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  The 1914 Generation change

  by Andyman in

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  i was over on the thread about the blood policy and got to thinking how easy it is to just accept a change and after awhile people even forget all about how important it was at one time.

  if the society does change the blood policy how long will it be before it is just accepted, and brothers and siters don't even recall the previous stance on the issue?.

  this got me thinking about the change in the 1914 generation.

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  Wow.. I've been here a total of what.. a week? And I'm seeing alot of thinking going on here in this forum, alot of minds opening to what information is out there. It's good to see that people are learning to think for themselves again, including myself!

  I am dealing with a Brother right now who is just WANTING to remain blind even though he sees so much of this. He's on the internet, and he's read Crisis of conscience, but to him, the Org is his lifeline. If he leaves it, he's depraved and as good as dead in his own eyes. It's such a shame! This is a 46 year old man and he can't handle knowing that the Society is wrong and has lied and connived all these years. He doesn't make the connection that if the Society is wrong and is lying, then the entire RELIGION is a lie and not the "Truth" according to God's word. Amazing. He insists that this is Jehovah's organization, and that just the MEN running it are wrong or mistaken in their actions. Total denial!
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  Reasons for becoming a JW?

  by Dubby in

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  i'm curious about the reasons for becoming a jw.

  if you were raised a jw, were you pressured into baptism?

  if you weren't raised a jw, what were the deciding factors?

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  Roamingfeline

  I was looking for answers and I was looking for a new family and I was looking for security and I was afraid of Hell. I thought I had found the Truth. Oh, well. Back to the drawing board.

  Same basic reasons for me. I was 13 years old, I'd just lost my Grandma to death, my mother started studying and got us involved. Then she went back to work nights and I was left on my own all the time. I was lonely and wanted a "family" to belong to. So I swallowed it hook, line, and sinker. My Mom never finished being indoctrinated, but after a few false starts, I finally was baptized when I was 31, raised three kids in, and then woke up and saw the light when I was 40. It was a long difficult sleep and alot of nightmares!

  RCat

  Edited by - Roamingfeline on 14 June 2000 22:24:35
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  Hellooooooo!

  by Frenchy in

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  hey, how come no singles in here?

  suppose we open up a bar in here?

  would you come to a singles bar?

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  Roamingfeline

  Wishful thinking for what?
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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

  RCat chants: "Take it off, take it off, take it all... No! Please.. put it back on..... sorry I asked.. "

  heh heh...

  Hugs,
  RCat
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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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  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?