Posts by smiddy3

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Anxiety, OCD, Hoarding, and the JWs

by Spiral in

i'm noticing what seems to be a higher incidence of the above among the local jws than in the "general" (read: worldly) population.

i don't say this lightly, my wanderings around the fringes of jw society locally is revealing an alarming trend here.

the poverty doesn't help (there are good jobs, but you need a degree or qualifications to get one).. anyone else see this?

smiddy3

How can anyone believe Armageddon/Great Tribulation be imminent / just around the corner for over a Century and it`s still spoken of today 2018 as imminent / just around the corner and not have mental issues ? they should be addressing ?

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Will The Governing Body Sell Out The Watchtower Corporation In A Plea Bargin With Prosecutors?

by Brokeback Watchtower in

as the lawsuits continue to increase world wide against the watchtower corporation and it's branches,, things could get very dire for the governing body to plea bargin for a lighter sentence and so turn over crucial evidence against their fellow f&dss, technically beat their fellow slave and what not.. now i know a lot of you will be thinking: "what on earth could lead to the gb blowing the whistle on fellow his fellow gbs?

" i think that a legitimate question and offer no answer but just use your imagination as if this thing led them to make a run to the opposition to rat on others to get a lighter sentence.. hey i'm thinking about man's powerful desire to save one's own skin at the expense of his loyal companion..

smiddy3

Think of the Roman Catholic Church how many lawsuits of child sexual abuse all over the world have been filed against them in the last Century ? How many priests /clergy and lay people have been charged and convicted ?of such crimes ?

Actually you can go back centuries with sex/child and otherwise scandals Nuns/Priests etc and they are still a thriving organization today.

Jehovah`s Witnesses pale into insignificance considering the numbers and multiple offences committed by priests of the R.C.Church

Now I ask you is the R.C.Church in financial trouble around the earth because of it ?Ready to collapse ?

I don`t think so ,and neither will the WT Society be in such trouble being such an insignificant small sect of Christendom.

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Family Insists on Having Relationship with My Child -_-

by Cimarrona in

hi gang, i'm a single mother of an 8 month old baby boy.

i've been df'd for over six years now.

my parents are super dubs and most of my siblings are dubs (on paper - a couple have been inactive my entire life but still claim to believe) with the exception of a brother who was never baptized.

smiddy3

And above all beware of the "Theocratic Warfare Strategy" which includes withholding information from you that could influence your decision or allowing you to believe something implied but not actually stated to also give you a false impression.

Don`t be sucked in

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Russia is Smart

by Kohanic in

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhnseocpffq.

so according to the law department's meeting in feb 2016, russia has been studying the linguistics of the watchtower articles and discovered its brainwashing abilities!.

lol it's funny now that i'm on the russian side of this debate now, ban them all!.

smiddy3

Kohanic / Drearyweather `s interchange of points of view and the way they resolved their apparent differences is one of the things I love about this site .

I think we could all take a lesson from how they handled their differences and resolved it amicably.

Thanks guys you may not have intended it to be a lesson in how mature adults handle problems. however to me it was.

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"ah yes Dad, do you mean those times when Jehovah made those mistakes and errors?"

by stuckinarut2 in

so...while chatting with my ultra "spiritual elder" father on the phone this afternoon, i couldn't resist using that line!.

i had sent him that video of the recent convention showing brothers and sisters dancing to the "kingdom song" and waving their illuminated phones and arms in the air like some sort of revival church concert.

(perhaps someone can post that link to that thread again here?).

smiddy3

I feel your frustration stuck they just cant seem to bring themselves to the obvious conclusion. Hopefully what you have said will make him think ,their have been a lot more people posting here that were in the religion for many years and are now advanced in age so their is always hope I guess.

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Why do ex-JW's talk so much about being ex-JW's?

by Sour Grapes in

is it because we were in the cult watchtower compound that we talk about being ex-jw's when we stop being active?

i have never heard anyone say that i was an ex-catholic or an ex-lutheran or an ex-baptist.

they just stop going to their church and don't talk about it.. years after not stepping inside a kingdom hell, many of us still have to talk about being ex-jw's.

smiddy3

I think stuck has hit the nail on the head ,with mainstream religions their are no repercussions for stop attending their church ,not so with the JW`s.they have to destroy all relationships you had with family and friends .

Their not happy unless they victimize you .

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Silly Bible Stories we once believed

by RULES & REGULATIONS in

these bible stories are too silly to be true.

take off your rose colored glasses and you will begin to see some great imagination, exaggeration and great story telling!.

telling !.

smiddy3

Jesus resurrecting the dead and they died again ? ( remember that the wages of sin is death so once you have died that penalty is paid )

So why did they die again ?

Jesus walking on water ?

An axe head floating on top of the water ? {Whats that got to do with anything }

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Hello from Scotland - it has been ages....

by The Scotsman in

jw
friends

well how the devil is everyone?

i have not been here for a long time........totally lost track of what is going on in jw land, apart from the little bits i hear from family members still in.

(they say everything is swell and that armageddon is just round the corner).... :).was hearing that anniesland congregation in glasgow has been (or is about to be) disbanded.

smiddy3

Glad to meet your acquaintance Scotsman from OZ .JW`s have gone weirdo these past few years .

You wouldn`t recognise the religion you once belonged to.

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Avoiding Service Tips?

by Kohanic in

back again!.

so as i'm still pimo and living under my parent's roof, how can i get out of service?

cause i really don't want to go and i feel dirty just knowing i could be influencing someone into this garbage..

smiddy3

just say you are going on return visits and that your interested folk do not want anybody else to call on them so you have to go alone .

And then do whatever grabs your fancy

I knew an Elder who got away with that for years ,no he wasn`t an apostate he just hated doing D2D work.

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Evolution doesn't happen today...WRONG...

by HowTheBibleWasCreated in

last year i had a brother tell me that one proof evolution is false is that he doesn't see it happening today... i was going to bring of viruses evolving so fast that new vaccines must be developed each year but felt he was too closed minded to receive it.

today i was listening to the audio book of 'an ancestors tale- richard dawkins' and noted oe point that shined through.. here is evolution happening>>>.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/library/05/2/l_052_05.html.

smiddy3

What do creationists as well as those who believe in Creation not to confuse the two believe how or why we have a creature in Australia called the Platypus ?

Did God get his DNA mixed up ?

or is it a product of evolution ?

Or is their an alternative solution ?