we all have many reasons for leaving, most are doctrinal, some are emotional.
it's a religion which obsesses over factual proofs (counterfactual though they are) of its veracity rather than faith, so it's inevitable that most who leave will do so for intellectual reasons.
which doctrine above all others forced you to reconsider your position?
It was for me finding out about the brothers in Malawi who died for a political card issue while at the same time head office was allowing the brothers to purchase a conscription card in Mexico which stated they had done their military duties. And the deaths from blood factions and organ transplants which was later changed to conscience matter.
They have as much blood on their hands as any clergy who they condemn.
[the following information is intended as a response to the leaked bethel video regarding masturbation.
if you are not aware of that video, please check it our before attempting to comment.].
masturbation is not sinful, unclean, or wicked.
Let him cast the first stone who has not fondled the member.
jw: didn't we just hear somebody say that the sun's gonna blow up?.
me: well, they were saying that it will expand and eventually burn out.. jw: but it can't do that, it just keeps blowing up inside and getting more power.. me: well, they were talking about stars in general, how they have a life span.. jw: but god didn't make it that way, it's firmly established to time indefinite.
it's not like the sun is a regular star.
Don’t confuse them with logic. I don’t think there will ever be time where individual jws will be remembered for astronomy.
charity is lacking from the house of god.
i remember reading once about some young pioneer sisters who needed emergency accommodation and where turn away from brooklyn because they weren’t special pioneers.
charity begins at home..
Snare & racket that’s so true
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They are not protected by GB they are the GB . Blood doctrine is right wing murder. They have blood on their hands.
greetings, earth-bound friends:.
i guess at this point in life, given what we all now know, we no longer harbor any delusions of grandeur.
my temporary insanity, which i've written about on other threads, was that assurance of being in heaven with jehovah and jesus and the other 143,999 kings and priests.
Compound put a good word in for us underlings as you rule beside jah. Have a quiet shit on Tony Morris’s throne seat. Don’t hurt your arm slaughtering all the children.
what if a gb member all-of-a-sudden thought he was no longer anointed??.
what could possibly happen?
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He’s not that stupid , his caviar and plum sauce would come to an abrupt end.
charity is lacking from the house of god.
i remember reading once about some young pioneer sisters who needed emergency accommodation and where turn away from brooklyn because they weren’t special pioneers.
charity begins at home..
Cookies and sandwiches wrapped in a tract.
so this week's midweek meeting video about stumbling others has lett spouting and gurning rubbish again.. if you can't take the whole 9 minutes go from 5:50 to get the context and 6:45 for the "beard" mention.. https://youtu.be/ezv1ici5cwo.
oh, well - at least they shoot themselves in the foot with this doublespeak.
single.
Dear Governing Body your clean shaven faces are not only scaring me but they are genuinely stumbling me from accepting the lord, can you please grow some stubble so as to reflect the image of god.
charity is lacking from the house of god.
i remember reading once about some young pioneer sisters who needed emergency accommodation and where turn away from brooklyn because they weren’t special pioneers.
charity begins at home..
Charity is lacking from the house of god. I remember reading once about some young pioneer sisters who needed emergency accommodation and where turn away from Brooklyn because they weren’t special pioneers. Charity begins at home.
