Depends, if it's those who attend because they are terrified not to then yes. Whether it be that they are scared because they've been told they'll be killed by god if they don't go or scared of losing family. I'd rather for their own sake that they fade. If folk attend knowing full well it's completely false then it's about time they left. We only live once.
iCeltic
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Do You Feel Bad For Those Who Feel They Still Must Attend Meetings?
by minimus ini've got mixed emotions.. i just couldn't do it.
i'd rather shoot myself..
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Thanks to all
by Socrateswannabe ini am by nature a reticent soul.
i am perfectly happy to watch from the sidelines as others debate and contest, poke, prod, and cajole one another.
as an observer, i still gain.
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iCeltic
Welcome
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IS GOD REAL? HOW DO YOU KNOW?
by still thinking inthis is an honest question on my part.
someone on this board asked me 'how do you know' a while ago and i really struggled with it.
in fact, it was a turning point for me.
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iCeltic
Snare & Racket summed that up pretty damn well.
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How Will the Society React to the Hundred Year Anniversary of 1914?
by slimboyfat init's only a couple of years away now and what a headache it must present to the gb - providing they have given it much thought already.
there probably is no elegant way of presenting the hundred year long failure of the end to come; the fact that the "short period of time" of satan being cast down to the earth has now stretched beyond any credibility.
but they have to deal with it one way or another.
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iCeltic
They absolutely must think about it, privately. As individuals. Maybe even as a body. But I see it more or less being completely ignored. It'll be no more significant than 1984, 1994, 2004, 2024 etc.
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So what do your Jehovah's Witness friends and loved ones think of the generation teaching?
by garyneal inafter the little skit at the last assembly where one brother was asking another for understanding about the generation teaching i thought, "wow, these people will believe anything the watchtower tells them.
" the 'more mature brother' practically said verbatim everything the watchtower said as his explanation.
evidently, this is one of the sources of the increased 'murmuring' that the talked warned against.. so, has anyone brought this up to their witness friends and/or family?
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iCeltic
I was told by family that it made more sense to them now, even though they didn't doubt the last teaching.
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The wonders of God's creation - Example 1, the tsetse fly
by jambon1 inthere are 23 species of tsetse flies.
diseases transmitted by tsetse flies kill 250,000300,000 people per year.. why create such a thing?.
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iCeltic
Superb video
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ex-jw-uk
by bigmac ini'm quite new to this site, & have realised some members have a union jack symbol under their avatar.
i don't.. could we have a "show of hands" from any uk members?
i've already found several by reading older posts..
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iCeltic
Glasgow :)
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REAL life of a JW!
by Silent_Scream inborn into jw family.
5 years old - you are told celebrations and gifts on those days are from satan.
therefore, in school, your an weird outcast.
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iCeltic
To add, I wish I did leave because certain teachings were brought to my attention, maybe then I wouldn't have spent over a decade of my life in absolute terror that Jehovah was going to kill me and how that affects every aspect of your life.
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REAL life of a JW!
by Silent_Scream inborn into jw family.
5 years old - you are told celebrations and gifts on those days are from satan.
therefore, in school, your an weird outcast.
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iCeltic
I've experienced most of this too even though I wasn't born in ( which to me now, looking back, is worse. Born ins have no choice, I actually made that choice myself :( ... )
I can remember being told that I had to stop seeing my gf at the time I started studying, I did. That was 24 years ago, I spoke to her recently and she still remembers clearly me doing that to her, I'm ashamed.
I was also told to stay well clear of a number of the sisters because they would want to marry a young, hard core newbie like me and it would distract me from the full time ministry. I just thought that's what everyone did and went along with it. I saw first hand elders lying, elders fighting, brothers smoking, drugs, cheating on partners etc and for some crazy reason those aren't the things that made me leave, those things didn't make me think about things till a long time after I had left.
Incidently, the incredibly hard core witness I originally studied with and told me who I could see and could talk with started (during studying with me) seeing a non baptised witness, funny eh..
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Are you an athiest and why?
by LouBelle ini'm interested in finding out people's reasons as to why they are athiest.. i have simply through life experience, my research into religions over the years come to that conclusion.
never thought i would come to a day that i did not believe in a god.
believing in a god is like believing in super man, it would be great if he existed but well it's just a fairy tale.
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iCeltic
I don't believe in the fairy godmother but as far as I'm aware there isn't a group called the afairygodmotherists. I don't believe in the bogeyman, a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow or hobgoblins.
If folk want to believe in an invisible god who cares for them and in some cases, talks to them, that's up to them but why there has to be a name attached to those who do not believe that is beyond me.