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  I'm thinking about going back

  by Corboy101 in

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  i have been out for 22 years.i was raised as a jehovahs witness.

  i was baptized in 1986 but soon after left the religion.

  theres a whole lot to the reasons why i left, but i left.

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  Corboy,

  I am speechless. You want to go back!! Spend few months in this blog. Read few books about the WT (Crisis of Conscience, Gentile Time Reconsidered, Apocalypse Delayed, and many more). Read relevant publications of the WT since 1879. In other words: GET THE WHOLE PICTURE of the religion. You have to do a lot of homework.

  Take the study and challenge the person giving it with ideas you may get from the forum. But please, please, do your homework thoroughly. I have serious doubt you know half of what you need to know to make such a huge decision
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  Article: It's Time to Outlaw Extreme Shunning in Modern Society

  by AndersonsInfo in

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  http://gilmermirror.com/bookmark/23272594/article-extreme%20shunning#.ufwjurllscm.facebook.

  extreme shunningthe gilmer mirror.

  its time to outlaw extreme shunning in modern society by: richard e. kelly .

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  Pursuing legal means to eliminate shunning is the wrong path. That is the way to totalitarianism. Shunning falls in the area of morality and desirable conduct, not of criminality. Denouncing it as we do in a free forum is the proper way, but asking the judicial system to intervene is asking for the Stalins to rule in a Democracy (sorry for the oxymoron)
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  AVOIDING A SHEPHERDING CALL: Suggestions pls

  by grumblecakes in

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  yup got a voice mail bright and early this morning "grumblecakes, we would like to schedule a shepherding call".. how do i get outta this?.

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  thanks!!

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  never a jw

  "I am gonna be very busy the entire month. Thanks. Some other time". Just don't detail what your activities will be (watch TV, play video games, etc)
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  My story so far

  by brainmelt in

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  i've been trying to avoid posting this, due to extreme paranoia but its time to post my story.

  i hope to not post too many details, as we've avoided being df so far, our group elder was young and lovely and cool and i just hope that in time he learns the ttatt.. i'm a regular lurker on here, occasional poster (i can't post much as my phone browser only lets me read but not post, so i only post on the odd occasion i get a time alone on the pc).

  i have been fading since round about last september ( so almost my first anniversary of learning ttatt).

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  never a jw

  I don't know if I could call myself an atheist, but I am certain that I am a humanist. I got great faith in human intelligence, resilience and capacity for compasion. Your son lives in a time when we have accomplished great things in many fields, especially the medical field. Great doctors and the right medical procedures will go much further than all the prayers of the in-laws. Spend more time involved with doctors than with the in-laws. Best for you and your family, especially your son.

  I am glad there is one less minion serving the Fake-full of deceit slave
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  hello. pls help. getting married soon. afraid i won't be happy because wtbts said so.

  by seasickbumblebee in

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  alshello.

  i'm a practicing jw.

  finally decided to create an account to see whether you could all help me.. so i am engaged to this wonderful wonderful man and in three months time we'll be married.

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  never a jw

  Postpone. Better yet, listen to Steve2
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  Another one...nine felony counts - Sun Valley, CA

  by Dagney in

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  http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/church-usher-charged-with-sexual-abuse-of-boy-parishioners-217825121.html.

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  church usher charged with sexual abuse of boy parishionersmarcelo lozano, 34, faces nine felony countsby melissa pamer| thursday, aug 1, 2013 | updated 1:51 am pdtview comments ()|email|printadvertisementan usher at a jehovah's witnesses congregation in sun valley was charged wednesday with sexually abusing four boys he met at the church.. marcelo lozano, 34, is expected to be arraigned wednesday afternoon at van nuys superior court with nine felony counts, according to the los angeles county district attorneys office.. lozano, who was an usher for the churchs spanish congregation, allegedly abused boys who ranged from 8 to 15 years old between 2006 and 2013.. he is charged with two counts each of aggravated sexual assault of a child, continuous sexual abuse and oral copulation of a person under 14. and he faces one count each of forcible lewd act upon a child, lewd act upon a child and sodomy of a person under 14 with 10 years difference.. prosecutors will recommend that the defendants bail be set at $1.8 million, the das office said.. lozano faces a maximum term of life in state prison if convicted on all charges.. the los angeles police department is still investigating the case, the das office said.. .

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  Quite interesting,

  I may have actually run into this pervert before. I need pictures. Sun Valley is just 6 miles from where I live. In fact, I likely know people who attend that congregation. As a friend of apostates, I doubt that I could get much info from anyone, but I will try to get more details. That kingdom hall is actually a double kingdom hall and most congregations, if not all, are Hispanic. I attended those halls 18 years ago when I was trying to steal, actually took away, one of the most coveted marriageable JW girls, now my wife. Two brothers-in-law and a nephew-in-law serve as elders in those congregations. They, the brothers in law, refused to attend their sister's wedding with me. Today my children, fathered by a pagan, are exemplary young people, while their children, born and raised in the truth by elder fathers...well, are not exemplary by any stretch of the imagination.

  Also, a friend (maybe he does not consider me a friend anymore, after I challenged him to prove vat 4956 fits the Watchtower chronology better than the conventional secular chronology) serves as an elder too.
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  Design or Non-Design, finally we know, Darwin's Doubt

  by QC in

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  if you want to read the definitive explanation on fossils and how life arrived its covered in darwins doubt, by s.c. meyer.

  this is a game changer.

  the bomb!.

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  QC

  From the get-go, Meyer's credential expose him as a bias source for solving the Creation/evolution debate. R. Dawkins would also be a partial source. Also, since you and I are no experts in this discussion, deferring to the experts who are not involved in the debate would be the best way to go. What percentage of evolutionary biologists, genetecists, geologists, paleontologists and other experts in relevant fields do you think would support either of the two mutually exclusive position? Pro-creationists (according to Genesis)?? Pro-evolution (as explained in the most recent scientific research)??
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  Design or Non-Design, finally we know, Darwin's Doubt

  by QC in

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  if you want to read the definitive explanation on fossils and how life arrived its covered in darwins doubt, by s.c. meyer.

  this is a game changer.

  the bomb!.

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  Jesus never started his ministry untill he was 30 years of age ! What should that tell us ?

  by smiddy in

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  while this always bothered me ,i still wanted my 2 boys to be baptised as soon as practical so they would survive the big a or else get a resurrection into the new system of things.thats how indoctrinated i was.both my boys were baptised in their early to mid teens.neither have ever been disfellowshipped or disassociated themselves ,however both have nothing to do with the religion today.

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  how many family lives have been ruined because children/minors have been baptised at a young age and in the majority of cases have committed trivial offences against watchtower policys/rules .sometimes with tragic consequences .. teenagers have a difficult enough time as it is dealing with changes to their bodies and coping with new emotions as they transform from boys to manhood and from girls to womanhood .. here in australia you cant get a car license and drive on your own till your 18 yrs old ,vote at elections , or drink alcohol at a pub.and many people will argue,that is too young to start doing those things as they are not mature enough .. yet the wtb&ts / jehovahs witnesses put life and death matters in the hands of minors / children ,as regards the use of blood and blood products ,fractions of blood ,what is currently acceptible ,and what is not.. an adult witness would find it hard to keep up with what is current and what is not current in the ever changing policy regarding the blood issue ,let alone a minor/teen who is expected to make a life or death decision at a critical time.. a teenager /minor does not have that capacity to make such an enormous decision about life or death ,when the wtb&ts acknowledge they often fail to make right decisions in trivial matters ,hence the disfellowshipping of thousands for trivial rules imposed by the governing body ,man made rules at that .no birthday celebrations,no smoking,no associating with a disfellowshipped baptised witness,no questioning what the governing body has said,accepting a blood transfusion,formerly a disfellowshipping offence , now stated ,you disassociated yourself from jehovahs witness teachings so you disfellowshipped yourself .

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  Jesus never started his ministry untill he was 30 years of age

  It means that he was having a good time for a while. It also menas that even wise people sometimes err. He could have avoided death and continue having a good time. But noooo, He wanted to play the martyr. To his credit, he started a religion that has had more influence than anything else in the history of western civilization, for better or worse. Some time ago I thought it was for the better. I am not so sure anymore.
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  Is This Site As Active As It Was In The Past?

  by minimus in

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  i'm just curious if jwn is as busy as it was even a year or two ago?

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  sometimes it seems this place buzzes and other times, not so much....but maybe it's all in my head..

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  never a jw

  Simon,

  Make Leolaia a partner to encourage her to come back and I promise I will spend more time here.

  Also, stay away from Republican versus Democrats, rich versus poor, and the-US-sucks type of discussions and I promise I will make more clicks in your site.