders that took things way too seriously.
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  New low for Watchtower Society: slips below North Korea on the scum index!

  by BluePill2 in

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  2. beliefs

  if you have been following the news these days, you maybe have seen images like this one:.

  heart breaking stories about people that where separated from their relatives for over 60 years.

  i've seen an interview with a crying old man, saying that he fears that he will not be able to recognize his sister or that he will not have any feelings for her, because of the many years and the indoctrination by the north korean regime.. all of this reminded me of the watchtower society.

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  mynameislame

  Bluepill2

  The sadest part is that your sister probably believes what she said was loving

  I know when I was in I could see myself saying things like that and feeling proud of it.

  For a religion that claims to have love they sure do a lot to destroy any natural affection between people.

  suavojr

  Your comment made me think how the dubs claim that they DF to keep the congregation clean but all it really does is force the "unclean" people to secretly remain and, likely and hopefully, become negative influence on the congregation they are trying to protect.
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  On a Scale of 1 to 10---How Devoted Were You To Being One of Jehovah's Witnesses?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  as i grew up in the religion, i was a 10. i wanted to be made a "servant" because that was instilled in me from infancy.

  i diligently studied ever piece of watchtower literature and defended my religion intensely.. when i got into my 30's, i started to see little cracks in the watchtower's surface but decided to "wait on jehovah".

  then i started to research a little more critically and realized i couldn't defend the prophecies, the treatment of people and the hypocrisy that was becoming more obvious, that especially an elder can see.. it was a gradual thing---from a 10 to a zero!.

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  mynameislame

  hmm well at the time I would have said a 10 but looking back I was never very passionate about it and it was alays a struggle rather than a joy.
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  What are you reading right now??

  by DATA-DOG in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i am reading "stranger in a strange land" by robert a. heinlein.

  i read it over 20 years ago.

  now i am reading it from a completely different perspective.

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  mynameislame

  finallysomepride's post #2859 (lol)

  Jim Cramer. Get rich carefully

  Richard Bach. Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

  Brealey, Richard, Stewart Myers, and Franklin Allen. Principles of Corporate Finance.

  (This one is for MIT opencourseware, course 15.401 Finance Theory I )
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  I am having trouble believing in God...

  by thedepressedsoul in

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  2. beliefs

  i was raised a jw and i am still one but recently i have been having trouble believing in a god.

  this is not meant to offend anyone who does, i am just curious to see if i am the only one who thinks this..... to start, i am a very black and white person.

  if 1+1=2 it makes sense to me and i can agree with it.

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  mynameislame

  I 100% agree with your three points.

  My current belief is that if there is a god he can't be explained in book written thousands of years ago. Especially when you consider how much more we know now than the writers of that book knew. And 10000 years from now we will probably be lauging at the things we thought were true in 2014.

  Or the reverse where the earth gets hit by a giant metorite and starts over.

  I sometimes wonder what people of the future, digging through the rubble from our time, will think when they find a treadmill or a nautilus machine.
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  This JW video tour is disturbing......

  by WingCommander in

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  so i found this video on youtube.

  apparently a loyal jw put it together as a kind of "video tour" to show their friends, etc.

  i don't know what's worse, the creepy music (is this what we've been hearing about?

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  mynameislame

  I don't like you very much right now
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  Do you pray over your meals? If so why? If not, when did you stop and why?

  by BU2B in

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  2. friends

  to answer my question, no i do not pray over meals anymore exept for when i am with other jws i do a 15 second head bow for appearances sake.

  i just came to the realization god had nothing to do with whether i ate or not.

  many believers are starving right now whilst many non-believers are eating like kings.. also why should god give me food while he lets little children in dprk concentration camps starve to death.

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  mynameislame

  I was thinking about this very subject recently and wondering why dinner time is the default time for prayer. There is so much more to be grateful for than just food.

  Might be just me but I don’t remember there being a lot of emphasis on prayer. Why would there be when we can leave that up to the experts, the FDS.

  It also seems to me that the JWs don’t show much gratitude. We said thanks for meetings and what the FDS provided bla bla bla. But I don’t remember ever seeing the majority show any gratitude for the little things in life. And I don't remember any of it seeming very sincere.

  
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  No more circuit assemblies

  by justmeok in

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  2. friends

  i heard from a reliable source that there will be no more 2 day assemblies, but instead 2 one days each year.

  anyone heard this yet?

  supposed to start new service year.

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  mynameislame

  I wonder if they know that 2014 is a psychological year and they expect to lose a lot of member so they are just planning ahead?
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  No more circuit assemblies

  by justmeok in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i heard from a reliable source that there will be no more 2 day assemblies, but instead 2 one days each year.

  anyone heard this yet?

  supposed to start new service year.

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  mynameislame

  I kind of miss the assemblies. Of course I spent most of them hanging out with my friends and scoping out the chicks. Certainly didn’t spend much time listening. If I ever had to listen I’m pretty sure I’d change my tune.
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  The finances of the JW in Canada

  by StephaneLaliberte in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  yes, revenu canada now has a service to display all of that information for free: click here!.

  you can also have the finances of all the circuits, congregations and assembly halls over there.

  wonder how much your kingdom hall is worth?

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  mynameislame

  receipted contributions are given with tax benefits attached.

  Yup, “Pay back Caesar’s things to Caesar , unless you can weasle your way out of it"