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  Why do they stay?

  by Roamingfeline in

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  i am very puzzled.

  when i find out i've been lied to, deceived, and mistreated, i don't ask for more.

  i vote with my feet.

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  Roamingfeline

  Yes, for a long time, I put up with the inconsistencies because I WANTED THE PARADISE. I wanted it so badly.. and I wanted to see my dead relatives. My mother who died of cancer, my brother in law who committed suicide at the age of 23, my friends who died for various reasons, mostly car accidents and cancer. My grandparents.

  It was not easy to give up the dream of a paradise with all my loved ones there. But I realized that it was a big fat lie when I researched and found that ALL the Society's predictions were fabrication to serve the "Big Publishing Machine". Wake up y'all. It isn't going to happen! Live life today. Make today count. Quit serving a lie and a pipedream. Sigh.....
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  -WORDS-

  by Frenchy in

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  the views expressed here are my own and i state them as such.

  perhaps some will agree with me, for a certainty others will not.

  i invite comment and discussion regardless of your viewpoint.

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  Roamingfeline

  Frenchy,

  With everything you know.. what stopped you from walking out?

  My sympathies on the position you found yourself in with that elderly sister. Poor woman. That is truly a sad sad story.
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  Predictions and Prophecy - Your turn baby!

  by Pathofthorns in

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  we all know the organization hasn't been shy about making predictions for what could happen in the future as far as the world and world conditions go.. now its your turn to state where the organization will be in 2 years, 5 years and 10 years.

  what will "conditions" be like?

  what are your hopes?

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  Roamingfeline

  mgm, that's what I HOPE will happen. Because too many families have lost their loved ones. Whether to death, or from disfellowshipping, or whatever, the WTBTS is blood guilty. Just as blood guilty as they accused Babylon the Great of being. They deserve no less punishment than they were going to mete out to Babylon.
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  new light is on the way...

  by mgm in

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  please read the article:.

  http://www.the-times.co.uk/news/pages/tim/2000/06/14/timfgnusa01004.html.

  mgm

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  Roamingfeline

  Bad url guys.. take the dash out from between the and times.. then it will be correct.

  Edited by - Roamingfeline on 14 June 2000 8:58:16
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  Why do they stay?

  by Roamingfeline in

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  i am very puzzled.

  when i find out i've been lied to, deceived, and mistreated, i don't ask for more.

  i vote with my feet.

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  Roamingfeline

  My point is, why try to CHANGE the religion? The entire basis for Jehovah's Witnesses even BEING a religion has proven to be a falsehood. There IS no basis for it to be an Organization. We were always told that the "Modern day" Jehovah's Witnesses were brought together by Charles Taze Russell to DO the preaching work before Armageddon, and for no other reason were they Organized. It's been established many times that their prophecies about the "Last Day's" are basically a load of BS, so again I ask, WHY would you even WANT to reform a religion that has NO BASIS left?
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  Why do they stay?

  by Roamingfeline in

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  i am very puzzled.

  when i find out i've been lied to, deceived, and mistreated, i don't ask for more.

  i vote with my feet.

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  Roamingfeline

  I am very puzzled. When I find out I've been lied to, deceived, and mistreated, I don't ask for more. I vote with my feet.

  The entire JW religion has been BASED on Armageddon coming soon, and the preaching work having to be done so a "dividing" can take place before Jehovah annihilates all the ones who do NOT come into the "umbrella" of the Organization. Everything in the literature over the years, has been geared toward this one thing. It is an elitist religion, considering itself to have higher moral values (they're just better at sweeping things under the rug than others), a better understanding of the Bible (blinking light!) and true prophecy (since when?).

  Why, when the people KNOW it's wrong, that it's NEVER going to happen as they've been told, do they STAY? Because they don't want to lose their families who are too blind and elitist to see? If people would just WALK OUT of it, maybe it would die off like false religion should! What keeps people in such an unloving religion? Do people thrive on mistreatment and mental torture?
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  Donations for Literature?

  by Andyman in

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  i know that there is a variety of posters here from different places.

  i have seen some from canada, the u.s., and australia, and england.

  so i wanted to ask about the "donation" arrangement for literature.. somebody in another thread mentioned the "double" payment thing.

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  Here in Australia, it is the same as it was in the USA. You pay for the literature at the KH and whatever you get for donations in the FS you put into the contribution box too. Double payment all the way. Hmmm.. what was that scripture in the Bible about being greedy?
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  About the 89 WT quote.

  by Xandit in

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  frenchy, i actually read the article in the 89 watchtower the following quote comes from.. w89 9/1 19 remaining organized for survival into the millennium.

  "7 only jehovahs witnesses, those of the anointed remnant and the "great crowd," as a united organization under the protection of the supreme organizer, have any scriptural hope of surviving the impending end of this doomed system dominated by satan the devil.".

  reading the article it appears to me that the statement, pretty direct as i said in one of my other posts, is based on the understanding of the status of sheep and goats at that time.

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  Roamingfeline

  Good points. All of you.. and Oh so true. This line of teaching is GUARANTEED to leave you feeling like God is not love, he's a GOD-MONSTER.
  Is it any wonder that ex-jw's have a very high percentage of pagan's and atheists?
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  Thanks !

  by Simon in

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  hi.

  i just wanted to say a big thank you to everyone that is supporting this forum by participating in it and would like to encourage any visitors who may be lurking to stop lurking and join in !

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  Roamingfeline

  Hey Frenchy! Seeing you topless would be quite a treat! Now bring everyone down for a vacation.
  Wolfgang says with all my friends and relatives who are planning on flying down here for a holiday, we'll have to buy another house to hold them all! LOL Still, it would be well worth it. This place is ALREADY a paradise!
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  JW preaching work to end in the 20th Century

  by Scorpion in

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  page 12 of the january 1, 1989 wt magazine paragraph 8 ends with the statement that the apostle paul's missionary activity laid a foundation for a work that would be completed in our 20th century.".

  i take this as subtle prophecy that 'the end' will come by the year 2000 a.d., or should have come by now.. i find it interesting that the bound volume reprint has the wording changed to read, " a work that would be completed in our day.".

  does anyone know why the change?

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  Roamingfeline

  I well remember that article too. Many of the "predictions" of the past 30 years I have seen. And then the Society bends, twists, and turns their words to conform to their blinking light. Too bad for them that people like you kept the original mags, Frenchy, instead of just keeping the altered bound volumes!