I just don't want them to have any more of my life and my energy. To remain bitter would take energy and they're not having any more. There are so many ways to screw up your life, I did it being born in a cult and staying until I was thirty. Other people make other terrible mistakes. I am moving on the best I can.
Xanthippe
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Do you ever get frustrated and feel dirty after sharing experiences on JWN?
by BucketShopBill init's a giant boil on my butt, thinking how long we all were tricked by a cult.
reading so many of our fellows threads, it help's reinforce we made the correct choice in mentally or physically leaving the watchtower's path to truth, they never had it and nobody can prove they did!
ray franz jr. came to that conclusion, even he had to accept "this is not the best of all relgions, in fact, it's on the bad side!
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What Happens if...
by bafh inwhat happens if someone returns to the congregation but stays inactive?
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what happens if someone returns to the congregation and does not meet with the elders to "confess" their sins while away?.
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Bafh you say you believe the basics but if Jehovah wants to bring a new system in, great, what's he waiting for? Bring it on! He's supposed to be waiting for the preaching work to be completed but every time a new generation is born there are more people to preach to! Why wait over a hundred years? Plus he can read hearts so why not get on with it!
Why do we need to follow man-made rules that just make our lives so hard if God knows we are good? If the JW web site is the way forward and will get the world ready for the paradise then He started over a hundred years too early. Should have waited for the internet. Can't he predict the future? You see even 'the basics' don't make any sense. Please don't go back, think carefully.
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Does consciousness end with the death of the body
by givemejustalittlemoretime inapparently, the carvakas in anceint hinduism were materialists and skeptics, arguing that consciousness ends with the death of the body and that therefore we should take pleasure in this life while we possess it and practice compassion toward others.
they also argued that direct observation is the only certain way to know anything, and thus the existence of supernatural forces and realities cannot be established and must be rejected.
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Xanthippe
Does consciousness end with the death of the body?
Can I just point out something obvious, how can we possibly know one way or the other?
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Why is shunning wrong?
by noonehome inconsider an example i often hear.
youre sitting at a dinner table.
the topic of conversation is regarding your mother.
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Noonehome I'm finding your logic a bit shaky and I can't quite follow what you mean. The dedication thing, well I dedicated myself to a fake being at fifteen. You cannot be held to something by law that you agreed to as a minor in any civilized country as I understand it.
However I do agree with this
They keep saying you have to see the big picture. I keep wanting to say that WE ARE the big picture ...we’re only alive for a short period of time and are very lucky to be HERE, TOGETHER, on this TINY speck hurtling through a universe that by a massive margin is designed to kill all living things instantly. We're all alone in this together and it's such a shame to see the immense pettiness that keeps people who love each other very much, completely compartmentalized by their own ignorance.
Exactly, well put! It grieves me that we are born into a family and this is how we have survived and thrived for thousands of years and yet religions try to take that warm, safe place away from us. Goodness knows if the human race will survive doing stupid things like this. Sod the tiger, I wonder if we will become extinct from our own stupidity.
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Reaching Out
by jim_bean inhi all, i'll leave my full story for another time.
but briefly: i was born-in, raised by my single jw-mother, baptised at 18, faded less than 18 months later (never da'd.. or df'd to my knowledge!
), never gone back (though i looked over my shoulder for some time afterwards!
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Welcome Jim_Bean. Happy Thirtieth Birthday
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I had a lovely weekend, how about everyone else??
by quellycatface inthere is life outside the organisation, which i have the pleasure to have experienced, since december.
i went to a lovely church wedding saturday, followed by a reception.
hic!!.
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Went to a 'pick your own' farm on Sunday, picked a punnet of rasberries and bought lovely veg in their farm shop. They have a cafe where you can have a cream tea and sit outside with the most beautiful view, which I did a couple of weeks ago when I picked strawberries. The jam they make from their own strawberries on a scone with cream is delicious.
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My take of the convention
by mann377 injust spent the last weekend listening to the program and fortunatly i'm not programable.
anyway i had to listen to two members of the gb.
it was very interesting to listen now with the aid of technology and the big screens.
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Yes I watched the youtube vid of Lett and I noticed he hardly ever blinks, a trick of people who think prolonged eye contact hides the fact they are lying. His staring eyes and raised eyebrows are rather scary.
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Told my JW friend it's a cult
by Xanthippe inso i said i would write about the 2014 convention program that you guys kindly posted here, to the jw friend who contacted me out of the blue after over 20 years since we d'ad.
sorry if you find this repetitive if you have already read my story.
this friend does not know anything about how my family shun me and i thought it is relevant in the light of the convention symposium talk about putting family in second place.
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Thanks, cultBgone, she did read it all yes. She does have a kind heart so there is hope. At least I am here for her if she ever decides to question it. Something has changed for her to contact me. We never know what will happen in the future especially as the light gets brighter crazier.
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Snare & Racket's Graduation Picture
by cofty inafter years of hard work and study, former bethel boy snare & racket is now officially a medical doctor.. his story is an inspiration that there can be life after the watchtower.
he has given me permission to post his graduation picture.. .
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Snare are you the tall one in the middle with the pink hair? Only kidding, very well done mate! Betty Boothroyd, former speaker of the house of commons presided at my graduation. It was great to meet her. Hope life is treating you well. This country needs good doctors.
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Please help me destroy the logic of October 2014 Conversation With a Neighbor.
by kneehighmiah inhttp://www.jw.org/en/publications/magazines/wp20141001/gods-kingdom-prophecy-1/.
this has got to be a joke.
anyone with half a brain would destroy the logical fallicies in this article.
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When did they change Dan 2:44? It used to say 'God will set up a kingdom.. and it itself will stand to time indefinite'. Now they've replaced it with forever. Time indefinite could apply to any government on earth. Twisting translation again.
Also the dream interpretation that to whomever God wants to give power to, he will, fits perfectly with taking a mad man of seven years and giving him power again. Why does that have to have a secondary fulfillment?