Ucantnome

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  For those who feel that their life has been stolen

  by stillin in

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  you maintained a level of personal decency and integrity that you almost certainly would not have had if you had chosen another direction.. sure, you would have had some very "colorful" friends and experiences if you had gone another way, but you still chose the more "edgy" people in the congregation as your friends and you still enjoyed yourself, even if there were a lot of phony constraints.. you looked for ways to be of value to others.

  don't stop doing that!.

  you kept the darker side of your personality in check.

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  Ucantnome

  They made promises. I lived up to my end of the deal; they didn’t. Magnum

  yeah
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  What if you were a JW during WWII? Would you give in to Hitler and fight?

  by Brother Mike in

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  so i pose this question to everyone.

  if you were a jw and lived in germany in wwii, how would you deal with the harsh cruelity of hitler?

  would you join his side so you may have a chance to live (meaning you'd serve in the miliatry and be on the front line) or would you keep on serving god and be executed?

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  Ucantnome

  if you were a JW and lived in Germany in WWII, how would you deal with the harsh cruelity of hitler? Would you join his side so you may have a chance to live (meaning you'd serve in the miliatry and be on the front line) or would you keep on serving God and be executed?

  No i don't think i would have joined not as a JW. I knew a JW in this country who was imprisioned in the war for being neutral and i would assume it was the same in Germany.
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  What is the key to free yourself from the Organization?

  by suavojr in

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  2. beliefs

  they key to free yourself from the organization is having mental clarity of what is happening in relation to the watchtower, inside and out.

  their basic concept is that they are god's sole organization on earth.

  there really is no basis for anyone to make that statement.

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  Ucantnome

  i know why i left but i don't think it would make anyone else leave. plus the timing was right
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  Survey---who is inactive, disfellowshipped/disassociated or active?

  by minimus in

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  i am inactive for about 10 years now..

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  Ucantnome

  20+ inactive
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  Advice not worth 2 farts

  by bobld in

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  what i am talking about is the march 15,2014 wt articles on aged and care for the elderly.i mean no disrepect to farts.actually farts are beneficial however,the resultant gawful smell stinks to high heaven.. ask these aged and elderly ones today what advice did they get in the sixies.did they receive any financial planning,pre-retirement advice,plan for medical costs,tax accountancy,debt recovery banking,etc..or you will never get old,no need for education,don't have childern the end is near.now they say the childern(which they weren't to have) have the responsilibity to take care of the elderly.. their advice is more like the resultant of a fart..

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  Ucantnome

  i think it was more than just advice.

  i think it was about faith. faith in the message preached by those who claimed to be commissioned to speak to all the nations in His name from 1919

  This is a quote from the book "Man's Salvation Out Of World Distress At Hand" (1975 WTB&TS)on page 29 it says.

  "After all that we have gone through since 1914,our generation would be, of all generations the "most to be pitied".Think of it, though! Worthy ones of this generation of mankind will be saved alive out of the rest of this world distress so as to survive the worst of it and enter into God's Messianic new system of things and not need a resurrection from the dead to life on earth! This is a valid hope well founded on what was said by Jesus Christ..." (bold mine)

  the words “most to be pitied” are taken from 1 Corinthians 15 where Paul talks of the resurrection of Christ and our faith being in vain if this has not taken place, which i believe is essential to have faith in as a christian. it seems to me that faith without works isn't faith and we demonstrate our faith by how we live our life.

  Same book page 47/48

  The question on all of this was thus raised in the first century C.E, because the controversy raged about Jesus Christ the Descendant of Abraham and of David. That is why the apostle Paul wrote about the matter and showed that the information heard by Isaiah had come true in Jesus Christ as the “Servant” mentioned in Isaiah 52:13 and 53:11. The glorification of Jesus Christ in heaven after his extraordinary sufferings as a man on earth was good news, Gospel, Evangel. “Nevertheless,” writes the apostle Paul with special reference to his own people , “they did not all obey the good news. For Isaiah says: ‘Jehovah, who put faith in the thing heard from us?” So faith follows the thing heard, In turn the thing heard is through the word about Christ” –Romans 10:16,17

  A similar thing can be said today. “They did not all obey the good news.” This, even after the Christian witnesses of Jehovah have spent more than sixty years in proclaiming that the “times of the Gentiles ended in the autumn of 1914. Amid the first world war and that then Jehovah’s “Servant” received a new elevation by being exalted to the throne of the Messianic kingdom…The overwhelming evidence that has accumulated since 1914 CE in proof of this glorious fact has been pointed out by these witnesses of Jehovah. The good news about the Messianic kingdom of Jehovah’s “Servant” is better news today that it was nineteen hundred years ago, in apostolic times. In the face of the relatively small proportion of the world’s population that has put faith in the “thing heard” from us or proclaimed by us, it can truthfully be said: “They did not all obey the good news.” This explains the saddening state of the world of mankind today.”
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  The great British Weather

  by FL_Panthers in

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  anyone else getting a bit tired of being wetted upon?.

  i've sort of had enough already, suede shoes in the rain is not not a good idea.. .

  on the plus side, it's fun for fish .

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  i like the british weather with its changeableness.

  i have lived in a warm and sunny place and found it was somewhat boring. day after day of the same warm sun, blue skies. i have also lived in a place where the winters were very cold and long and summers were very hot and humid.
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  'Peace and Security' - What do you think?

  by startingover13 in

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  woke up this morning to my cnn app alerting me that popel francis has called for peace in the middle east, and is making arrangements to meet with leaders in that region to promote tolerance and acceptance.

  i've been out for almost a year now, inactive for almost two, but in that moment all of the jw teachings about the signs on the end, the cry of peace and security, and what would happen to those that aren't serving jehovah returned to me.

  24 years of teachings are hard to forget, and reading the story on cnn.com didn't help the situation.

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  I've been out for almost a year now, inactive for almost two, but in that moment all of the JW teachings about the signs on the end, the cry of peace and security, and what would happen to those that aren't serving Jehovah returned to me.

  recently there was a topic on here Probably You Might be Saved" - Somewhere in Zephaniah As I Recall that had some interesting sciptures.
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  Could There Be Another Mass Exodus From This Cult?

  by mrquik in

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  it's happened before.

  how much crap can any rational human being take before they just snap & walk away disgusted?.

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  i dont thinkso i think it's different now
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  Anyone recall asemblies actually being fun?

  by tim hooper in

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  when i was a wee lad, there was a carnival atmosphere at assemblies as this old footage will show:.

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  http://www.britishpathe.com/video/witnesses-baptised/query/jehovahs+witnesses.

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  Ucantnome

  i'd rather go to the dentist
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  "The end will come when you least expect it"

  by stuckinarut2 in

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  2. beliefs

  ok, so didnt jesus supposedly say "the end will come when you least expect it"?

  (or words to that effect...).

  so, with so many witnesses running around in an excited way talking about "100 years since the kingdom...etc" and "it may be our last chance to pioneer etc"..."may be the last international conventions".....doesnt this mean then that the end can not come now??!!.

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  Ucantnome

  Noah was told to expect rain the end of the week. So as in the days of Noah