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Dis-fellowshipped For Not Going To The Kingdom Hall You Are Assigned Too
by new boy in
1. jw
2. friends
my parents started attending the glendora congregation in 1961. my mother had a strange feeling about the congregation.

there was something going on there that just didn’t feel right.

there was a huge exodus going on of people leaving this congregation’s kingdom hall too.
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J.W.`s and Paradise and the Reality of it.
by smiddy3 in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
when god created adam and eve and put them in the garden of eden it was then up to them to cultivate and take care of it ,god had no further hand in it .the responsibility rested with adam/eve and their offspring.. the same would be true in the paradise to come ,god gets rid of all of us wicked people ,but then it is up to j.w.~s who are left on this earth to restore such a paradise.?

without god`s intervention.. think of it , this system is gone with all its infrastructure.. 8 million + j.w.`s scattered throughout the earth with.

no communication systems operating .
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Bro. Geoff in September 2018 Broadcast vs Serena Williams
by NeedToKnow in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
the september broadcast opens up with a story of 80 yr old brother geoff who gave up been in a band all them years ago.

fast forward to 2018 and we have a world renown tennis player and jw as far as we’re told.. so where some are encouraged to leave the world and it’s futile pursuits of fame and fortune, others are not.

or even punished for their behaviour on court or for been photographed with their country’s flag where others have been executed for refusing to salute flags.
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Expected pain
by former2free in
1. jw
2. experiences
last week was a big week for me in terms of coming totally clean to my wife and her being more than on board to leave the jw’s with me.

we know what to expect but things happen from family and it still hurts just as bad.

last night my wife got a long text message from her brother that has seemed to be in the fence and he told her that same guilt tripping rhetoric that the wt uses about life in the paradise etc.
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For ACTIVE JW's: r&f JW's are 2nd Class Christians..........
by The Fall Guy in
1. watchtower
2. bible
............according to your "faithful slave masters" -.

w10 1/15 p. 5 par 12 & footnote - "jesus’ “other sheep” will not become sons of god until the end of the thousand years.

however, (crap alert!
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The Governing Body / Jehovah`s Witnesses and the Sin Of Omission ,How guilty are they ? Can you give an example ?
by smiddy3 in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i would like as many people that can, to respond to this appeal as i am sure their are many examples out their that may help lurkers and fence sitters to make a decision on where they stand regarding the "truth".

i look forward to your comments either negative or plus..
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Adding insult to injury when the WT kicks out a congregation from their hall
by nowwhat? in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
not only does the organization confiscate the hall the congregation owns.

but then the former congregants are told to continue to pay for utilities and they are still responsible for upkeep and maintenance.

so they still have to cut the grass etc.
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The Wizard of Oz
by I Faded Twice in
1. jw
2. friends
does anyone else see the similarities between the wizard of oz and the gb?.

it's kind of like when the curtain is removed and you find out it's all smoke and mirrors.

plus dorothy wakes up at the end!.
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Time matters
by I Faded Twice in
1. jw
2. friends
a few years back i was in a meeting between fades and it was the co visit.

he said something i thought was crazy and a lot of jws buy into this mentality.

i don't remember the talk but he asked this question.. what if this isn't the truth?
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wt on education..
by zeb in
1. jw
2. friends
i have just watched the glass smashing on the wt video on education.. please consider these experiences from the opposite side of that "coin".. i have heard young ones say out-loud on the mike in the kh that "jehovah is my special friend.."these ones who were at the top of the wt 'tree' pioneering, putting in the hours etc but, it followed that soon saying that pivotal statement they dropped their pioneering, faded, picked up the girl/boyfriend and suffered being dfd.. so where did their wt "education" leave them?

it left them as young adults naive to the world, unskilled, with no qualification to offer any employer and having to replace their former family/associates/friends with new ones.. ( dont get me going on shunning) in some cases with little success as we have read here where they moon about for months or longer unable to emotionally heal after the leaving or df'ing and also others with such a turn around they would never have believed it possible... there was a wt that related how a brother (!

) followed an interest in history and left the truth.