People think prayer doesn't work because they expect things to be answered instantly and they way THEY want it when they forget that God is the one who created them and has his own way of seeing things and his own time for doing things. I have had prayers answered, though sometimes it was not in a way I expected or the answer was no. Some people are too impatient and want everything on their terms and if they don't like the answer or what happens next, they decide that God doesn't exist. That's like a teenager asking their parents if they can go out late at night and the parents say no or they can go out on another night because that night is a school night and the teenager decides to pretend their parents don't exist and slam the door.
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striking similarity to JW
by inbetween inever heard of this church ?.
example: http://rcg.org/articles/abcc.html.
very similar reasoning to jw,...
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Dude, check out their WT/Awake-like magazines: http://rcg.org/landing/inside_rcg.html
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It's official!
by lilbluekitty intonight i just got my certificate: i'm officially a member of my church and a baptist.
(i think of myself as just a general christian, but i like the laid-backishness of the baptists.
i definitely don't think one denomination is better than anyone else though, and my church is multi-cultural, so i'm not a hater of other races like some southern baptists).
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James_Woods: I don't know if you *need* a certificate, but my husband and I took a 7-week class at church to become new members and got certificates at the end. Baptists/Southern Baptists (that's what I am) are autonomous so I don't know if they all do that, I think it depends on the individual church.
Nicolaou: For me it was both the doctrine and the lack of love, the lack of love was definitely the bigger issue for me though. My church is really nice, everyone hugs everyone and the pastors are very down to earth and make sure to say hello to everyone, definitely unlike the JW elders. It's so refreshing!
Thanks everyone =)
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It's official!
by lilbluekitty intonight i just got my certificate: i'm officially a member of my church and a baptist.
(i think of myself as just a general christian, but i like the laid-backishness of the baptists.
i definitely don't think one denomination is better than anyone else though, and my church is multi-cultural, so i'm not a hater of other races like some southern baptists).
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Thanks! I did a lot of research and we went to a few churches, my husband and I. It just feels right to me, the music is great and it's more casual than some other denominations. Pentecostals and Catholics kind of scare me a little and Adventists are too similar to JWs. I'm not a fan of footwashing like the Methodists and Lutherans and Presbeterians seem too formal to me, as do Anglicans and Episcopalians (sp). Mostly, I'm non-denominational, I simply enjoy the Bible and learning more about Jesus. I'm not the stereotypical Baptist with all the hand-raising/amen-ing etc. I don't hate black people or anything either. I just really like this church, it feels like home and if Baptists are what make me feel comfortable, it's cool with me. They're refreshingly different from JWs =)
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It's official!
by lilbluekitty intonight i just got my certificate: i'm officially a member of my church and a baptist.
(i think of myself as just a general christian, but i like the laid-backishness of the baptists.
i definitely don't think one denomination is better than anyone else though, and my church is multi-cultural, so i'm not a hater of other races like some southern baptists).
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Tonight I just got my certificate: I'm officially a member of my church and a Baptist. (I think of myself as just a general Christian, but I like the laid-backishness of the Baptists. I definitely don't think one denomination is better than anyone else though, and my church is multi-cultural, so I'm not a hater of other races like some Southern Baptists). So, I officially can't be considered a JW now. NOT telling my family though, I mean, the 3 that still talk to me. But it's a funny feeling, I'm a member of a church that I love and don't feel guilty about it. Just a few months ago I'd be terrified but now it just feels right. I just thought I'd share =)
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How did you visualize Jehovah when you were young?
by Matsimus ini was born as a third generation (perhaps even fourth gen. but my great great grandfather never got baptized) jw.
i remember that when i was young, perhaps about five years old, i would think about jehovah as this big black ghost with yellow eyes.
to me he was quite frightening, and i was constantly catious not to piss him off.
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I pictured him either like the glowing dude in the Revelation Climax book or an old guy with a beard surrounded by blinding light, kind of like the above picture but also kind of like King Triton in The Little Mermaid, but like I said, glowing or something. LOL.
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Which do you think is the most pernicious teaching of the JW's?
by Chariklo inas i turn things over in my mind, one jw lie stands out.. that god doesn't listen to all prayers.
unless i have it wrong, and i don't think i do, jw's believe, and have been endlessly, ruthlessly taught, that only those living by "jehovah's righteous standards"...that awful glib phrase again...will get their prayers listened to.
in other words, god looks at the number the person is calling from, so to speak, checks who it is, looks him up in his book of misdeeds, and angrily slams the phone down.. the jehovah god of the wt is petty and mean-minded.
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"Jesus is not the mediator of the great crowd, only the mediator of the 144,000"
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Talking Points for when Witnesses Come to your Door
by truth_b_known ina few weeks back i came home from work and found the latest copies of the watchtower (armageddon fearmongering) and awake!
(social media site nonsense) lying on the counter.
it was obvious witnesses had stopped by the house.
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I haven't had the courage yet to answer the door when the people from my hall come to "check on me" and give me the mags. I'm still the home but hiding chick because I'm a fader and am not ready to tell them I'm simply no longer interested. Generally my husband (a non-JW) answers the door and takes the mags, hands them to me and I then throw them in the trash. I wish I had more courage.
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As a JW, did you eat at any religious restaurant?
by Iamallcool inmy jw parents refused to eat food from religious restaurant, they have very good reviews.
i was wondering when you were jw, did you go to any religious restaurant?
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Up in New England we used to have this donut/coffee shop called Bess Eaton donuts that put scriptures on the coffee cups. Some JWs were highly offended at anyone that ate there. Me and my mom said, what's the difference, they're the same scriptures we read.
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Which Beliefs and Doctrines Helped Push You Out?
by ilikecheese inokay, so this is my first post, but i've been lurking here for months and months.
i have to say this is a very informative and hilarious site.
you guys are great to read!
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The main ones were the flip flops on the blood doctrine, i.e. "blood is bad but fractions are okay," the overlapping generation bullsh*t, their non-biblical things like women can't wear pants to the meetings or any other dub function except the RBC or that beards or goatees are wrong, shunning, marking talks, having to report field service time to someone when to me it's only God who should know and also it should be about quality and not quantity, disfellowshipping for smoking, calling people apostates who become Christians or really any other religion or the fact that my father's side of the family shuns me as an apostate even though I was never df'd, the baptism of very young minors, disfellowshipping and subsquent shunning of minors, being shunned for not going to meetings, the fact that they're ashamed of Jesus and that they (at least some) don't believe Jesus is coming again when he clearly says in the Bible multiple times "Behold I am coming quickly", other non-Biblical teachings such as the UN being the eight king and calling all Christendom the worst of all religions and comparing all Christians to Catholics when not all Christians are Catholics, lying about what Christians teach such as JWs idea of the trinity, the fact that they don't believe Jesus is divine when the bible clearly shows over and over his divinity. Etc, etc.