John Free

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  New here, never baptised (thank god)!

  by olongapo joe in

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  just signed up and wanted to introduce myself.

  i had 1 x-mas and 1 birthday before both my parents joined the jw's around 1966 or 67 being 1 year old i don't remember them (the holidays), to this day holidays are nothing to me (thanks jw's).

  i never really believed the bible or jw literature.

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  John Free

  Hello!! Welcome! And thanks for your story!
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  You Are Unsuitable!

  by Divergent in

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  today's text -.

  sunday, january 24. they collected the fine ones into containers, but the unsuitable they threw away.—matt.

  13:48.. understanding the lesson of this illustration helps us to avoid being overly distraught or disappointed if a bible student or one of our children does not make the truth his own.

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  John Free

  The watchtower interpretation of the verse is not logical. The person that decides to leave or not join watchtower is 'unsuitable', but then if that same person decides to come back to watchtower he is then no longer 'unsuitable'- this means its the individual's choice whether to be unsuitable or not, but according to the text it was the fisherman's choice.

  It's just another example of murdering a scripture to make it more 'suitable' for the cult.
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  This idiot just embarrasses me.

  by joe134cd in

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  yup a mentally diseased apostate.. http://youtu.be/e7qmypu7mxo.

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  John Free

  Derek, if you're listening get yourself a pair of handcuffs mate and lock yourself to one of the seats in the middle of a row! There'll be hundreds of helpless JW attendants panicing! It'll be a right comedy show!

  Just don't do it in the deaf loop section!
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  This idiot just embarrasses me.

  by joe134cd in

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  yup a mentally diseased apostate.. http://youtu.be/e7qmypu7mxo.

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  John Free

  The watchtower creates people like Derek. It's unethical control methods causes in some cases severe depression, in other cases it creates the Dereks of this world.
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  Death of a loved one and faith

  by ilikecheese in

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  hey all.

  i haven't posted in forever and a day, but i feel like this is a great place to ask this question because of so many people who are unsure of their beliefs.

  my mom was diagnosed with stage four breast cancer about four years ago.

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  John Free

  Thank you for sharing your moving story! I wish I was qualified to answer, but I am not. I just wish to send you my condolences.

  John
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  Elder Mentioning an "Apostate Problem"

  by Simon Templar in

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  i bumped into a sister that i have known for at least 40 years or so.

  we were catching up.

  she and her husband have been in the truth for decades.

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  John Free

  If only more than 144thou would partake lol...

  Maybe partaking is the new protesting!
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  Conclusion

  by Esmeralda001 in

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  i decided to put an end to my affiliation with the jws for good.

  this decision is not the result of an irrational impulse.

  it is quite the contrary.

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  John Free

  Thank you for sharing your experience. It is a sad story that unfortunately isn't an isolated one. JWs like to say that they operate as idividuals with freedom of conscience, but that is false. They are conditioned to adabt to a strict, high control, rule based system of behaviour. bible students whom fail to modify to the JW model are rejected. May I recommend Steve hassans book 'combatting cult mind control'- this books author well describes how the JW organisation operates on new recruits even though he has never had any experience in dealing with the jws himself. He does so by describing how other control groups work and its the pattern that is unmistakable. Regards.
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  Huge discrepancy between English and German wikipedia articles about JWs

  by Zana in

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  the english version seems fairly balanced.

  to me it almost has an apostate feel, citing coc or describing doctrine changes and interesting details about wt history.

  but the german version?

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  John Free

  Ilovettatt2 makes an important point. Jwfacts is unavailable in so many languages, and most quotes from older Borg publications are from publications that exsist in very few languages. Hence, much of the European and Asian dub community have little access to ttatt. And exdubs can unfortunately remain indoctrinated.
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  Don't know what to do

  by looter in

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  i'm in a crazy situation.

  about a year ago, i was going to get baptized.

  it was all planned and arranged until ttatt was learned.

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  John Free

  I agree with the idea of buying as much time as you can, with the plan to move out when you feel confident, but don't get baptised, remember while unbaptised you are untouchable. Can I just say that I think you're very brave and smart, brave cos most youngsters don't have to deal with this cultic behaviour and smart because many on this site wasted decades in this cult(myself included) but you won't!
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  new lawsuit

  by gda in

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymb1gcxaomo

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  John Free

  Good on her for fighting them, hope they are made to pay. The Borg admitted their procedures are illegal in the ARC. There was a good point on here the other day- if one of these elduhs had their wallet pinched they'd go straight to the police, 2 witnesses or not! Not if a child is raped though...on no that's different...