Topics Started by Lost in the fog

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The Spanish Inquisition.
by Lost in the fog in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
a friend is just after sending this to me.. https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/zcrssl/schism_in_jehovahs_witnesses_over_secret_abuse/.
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Trinity
by Lost in the fog in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
bumped into a former jw friend who since departing has joined a protestant church.. his explanation of the trinity is "think of the congregation service committee in the jw religion, the three people who locally made all of the decisions affecting the congregation.".

three people each with their own personality who individually were seen as the coordinator, the service overseer, and the secretary.

but who made decisions as a combined unit.. so on the midweek meeting it was announced that "the service committee has approved the following..." .
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I feel really sorry for them.
by Lost in the fog in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
personally i feel really sorry for these people.

free to do anything they want now because of changed circumstances they are deluded to waste more of their time and (no doubt) money putting in more time to this religious cult.. it breaks my heart reading their story.. https://www.thecharlottepost.com/news/2022/12/15/life-and-religion/living-the-balanced-and-more-focused-simple-life/.
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The Gospel According to Jehovah's Witnesses
by Vanderhoven7 in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
mark jones explains the watchtower gospel much better than i can.. "the good news that christians in the first century preached was the birth, death and resurrection of jesus christ; that all those who believed in him were saved and reconciled to god through the death of his son.. unfortunately jehovah’s witnesses) have been led to believe it is something bizarrely different.

the good news according to the watchtower society is as follows:.

the the good news (according to jehovah’s witnesses).
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Keep telling yourself that!
by Lost in the fog in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
in the latest copy of the elders textbook someone kindly made available to us on this website, i see that "independently organized meetings for spiritual feeding" are still not allowed.

no wonder because independent research would let the scales fall from the eyes.. the gb still insisting that they are guided by the (always lower case) holy spirit and the bible!!

not that the rank and file members need the bible or holy spirit themselves because they are fed through meetings, conventions, assemblies, jw broadcasting and the publications.
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Call The Police and Press Charges.
by Lost in the fog in
1. watchtower
2. child-abuse
it strikes me as a double standard - if someone in the congregation is known by the elders to be a child abuser they wouldn't call the police and "bring reproach on jehovah" as numerous reports have shown.. however, if someone disturbs a congregation meeting the elders are instructed by the org to call the police and tell the police that they want to press charges against the individual.. you couldn't make this stuff up!.
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why celebrate xmas?
by enoughisenough in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
many on here are ex jw....they have left the jws because of coming to find out the many false indoctrinations.

one of the things learned as a jw is that there isn't anything true about xmas being the birth of jesus.

( matt chapter 2 tells a whole different narrative about the baby jesus than what is portrayed by the christian churches) they learn the ways that are celebrated are pagan practices jesus told the samaritan woman that god wanted to be worshipped in spirit and it truth.
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Merry Christmas
by jhine in
1. social
2. humour
i don't think that it's too early for my annual merry christmas thread .

merry christmas everyone.

jan .
It's Time To Move On When...
by Lost in the fog in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i spotted this on a mental health website.

it has to do with relationships but could equally apply to breaking up with your church and moving on.. https://themindsjournal.com/signs-let-go-move-on/.
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Reproof announcement wording.
by Jofi_Wofo in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
hey, all.

i had an old memory pop into my head today about an oddly worded announcement made by an elder at a meeting back when i was a bible study.

i couldn't find anything in the wol nor on google about it, so i wondered if this was just some rogue one-off, or if this is the way things used to be announced.