Posts by Xanthippe

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Profiling of an apostate

by joe134cd in

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i must admit when i was in, the idea i had of an apostate, was an angry bitter person who would picket out side a convention.

i was looking on jwservey and found on the respondents to a servey that 54% were either active members or fading members.

this made me wonder is the organisation underestimating the extent of apostasy.

Thanks blondie for that quote. How horrific that witnesses have to have their 'thinking readjusted', if they have a question about a teaching that they cannot swallow. Sounds like something from a totalitarian prison camp. From what people report a JC is just like that with people trying to talk about beliefs and use the bible and over and over again they keep being asked do you believe in the organisation. Horrible, if you don't recant you're out but they keep your family hostage, out of love.

So by that definition if you have problems with teachings of the WTS and how they fit with the Bible and you want to talk about them, even to elders, then you are an apostate.

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Thanks WTBS for changing the Kingdom Songs, you freed me!

by StephaneLaliberte in

yesterday, i saw a picture of a family signing kingdom melodies together.

it made me realize a fact that i am somewhat ashamed to admit:.

for over a decade, i have been aware of the false prophecies, the deceptive statements, the lack of scriptural support for many core practices and other issues with the witnesses.

Xanthippe

Why would anyone change song lyrics unless they are part of cult indoctrination.

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Is there anything you could do forever that wouln't get boring?

by mynameislame in

not sure when i came to this conclusion but i can't imagine living forever.

after a while i think i would be completly bored with everything.. not saying i wouln't like to live for a few hundred years or maybe even a few thousand if i could travel through space and discover other universes star trek style.

but the thought of living forever sounds like it would eventually become a complete drag.. maybe i'm wrong, maybe after a thousand years or so you would foregt all the stuff that happend at the beginning and just start over in an infinite loop..

Xanthippe

evolve

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Heard a rumor: Guy Pierce died this morning

by respectful_observer in

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didn't see any other threads, apologies if one already exists.

apparently died of a massive stroke this morning.. r_o.

(completely unconfirmed.

Xanthippe

WTF they can't answer a straight question to save their lives can they Outlaw!

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My son has made his decision

by CaptainSchmideo in

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this is the followup to this thread:.

http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/276119/1/well-its-march-and-the-college-answers-are-coming-in#.uyjdu_ldv2e.

the financial aid offer came in.. the first year of attending is actually cheaper than what we were going to pay at the state university after their scholarship offer.. i mean, really cheaper.. we would be fools to turn it down.. they are even flying him in for the preview week.. .

Xanthippe

Wonderful news I'm so happy for you both!

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Is anyone else completely astonished that they're drawing attention to 1914/2014 - 100 years

by jambon1 in

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i note that they're making reference to this in the upcoming convention programme.

someone has has dropped a bollock here, have they not?.

i mean, if i were a jw, i'd be sitting thinking of all the promises made and broken.

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did you notice there was no mention of Jesus presence in the article? - kneehighmiah

Hard to believe because when I was in they never stopped banging on about Christ's parousia and the ins and outs of the Greek word, blah blah. Yes jambon I was surprised they even have the audacity to draw attention to it being a hundred years that these poor guys have been waiting for that new system.

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Avoid Going back to the JW's - Educate Yourself about Mind Control

by flipper in

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i've talked with some good friends on the board about this before and we seem to be in agreement : one reason ( among many ) that some disfellowshipped jw's go back and return to the wt organization is because they are full of uneeded guilt or uneeded fear because they haven't educated themselves about how the wt society uses mind control tactics to deceive them into thinking they have " nowhere else to go " .

i understand that some dfed ones may go back to the organization for family and friends- however- it's an exrecise in futility because once you learn the truth about the truth you cannot undo what you heard.

so some may just go back and live a fake jw life to appease family- but just think of how that can damage a person's emotional and mental health playing the fake jw game the rest of their lives !

Xanthippe

You have to work really hard so that the place that you fit in with is yourself, there is no need to say, where can I go? It is all about learning just to be, I am, I exist and I am ok with that. That is vey easy to say I know but takes years of work to achieve. Building up my self esteem took a long time, education helped me learn to think but also helped me feel good about myself, I am not stupid after all. Getting challenging jobs, finding your way in the world, self-actualization and all that jazz. Then how could I go back to the KH where they would patronize me, as a woman, within an inch of my life? No thanks.

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Red clouds in the Uk

by Xanthippe in

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we have red clouds.

can anyone else see them, it's way after sunset?.

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oneyeopen, I didn't take a pic because I can't seem to post my photos from photobucket on here anymore, it's all changed.

Prologos I hadn't heard of the green flash, thanks for that.

Kaik yeah the concensus online seems to be that odd coloured clouds are due to pollution.

Very chuffed (Midland Brit saying) that so many people, nearly 900 views, are interested in beautiful natural phenomena.

I think cloud formations can be very beautiful, lots of examples online.

Regarding beautiful natural phenomena once as a child walking home from school in a thunder storm I saw ball lightning hovering above a house, it was amazing.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/picture-galleries/9494532/Weird-Cloud-Atlas-a-collection-of-spectacular-cloud-formations.html#?frame=2317989

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Red clouds in the Uk

by Xanthippe in

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we have red clouds.

can anyone else see them, it's way after sunset?.

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Not looking at doomsday scenarios, I was looking at the stars. My garden is particularly free of light pollution and good for amateur astronomers.

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Do you really want to be told who you cannot marry, how you can earn your living, how much fun you can have?

by Xanthippe in

so my daughter is coming home from uni next week for the easter hols.

if she said to me i've joined this group that says i have to put them before my family, my health, earning money for food, recreation, getting married and eating.

oh no you've joined a cult!

Xanthippe

So my daughter is coming home from uni next week for the Easter hols. If she said to me I've joined this group that says I have to put them before my family, my health, earning money for food, recreation, getting married and eating. What would I say? Oh no you've joined a cult! Is it the Moonies?

Yet that is what the JWs are going to be told at their convention this Summer.

I know lots of people have posted about the program for the 2014 conventions that's on JW.org now but I just have to say if you are lurking here I would tell my daughter to run a mile from any group that says these things.