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  From laundry mat to laundry mat

  by donny in

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  about three years ago, i was walking past a local laundry mat and i noticed some of the society s publications laying on the chairs by the window.

  so i walked inside and found an awake from 1995 and a watchtower from 1989. the latter one was funny to me because i was still in the organization when it was released.

  i couldnt help but be shocked at how old these magazines were.

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  I used to throw my extras away after they were 6 months old. Never felt like it was a bad thing. Maybe I was just callous.
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  My Bible Highlights Comment last night

  by BU2B in

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  2. friends

  last night i gave a comment at the bible highlights, i never comment anymore unless i can say something that might plant a small seed in someones mind.. anyways the bible reading was mark 5-8. my comment was, "i appreciated mark 7:6-8 where it reads he said to them: isiah aptly prophesied about you hypocrites for it is written, this people honor me with their lips but their hearts are far removed from me.

  it is in vain they keep worshiping me, because they teach as doctrines, commands of men.

  letting go the command of god, you hold fast the traditions of men.

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  Good comment!
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  New May Awake! Am I being unreasonable or does this sound crazy!?

  by toweragent in

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  2. bible

  my friends usually walked me home after dark.

  but one evening i was so tired that i decided to call a taxi.

  the driver didnt take me home.

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  Toopid cult!
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  New May Awake! Am I being unreasonable or does this sound crazy!?

  by toweragent in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  my friends usually walked me home after dark.

  but one evening i was so tired that i decided to call a taxi.

  the driver didnt take me home.

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  Toopid cult!
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  Resigned being an elder

  by subytrek in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i am new here and this is my first post although i have lurked here for a couple years.

  i started having doubts about the org back then and my curiosity overcame my fear of so-called apostate websites so here i am.

  i just resigned being an elder 2 weeks ago.

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  Welcome Subytrek!

  There's an elders' section of the JW.org website? What sort of secrets does it hold that can't be shared with the R&F?
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  What is your strangest "supernatural" JW story?

  by donny in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i had just became a witness and a guy i worked with, who was also a jw, told me a story that actually made me laugh and i think it upset him a bit.

  the storys were almost always in the third person.

  it went as follows.. this brothers wife and him were sitting at the kingdom hall on the end seats of the row next to the back of the room.

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  Back in the early '70s when my family was new in the twoof there was an elder who told us about what had happened in our congregation a few years earlier.

  It seems that many in the congregation were having terrible demon troubles (he gave enough specific examples to prevent me from sleeping for days) so they called the Society. Mother quickly dispatched a SWAT team from the Service Department.

  They met with the local brothers and told them that our little town (Waterville, Maine) was a known center of demon activity. For years there had been an annual witches' conference held there at some old hotel that had eventually burned down. Another known center of demon activity was Salem, Massachusetts (lending credence to the infamous witch hunt from centuries earlier).

  

  In any case, the SWAT team told the local brothers that there were rules of war between the angels and the demons. One of them was that if there was a "demonized" item in the house it could be neutralized by moving it outside of the roofline of the home. This method could also be used as a test for a suspect item. Also, the demons could not read your thoughts, but they could take anything you said out loud and use it against you.

  The sad thing about all of this silliness is that I later married this brother's son and became part of the madness. We had to live with them for a few months, and while we were there everyone in the family experienced some form of demon harassment. There was an unused shed on the property that eventually became so full of suspect items that they started using an old van for additional storage.

  My ex-husband was full of stories about demon harassment that he had experienced. One time, his parents bought a bed from a Methodist minister, and during the night he got punched right through the mattress. His sister kept seeing shadowy figures moving just at the edge of her peripheral vision, but they'd disappear when she turned her head to look. Once they got rid of the bed all of the spooky stuff stopped.

  Most of the time the "harassment" was just a heebie-jeebies feeling when walking past a room or suddenly waking because you heard your name shouted in your ear.

  Of course, something he left out of that story was that their father was a violent man who frequently woke his children by beating them for whatever naughty things they'd done during the day. My guess is that the punch through the mattress was his father hitting him while he slept. The sister had a vivid imagination.

  Living with a man so indoctrinated with this demon mythology came at a cost. Twice during the course of our 27-year marriage we had to get rid of all of our furniture, old photos, and other stuff that had come from questionable relatives. Usually, the reason he suspected the demons was that he and I were upset with each other or had an unresolvable issue.

  Since leaving him and the organization I haven't had a single incidence of demon harassment even though I'm a mentally diseased apostate.
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  RELIGULOUS...Please watch it.

  by Fed-up in

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  2. beliefs

  i know it's been commented on before here.

  if you haven't seen it (i'm sure it's on netflix) please take a look.

  it's the other side of the coin, presented in a funny way that really makes you think about religion and worship.

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  Watching "Religulous" made me stop believing in the Jesus Christ story. My narrow-minded JW understanding was that the story was absolutely unique in the world, but Maher pointed out that the Christ story had been floating around the Mediterranean for centuries in one form or another before Christ came on the scene.
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  The Nations Shall Know I Am Jehovah

  by admirmitch in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  can someone point me to a searchable pdf version of this?.

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  That was the bookstudy book when my father dragged us into the cult. I remember the rather frightening imagery of the men with smashing instruments following up the man with the writer's ink horn. Their job was to brain everyone without a mark on their forehead. Such a loving god.
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  Do the JWs practice devotional time or quite time?

  by FingersCrossed in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  like what jesus did and christians are supposed to have quite time/time spent with god.. .

  matthew 26:26. mark 1:35. luke 5:16.

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  They were always talking about "meditation," but they never actually explained what that meant. For me, the more I "meditated" on the scriptures the more questions popped up in my mind.
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  You know you can trust a man when...

  by usualusername in

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  he wears a belt and has clean shoes... .

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  ...he listens more than he talks.