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  My mom died.

  by noni1974 in

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  it's been years since i posted here.

  my jw mother died july 5th.

  it was quite honestly not that emotional for me.

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  joao

  Sorry to hear about that. It's also sad to see the degree of destruction JW causes to families. Take care.
  
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  Is the governing body of Jehovah's Witnesses REALLY the "faithful and discreet slave" of Matt. 24:45-47?

  by Roger Kirkpatrick in

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  thesis: when someone who is given a responsibility mistakes that responsibility for authority, bullying is very likely to occur.. jesus spoke an illustration recorded at matthew 24: 45-51 which well illustrates this thesis.. jesus asked, “who really is the faithful and discreet slave whom his master appointed over all his domestics, to give them their food at the proper time?

  happy is that slave if his master on arriving finds him doing so.

  truly i say to you, he will appoint him over all his belongings.

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  joao

  They seem too have thought only requirement was preaching.
  

  And giving away their hard-earned £€$...
  
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  Upbringing

  by punkofnice in

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  i was brought up as a born-in(tm) here in the uk.

  it wasn't until i was 50 that the scales fell from my eyes, i woke up, got da'd from the cult and my wife was advised to leave me by the elders whom i had served with on the boe.

  one of which i know wanted to schtupf her.

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  joao

  Yes, I guess it is normal that you feel that way. But, please, do your best to move on. We can't ever forget nor recover the years we lost, but we can live our lives happily and help others to do the same! 🙏
  
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  UN and Governing Body and an accounting

  by AnnaNana in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  joseph and mary were not in a spiritually adulterous relationship with the roman authorities, the "legs of iron".

  joseph and mary were not perfect.

  the governing body of the modern-day organization of jehovah's witnesses is not perfect.

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  joao

  @Fisherman
  

  Religion is governed by laws earth-wide so JW congregation is required to exist as a legal entity.

  Sorry, you're wrong! Business, commerce, money transactions are governed by laws. So, if JW needs all those laws it's because they are a business, not THE TRUE RELIGION as they claim to be!

  They act in opposition to Christ's example who told us that the law must be in our hearts, the LAW OF LOVE.

  When God wanted humans to build the temple He told them what to do. He gave precise instructions to Noah about the building of the Arc too.

  If I remember correctly, there is no mention in the Bible, no instruction given by Jesus about creating a building business of KHs, Bethels or TV/cinema studios using slave labour and money given by people that could be used to help the poor and needy, is there?

  2 Corinthians 3:1-6 tells us that religion is not something external, it's in our hearts. It's not the ink (the human laws), it's the spirit that matters!

  And...
  

  James 1 (KJV)
  

  26 If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain.

  27 Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

  Is this what JW is doing? In Portugal, when JWs get too old to take care of themselves and their family needs help they have to rely on Catholic church institutions or other institutions. JW doesn't care about them anymore because they are of no use for them... But their money was very useful...

  I'm sure JW is obeying Christ's instructions... Right?!

  To conclude, I don't remember reading anywhere in any of my Bibles that God sent Jesus to Earth in order to instruct us to build big headquarters, other magnificent buildings and an enormous network of money collecting KHs for any religion. Please, be so kind as to point me in the right direction because I might have misunderstood or missed some precious information.
  
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  UN and Governing Body and an accounting

  by AnnaNana in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  joseph and mary were not in a spiritually adulterous relationship with the roman authorities, the "legs of iron".

  joseph and mary were not perfect.

  the governing body of the modern-day organization of jehovah's witnesses is not perfect.

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  @AnnaNana

  Please, help me out with a problem no one has yet been able to help me solve: when and where did Jesus create a Society, an Organisation, a greedy Corporation to divide humans into "casts" (a few being the Lords and others their slaves) and to replace him as mediator between men and God?
  
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  #igotout (Escape from Cults/Sects.)

  by Lost in the fog in

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  hi friends,.

  i stumbled upon this website by accident but i have to say that it contains a wealth of useful information.

  maybe you already knew about it, i didn't.

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  joao

  I didn't know about that one! Thanks! Any and every help is welcome!
  
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  HM Queen Elizabeth is dead.

  by stan livedeath in

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  long live the king..

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  joao

  She was a great woman.
  
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  Hello I’ve just discovered that my religion is false just

  by Chickenlips in

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  just wanted to say hey.

  i’m in australia.

  i’ve just woken up… i’m disfellowshipped and finding it hard without family although i do have one sister who isn’t interested in the truth, so that’s good… at least i can talk to her.

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  joao

  Hi Phil, welcome to the forum!

  I'm also pretty new here and I know what you're feeling. I'm going through it at the moment. But I'm doing fine. It's a war I'm going to win. And so are you. We're already winning!

  Stay around and chat with us. You'll feel much less alone.

  Hug from Portugal!

  João
  
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  JW's in war zone

  by Gorb in

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  there is so much silence about the jw's in the ukraine conflict.

  are the jw men arrested because they don't want to fight?

  how is that going in the hyper nationalist fase the country is in?

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  joao

  @LHHE, we can't assume anything from one response! We can only say that we don't know. Regarding the d nuclear power plant, here in Portugal we're having news reports on that and the case is under investigation by independent organisations.
  
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  UNITED NATIONS

  by JohnTron7 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i've been posting this for a few years now but, my post get pulled.

  so i will try again so that others will read and understand the validity of my statements.

  while for years watch tower have declared their thoughts of world changing events leading to the un as the catalyst for turning on religion recently calling russia the final king of the north which has breen debated for decades.

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  joao

  NBD, that's the right question!