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  Asking for help with wife

  by Are you serious in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  hello everyone, my wife wants nothing to do with my awakening.

  every time i try explaining something she tells me she doesn't want to hear it.

  i believe she's afraid of learning something she's not ready for.

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  Scully

  The clincher for me (and Mr. Scully, about 6 months later) was an entry in the Insight on the Scriptures volume, under the heading "Lie".

  https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/1200002738

  While malicious lying is definitely condemned in the Bible, this does not mean that a person is under obligation to divulge truthful information to people who are not entitled to it.

  So the questions arise:

  • who has the right to decide who is entitled to truthful information?
  • what if the Society is withholding truthful information from JWs?
  • why should I be worried about lies of omission from the Society?
  • do I have the right to refrain from divulging truthful information to people who are not entitled to it, such as the Elders™, the Circuit Overseer™, the District Overseer™, etc.
  • how do I feel about being told in Public Talks™ and so on, that we should be honest in all things, while the GB endorses the idea of not being "under obligation to divulge truthful information to people who are not entitled to it"?
  • how would I feel if I found evidence of the GB engaging in this practice? (if you have one of the old Creation books, you can do this easily by looking up all the citations in the references and comparing them to what they print in the book. This was something that a former member alanf did several years ago.)

  At any rate, this was something that brought down the whole house of cards for me and then Mr. Scully. We were both absolutely disgusted by the dishonesty of the entire operation. Clearly, the Society felt that Joe and Jane Publisher were "not entitled" to their honesty. We set a date (January 1, 1995) for our first day of freedom, and never looked back.
  
  
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  Admins & Mods ... who are they?

  by Tallon in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  this is just a general query, and am hoping someone can clarify.. a lot of web forums usually list the usernames of the admins & moderators.

  i have not seen listed, unless someone can show me otherwise, the admins & moderators of this web forum.. from what i can gather, simon is the owner & admin of this web forum.

  scully has just locked a discussion thread - so i'm guessing that s/he is either an admin or moderator.. who are the admins & moderators ?.

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  Scully

  PS: I am a "she". :)
  
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  Admins & Mods ... who are they?

  by Tallon in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  this is just a general query, and am hoping someone can clarify.. a lot of web forums usually list the usernames of the admins & moderators.

  i have not seen listed, unless someone can show me otherwise, the admins & moderators of this web forum.. from what i can gather, simon is the owner & admin of this web forum.

  scully has just locked a discussion thread - so i'm guessing that s/he is either an admin or moderator.. who are the admins & moderators ?.

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  Scully

  jookbeard: I am not aware of other moderators. At one time we had a few more.

  stan livedeath: it was in the scandals section, containing libellous allegations, and that part of the thread was deleted.
  
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  Admins & Mods ... who are they?

  by Tallon in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  this is just a general query, and am hoping someone can clarify.. a lot of web forums usually list the usernames of the admins & moderators.

  i have not seen listed, unless someone can show me otherwise, the admins & moderators of this web forum.. from what i can gather, simon is the owner & admin of this web forum.

  scully has just locked a discussion thread - so i'm guessing that s/he is either an admin or moderator.. who are the admins & moderators ?.

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  Scully

  Simon and Angharad are admins.

  I am a moderator.
  
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  Why Jehovah witnesses don't say, "Bless you" ?

  by Issa in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  bless you, that was a big sneeze you let out sister.. sister- ah, what does "bless you" mean?.

  oh, it's pagan.

  because people bless the soul of the person so they don't escape from their physical bodies.. sister- right, it is difficult to change the little things, but we can please jehovah by staying away from those things.. .... this is a scenario that happened when i accidentally (naturally) said "bless you" to the jw sister.

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  Haven't been an Active™ JW for over 20 years, and I still can't bring myself to say "Bless you" when someone sneezes.

  When I was a teenager, I found a German bible in the KH library, and found Acts 15:29 which used the word Geshundheit (good health to you). So I started using it instead of "Bless you". When an Elder™ reprimanded me for saying it, I told him (being a snotty teenager, naturally) that it was written in the German bible, so why should I not wish someone to have good health?? He didn't believe me, so I showed him. And since Acts 15:29 is so hugely important to the JW anti-blood transfusion dogma, how could he argue with that? The next time I checked, the German bible had mysteriously vanished.
  
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  Big xJW scandal

  by Charlotte in

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  Scully

  So Charlotte, it appears that you joined this forum for the sole purpose of perpetuating a malicious, libellous attack on someone in the xJW community who no longer posts on this forum. That, in itself, is suspicious. We take a very dim view of people who make unfounded allegations against people in this community. If you have proof, take it to the authorities. If you are just spouting bullshit, go away.

  THREAD LOCKED. Original post containing libellous allegations has been deleted.
  
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  How Many Witnesses Would Really Take Blood?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  up until the very end, my mother refused blood.

  it didn't matter if it was a blurred line or not, the bible says "no blood"!

  i wonder if she was in the minority, in her thinking.

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  All of them would.

  Their form of worship revolves around whatever is The Truth™ du jour. If the WTS dumped its blood transfusion theology, and did away with Hospital Liaison Committees, DFing and DAing for persons who accepted transfusions for themselves or on behalf of spouse, children or other family members, all of them would go with the flow of New Light™ without batting an eye.
  
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  A day for a lunar or solar etc year

  by stillajwexelder in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  about 10 years ago there was a brilliant piece by a legend on this board - may have been farkel.

  it was where he showed how ludicrous it was to flit between solar days lunar months a solar day for a 360 day year but those years are 365 to come up with 1914. i have tried searching but struggled.

  does anyone remember it and if so can you point to it with a link please?

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  It was actually Blondie who posted the thread to which you refer:

  https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/6036297403596800/if-year-really-365-1-4-days-why-360-days-calculate-1914
  
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  A day for a lunar or solar etc year

  by stillajwexelder in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  about 10 years ago there was a brilliant piece by a legend on this board - may have been farkel.

  it was where he showed how ludicrous it was to flit between solar days lunar months a solar day for a 360 day year but those years are 365 to come up with 1914. i have tried searching but struggled.

  does anyone remember it and if so can you point to it with a link please?

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  Scully

  Nice to see you here!
  
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  Free to sin but still cannot bring myself to do it

  by sinboi in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  have da'd myself nearly 3 months ago.

  now i am part of this world but i feel myself the odd one out.

  something inside me is still blocking me to do the things i have been longing to do while i was still a jw, such as attending birthday parties, sex, etc.... just last nite, i was on the way to attend a birthday party.

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  Scully

  A lot of the things JWs define as a "sin" are, in fact, perfectly normal and definitely NOT sinful.

  It's part of the healing process to take baby steps and try those things that were once forbidden to you as a JW. Be smart, be safe, and don't partake in things that you know could hurt yourself or someone else (drugs, drunkenness, unprotected sex, etc.)

  There's no right or wrong time to begin experimenting, just be sure that you're comfortable and have an exit strategy if things start to feel overwhelming for you.