thinking_not_believing

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  Had a visit on Saturday from 2 JWs

  by poppers in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  in the course of my encounter i let them know how i felt about their shunning policy and how it destroys families, and referenced oompa.

  the lady said there would be more suicides if they didn't disfellowship people!

  huh?

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  thinking_not_believing

  This was well done... comments i remember : " you should be out playing" ... "your being misled... just ask Ray Franz"... "you guys are still preaching the same ol bullshit" "the bible warns of false prophets like the watchtower society"

  all these over the course of years (15-10 years ago) and i clearly remember the location where these happened and vaguely the persons description ... more than any return visits i had... so im pretty sure you planted a seed! i hope i get this opportunity someday!
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  holding off on my baptism???

  by madcow78596 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so i've been studying with jws since april 2011.

  1 year later i decide to become an unbaptized publisher and take steps toward dedicating myself to jehovah.

  i'm a single working mother of 2 with what i will call a very "colored" past.

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  put before him my path and that of countless others with the same experience! you can be hsppy now! live now! be free now! u dont have to be miserable till armagedon! please... i beg you... reconsider your baptism
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  holding off on my baptism???

  by madcow78596 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so i've been studying with jws since april 2011.

  1 year later i decide to become an unbaptized publisher and take steps toward dedicating myself to jehovah.

  i'm a single working mother of 2 with what i will call a very "colored" past.

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  welcome... your asking questions shows that you are much to intelligent to feed your brain with watchtower BS! i read all the coments and the advice is solid and better than any i could give.. apply it please! let me go the Watchtower route instead and share an experience for your son... i was a jw child from age 7-18... at first it didnt phase me to be different because i thought all my classmates eould be killed by jesus soon anyway ( how screwed up is that). as i got older i was isolated and a loner and miserable. its ok i thought... i will soon be perfect... the misery grew from the pain ofnot associating with my peers because they were "bad association". the whole time im a straight A student being told to go to a trade school n learn something that could get me bywhile i pioneered ( which i did for a year and a half @ age 17) but i was never happy! never good enough! after i leaving the anxiety was too much and i spent a few years dabbling in drugs n whatever else u can think of... i finally grew as a person to be the happy n proud father i am today... and at the same age as you at 28 im telling you as u should know that your kids are your paradise! give them all of your love and dedication not jehovah... do not
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  Wishful thinking? Will WTBS ever go down?

  by MC RubberMallet in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i see it posted that many are 'waking up' etc.

  but the religion is still growing!

  many enjoy the kool-aid.

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  i predicted when i was 17 that they would go out of business (joking) but i mean seriously how can they afford all those things they print. we laughed that u would get the WT via email and u would have to print your own... now that seems right around the corner
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  Standard of Living in the New System

  by cobaltcupcake in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i used to wonder about this when i was still a dub: since they believe the industrialized world is going to be destroyed and the entire earth will be one big garden, exactly what kind of standard of living do they think they will have?

  while they might be able to scavenge, say, a microwave oven or washing machine; and they might be able to figure out how to generate electricity, eventually all of these things will wear out and they'll be back in an early 18th century type of life.

  people of that time and earlier who enjoyed a high standard of living employed armies of servants to do the dirty work, but since equality will reign in the ns, everyone will have to toil like a slave just to maintain the basics.. or do they think that big j will magically power their washing machines and water pumps and all the stuff that makes modern living so comfortable?.

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  im pretty sure they thinkjehovah is gonna unleash a new theocratic science of never ending clean energy and is gonna zap pollution! he will also zap the shit from the port a potties while u sleepbetween the sheep and vegetarian lion! all the meanwhile carving your own ukelele (spelling?) and having an eternity to play it... wait dont think about it? pass out magazines instead! (that was always the elders response in the 90s)
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  Mrs Punk left the family!

  by punkofnice in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  it's nearly 2 months now but mrs punk finally left myself (mentally diseased apostate tm) with my 2 non kingdum hell attending boys.. she left when my jw daughter moved out and they moved in together.

  i don't think it'll be long before my daughter gets sick of her mum but there you go!!.

  i received a call from mrs punk to say: 'i didn't leave you because of the religion!'.

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  thinking_not_believing

  reading this made me sad. keep your head up bro.
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  Dating tips for men- Requesting input

  by keyser soze in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i've been thinking about putting together a pamphlet of things that have worked well for me over the years.

  if it's successful, maybe it will lead to seminars or classes.

  feel free to critique, or chime in with your own.

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  Definitely ask how many men before you shes slept with... This shows that you only make well-informed decisions.
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  Was the Watchtower Right?

  by Christ Alone in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  this question is for atheists and believers.

  what teachings do you think the watchtower got right and why?

  do you still think they are right about the trinity?

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  thinking_not_believing

  "millions now living will never die" ... wait whats that? theyre all dead now? shit ( this was an interesting thread though)
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  Can Lightning Strike Twice? New GB Prediction!

  by donuthole in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  no 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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  thinking_not_believing

  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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  The Governing Body has to Become the Faithful & Discreet Slave

  by Mickey mouse in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the 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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  thinking_not_believing

  wow prophets do exist!!!