John Aquila

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  Why Do You No Longer Believe in God?

  by Tenacious in

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  i know this question has popped up from time to time but i really would like to know how you guys, those that no longer believe, came to that conclusion?

  was it the wts and all its crap?

  was it something you read?

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  I can’t say if A God exists so it doesn't matter if I believe or not. To me that question is not the important question to ask.

  The question I ask myself is, “If there is a God, does God Care for me and my family, and will He rescue us from death.”

  What does creation teach us about God?

  “To sustain itself nearly all life, except the least living elements of life, kills and eats other life. If not this, then it consumes biological matter at the expense of other living beings.

  The fight for food is also a case of living beings being required to outdo each other merely to survive.

  If life was created, this is surely the worst possible way to have created life. It appears very much that life cannot survive without causing suffering for other life.

  A god could not have created a more vicious cycle if it tried:

  Tying the very existence of life with the necessary killing of other life is the work of an evil genius, not of an all-powerful and all-loving god, that could choose if it wanted to sustain all life immediately and forever with manna from heaven.”

  So if God does exists, whether I believe or not, he is not an all loving, merciful, compassionate being, who is going to save me and my family from death, but instead He is pure evil who delights in seeing us go through pain when we see our spouse die of cancer, or our children get killed by some maniac, or the sadness that goes through our mind when we see our bodies get old and wrinkle and we finally take our last breath.

  This God can’t even answer a few simple questions that billions of humans throughout history have been fervently praying for answers.

  Why is there so much suffering? What happens when we die? Do you exist?

  Those are simple questions that an omnipotent – Benevolent -Omniscience, God could answer very easily if he was a God of LOVE.
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  You need to marry a ministerial Servant!

  by John Aquila in

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  2. beliefs

  a single sister in her 40s and her two single daughters were visiting my mom.

  i would say her daughters are in their early 20s.

  my mom got sleepy and we put her to bed but the three sisters stayed to finish their drinks..

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  So I guess the Bible teaches that newly baptized ones in the "Truth" are not allowed to marry?? WTF???

  (1 Timothy 4:1-3) . . .However, the inspired utterance says definitely that in later periods of time some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to misleading inspired utterances and teachings of demons, ..... forbidding to marry, . . .

  I guess the GB encourages teaching of demons.
  
  
  
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  You need to marry a ministerial Servant!

  by John Aquila in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  a single sister in her 40s and her two single daughters were visiting my mom.

  i would say her daughters are in their early 20s.

  my mom got sleepy and we put her to bed but the three sisters stayed to finish their drinks..

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  A single sister in her 40s and her two single daughters were visiting my mom. I would say her daughters are in their early 20s. My mom got sleepy and we put her to bed but the three sisters stayed to finish their drinks.

  Then they got into an argument that escalated into yelling matches. I didn’t get involved but the subject of the argument prodded me to be quiet and listen. (BTW) my mom is almost completely deaf. So I wasn’t worried about them waking her up.

  Evidently the fight had been ongoing. The daughters want to date some guys that are not JWs. The mother reminded them that the direction by the “Slave” was to marry a brother- and not just any brother –but a brother who was a, “ministerial servant”

  Well both daughters were trying to reason with the mother and letting her know, that most of the brothers in the circuit are NOT ministerial servants. And those that are, can’t even take care of themselves financially, in fact most of them are losers. And the brothers that did go to school and are ministerial servants usually pick sisters in their teens, beauty queens, to date and marry. And the brothers that are not ministerial servants, most of them have girlfriends that are not JWs.

  The mother shot back and told them if they wanted Jehovah’s blessing in the marriage they needed to follow His direction through the “Slave”. Otherwise, the marriage is doom to fail.

  One of the daughter shot back and said, “You mean like dad left us, He was an elder”

  The mom ran out the door and the daughters followed. I waited to see if they were coming back but I heard the car sip away.

  I asked my mom who they were and she said they are new ones that have moved into the hall.

  I wonder how many young sisters are going through this problem.
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  Jehovah's Witnesses are not Christians. It's impossible.

  by DATA-DOG in

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  good morning.

  i was just checking out the forum and something occured to me.

  jws simply cannot be christians.

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  Jeffrey Dahmer was a Christian and his baptism was accepted as genuine.

  http://www.beliefnet.com/Faiths/Christianity/2006/11/Saving-Jeffrey-Dahmer.aspx
  

  
  
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  Where has all the money gone?

  by gingerbread in

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  a number of years ago when i was still active, our service group was having a coffee break with the visiting circuit overseer.

  during the conversation he mentioned that the "society" was now being run like a business.

  being raised in the "truth" i thought that rather odd (and my eyes began to be opened!

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  He never said give to my apostles (in order to spread the good new or advance kingdom interests).
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  What would you do if the Society Declares Bankruptcy

  by Quarterback in

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  2. friends

  special pioneers let go.

  bethel workers laid off.

  construction halts, what's next?

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  Bankruptcy is a process where a company can repay debt and reorganize and continue business. It an arrangement to allow a company to continue to exist.

  Bankruptcy would protect the Watchtower from dying and help it get stronger.

  "Bankruptcy is a process in which consumers and businesses can eliminate or repay some or all of their debts under the protection of the federal bankruptcy court. For the most part, bankruptcies can be divided into two types -- liquidation and reorganization.

  Chapter 7 bankruptcy comes under the liquidation category. It's called liquidation because the bankruptcy trustee may take and sell ("liquidate") some of your property to pay back some of your debt. However, you may keep property that is protected (also called "exempt") under state law. There are several types of reorganization bankruptcies, but Chapter 13 is most commonly used by consumers. In Chapter 13 bankruptcy, you keep all of your property, but must make monthly payments over three to five years to repay all or some of your debt.

  Both Chapter 7 and Chapter 13 bankruptcy have many rules -- and exceptions to those rules -- regarding which debts are covered, who can file, and what property you can and cannot keep."
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  A nuclear war take place and a 1/3 of the world population is wiped from the face of the earth.

  by James Mixon in

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  how many of you would return to jehovah, wt?

  better yet, how many jws would walk???.

  i do believe it will happen one day....

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  If Donald Trump becomes president of the U.S. the probability that he will start a nuke war is extremely high.And the polls show he is winning.

  If he gets into an argument with Putin, He will say, "Putin, your fired"
  
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  Intriguing - but Unsubstantiated!

  by The Searcher in

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  according to one source on a western european 'apostate' website, the org's plan is to abandon the name "jehovah's witnesses" in the future, and replace it with "worshippers of jehovah.".

  http://www.bruderinfo-aktuell.de/index.php/fixnews/#comment-4313 .

  the gist of the account appears to be a repeat of rutherford's re-branding and debunking of old predictions made by the previous shower of fakers.

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  Change would allow them to distance themselves from teachings like

  "The generation of 1914 will not die"

  "No Blood"
  

  That was a teaching of Jehovah's Witnesses

  but we are------"Worshippers of Jehovah."

  We're different.
  
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  Mobile Hotspot - JWFACTS.COM - Assembly & Conventions

  by thedepressedsoul in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  here is an idea i tested.

  works at both assemblies and conventions.

  i have noticed at the last convention and at my last assembly that when i opened up my wifi setting, tons of hotspots came up for people tethering their tablets to their smart phones.

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  thedepressedsoul

  I always figured it was their curiosity when they see something and start to look into it.

  
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  Did an EX-JW wake you up to TTATT or did you put the effort to wake up yourself?

  by John Aquila in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  how many of us were woken up by some apostate yelling false prophets at a convention?.

  how many of us were woken up by someone holding a sign and yelling, what happened to 1975.

  how many of us were coerced to investigate the wt because some ex-jw pulled up a bunch of old watchtowers magazines and told us to read the false predictions?.

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  Beth Sarim

  1995 Generation Teaching was a great tipping point for me too. I was never, ever the same in the ''truth'' again. ''Badly fractured'', so to speak.

  I remember the time when they implied that the generation that saw 1914, “MIGHT DIE”

  I believe that was a little earlier perhaps 1990. But I was never the same after that. I stepped down as an elder. Still, it took me many years to finally see.

  done4good Thanks for that link, it really explains a lot for me.

  
  

  notjustyet

  I told him that I did it on my won and he told he that it was very difficult to get yourself out of a cult. At that moment I felt a wave of emotion come over me as this was the first time that I had been commended for all the work and mental stress I had been through for the last year plus.

  I have always felt that those of us who woke up have something unique that differentiates us from the rest of the world. We seem to have some innate ability to reason, think, and pull ourselves out of the most difficult situations a human can be enslaved to. In other words, we can think our way out of dangerous situations. Not many people can do that. We should be able to do anything we set our minds to.