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  Crap Shoot

  by John Aquila in

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  what would have happen if i was not home when jehovahs witnesses knocked on my door?.

  there was a group of us living in a small trailer in the mid 60s when and old pioneer brother knocked on our door and placed all kinds of books and magazines with us.

  all of us took it seriously and studied and started attending the kingdom hall.

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  My life would have been better simply because I would have had options.

  Crazyguy, I think that is the Key. Michal Jackson's daughter was being forced by her grandmother to go to meetings and field service until finally the she refused. She had options. (Money, connections, youth, good looks.)

  But some people have no options, in my Old Kingdom Hall an old homeless lady in her 50s living under the bridge was contacted by the JW sisters. They studied with her, told her she had to clean up her life and support herself to please Jehovah. The woman did and they helped her get a job at McDonalds and to this day she still works, is presentable, and has a circle of friends in the organization who invite her to gatherings and such. So for her, it was a good thing. I doubt it if anyone else would have taken the initiative to help her out. She had been homeless for years.
  
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  Crap Shoot

  by John Aquila in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  what would have happen if i was not home when jehovahs witnesses knocked on my door?.

  there was a group of us living in a small trailer in the mid 60s when and old pioneer brother knocked on our door and placed all kinds of books and magazines with us.

  all of us took it seriously and studied and started attending the kingdom hall.

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  many serious scientists suggest that traveling back in time would not allow any change. They state that were someone to interfere with the past, then in all possibilities, they ALWAYS DID INTERFERE WITH THE PAST and nothing ever changed. They believe that any ability to tinker with time would eventually have been discovered and all of time would be unstable because of it and it would unravel to the point where none of our universe could exist anymore.

  Man, life can get pretty mind boggling, there is so much to learn and not enough time. That's the only thing that bugs me, I Want More Time.
  
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  Why I remain one of Jehovah's Witnesses

  by Brother Jeramy in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  allow me to begin with a clarification: when i say i am one of jehovah's witnesses, i don't mean that i am an advocate of the watchtower society or a devotee of some of its more controversial false teachings.

  i mean that i am a christian, a disciple of jesus christ dedicated to jehovah god, and who remains in union with my brothers and sisters who make up the family of faith that globally refers to itself as jehovah's witnesses.

  some totally understand the distinction between the family of brothers and sisters and the corporate organization known as the watchtower society (wts).

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  I'm not an active "WT," by which I mean that while I am a Christian witness of Jehovah, I am not an advocate of the Watchtower Society that has unrightfully imposed itself as an authority over the Family of my brothers and sisters.

  You are guilty by association.

  Get in a car with a group of men who rob a bank and kill a few people and tell me you will get away scot free without any punishment because you make “A Statement” that you are not an advocate of the men that just robbed and killed. The chances of you escaping punishment are nil, even if you are a righteous person.

  The God of the Bible deals the same way with individuals who associate with groups of people engaging in wrongdoing.
  

  (Ezekiel 21:3) . . .And you must say to the soil of Israel, ‘This is what Jehovah has said: “Here I am against you, and I will bring forth my sword out of its sheath and cut off from you righteous one and wicked one.

  Those righteous ones were destroyed not because they were doing wrong,(They were righteous) but because they were “Part of an apostate nation”

  Just like you are part of the WT.
  
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  Crap Shoot

  by John Aquila in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  what would have happen if i was not home when jehovahs witnesses knocked on my door?.

  there was a group of us living in a small trailer in the mid 60s when and old pioneer brother knocked on our door and placed all kinds of books and magazines with us.

  all of us took it seriously and studied and started attending the kingdom hall.

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  What would have happen if I was not home when Jehovah’s Witnesses knocked on my door?

  There was a group of us living in a small trailer in the mid 60s when and old pioneer brother knocked on our door and placed all kinds of books and magazines with us. All of us took it seriously and studied and started attending the Kingdom Hall.

  I got baptized and followed through for the next 45 years.

  One of my friends quit the JW, went to school to become a doctor and when he finished med-school he got killed in a car accident.

  Another one of my friends quit the JW and got involved in drugs and was shot in the head by a drug dealer

  Another one of my friends inherited a fortune from his grandparents, quit the JW and spent all his life chasing beautiful women, fast cars, and beautiful homes. Today he is single and old, and living in one place for no more than a year and then moves to another location.

  Another one of my friends met a girl who was not a JW, quit the JW, married her, bought a small home had lots of kids and to this day is still married to her, and is quite satisfied with life.

  I’m not sure what happen to the other friends, they quit the JWs and I never saw them again.

  Would life have been better if we hadn’t opened the door to that old pioneer brother?

  I’m not sure if it would. It might have been worse.

  It seems like life is just one big Crap Shoot.
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  Authors who are Active JWs?

  by neat blue dog in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  for starters, this topic isn't about former or non-practicing jws, but active ones who are authors.

  we all probably have heard of mcmillan's faith on the march and the other one by marley cole, but how about more recently?.

  i found a couple.

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  Looks like Tower is against WT
  

  Description;
  
  Beth, a volunteer at the Witnesses' world headquarters, is already struggling with confusion over her romantic interest in a fellow Witness which is being discouraged by others, uncertainty about her plans for the future & out-of-character, disturbing actions by close friends.
  
  Things snowball, however, when she discovers a side of her religion's organization that she never knew existed . . . and a conspiracy that was deeper than she bargained for.
  
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  Will they jump of the building?

  by John Aquila in

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  during the depression people committed suicide because everything they had invested in was gone overnight in an instant.

  many people are very fragile creatures.

  if by some freaking chance, (like enron, tiger woods, or the morning of august 1945 in hiroshima) the wts gets caught in a humongous scandal, say like links to human sex trafficking, (i can fantasize right) and the government steps in to investigate and finds them guilty and legally shuts them down permanently, will there be tons of suicides?

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  I think with the instant communications network, we can help them.

  OnTheWayOut

  What a great thought!
  
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  How Do You Feel About All The Time You Wasted Being. A Jehovah's Witness?

  by minimus in

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  all that i can say is....what a shame!

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  It's not the past that bothers me,

  its the future, or what's left of it.

  
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  Explanation Of New Bible Translation

  by Sofia Lose in

  1. watchtower
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  i have been a little troubled with the explanation on the new world translation given during sunday's meeting.

  the mag read that with less words the understanding would be more clear, and offered examples where certain texts had 27 words and now only have 19 words and the meaning is clearer.

  i am not okay with said explanation.

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  The mag read that with less words the understanding would be more clear,

  Eventually the NWT will have 1 page that reads,

  FEAR the GOVERNING BODY

  Less words, more clear, right?
  
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  Will they jump of the building?

  by John Aquila in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  during the depression people committed suicide because everything they had invested in was gone overnight in an instant.

  many people are very fragile creatures.

  if by some freaking chance, (like enron, tiger woods, or the morning of august 1945 in hiroshima) the wts gets caught in a humongous scandal, say like links to human sex trafficking, (i can fantasize right) and the government steps in to investigate and finds them guilty and legally shuts them down permanently, will there be tons of suicides?

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  Members committed suicide over 1914. Members committed suicide over 1975.

  I didn't know that, interesting!

  A pioneer sister in my hall about 30 years ago committed suicide. Before she killed herself she started losing it and mumbling in the Kingdom Hall, "1914 is not true, we are being tricked" She did this for about a month and disappeared.

  We thought she was having family problems because her Non-JW husband had left her. Eventually some of the sisters went to visit her and found her dead. She had been dead for weeks.

  Now after 30 years I believe she found out TTATT and had no support. It really is devastating when you find out you don't have the Truth.
  
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  Will they jump of the building?

  by John Aquila in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  during the depression people committed suicide because everything they had invested in was gone overnight in an instant.

  many people are very fragile creatures.

  if by some freaking chance, (like enron, tiger woods, or the morning of august 1945 in hiroshima) the wts gets caught in a humongous scandal, say like links to human sex trafficking, (i can fantasize right) and the government steps in to investigate and finds them guilty and legally shuts them down permanently, will there be tons of suicides?

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  The WTs has been framed and structured to withstand its own self imposed let downs…. There are people (GB) whose sole task and responsibility is to make sure the organization sustains itself and that is done by creating more alluring bullshit

  That’s true and they just celebrated 100 years since 1914

  But sometimes sh** happens.

  The same people whose responsibility is to make sure the organization sustains itself by creating more alluring bullshit are the same people that are blowing the horn on themselves and getting people’s attention to how crazy and deceptive the WT really is.

  Other religious organizations that eventually admitted to its wrongful doctrines were different from the Watchtower in that none of them demanded the devotion and strict adherence that the WT demands of its members. For example these other religious organizations don’t demand their followers to go door to door, to refuse blood in a life and death situation, they don't disfellowship and force their members to shun their children and parents, they are not against Higher Education, and they are not adversarial with people concerning certain holidays and events like birthdays, and they don't demand their members to be no part of the world with regard to jw children and normal school activities. That is why these other religious organizations continue when they are caught red handed with false doctrines.

  Because it really doesn’t cost the members anything.

  But for Jehovah witnesses the cost is high. Many have lost loves ones because of the blood doctrine, many have wasted their entire life pioneering a false message. Some lost out on marriage or kids because they couldn’t find someone in the “Lord” to marry so they stayed single all their life with no family of their own. Many have had to live paycheck to paycheck because they followed faithfully the admonition to not pursue higher education. And worse, once a person becomes a JW, that person builds his/her social world around other JW members Only. So if that person ever leaves the organization that person becomes socially inept and has a difficult time learning how to function normally and building any type of strong social relationships.
  

  This is the difference between what causes a person to lose it or to just blow it off.