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  As a JW: major personal blunders

  by Hecce in

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  to make mistakes is human, to make mistakes dictated by faith is also human but foolish.

  i am pretty sure that as jws we all have made decisions that later on we regretted, in some cases they have been minor and in others they had profound effect in our life; major items were like blood and education related.

  i am going to post one decision that was a major disaster for the person involved and if you know of something similar please contribute.. in a spanish speaking country where "machismo" was the norm and it was common for a man to have several mistresses, there was a sister married to a wealthy man and they had four children.

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  Bardamu

  well at least she got out
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  Tell me what you think.

  by Aroq in

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  2. beliefs

  ok, i'm willing, and thinking about going to the meetings, but there is a catch.

  i'm not, nor ever be a jw.

  i know too much about their beliefs.

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  Bardamu

  Trust me, your children hate going to the meetings. Every meetings.

  I remember my days were ruined at the perspective of going to the meeting after school or on a saturday evening, i was so happy whenever i missed one (didnt happen often).

  This can be hard with your wife but it really is one the biggest help you can provide to them if you say that they can also stay at home instead of going to the meetings (and i'm not even talking about the saturday morning preaching)
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  Chronic relapse - what do I do?

  by wayoutthere in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  my first post here and unfortunately it is asking for help.. i was a born in jehovah's witness and from my earliest memories, i know i hated being one.

  i hated the embarrassment of being the "outsider" at school and i hated not being allowed to have any friends.

  of course i had the obligatory friends in the kingdom hall - none of whom were my age exactly and none of whom i would have personally chosen to be friends with if i had been left to pick them myself in a natural setting.

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  i left home and the religion at 19, unbaptised, i also kinda shuned my family more than they shuned me.

  the difference with me is that i still thought that it was the truth and respected the religion, i just thought that i could not do it and i managed to live happily not caring about it at all. I never talked to anyone about my background until recently where i started really seeing the WT for what it is.

  It's a strange feeling because i was not shocked, everything was already beyond me but the difference it made is that now i feel no shame talking about it at all. It's who you are, how you were raised, not your fault especially if you left so young so many years ago.

  Im almost excited when i reveal it now, people just react with surprise and curiosity. I don't know what else to say, your friends and family know you and love you for who you are, there is no shame at all you should feel.

  I even think that growing up in the "truth" and leaving early without much complications is a strenght as it gives you a certain perspective on things and you really enjoy your freedom. You come from a very different background that people cannot understand but they know it and wont care much. One guy even said to me : " wow my childhood was just plain boring and ordinary, this is something. " almost felt proud lol.

  You lived the best years of your life happily =) it's not like others who waste much more precious time in the cult.
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  Kenneth Flodin: ‘This Generation Will ... Not Pass Away’ (Matt. 24:34)

  by wifibandit in

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmbpbb5k_mc

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  " very clear explanation "

  lost it
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  The Stupidity of the "Preaching Work" ...

  by Muddy Waters in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  this came up in another thread and i wondered if any one else thought this way while they were still in..... - that it is actually better not to preach as people who don't hear "the truth" are said to be given a resurrection rather than the poor saps who refused a paltry magazine and now merit everlasting destruction..

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  this paradox always made me laugh.

  knock knock, you open the door and say no like 95% of em ? oops too bad you're condemned now, hope you'll grab your next chance if you have time.
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  Facebook post by a JW on Pope & President & May 2012 WT

  by rosyray in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  long time no post.

  couldn't help myself when i saw this in my facebook feed.. .

  the caption that followed:.

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  smh means shaking my head
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  Right everyone watch this video its insane!

  by username in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  i'm just watching this video.

  now bare in mind this guy has never been a jehovah's witness so he has no investment in this cult.. https://youtu.be/_ry-onhbkya.

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  if this tax report is legit this is huge.
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  More Conditioning in Sunday's Watchtower

  by Socrateswannabe in

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  2. scandals

  have you read the article, "this is our place of worship" in the july 15, 2015 study edition of the watchtower?

  it is the study article for this coming sunday.

  note the brainwashing techniques they're using to condition the jws to a total takeover of their kingdom halls, in the excerpts below.

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  5 years i had not read a WT.

  " donations donations donations "

  reading that crap today the propaganda and conditioning is just mind blowing to me in every single paragraph.
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  Massive Bible contradiction of the Draw Close to Jehovah book. Or Jehovah is not loving.

  by Island Man in

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  2. bible

  "love...does not rejoice over unrighteousness.

  " the new english bible here reads: "love...does not gloat over other men's sins.

  " moffatt's translation says: "love is never glad when others go wrong.

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  The elders need to take Jehovah to the back room and counsel him. lol.
  

  LOL

  that is golden by the way
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  Why did you choose Jehovahs Witnesses?

  by vinman in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i'm wondering why ones on this forum initially became jw's.

  if you were born in, why did you make it "your own"?

  if you became one later, what was your draw and driving force?

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  Bardamu

  Born in 3rd gen (my dad discovered in university but mom was born in)

  I was never baptized, not even a publisher. I believed 100% that it was the truth. We were a very close family with lots of cousins in the same congregation or area and by late teens everybody was baptized or publishers for the younger ones except me.

  At first i felt bad about it but no matter what, preaching was the thing i hated the most in the universe, so i just waited and said one day around 18 that i did not want to go to the meetings anymore. It was quite hard at first but i was not shuned, they accepted it and we have good relationships even if from time to time they try to talk to me and probably pray for me everyday lol...

  Anyway i left home at 19 and the second i was free i enjoyed my life quite a lot ! i still believed it was the truth but i didnt care anymore; just had some doubts until recently when i started really realizing that its a cult. Im 24 now and im so glad i left early enough.