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  How Long Did It Take To Finally Leave The Organization Once You Realized It Was Really Not The Truth?

  by minimus in

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  it actually took me a few years to finally leave the organization so i was mentally out for a while before i simply stopped all meetings altogether.. how long did it take you to finally make the break?

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  I studied in 1982, got baptized at the 1983 District Convention. Because of my love of reading, I had amassed a huge library given to me by the older friends and going to Bethel where you could actually buy books. It didn't take long for me to figure out that these were nice people who didn't know any better. The elders were uneducated individuals with a power trip. By 1985 I had figured it all out about the Society, but I stayed because it gave me something to do and gave me a sense of belonging. But I NEVER gave into it all. There was a time when I actually believed these were sincere people believing they were doing God's will. After all when you look at the scriptures you find plenty of individuals who served God and were the worst of sinners, so why not them?

  But by 1985 I figured it all out, and by 1988 I was mentally and emotionally detached from it all. In 1990 I got married and by 1992 my wife and I were gone. Wrote my letter of resignation stepping down, threw the book study group out of our home and we walked away. They tried to track us down and finally gave up. The congregation is defunct, Kingdom Hall sold.

  After 25 years and two kids, my wife divorced me and took it all, I relocated to the Midwest and things are great!
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  Did Russell come up with the no hell fire and no Trinity doctrine or did steal that belief from another religion as well?

  by nowwhat? in

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  just wondering hate to give the devil his due.

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  Russell never claimed to invent anything, and often stated he borrowed from others.
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  Has This Newspaper Article Been Reviewed Before?

  by berrygerry in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030431/1917-02-04/ed-1/seq-52/.

  one poster's comments:.

  nyc was advocating for watch tower to be taxed as a business (legitimate reasons to follow).

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  RolRod

  Truth is when Russell died, the Watchtower Society was flat broke. He spent every penny he had on the Photo Drama of Creation which he showed for FREE.
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  Motivations for Watchtower leadership

  by GetMeOutofHere in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i’ve struggled for some time with this question.

  why would the elders, cos, branch committee, helpers to gb and the gb themselves devote their lives to progressing in the organization, if the whole thing is one big sham?

  i have 3 ideas so far.. 1) money.

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  RolRod

  Power, status …. it's a power trip, "Hey everybody look at me I'm an elder, I give talks", "Hey everybody, I'm a pioneer and married to an elder"
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  Anyone from the Bronx, NY? Jersey City, NJ?

  by RolRod in

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  anyone here from the bronx?

  i was a member of the jerome congregation in the early 1980s, then relocated to another hall i believe it was on park ave, near the train tracks, for the life of me i can't remember the name.

  i left nyc and was a member of the west and then the north congregations in jersey city, nj.

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  Anyone here from the Bronx? I was a member of the JEROME Congregation in the early 1980s, then relocated to another Hall I believe it was on Park Ave, near the train tracks, for the life of me I can't remember the name. I left NYC and was a member of the WEST and then the NORTH Congregations in Jersey City, NJ
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  If You Could Live In Any Era or Decade What Would It Be?

  by minimus in

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  i kind of like the 50’s and early 60’s because of the innocence and “happy days” outlook by that generation.

  it seems most people were pretty innocent and real.. would you rather be living in a different era or is this century working for you?

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  I've always felt out of time, prefer to live in simpler times, late 1800s, early 1900s (1875-1925)
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  26 Years Later

  by Victor in

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  i'm one of earliest adopters of the internet in discovering the real history of the watchtower.

  back then it was the wild wild west with newsgroups being the primary sources of information.

  then came watchtower observer, freeminds, and all the other sites that followed jwd was one of the later sites.

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  I met Doc Bob on PA at the Witnesses for Jesus Now, still have the group photo. Met Duane Magnani and he said, "oh, you paid my mortgage", I bought so much crap from him LOL
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  26 Years Later

  by Victor in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i'm one of earliest adopters of the internet in discovering the real history of the watchtower.

  back then it was the wild wild west with newsgroups being the primary sources of information.

  then came watchtower observer, freeminds, and all the other sites that followed jwd was one of the later sites.

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  I was one of the "founding" members of this forum, way back when, of course I used a different account and contributed a hell of a lot, especially during the time people were looking for certain Watchtower material, that I had among my 6,000 books. Sold most of it off on ebay, still selling it off, as I don't have use for it, most of the stuff has been digitalized. Still don't know why I was locked out of my original account. I was gone for over 5 years, visiting here and there.

  I was with the witnesses for 12 years, from age 20 to about 32 or so. I just stepped down and walked away. Started meeting with a local Bible Student group in the area, served as deacon, then elder, then I stepped down and walked away. Got divorced after 25 years, and moved to the Midwest, where I have remarried (why, I'll never know, should've stayed single).

  I started out on AOL, had a lot of fun on that site and the JW and xJW forums. We even had a gathering of the AOL members, made up of ex, inactive and current JWs. I still have the group picture we took somewhere.

  I had the first Bible Students website and forum, debated a lot of JW's.

  I still remember all the JW and exJW forums out there, and some of the crazies who professed to be anointed and had a following … LOL

  Ah, those were the days!
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  Certain JWs

  by Holden Caufield in

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  2. experiences

  do you ever miss jw's as an ex jw..

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  There are a few that I wonder about. Had a close friend with the JW's. He dropped me like a hot potato. A lot of the ones I associated with are disfellowshipped from what I hear, but in the end, out of sight, out of mind.
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  What Are Ways You Can Tell Someone is a Jehovah’s Witness?

  by minimus in

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  2. friends

  is it something they do?

  how they say things?

  how do you spot a jehovah’s witness?.

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  I met a woman on a Facebook group that I admin. nothing in her profile stated she was a JW, no comments or postings. but the background of her profile picture looked like a Kingdom Hall, I just saw chairs in a room, so I asked her, and she admitted she was one.