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I have seen so many opinions on this, and experts on each side discounting what the others are saying that it makes the head ache.
Can someone summarize please?
Who attacked who first?
What was the response?
How did that go?
Finally, what in the blue blazes can someone like me do about it?
I eagerly await your answers because, Man am I confused!
Jean

did anyone answered your question?

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Are ex-jw's or "apostates" addicted to jw-bashing?

by booker-t in

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friends

this might seem like a funny question to ask but my mom told me that "apostates" are addicted to jw-bashing and cannot let it go and have a life.

i asked her what she meant by this statement and she told me that all ex-jw's talk about is the wts and jw's and negative things about the jw's.

she said that we get up thinking about jw-bashing and go to sleep thinking about jw-bashing just like a drug addict.

one

I have never been in a hurry,

by the way what am i doing here in front of this girl -----i mean in front of this keyboard instead of dancing, well actually my body is asking me for some rest the last 3 nights have been too much

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Are ex-jw's or "apostates" addicted to jw-bashing?

by booker-t in

jw
friends

this might seem like a funny question to ask but my mom told me that "apostates" are addicted to jw-bashing and cannot let it go and have a life.

i asked her what she meant by this statement and she told me that all ex-jw's talk about is the wts and jw's and negative things about the jw's.

she said that we get up thinking about jw-bashing and go to sleep thinking about jw-bashing just like a drug addict.

As far as "dancing girls" i can't complaint, but as far as matching in other aspects i am about to give up. The more you know how thing should be, the harder to "find" unless one is willing to lower spectations, which i think i never will, not that Ithink about eutopia either. During the mean time i am extremely happy, it scare me.

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Do Jehovah's Witnesses Depend on Mental Illness?

by metatron in

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if you still go to meetings, take a good look around the kingdom hall next time you attend and think about what you are.

likely seeing.. many witnesses will sit in a half-awake mode - despite confronting a risk to life or limb in attending, because of bad weather or the sort.

of neighborhood the hall is located in.

one

Metatron,

can you simplify, i wanted to reply but there were too many questions and situations to talk about...

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PROVE That Jehovah's Witnesses DON'T Have The Truth

by minimus in

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jws are convinced they alone have the truth.

they are scripturally trained to prove to others why they are "in the truth".

from your vantage point, how can you show this is untrue??

one

What do yor have to say min?

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Would Michael Jackson be in all this legal trouble if he stayed a JW?

by booker-t in

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friends

as you posters know my mom has been a "devout" jw for over 40 years and just won't bend when it comes to the faults of the wts.

i have talked until i was blue in the face for over 10 years since da'd myself in 1993 but just can't crack my mom.

well she made another ridiculous comment to me the other day in her attempts to get me "reinstated" back as a jw.

one

MJ is probably the product, as anyone else, of unresolved conflict of interests which may included the factor the way he was raised,

BUT his "power" more than anything else, made him beleive he could get away with... anything, speculation here.

I dont know for sure what really has happened in the court case. As far as i know he could be declared no guilty, as the accuser really show an lack of consistency and monetary "interest", of course the former could be atributed to "pressure" but it does not add up.

A prominent basketball player got off the hook by proving the accuser had no credibility and showed monetary interest instead.

Been there done that, there are people who REALLY are willing to take advantage, if... couched. But if anyone behave naturallyl and keeps record in wirtting, as i learned by working by global corporations, if you are innocent it is easy to prove it.

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Would Michael Jackson be in all this legal trouble if he stayed a JW?

by booker-t in

jw
friends

as you posters know my mom has been a "devout" jw for over 40 years and just won't bend when it comes to the faults of the wts.

i have talked until i was blue in the face for over 10 years since da'd myself in 1993 but just can't crack my mom.

well she made another ridiculous comment to me the other day in her attempts to get me "reinstated" back as a jw.

one

Most likely not, but that's not the real issue.

just can't crack my mom

dont even try again, you wont get anywher that way, just "talk" by "example" as jw say. use their own tactics prove them wrong by your "fruits", nothing else will work.

She told me that all ex-JW's and apostates have nothing but trouble after trouble in their lives when they leave JW's

She might be right to some extent, but real reason for those "trouble" is not because they left the jw religion per se... think about it.

Any individual whose whole life was supported by a group will be in TROUBLE when that support group is no there for whatever the reason AND whatever the group involved.

The affected indivial will probably make some mistakes due do the lack of coordinates he used to reference to his whole life.

It is like being raised in the country side in Africa 0isolated) and all of the sudden she/he is dropped in the middle of NYC with no money and no maps.

You can find similar experiences unrelated to jw for you mom to read, "planting".

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Are ex-jw's or "apostates" addicted to jw-bashing?

by booker-t in

jw
friends

this might seem like a funny question to ask but my mom told me that "apostates" are addicted to jw-bashing and cannot let it go and have a life.

i asked her what she meant by this statement and she told me that all ex-jw's talk about is the wts and jw's and negative things about the jw's.

she said that we get up thinking about jw-bashing and go to sleep thinking about jw-bashing just like a drug addict.

one

Now put on the James Brown box set or some CCR and even those girls could dance.

I know what you mean..., but i tried that with my xjw wife and did not work, so i dumped her, well not really for that reason.

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PROVE That Jehovah's Witnesses DON'T Have The Truth

by minimus in

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friends

jws are convinced they alone have the truth.

they are scripturally trained to prove to others why they are "in the truth".

from your vantage point, how can you show this is untrue??

one

Because i say so

Because "millions" who were living are now dead

Because 1975 + 30 = 2005 and counting

Because Ray Franz says so and i challenge anyone to read his books and confirm. I mean tha's an INSIDE perspective, can't beat that..

Becasue it has been "PROVED"

Because jw do not want you to read Ray's books

Because no jw is willing to seat down and read verse by verse... i mena parragrahp by parragraph what Ray and others like Carl Olson has to say in their books.

Because their are afraid of doing it

Because anyone who is afraid and hide does not have the truth

Because, sorry for the being repetitive, Wt does not face lets say "professional" opposers in public, as their claimed leader jesus did when "opposers" tested him. I mean some of those professional opposer are just stating facts, not bashing.

Becasue as insuanted above they like darkness, ashame to come to light

Becasie common sense tell you shunning is a way to avoid the truth, something not even god did to satan for so call 6000 years after He found out his beloved creature became a "liar", now jw dont wait a second to if they think a member is "liyng", by expressing.a doubt or try to clarify a doctrine.

All of the above.