Posts by tornapart

The Jews were bound to be soaked up by the surrounding religious culture. All through the OT it shows they spent most of their time following the gods of the surrounding nations rather than their own god. Even setting up high places and calf worship, supposedly as part of their worship of their one god. Their own god condemned it all, icluding all the practices that went with it.

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My, my, times have changed...

by DATA-DOG in

questions from readers?

why does not the watchtower society publish simplified material for parents to use in teaching their children bible truths?.

-a question based upon frequent inquiries by readers.. jehovah god lays upon the parents themselves the responsibility of teaching their children.

tornapart

I remember the first book I was interested in as a young child.. Paradise Lost to Paradise Regained. I actually quite liked it. LOL

The first book I can recall that we did in the book study was Babylon the Great Has Fallen... bit hard going for a 5 year old that had just learnt to read...

(DD... sent you a PM)

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Mouthy Grace is not well. Please send love.

by return of parakeet in

jw
friends

in another thread, mouthy said she was "not well" and mentioned "kicking the bucket.

i believe she needs some encouragement and well wishes.. mouthy, you don't need to respond to this thread if you don't feel up to it.

just consider it an exceptionally long get-well card..

tornapart

Granny Grace... we love you!! Hope you feel better soon!

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Inside the Westboro Baptist Church - Anything Sound Familiar?

by Darth Rutherford in

interesting short interview with a wbc apostate.

i didn't realize they shun too - but, i'm not surprised.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijwzc6mvdkm&feature=player_embedded.

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tornapart

There was a documentary about them here a couple of years back. It was scary how similar they were in certain areas. Worse than JWs if anthing.

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What is the most damning watchtower publication?

by zound in

i want to purchase a couple of vintage watchtower publications to help in my helping jw's break free.

some of the older ones are expensive or hard to come by - i know you can buy them on cd's but i'd like to own one or two of the "classics of propaganda"- some of the ones that speak for themselves as to the ridiculousness of this religion.. of course any magazine i pick up today speaks to me of the ridiculousness, but you need something much more hardcore for the jw's.. any recommendations?.

"children" has some pretty good quotes in it..

tornapart

I would say the proclaimers book too. Not many JWs have actually read it. There's some real gems in there if you can winkle them out.

Divine Plan of the Ages with it's pyramid chart and the crazy Finished Mystery. The society is always making mention of these 'wonderful' books.

If only JWs would actually read them maybe it would wake them up.

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Maybeso

by MaybeSo in

im very sad, upset and disappointed all at the same time.

why couldnt i just stay away from this dam forum and live my life and blindly dedicated it to the borg.

now i know ttatt, i cant ignore all the facts and all the stories of the great people in this forum.

tornapart

Tough sometimes isn't it Maybe? I'm a bit further along than you but still having the same struggles. It gets worse in some ways as time goes by, you don't want to leave your family still in but you can't bear to be in it yourself. You wish you could unlearn TTATT but then you know you're glad you did learn it. You can't go back but it's so hard knowing how to move on...

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Who left or got stumbled over the 1995 generation thing?

by Julia Orwell in

or the 2000's generation thing?.

how did you feel?

how did it help you wake up?

tornapart

In 1995 I was too busy running around after kids to be too concerned about it but I remember having this niggly feeling that didn't feel right, it was yet another change...why? The real eye opener for me was when they changed it yet again, in 2010, to something so ridiculous I couldn't believe anyone was actually sucked in by it. By the end of the following year I was fully awake to TTATT.