Posts by John Free

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

by Witness 007 in

"millions now living will never die.

" -1922. sorry rutherford but they did!.

"god's kingdom of 1000 years has aproached!

The JW Spin - why governments and opposers should let jws handle abusers themselves

by Robo Bobo in

i came across this blog - it is one of the evilest things i've ever read.. http://dismythed.blogspot.com/2016/02/flip-side-news-opposers-want-ex.html.

you might not want to click on it because a) you'll give it more traffic and b) it will make you mad.

in summary it states that since only 11-17% of molesters are repeat offenders, witnesses guilty of abuse should be dealt with inside the congregation as long as they confess.

God let's just abandon the criminal justice system altogether shall we? After all, think of the hardship it causes to the poor old criminals and their families. How does this victim know that this pedophille has not reoffended? It takes years/decades for other victims to come forward. Criminals must pay for their crimes however sorry they are anyway, the God this person worships would have once stoned these criminals to death.

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My meeting yesterday

by stephanie61092 in

so i just wanted to jot down some thoughts and feelings about my meeting yesterday.... first, the wt, paragraph 16. i couldn't help but laugh to myself at the blatant hypocrisy.

god’s word admonishes us “to live with soundness of mind ... amid this present system of things.” (titus 2:12) having “soundness of mind,” or being sober-minded, should certainly come into play when the explanation of a diagnostic method or therapy seems strange or mysterious.

can the practitioner or the one promoting it explain satisfactorily how it works?

John Free

Great post-double standards, funny how we can see them so easily now isn't it. One of my last meetings there was an old-timer being interviewed, when she first found the troof her catholic parents threatened to disown her( bros in audience were visably disgusted in the Catholics, the interviewer said 'don't get me started on the Catholics') people were shaking there heads in shock- her parents didn't even follow through! They just can't see the hypocrisy.

Hope things work out for you, seems like you're playing a good game. Glad your family are relenting on their emotional blackmail. I'm guessing you're planning a fade after reinstatement?

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A Teenager Ran Away From Home to Get Away From the Witnesses ... in 1909

by Wild_Thing in

jw
friends

okay .... i guess technically they weren't witnesses yet; they were just russellites.

but i still think it is funny that teenagers were heading for the hills to run away from their nonsense ... even back then!.

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John Free

Wish I had his courage and non gullible personality type at that young age!

RUN FOR THE HILLS!!!

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My crazy experience, from pioneer to jail bird

by Nodoubter in

first let me introduce my self, i am a 33yo male show spent much of his youth in the jw cult, i was not raised into the truth however thought i found it at the age of 11 when a well caring brother knocked my door, i had no father figure so this brother was everything to me, like a father, i quickly began attending meetings even when my mom used to oppose, i was taken like an example kid because i was an "orphan" in the spiritual sense, i got baptized when i was 12, and spent the rest of my teenage years being this good kid everyone thought i was, i hated that attention and pressure however it felt good to be doing good things, when i was about to finish high school i started to get into punk and ska music, i used to listen to it in secret, one time an elder found out and went to my house when i wasnt there, he went into my room and took all my cds, this was my first time i felt like i was being invaded of my privacy, i was made to feel guilty for liking this music and lost all my priviledges..theres a lot more i can say but i will stick to the main points, i became a reg pioneer, i became an ms, the whole thing, living in new york allowed me to visit bethel many times and had many many friends there, at the head quarters and walkill, in my cong we had bethelite elders etc, so yeah i was "in the club" , i always had a doubt in the back of my mind if what i was doing was the right thing, i used to rent the basement out of en elders house, he is what made me turn, he was the mos unloving person i ever met, for instance he would turn off the heat during snow storms, sometimes due to my pioneering i had no food and he knew this, well no food from him etc.

yet all this time i thought i was doing the right thing, eventually i feel in love and started dating this beautiful pioneer girl, daughter of pioneer parents as well, i never felt fully excepted because of my spiritual orphan status and no family in the truth, eventually got to a point where i could not communicate with her and her parents used to pick up the calls, they told me i could not continue to pursue a relationship with her, i was devastated!

long story short i wanted to see her etc, they put a restraining order and labeled me a stalker, made a mistake of sending her an e-mail and well, that got me arrested!!

John Free

A warm welcome to the forum. Interesting account you have. Glad you are on the road to recovery.

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The Watchtower Org will die.

by Freeandclear in

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friends

i was just reading through some posts and had a startling realization.. the comment that sparked this went something like this: why oh why when i started into this in 1989 did i not research the history of the wtbts?

etc....... i too was studying and moving towards baptism around that same time.

i got dunked in dec of 1990.. my thought.

John Free

I wish what you say is true but unfortunately I agree with adjusted knowledge. Its been around so long now and it adapts to protect itself. Like a grotesque beast it knows how to survive.

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FORENSIC ANALYSIS: The Governing Body as Lying Liars who Lie

by Terry in

pattern of excuses.

example #1. blame the bible !.

proclaimer's book*** jv chap.

John Free

An excellent post, intellectually destroying the concept that this cult is guided by God.

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Help finding a video of GB member saying that Jehovah may not really be God's name

by mamacita29 in

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friends

hi everyone i'm at work and need to show this video to a jw.

i saw it a few weeks ago i think it was geoffry jackson who said that jehovah may or may not be gods real name but we use it anyways.

can someone help me find that video?

John Free

"Why do we use the name 'Jehovah' in English? Is it because it is the most accurate pronunciation? No. It is because it is the most widely accepted. Does this make sense? Yes."

Do you find it condescending that I am answering all of my questions for you? No.

Will you trust my answers, even though they are based solely on opinion? Yes.

Will you comply? Yes

We are the Borg.

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Does anyone think Jehovah is protecting the org. despite all the talk about THE ARC ?

by tor1500 in

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friends

i've been thinking this for a while.

even before the arc scandal.

it seems no matter what, the org.

John Free

'I would hate to be a WT enemy'- but you are a WT enemy, your posting on apostate sites and that is against their rules. What difference does being their enemy make? If you are stanch enemy or just an average person who doesn't want to join WT, you're going to get slaughtered the same way by Jesus and his lovely angels. so being an enemy makes no difference, unless you were just scaremongering- WT has taught you well.

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Does anyone think Jehovah is protecting the org. despite all the talk about THE ARC ?

by tor1500 in

jw
friends

i've been thinking this for a while.

even before the arc scandal.

it seems no matter what, the org.

John Free

Its sickening how the WT slammed in to other religions for their pedophile problems.

http://www.silentlambs.org/Catholicarticles.htm

Yet no WT or YB has ever mentioned anything about the problems and lawsuits going on in JW organisation. - 'its cos we're imperfect see' 'oh Satan's using the media-its all lies'