Topics Started by Dunedain

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How old were you when you left the borg?
by Iamallcool in
1. jw
2. friends
me-23 years old.
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Remember the Revelation book?
by wozza in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i recall when it was released ,that's when i was a drone, how excited i felt at the prospect of reading it and formulating ways to sell it at the homes in my area.. i thought, finally a book to explain the last book in the bible and indeed one that the churches seemed to want to leave alone!.

i sold quite a few probably because of my enthusiasm and can still remember clearly the first day when i went knocking on doors with it ,and it's been decades since.. but over time it lost it's shine and my mind started to question the explanations in it due to the scene of other things being changed in the jw beliefs.. do you remember they flogged that book so many times in the book studies even when it was found to have "newer light " eclipsing it!.

who else remembers the printed pages with the official corrections to insert into the book ,so many that the book collapsed to be of no relevance anymore really.....what an embarrassment!.
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JWs just called at my daughter's house and said the end is near because .....
by Xanthippe in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
the world is getting worse, for example children are getting more cheeky!.

proof positive!

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Ending Bible Study
by Maria Nieves in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i have been studying with jehovah's witnesses for approximately two years.

initially, i liked the studies and felt that i was growing closer to god.

however, as the studies progressed, they seemed to become increasingly negative and i did not like what i was being taught.
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Infiltrated Elders?
by john.prestor in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
so i'm watching john cedars commentary on the annual meeting from this last october, and at one point he shows a clip of garrett loesch talking about the struggles jehovah's witnesses faced decades before in the soviet union.

he claimed that police officers, maybe the kgb, infiltrated congregations which met in secret by studying with jehovah's witnesses, getting baptized, and then working their way up to becoming elders.

ceders jokes that this shows what kind of role holy spirit actually plays within body of elders, but another interpretation came to my mind just now.
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Flat Earth and Jw. Not possible?
by Earthmeasured in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
sorry for my poor english, i hope to make not too many mistakes.

im a jw and in the last three years i have studied a lot the topic of the earth being flat.

i have a good scientific background so im not stupid or crazy.
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BS stories in the publications
by Billzfan23 in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
this is an example of a story that just strikes me as funny from their publications:.

"wilson, a christian from ghana, was notified that in a few days, he would be fired from his job.

on his final day at work, he was assigned to wash the private car of the managing director of the company.
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WATCHTOWER Is Trying To Put Cameras In All of Their Kingdom Halls
by minimus in
1. jw
2. friends
one of my best friends is in the security business.

he told me the other day of how the watch tower has been in contact with his good friend and business associate.

evidently they are inquiring about putting cameras into every kh so that they can do 24 hour monitoring.
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Taking children out on the ministry
by Freedom rocks in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
can i ask your views on taking children out on the ministry?

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do you have any experiences you can share of things you as a child/your children/grandchildren have witnessed on the ministry that they shouldn't have?.
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question about the go bags.
by goingthruthemotions in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
its been a minute since posting, have been trying to put this cult in my review mirror and just live life.

but you know this beast rears it's evil head.

my wife found my crisis of conscience book and out came the horns plus i guess what she is hearing at the meetings isn't helping either.