my favourite post on jwn is the new posts.
so i'd like to start a 'welcome' list of all the new people who have joined in the last 6 months, i cant remember all of them so can you add anyone you know of?
welcome to....... roostermcdooster.
My favourite post on JWN is the new posts. So I'd like to start a 'Welcome' list of all the new people who have joined in the last 6 months, I cant remember all of them so can you add anyone you know of? Thanks.
Welcome to......
RoosterMcDooster
arrakis1
atrapado
skbj
devonuk
Smiley Kelly
AMNumber1
Sparlock
Slimk........
was a jw for 40 years.
stopped attending 2010...resigned officially in 2011. still a little shell shocked but beginning to feel much better now.
awesome revelation....people in the world are not all that bad.
Hi Arrakis, a warm welcome to you, hope to hear your story soon. (thats always my fav post)
I agree with Phizzy, there are some wonderful people out there, I also have just woken up this yr but fading for many yrs. 37 yrs born-in.
Its hard when youre born in because its all you know, so I dont think Phizzy is a dum-dum, just as brainwashed as the rest of us were.
Glad to see another zombie awaken!!
Enjoy your new found mental,emotional, financial, spiritual freedom, the novelty never wears off when you realise its a Sunday and all the fools are at the meeting or its a lovely Saturday morning and youre having a sleep in and reading the paper and all the followers are out preaching a useless message.
Jemba xx
this beautiful young lady has many youtube videos of fashion tips, makeup, etc.
last week, her molester from the time she was 4-13 years old shockingly subscribed to her page, and she decided to speak out and describe her experience.
she is a very courageous person to do what she did!
Bree is the most beautiful, brave, strong, confident, intelligent, amazing young woman!! Check out some of her other vids. She did a great job of giving her abuser what he deserves to hear. I would love to see him tied up and tortured for ages like what he did to poor Bree for years.
Love this video, everyone should watch it.
australia's prime minister julia gillard has announced a national royal commission into child abuse within religions and religious charities (not-for-profit sector).
julia gillard announces royal commission will probe child sex abuse.
royal commission to probe child abuse.
Like Brinjen I also came here to post about this wonderful news.
Of course though the witlesses will smugly sit back and think it applies to every other org but themselves - yet they are the worst!! The way they leave it to Jah and require 2 witnesses to the crime is downright disgusting and I hope it finally comes out in the media the way they treat the poor victims of abuse in this cult and even put the poor children in the same room as the abuser to tell their story.
Sick bunch of freaks they are! Maybe the next step here in Australia is to get our athiest PM to take away the 'charity' status of the JWs, theyve never helped anyone but the society to get rich.
I dont like Gillard and think she has a few hidden agendas and is even sending Aust broke with all these stupid taxes etc. But I'm hoping part of her agenda may be to give religions a bit of a run for their money.
How long will it be in this financially strapped world before governments start looking at the massive amounts of $$ tied up in religions and wonder how they can get their hands on it, a great start would be to strip many of the religons out there of their tax free charity status..... Bring it on!!!
i'm relatively new to the faith, and struggle with many concepts and teachings.
i am getting married soon.
part of the teaching i've experienced is that a wife must learn submission to her husband.
If you truly believe that Men Women are equal then you are in the wrong religion buddy.
Ever wonder why only Men can preach standing on the platform, serve behind the literature counter, count money, hold any postion? etc. Its totally out of line with the real world.
I was always disgusted that women had to wear something on their head when preaching/teaching if a baptised Male was in the room. How is God going to view her differently because she has a tea towel on her head. If the religion treated people equally then everyone would have to wear the stupid rag on their head.
Seriously rethink your decision to get married in this cult, there is so much more pressure for couples than most 'normal' relationships, donn t believe their stats on JW marraige, as JW facts has proven - those facts are rigged.
i have been thinking about how the events surrounding my baptism may be of some interest to this board, so here is my story.. i began to talk about baptism when i was seven, but nobody took me seriously.
i let the matter drop until i was ten.
i was persistent this time so arrangements were made for the elders to go over the questions with me.. at the time, it was customary for baptismal candidates to study the live forever and united in worship books.
I think even if you lied and said you never actually dedicated yourself to Jah they still wouldnt let you off because you outwardly still showed you were dedicated by getting baptised.
There will never be an easy way out of this cult.
Even if you were 8 when you were baptised they will say you lived up to your baptism all those years so youre stuck with us now.
Im so glad my kids dont have to worry about this crap and think they may die at armaggedon every time they 'sin'. Way too much baggage for kids to carry!!
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so, this pic is on some witness's fb site (i am not fb friends with this person so the pic is obviously freely available for anyone to see)... it looks from the caption that the elders were like, "call this picture 'elder's meeting'".
anyone want to comment on the highly charged ..."undertones"?.
They probably wouldnt expect it to end up on FB. Bethel has probably given them an ass whipping now that us apostates have got hold of the photo.
oompa,.
i'm sorry that you had to endure the pain you did.
regardless if you believe in god or not, what you were going through was sheer hell.. i'll keep this short, i won't eulogize you too long, 'cause i can kind of detect that you'd hate that.
Well spoken eulogy Mr Falcon... its kinda hard to forget what happened to Eric even though we didnt know him personally its still hard to get your head around him being gone.
Wherever he is right now... enjoy the peace dear chap!
Stop hijacking interesting threads 144000 with boring, argumentative nonsense.
watchtower representatives (jehovahs christian witnesses) are once again attending the osce, organization for security and co-operation in europe,meeting in warsaw on september 24 - oct. 5, 2012. http://www.osce.org/hdim_2012to see jehovahs witnesses listed as a non-governmental organization, click on http://www.osce.org/hdim_2012?view=conference_documents&display=page_2&arg=92455.
please scroll down under non-governmental organization and click on administrative centre of jehovahs witnesses in russia as well as european association of jehovah's christian witnesses.
once you click on them, you will be brought to a page with a list of all of their presentations at the osce.
Begs the question though, will they be upfront with their rank and file about the attendance (ie mention it in a Washtowel) or not mention it and hope it will go away.
