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  Add your Stupid title of Winess books that did not come true

  by Witness 007 in

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  "millions now living will never die.

  " -1922. sorry rutherford but they did!.

  "god's kingdom of 1000 years has aproached!

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  And he said, “See that you are not led astray. For many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am he!’ and, ‘The time is at hand!’ Do not go after them". - Luke 21:8

  
  

  "The time is at hand" Published by Charles Taze Russell 1889

  
  
  Known throughout the world at the turn of the century as "Pastor"... Charles Taze Russell was an author, lecturer and minister of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. He was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on February 16, 1852. His authorship of the series, Studies in the Scriptures, included The Divine Plan of the Ages, The Time is At Hand, Thy Kingdom Come, The Battle of Armageddon, The Atonement Between God and Man, The New Creation, plus many others.
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  Things we an say on our death bed...

  by The Rebel in

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  1) i am glad i had the courage to live my life true to myself and not the life others expected of me.. 2) i am glad i had the courage to express my feelings.. 3) i am glad i let myself be myself.. 4 ) and i hope i have so many days, and years to live those thoughts, because surely the most wonderful thing about having left our " watchtower death bed" is to start living?.

  in my case at 50 !!.

  but the important thing is when we leave, to start living.. any experiences worth sharing?.

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  I would say "welcome everyone here, I've asked you to come because as you know, I only have a few hours left to live and I wanted to tell you something very important'.

  "You are in a F@cking Cult!"
  
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  They locked the doors.

  by outcast in

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  taken from great crowd.. ----------------------------------------------------------------------.

  rebekah called us at 6 am and it was.

  very clear that she was traumatized by this event.

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  Sounds right, I heard a CO's say that the kingdumb halls are the equivalent to Noah Ark and when the doors are closed, Jehovah will have angels keeping them shut.

  The people at Bethel probably thought it was Armageddon and they just closed the door's so no half dead worldly people would even consider crawling in. So it was kind of a........'you know Fire drill for them'.
  
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  Left Bethel to get married and have children, found the TTATT instead

  by jehobi in

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  long story, short story.

  grew up on a farm, went to bethel, married a sister and left bethel.

  found ttatt after my cousin died refusing a blood transfusion.

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  MarkofCane

  Interesting intro, leaves me wanting more. Welcome stay awhile and participate.
  
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  THE LINGERING SHADOW OF '75

  by Terry in

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  none of you are old enough to have been there, i suspect.

  i had been in prison two years as a jw conscientious objector when the exciting news about 1975 spread like wildfire.i was paroled from prison in 1969 and immediately began pioneering.

  the pressures began mounting throughout the organization.

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  Hi Terry

  Sorry about all the awful pain this ridiculous cult has weighed on you. It's good to have boots on the ground perspective of what really happen in 75, the society blames the R&F as those that ran ahead of the org. Interesting enough my mother was baptized in 1973, we had a conversation about this once and she said 'she was told, she had to get baptized in order to survive the end' which was just around the corner, now that I display a more questioning attitude she denies she ever said it.

  How this organization has any adherents is beyond me. When Harold Camping came out as a complete scam artist and false prophet, I remember all the JW saying "how can anyone with a functioning brain fall for such nonsense, some still have faith in this man, people can be so easily deceived". That's when things started popping in my brain, I remember wondering could we be in the same delusion?

  I let it go,I guess I wasn't ready to except reality yet.
  
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  Ten years out.....

  by snare&racket in

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  i'm not sure how useful this post will be, but i feel compelled to write it.

  with many of my older posts, i wrote them with a younger jw version of me in mind.

  with this i write it with a younger newly ex jw in mind.. ten years ago i went to my presiding overseer and told him my concerns about wt owning 'rand cam' military stocks, about unfulfilled prophecy and human error in the governing body and the theocratic consequences of such.

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  Wow I remember reading some of your post's when I was first lurking.

  Good to hear from you again, there's an army of new ones here. Please check in again, revenge is living a fantastic life without the bOrg and you my friend are a testament to that.
  
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  For those of us creationists who don't know anything about evolution

  by truth doubter in

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  cofty- perhaps you would like to teach us the "first thing about evolution".. truth doubter .

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  Marked for later
  
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  What TV shows were forbidden in your JW household?

  by Funchback in

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  in the u.s., three's company was not allowed.

  it was explained to me that it was an immoral show because a man and women lived together and no one was married.

  the sister who gave this observation was a family friend and we were newbies to the religion.. at least i somehow managed to watch the benny hill show undetected..

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  Happy Days, that was a great show, The Fonz, 'hey', My mom would say he was a man slut. lol
  
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  What TV shows were forbidden in your JW household?

  by Funchback in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  in the u.s., three's company was not allowed.

  it was explained to me that it was an immoral show because a man and women lived together and no one was married.

  the sister who gave this observation was a family friend and we were newbies to the religion.. at least i somehow managed to watch the benny hill show undetected..

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  'I dream of Jeannie' was considered witchcraft, 'The monsters' was off limits as well, demonz you know. They would vilify anything just to keep you under there thumb.
  
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  Miracle Wheat: Was Russell really guilt-free regarding it? Did Rutherford have more to do with it than Russell?

  by ILoveTTATT2 in

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  jim penton, in his book apocalypse delayed, barely touches on the miracle wheat episode.

  in a 300+ page book, this is what he says about it:"he was charged with financial chicanery, particularly in what came to be known as the miracle wheat episode.

  ... both the miracle wheat and ross cases deserve some comment.

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  It's interesting for sure, I'm certain snake oil has properties you could spin in a positive fashion to fit an agenda as well.

  Russell saw an opportunity to make money and as a business man tried to capitalize on this venture, once he felt the repercussions of his folly he tried to distance himself from it and lay the blame on others. I believe they still have the same policy in place.