Can think of a couple,
Ray Franz: gov body member
Babara Anderson: writing dept
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Jw's featured in the mags who later left?
by purrpurr ini was just wondering if any of those jw's who got their story told or featured as "a fine example" in the publications, if they ever left the org later?
i mean i know regular jw's would probably never hear about it but i thought maybe you guys might?
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My introduction and confession
by elderINewton inwell another big bad elder here just wanting to say sorry.. i'm sorry that so many were treated like crap, and shown that god's love is not to be found around jehovah's witnesses.
i'm sorry that inadvertently i've likely taught many to judge and as such see that racism permeates every corner of the jw world, else why else would someone be of the world, or even inactive.
i'm sorry i sat in on a jc, and voted to df.
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Save your daughter, get her out the meetings and preparing watchtowers and into the school and preparing for exams. You and your wife have had your life and still have the means to repair what was lost, act fast and your daughter may just get a chance at a wonderful normal life.
i left at 26 and the only regret, as with everyone that leaves, is not leaving earlier.
p.s. Much kudos for being brave and coming here.
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UK day out?
by snare&racket inhow many would be up for a decent sized uk meet up?.
i haven't been to any and would happily help organise one.. snare .
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UK day out?
by snare&racket inhow many would be up for a decent sized uk meet up?.
i haven't been to any and would happily help organise one.. snare .
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UK day out?
by snare&racket inhow many would be up for a decent sized uk meet up?.
i haven't been to any and would happily help organise one.. snare .
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How many would be up for a decent sized UK meet up?
I haven't been to any and would happily help organise one.
snare
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The spread of religion through history
by snare&racket inwhen growing up a jw, i was always confused as to world history, geography and religious development.
it didn't make sense, because what we were told was simply untrue.... http://tinyurl.com/purzy8k.
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Hey buddy,
yeah leg is still in plaster, thankfully healing in good alignment. Another 3 weeks to go! I was due to leave for a music festival today, in Spain, but can't go...lame,
The bike is perfect, I never got to pick it up. I broke my leg on the Wed, was picking it up on the next Mon. It is sat waiting for me in Cardiff :(
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The spread of religion through history
by snare&racket inwhen growing up a jw, i was always confused as to world history, geography and religious development.
it didn't make sense, because what we were told was simply untrue.... http://tinyurl.com/purzy8k.
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When growing up a JW, I was always confused as to world history, geography and religious development. It didn't make sense, because what we were told was simply untrue...
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Stats on Gay Marriage & Religious Belief
by snare&racket inso just how non-judgmental, tolerant, respectful, caring, loving, liberal and humane are the religious groups?.
"findings from prris american values atlas, which draws on 40,000 interviews among a random sample of americans, provides the most in-depth portrait to date of attitudes on same-sex marriage by religious affiliation.. the most supportive major religious groups are buddhists (84 percent), jews (77 percent), and americans who select other religion (75 percent); additionally, more than three-quarters (77 percent) of the religiously unaffiliated also support same-sex marriage.. more than six in ten (62 percent) white mainline protestants support same-sex marriage.
among white mainline protestant denominations, support ranges from 69 percent support among white mainline presbyterians and 68 percent among both white episcopalians and white congregationalists/united church of christ members, to lower support among white mainline baptists (53 percent) and white mainline church of christ/disciples (50 percent).. and while the catholic church officially opposes the legalization of same-sex marriage, about six in ten white (61 percent), hispanic (60 percent), and other non-white catholics (60 percent) support allowing gay and lesbian couples to marry legally.
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So just how non-judgmental, tolerant, respectful, caring, loving, liberal and humane are the religious groups?
"Findings from PRRI’s American Values Atlas, which draws on 40,000 interviews among a random sample of Americans, provides the most in-depth portrait to date of attitudes on same-sex marriage by religious affiliation.
The most supportive major religious groups are Buddhists (84 percent), Jews (77 percent), and Americans who select “Other religion” (75 percent); additionally, more than three-quarters (77 percent) of the religiously unaffiliated also support same-sex marriage.
More than six in ten (62 percent) white mainline Protestants support same-sex marriage. Among white mainline Protestant denominations, support ranges from 69 percent support among white mainline Presbyterians and 68 percent among both white Episcopalians and white Congregationalists/United Church of Christ members, to lower support among white mainline Baptists (53 percent) and white mainline Church of Christ/Disciples (50 percent).
And while the Catholic Church officially opposes the legalization of same-sex marriage, about six in ten white (61 percent), Hispanic (60 percent), and other non-white Catholics (60 percent) support allowing gay and lesbian couples to marry legally. A majority of orthodox Christians (56 percent) also support same-sex marriage.
On the other side of the debate, majorities of Jehovah’s Witnesses (75 percent), Mormons (68 percent), white evangelical Protestants (66 percent), Hispanic Protestants (58 percent), and black Protestants (54 percent) oppose allowing gay and lesbian couples to marry legally. Among white evangelical Protestant denominations, white evangelical Baptists are the most opposed (72 percent), while white evangelical Lutherans are nearly evenly divided (45 percent favor, 48 percent opposed)."
I was so ashamed when the JW's came bottom of the worlds religious denomination tables for education and household income, but this is just Bronze Age embarrassing.
The youth and liberals in the JW's (25%) have done well to say they support it, but it is no surprise that the worlds most draconian belief system is falling further and further behind.
Hopefully this will prove eye opening for the more humane and less ignorant JW's........
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10 years and Satan finally struck....
by snare&racket ini left around a decade ago, life has not been easy, but it has been profoundly better than the jw robotics my earlier life chapters resembled.. my current life was going so well, too well...... and finally the nemesis of jahooha came out from his dark hiding place.
no longer in gods tent i was as vulnerable as the chinese job and his unfortunate sheep and children.. satan, bless his socks of cotton, has finally attacked, he broke my leg the dark lordy bastard.. a spiral fracture of the fibula and various fractures the ankle joint.. the worst of all his evil doings was the story i have to tell people, it's 'mechanism of injury'..... i slipped on some grass.
yes the devilish ball rash, got me good.. so now, i sit bored, wishing i had meetings to prepare for, talks to write and i long for the live bombing i would have received as an interesting new kingdom hall event in the decades of waiting on jahooha..... but all i have is some lame ass, american apostates on a forum..... tchhhh.... .
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Yeah, I haven't even picked my bike up, it happened the day before I went to get it.
Probably the worst part of the whole incident :(
it's sat waiting for me in a showroom.
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Probable Discovery of Life on Comet Philae
by cofty inaccording to leading astronomers the probe philae that landed on the comet 67p last november may have discovered microbial life..... sadly neither the probe nor the orbiter rosetta are equipped to test directly but the evidence is interesting.
these are not easily explained in terms of prebiotic chemistry.
the dark material is being constantly replenished as it is boiled off by heat from the sun.
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I subscribe to panspermia as highly probable for sure, but this seems a bit whacky and a lot of conjecture. I read it in the Guardian today and interesting as it is, it is a man guessing. Don't mean to be rude, but it is just bad science.
Who knows though? About time we invested in and dedicated space for organism detecting equipment for such missions as it has huge significance for our science and cultures.