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  So you're worried about the Big A, or the North Korean bombs? Sorry everyone, Japan is the one that has likely screwed us all.

  by fulltimestudent in

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  heard much lately, about the fukushima nuclear disaster in japan?.

  that is until earlier today when i found this article from last year, with dr. helen caldicott discussing the chernobyl disaster and fukushima.

  she believes fukushima is uncontrollable and there is absolutely nothing anyone can do about it.. read the article: .

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  Well isn't she just a little Ray of Sunshine?
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  Is Satan Real ?

  by jdash in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i've been pondering on this question for awhile now, and i'm starting to think this malevolent spirit creature isn't real.

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  do you guys believe satan is real?

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  This entire forum is full of people who have "prior belief systems". We were all once deceived into believing everything we were told by a terrible mind control cult.
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  Boyfriend force me to study the bible or no marriage

  by MuslimWoman in

  1. social
  2. relationships

  my boyfriend, who is a disfellowshipped jehova's witness, asks me to study the bible for 3 months or he won't marry me (i'm a muslim woman).

  he loves me and really wants to marry me but he is doing a passive blackmailing: if i don't study for 3 months, 1 time per week, in my home country, and without him, there will be no marriage... as a muslim, i believe the bible is god's word so i look at the bible from time to time and would be happy to study with him.

  but the fact that he is kind of saying "study the bible or bye bye no marriage" is really hurtful.

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  Run like the wind. He may care about you but it doesn't look or sound like love and til death do us part can be a long time if you are in a loveless, conditional marriage.

  Count your blessings that this has come to the fore before you married and walk away. Do not look back.
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  Rate yourself as a Jehovah's Witness

  by RULES & REGULATIONS in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i was baptized at 14 and finally had enough at 50 years old.

  i tried my best but being in jehovah land you are never good enough.

  i'll be honest in rating myself: from a low score of 1-10.. donations: 2.....donated around $80 a year...our kingdom hall paid for too many remodels and always paid for c.o.

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  I think I may have donated $80 total for my entire life. My children, when we were still attending would get given money from ones in the congregation to put in the contribution box. We never have enough spare to share. We did share with circuit servants by way of buying them meals and groceries etc.

  I quit the ministry School after the birth of my second child and was glad to no longer have the anxiety related to giving talks. Encouraged my children to get off the school too. No time for rehearsal when you have homework.

  Hated field service. Always my entire life. Did a couple of school holidays auxillary pioneering but other than that would avoid it where I could. Loved going on others return visits and country witnessing where you drive from house to house. Nice morning out with the friends. In the last ten years I have only been a couple of times and never spoke to anyone. What a waste of time.

  Answering up. If no one put their hand up during the study I would feel bad for the conductor. It's a reading comprehension exercise for goodness sake. So I would help him out and answer.

  Attending the meeting. Growing up we never missed unless bed ridden. One didn't miss meetings. Even after surgery my mother took me out of hospital to attend the convention and I spent it on a bed in first aid! As a mother myself I was a bit softer and we would stay home if the kids were sick. We all stayed home if one was sick. I haven't been for over two years now.

  Music and movies. I have always liked rock and slightly heavy music but always made sure of lyrics and never bought demonic looking albums. Lol. Never never watch a demonic movie or anything with witches or ghosts or immorality. 50 Shades? No way. Lord of the rings? No way. Funny enough I did read Lord of the rings as a teenager and felt like such a rebel.

  50 Shades is still not my sort of movie but I loved the Lord of the Rings and all the X-Men movies. My teenager is a heavy metal fan so am getting to know a lot about bands from my time through him.

  Never tried a smoke. Been drunk twice in my life and I say crap a lot. Lol. I have friends in the truth who consider crap a swear word and are shocked when they hear me say it.

  Dating - well this one is interesting. I was a goody two shoes growing up and watched as all the other young jws would date at school and carry on for all to see. Then they leave school and become pioneers. Meanwhile I was asked out by "worldly" boys/men and say no because I can only date from my religion. One time I said yes. Wow! My pioneer friend told me off for wanting to date "dead flesh" and my parents made me ring him and cancel. I was 21. Incidentally my pioneer friend went on to marry "dead flesh". No regrets really though. I met my husband in my late 20s and we are two peas in a pod. We both come from the same upbringing and we think the same about pretty much everything.

  We are on the same page now with leaving the cult and letting our children be who they are and choose their own paths.

  Happy ending for me.
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  Is Satan Real ?

  by jdash in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i've been pondering on this question for awhile now, and i'm starting to think this malevolent spirit creature isn't real.

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  Someone said to my mum in service this week that he only believes in what he can see. She asked him how that works for him with regard to gravity. Lol.
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  Do JW's know what their FDS is doing with donations?

  by The Fall Guy in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  according to the official figures in this post 2 years ago - https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/217902/uk-congregations-jehovahs-witnesses?page=4 - the scottish congregations had a combined total of just over £1.845m in their bank accounts.

  i wonder how much of that money was siphoned off by the org when their "recommendation" to congregations to hand over their surplus cash was issued.

  isn't it tragic that all that money would barely cover the court's fine of $4000 per day which the cult has amassed so far in the padron case.

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  I asked my mother if it bothers her that her donations are paying lawsuits defending their child abuse policies. She said "no, it's what Jehovah wants. It says so."

  Exactly where does Jehovah say so? The Borg says so and they are not God but as we have seen the blind followers can't separate the organization from God. They see them as one and the same.
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  Smiddy`s Wedding Anniversary Today

  by smiddy3 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  hi friends one and all i just thought i would let you know it`s our 57th wedding anniversary today .

  and we are setting off this morning for 3 nights in eden nsw i think it has more to offer than the one in genesis.. with a bit { or a lot } of luck we will make our fortune .

  have a good day everybody.

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  Happy Anniversary!
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  A World so different to the one I grew up in.

  by fulltimestudent in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  in the early 1950's i changed my life.

  i started to study the bible with a jw.

  big mistake!

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  I was just saying to my husband today that we are just a part of the circle of life. Just like the rest of the Earth's creatures. We live we multiply and we die and that's it.
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  Young People Ask questions that work - How to identify a cult

  by CovertsadJW in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i have been wanting to write a book for kids who grow up in the borg or near the borg.

  it would be non offensive and factual.

  i am putting the chapters together.

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  I think if you leave out the word cult and made it about religion in general some of them would read it.

  If it is an obvious book about the JWs they wouldn't read it unless they were already on the way out.
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  God Cannot Lie, But God's Organization Can?

  by AmABeliever in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  in the recently leaked bethel training videos, both speakers state that inappropriate flirting really amounts to lying, as if a person is misrepresenting either his interest or availability to another person romantically.. we are reminded that the bible is very plain in its expressions on lying such as proverbs 12:22 which states it is detestable to god.

  so with the example given here, we must have a very high standard in separating what is truthful from what is not.. with that being the case, it shocks me that bethel would produce a video presented to all in attendance at the 2017 regional convention regarding the early 1970's, essentially rewriting history as to what actually happened.. is misrepresenting your past and misleading millions of followers not a much more extreme case of lying from those who claim to reject any form of lying no matter how small, such as flirting?

  would anyone like to add more examples to this thread?.

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  Sometimes I think I want to say to my uber in mother - "you know as sad as you are that we are no longer attending meetings etc, that is how sad we are that you cannot see that you are being lied to and misled".

  It makes me very angry.