Wish I had his courage and non gullible personality type at that young age!
RUN FOR THE HILLS!!!
John Free
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A Teenager Ran Away From Home to Get Away From the Witnesses ... in 1909
by Wild_Thing inokay .... 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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My crazy experience, from pioneer to jail bird
by Nodoubter infirst 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!!
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John Free
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The Watchtower Org will die.
by Freeandclear ini 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.
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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 inpattern of excuses.
example #1. blame the bible !.
proclaimer's book*** jv chap.
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Help finding a video of GB member saying that Jehovah may not really be God's name
by mamacita29 inhi 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?
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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 ini've been thinking this for a while.
even before the arc scandal.
it seems no matter what, the org.
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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 ini've been thinking this for a while.
even before the arc scandal.
it seems no matter what, the org.
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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'
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Does anyone think Jehovah is protecting the org. despite all the talk about THE ARC ?
by tor1500 ini've been thinking this for a while.
even before the arc scandal.
it seems no matter what, the org.
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John Free
If Jehovah was leading the governing body by means of holy spirit then the Jehovah's witness organisation would lead the world when it comes to child protection policy. Instead their record is shockingly woeful, and 'the world' has to educate Jehovah's witnesses, as it did in the ARC.
Make me an unbeliever its no good picking and choosing when the organisation is 'imperfect' and when its 'God directed'- really any religion can make that excuse.
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Something isnt quite right.
by atomant inl was wondering if others get the feeling that the world we live in seems not quite right.l can not pin point anything specific but since childhood days l often get the feeling something isn;t correct.you know the feeling of deja vu.
am l the only one to feel this way?ld love to hear from others and any storys they may have.having been raised in the jdubs maybe lm just suffering mild bouts of paranoia .
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John Free
It sounds like the after-effects of cult indoctrination. Watchtower wants people to believe world events are fulfilling their prophecies- that there is nothing positive to be drawn from world conditions. The reality on the ground is that the highest percentage of humanity ever is living longer, enjoys a better standard of living, better healthcare, better education, more travel opportunities. So dire and hopeless are these last days that most people would choose to live their life in our time than any other era of history- if such a choice were possibly.
We have been conditioned to have a negative, unbalanced outlook- that's my opinion.
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Stephen Lett at our assembly today
by StarTrekAngel inhe delivered the most cultic piece of propaganda i've ever seen in an assembly.
wife typed up the whole thing.
i will be posting when i get a chance.
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John Free
Makemeanunbeliever
"Hard to believe anyone with that avartar"
According to your own reasoning you have inferiority complex. On this occasion though it is possible to distinguish falseness through facial expression.