What if we all encouraged as many friends as we knew to attend the next memorial and partakevof the crackers n cheap wine! I'd love to show up at a random hall and get a bunch of dirty looks and be judged by those who feel they shouldnt be judging then walk out laughing!
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Can Lightning Strike Twice? New GB Prediction!
by donuthole inno more random anointing at all.
no more "i just have a feeling" vagueness.
the watchtower amps up the language implying that many (most?
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The Governing Body has to Become the Faithful & Discreet Slave
by Mickey mouse inthe growing ranks of the anointed are a threat to their power.
today's watchtower made it clear that jehovah uses the governing body, no mention of the faithful & discreet slave.. i think they need new light on this in the next year or two..
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wow prophets do exist!!!
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Matt 24:45-47 The faithful slave refers ONLY to Governing Body. Does this make sense?
by MC RubberMallet inaccording to 2 reports thus far from 2012 annual meeting, this is new light.
some may need more time and verification to post an opinion on this, but i plan on showing the scriptural fallacies of this "new light".
comments?.
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i hope this is true... then maybe those still being controlled can realize their being controlled and break free!
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Thanks JWN
by thinking_not_believing ini have only been visiting here a couple weeks... but i wanted to say thank you to everyone.
i read threads here on my breaks from work or late @ night... and you guys have finally given me the push i need to read a book i bought 5 years ago... crisis of conscience.
i have mostly grown beyond the whole jw thing except that my pops is still there... he doesnt shun me and doesnt preach to my kids and i respect him for that... i just hold hope that i can find something to help him get out... (he does the same hoping me and my bros/sis will come back) ... all informative stuff here... and im enjoying the book i should have read along time ago... so many thanks to you all!.
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thanks for your comments! for me it has been nearly 10 years of awakening and like 8 since i let them df me... a few years ago my dad asked me to come over becsuse he heard i was apostate. I told him that i'm not sure exactly what he meant by spostate (but i knew that i was) ... but what i really was, was an aetheist. I hate religion and i explained to him that it was the same view he had. The greeks had their gods zeus and hades etc... All religions tha ever existed have gods and we are able to view those as myths... He agreed. I told him the god of the old testament was the jewish god and the new testsament was the christian god both of whom i accept as myths... so i lump jws in with everyone and do not attack them like an "apostate" i guess would... He was concerned at that time for my four younger siblings (all who faded) and i assured him i tell them nothing more than to go attend meetings, read the WT and the bible... then sit back snd think if it relly made sense to them. So they were able to see for themselves and i still hold hope that someday he will too! But he was converted at 25 from a bad path of drugs and violence so im sure he attritubes his change to jehovah and that is what keeps him therr...
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Thanks JWN
by thinking_not_believing ini have only been visiting here a couple weeks... but i wanted to say thank you to everyone.
i read threads here on my breaks from work or late @ night... and you guys have finally given me the push i need to read a book i bought 5 years ago... crisis of conscience.
i have mostly grown beyond the whole jw thing except that my pops is still there... he doesnt shun me and doesnt preach to my kids and i respect him for that... i just hold hope that i can find something to help him get out... (he does the same hoping me and my bros/sis will come back) ... all informative stuff here... and im enjoying the book i should have read along time ago... so many thanks to you all!.
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I have only been visiting here a couple weeks... but i wanted to say thank you to everyone. I read threads here on my breaks from work or late @ night... and you guys have finally given me the push i need to read a book i bought 5 years ago... crisis of conscience. i have mostly grown beyond the whole jw thing except that my pops is still there... he doesnt shun me and doesnt preach to my kids and i respect him for that... i just hold hope that i can find something to help him get out... (he does the same hoping me and my bros/sis will come back) ... all informative stuff here... and im enjoying the book i should have read along time ago… so many thanks to you all!
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I was HAPPY as a JW! How did I end up here? Pt 3
by MC RubberMallet incontinued from... http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/beliefs/239394/2/i-was-happy-as-a-jw-how-did-i-end-up-here-pt-2.
i mentioned how i was happy as a jw.
but that night, that very night after the conversation happened, there was a real feeling of relief.
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Good shit holmes! (eagerly anticipating the next installment)
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How did you feel when you first celebrated Halloween or Christmas
by trujw inwith the holidays amongsts us how did you feel the first time you celebrated the holidays?
the first time i felt like i was in north korea trying to slip pass the secret police.
how weird a wonderful family holiday and i was acting like i just stole the mona lisa..
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i loved both! Felt like i got back what was stolen when my parents converted. Now theyre all about the kids!
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I was HAPPY as a JW! How did I end up here? Pt 2
by MC RubberMallet incontinuation of... http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/beliefs/239292/5/i-was-happy-as-a-jw-how-did-i-get-here.
me: so why is it we can make false predictions, but no one else can?.
i see...... do you know my heart?.
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read part 1 this morning and just read this... i am just glad i was able to come to the exact same conclusions as you when i was 18/19. I had those goals of bethel and glad i didnt have to go there to really see all the hypocricy with my own eyes... looking foward to pt. 3
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SAD news about OOMPA......
by redredrose inour friend, oompa, has passed away.
just recieved the news a couple of hours ago, and have almost no details.
it happened today or yesterday, he took his own life.
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Just saying im feeling sad about this whole thing... my heart goes out to all who knew him! im new here so dont know much... but that pain he felt i can relate to a little. hoping best wishes upon his soul and to thoe who were close to him... :(
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Should i tell him what is really going on with me? I care about him so much.
by make yourself infor some reason the doubts came lurking back again.
i know this religion is messed up because a person should not be having creeping doubts surface up like this.
i have not posted or logged on to this site in a very long time.
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This post brings back old memories... some of which id forgotten. I remember i was seeing a girl (the first id have sex with mind you) and i really liked her. I was 18 and really screwed up emotionally because I quit believing and was exploring the world... but you know i felt guilty because i was still hiding from my parents. I knew they would hate me for the decisions i was making... Anyway... one day i felt it necessary to tell her that because i wanted to be fair to her and if we were gonna get serious... theres something she should know... I was nearly a lifelong JW and had just barely got out mentally and it was hard for me because it shaped everything i ever did... To my surprise... she responded with a "so... you dont believe that stuff anymore" and we went about like normal... It ended after a short time because i just wasnt ready considering I just started the journey to aetheism... but i did get to "do it" for the firat time ever and it was amazing!