Posts by Chook

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Farewell

due to unforeseen circumstances, i need to say goodbye.

proverbs 14:16 nlt.

i have every faith that the governing body of jehovah's witnesses will bring about needed change very soon given the continuous pressure they face.

Chook

WFWR

you will return to this fold due to NO Christian principles applied to JW law.

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Old Letter to the Governing Body

by WITNESS-FOR-WATCHTOWER-REFORM in

this is an older letter i wrote to the gb in october last year in regards to their policy around shunning of dissociated ones.

the letter doesn't focus on the disfellowshiped, but am in the process right now of writing to them regarding their recent watchtower on shunning disfellowshipped relatives.. the letter i wrote back in october rambles on a bit, but wanted to express my frustration to the governing body about their very unfair policy toward those who simply choose to leave.. regards.

the governing body.

Chook

The GB get hundreds of letters of similar content, they the GB will read none of these . They are the popes of WT ,there are more important issues in their mind, such as selling the family heirlooms. I know most JW think these guy are Jesus on earth but I'm afraid to say that these guys don't eat with sinners.

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Those who were converts from another faith. When did you realize that you were being lied to?

by TTWSYF in

my experiences have included being lied to about what the bible says.

mind you , i am not referring to scripture twisting, i mean out right lying about what is written.. obviously at least some here didn't realize until it was later.. just wondering what others experienced.. thanks.

Chook

When I read elders book about page 38 paragraph 19

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To all former Elders – what are your thoughts

by Tallon in

if you were part of a judicial committee, and knowing what you know now, what was it like for you to sit on jc’s?

how did you feel if someone was reproved or df’d?

were you ever on a jc and you disagreed with someone being reproved or df’d and were overruled – how did you feel?

Chook

I'm so glad I was never a elder, now that I'm awake I would beat myself up and be forever emotionally wrecked if some poor bastard committed suicide after I DF them.

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Easier to be a JW now?

by Xanthippe in

reading konceptual's account of talking to cart 'witnesses' and it reminded me that when we left in '89 we thought the religion would do one of two things.

get more hardline, consequently lose members and eventually come to an end in some way.

or ease up on the members, fewer rules, less fs time, less meetings, just to keep them in.. all the recent apostate stuff, treatment of dfed kids and the hardline attitude to people who leave or try to fade has confused me, made me think they are harder on the r+f., but i don't think this is true.

Chook

To be subjected to guilt riddled speeches and to conform to business dress codes is enough punishing for my soul. Non returnable time is why most won't go back ever.

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So When Do You Think The Watchtower Sign Will Come Down in Brooklyn?

by Wild_Thing in

jw
friends

i think we should have a street party in brooklyn when it happens!

it would be a "tearing down of the berlin wall" type of celebration!

i would totally fly to new york for that!

Chook

Yes I think it's worth a party, but the problem lies in it will rise at Warwick , at least on cows see it their.

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"God does not desire any to be destroyed "

by stuckinarut2 in

so if that quote from the bible is correct, for every year that goes by another couple of million people will need to be destroyed.

it just doesn't make sense right?

.

Chook

I just don't now why God wrote such a complicated story. This is movie material twisted.

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See? Being an Ex-JW Can Be Funny!

by Wild_Thing in

jw
friends

i have to find recordings of this comedian!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/ex-jehovahs-witness-deborah-frances-white-on-door-knocking-with/.

ex-jehovah's witness deborah frances-white on door knocking with michael jackson and ditching the 'cult'.

Chook

Being an xjw puts us in a league few have traveled, theirs the guilt ridden thoughts of wasted time, then it's the damage we have caused others due to following false prophets. The I'm such a fool thoughts damage the xjw .Eventually we have to look only forward and it's then we heal and find happiness .

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Whats the problem?

by eyeuse2badub in

like the noah of old, (as described in the bible), are modern day jw’s just poor teachers?

i mean, noah, and i assume his family, preached for decades prior to the “deluge”.

they were “clearly” or “evidently” poor at convincing their contemporaries that a ‘flood’ was a comin’.

Chook

The problem with JW headquarters is they can't start again, so they are chained to a history of bullshit that if they did it again they probably wouldn't do certain things because it affects the MONEY flow.1 blood which they can't change due to too many deaths, 2 1914 they just put it in print to much so they can't change because the rank and file would realise God didn't change his mind. 3 Education so the money would flow more freely. 4 the no children policy which hindered increase.

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Identifying warning signs of a cult

by stuckinarut2 in

many here will have read lists like this before and realised that most of these points fit the society to a tee!.

but for any new members or lurkers, check out this site!.

https://culteducation.com/warningsigns.html.

Chook

It's the same old story if someone offers you something to good to be true, it's probably false.