Captain Obvious

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  Survey---who is inactive, disfellowshipped/disassociated or active?

  by minimus in

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  i am inactive for about 10 years now..

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  Captain Obvious

  Inactive for 2.5 yrs. fading very gradually until wifey wakes up.
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  I was "totally" stopped in my tracks by an "atheist" comment.

  by booker-t in

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  i must admit i can at times be a little "egotistical" when it comes to knowledge and the bible.

  i have studied the bible for so long and have always had a passion for the bible as a jw and as an ex-jw.

  i guess that is all i have left when it comes to religion and as humans we do tend to stroke our egos.

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  Congrats! That's the feeling of your eyes opening.

  So if it is just a story, why did Jesus believe it? Was he fooled as well? Keep following this train of thought.

  then do the same with the Adam and Eve story, and finally Jesus. Good luck
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  The resolution was actually passed!

  by stillin in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  who would have thought that enough people would raise their hands when the resolution was put before the congregation tonight?

  based on the pledges that the publishers put on those little pieces of paper, the congregation is promising the wts that they will send $1,000/month to support the society's building funds.. there is a traditional monthly shortfall of about $100 with the basic monthly bills usually around $1,000.

  i didn't raise my hand.

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  Every resolution gets passed... Why the surprise? have you EVER seen a resolution not be passed?
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  "Honour" Killing in Pakistan

  by cofty in

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  2. current

  25 year old farzana iqbal was stoned to death by a crowd led by her own father and two of her brothers outside the high court in lahore yesterday.. her crime was to reject her cousin, who her family had decided she should marry, and fall in love with a man of her own choosing.. thousands of women are murdered every year in so-called "honour killings" but convictions are very rare.

  pakistani law permits victim's families to forgive a murderer, but in these cases the killers are family members who are nominated to carry out the execution by the rest of the family.. this is what happens when you allow a mysogynistic religion to influence secular law.. reuters report...l.

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  How can christians see this and be disgusted? Their favourite book is full of the same laws. Sharia law isn't so different from mosaic law.
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  Can White JWs Have Mustaches?

  by Space Madness in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  someone mentioned in another thread that white jws can't have mustaches but black jws can.

  i noticed that the only governing body member with a mustache is black.

  can anyone confirm that this is an official policy?

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  Captain Obvious

  I'm pretty sure it's a requirement in my neck of the woods to be an elder. Serve-us hours? Check. full stache from nose to lip? Check... He's in!
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  Awful experience: I threw my WT library out!

  by StephaneLaliberte in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  yes, i threw my wt library out: my recycle bin was full.

  even if i had imagined this experience to be similar to a prisoner getting rid of his chains, this was not so.. instead, it brought up all the memories i had shared with my family where we were excited about the release of the revelation book; the clear feeling of ultimate knowledge when we showed the live forever book, the questions i had practiced with my family in the organized book, my cousins who got baptized as well.

  somehow, all i could think of was only the good memories i had shared with my family and almost cried about it.. and then, i started to think of the division, the hatred and the pain that became prevalent in my family as some were disfellowshipped and thus, ostracized.

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  So you joined the forum in 07, did you wake up then and are still in the grieving process?
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  Did other JWs judge you? What for?

  by Julia Orwell in

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  some judged me for going/having gone to university.

  some judged me for being 'too smart.

  ' some judged my non jw brother for being in the army.

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  Captain Obvious

  They DO. For:

  missing meetings for work

  having a good job/income/house/vehicle

  "allowing" my wife to work when she doesn't need to

  never commenting

  never going in service

  skipping meetings for weeks at a time

  always showing up after the song/prayer

  wearing a beard most of the time

  shall I go on? My wife also feels the cold, judgmental shoulder from our local cong. She thinks it's just the locals, but soon she will see it is all JWs.
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  Relationship with Jehovah?

  by Batman89 in

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  when you were a devout jw.

  did you feel that you had an actual "relationship" with jehovah/god just from praying to him and reading the wt or bible?.

  or that this was actually even possible deep down?.

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  Nope
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  Dinosaurs.

  by bobert in

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  as a jw i always believed that dinosaurs at one point existed.

  my whole family did, almost all the jws i knew did.

  one time i was out for dinner, and one of the people with us was convinced that they never existed.

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  As a JW there was no difficulty understanding that the earth was billions of years old, or that dinos ruled the earth one time. What did cause some difficulty was the obvious fact that there were carnivores and herbivores. As a 9 year old kid, like most boys that age, I was obsessed with dinosaurs. At that time I didn't know that bible loving crazies actually thought that before the flood no creature ate meat... Riiiiight....

  I can't name a single current JW who doesn't believe that the earth is 4.65 billion yrs old or that the dinosaurs went extinct 65m years ago. It's unfortunate, though that the science that proves the human race evolved more than 6k years ago or that the flood never happened is just ignored by the average JW. If it disagrees with the GB's current opinion then it's automatically wrong.

  So sad
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  Raising kids - JW mother, agnostic father

  by Zana in

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  2. family

  my wife and i have two wonderful children aged 1 and 3. i was raised as a lutheran but stopped believing in my late teen years.

  my wife is what i would call a liberal jw (yes, i believe such people exist .

  sooner or later our children will have questions about religion and the differences mom and dad show towards it.

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  Captain Obvious

  Roberto, what did your wife do or say to your kids when they told her they don't believe in god? at what age did she no longer force the kids to go to the KH?

  Very curious. It worked out for you very well that she didn't force them Forever. Most JWs say they would force the kids to go until 18 or something. They believe that just sitting in the chairs at the KH will save them from armageddon. Some also believe that just hearing the "truth" will make someone believe.

  Thanks for sharing your experience.