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  Are You Interested In Religion Of Any Sort At This Point In Your Life?

  by minimus in

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  personally, i respect that everyone has choices to believe whatever they want to believe.

  i have no interest in joining another religion....what about you?.

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  I'm done with religion and god. No interest in religion of any kind anymore.
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  Your top 5 most irritating doctrines/practices?

  by cedars in

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  it's clear that virtually everyone on here is infuriated by wt teachings/doctrines/practices, but i would really like to know what is of most concern to people who frequent this forum.. here is my top 5, number 1 being the most significant/infuriating:.

  the disfellowshipping practice - expanded to include family members (but not parents) who are old enough to leave home.

  wrecks families and creates abject fear once people find out the truth about the organization.the blood issue - another unmerciful teaching, but one that costs lives.unquestioned authority of governing body - a handful of men make life-altering decisions as representatives of a larger group of people who they never see or speak to, and yet they demand unquestioning obedience on pain of being disfellowshipped.failed prophecy - the fulfilment of huge swathes of bible prophecy, including revelation, has been attributed to the events of the early 20th century, and the actions of a small group of men.two-tier christianity - faithful and discreet slave are anointed who go to heaven to whom ransom provisions apply directly, whereas remainder, or "great crowd" stay on earth and form a sub-class, only access benefits of ransom through fds.i realise that many of these issues are inter-related, but that's roughly how i would put them.

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  1. Believing that any non-Witness is a dead person walking

  2. Male headship over women

  3. Child Abuse cover-ups

  4. Forcing children into baptism/service

  5. Blood doctrine - lost a friend because of this insanity
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  During Your IN Years If You Had Anointed At Your Hall, What Were They Like?

  by LoisLane looking for Superman in

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  the scoop of humanity at one khall, the anointed ones" were a mixed group.. one bro, h. had been in for eons.

  he was df for adultery, back in the day when they would announce your sin openly from the platform to everyone.

  he just kept on coming and partaking until he was reinstated.

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  mercedes_29

  I knew two men in my US congregation. Both older and cranky. One left the kh one day and never came back. The other one stopped taking emblems shortly before he died with no explanation.

  In France there was a man in his early forties ( this was 10 years ago) who claimed he was annointed. His mother beleived him but everyone else doubted him. He went to the French Bethel but cracked up and was sent back. He pioneered and was an elder. He was a nice and caring man, but a little off. He was in love with a single sister but she wouldn't have anything to do with him because she didn't want to be "left behind" at Armageddon when he went to rule in heaven.
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  MTS & Gilead: Can we talk about how much of a FAILURE these 2 schools were/are?

  by Black Man in

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  i know quite a few from both of these schools who basically crashed and burned once they got into their assignments.

  graduates of these schools would be thrown into foreign territorities or remote areas without a good visible means of support and would get emotionally, mentally, financially burned out.

  post your experiences or of those you know that went to these pitiful excuses for educational institutions..

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  mercedes_29

  I knew a couple who came out of Gilead. They were sent to Bosnia. The wife managed but her husband literally cracked up and they had to come home. They were the shame of the congregation. Everyone said he must have been spiritually weak if he couldn't fulfill his obligation to Jehovah. Well, Jehovah and his henchmen did nothing to support this couple other than tell them to pray harder.
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  Gerrit Loesch was at our DC today!

  by goatshapeddemon in

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  so, unexpectedly, the final talk was announced today and to my surprise and evil glee, they announced gerrit loesch as the speaker!

  first off, at the beginning of his talk, he interrupted himself in the middle of his sentence to scold the microphone brother to lower my mike it's right in my face.. anyway, it was the talk on inspired truth, vs. inspired falsehoods.

  he went through 6 expressions inspired by the demons.

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  mercedes_29

  I can't believe I used to be part of that freakshow religion. The GB definitely seem to be getting bolder in their talks.
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  Jean Stapleton (Edith Bunker)

  by glenster in

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  january 19, 1923 may 31, 2013. the good heart of edith:.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_opbqeckt-4.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1w0ar1akm8.

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  mercedes_29

  My parents watched All in teh Family when it first aired. My brother and I grew up watching the reruns. We thought the show was hilarious and Edith was just like my Gramma. I'm glad Jean lived a long and happy life.
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  Another Newbie?

  by DJS in

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  i guess i'm a newbie.

  i've been reading (lurking) for a looooonnnnnggggg time, but have finally joined and this is my first post.

  my story is of course very similar to all the others.

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  Welcome DJS!
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  just arrived here...

  by sylvlef in

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  hi all.. i'm a newbie from paris, france.

  so please forgive my english grammar, it might be some times...improper.

  27, got baptised at 16 (for a girl...i never had).

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  mercedes_29

  Bienvenue! Je suis américaine mais je parle français.
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  I'm new, please come and meet me!

  by Julia Orwell in

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  long time lurker, first time poster.

  i'm really glad i can join your community because i've been in the wts for the last 14 years and now i'm on my way out and it's great to meet like-minded people!.

  about me: i started learning jw ways when i was in my teens.

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  Welcome Julia!
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  Happy belated b day to me: 30 years old on Feb 16th.

  by Joliette in

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  thought the world was gonna end between 2000 and 2010. can't believe its still here.

  been on jwn for almost three year now.

  damn it feels like heaven on earth to be an apostate!

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  mercedes_29

  Happy Belated Birthday Joliette! I turned 33 the same day.