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  Advice from you to non jw

  by Salley in

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  i am not a jw, but know a jw family.

  seem very loving and happy.

  i have come to know the religion and have researched via this site,youtube, reddit etc.

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  smiddy3

  Welcome to the forum Salley as you say you are not and I presume never a JW is that right.?

  Shunning of any family member who has been baptized whether it is for leaving the religion or talking against the beliefs of the religion no matter how old you were when you were baptized 8-10 years old the same penalty applies .You are ostracized until you go through normally a year of grovelling to the elders in how repentant you are of your sin in questioning the Governing Body or committing some sin as smoking cigarettes .

  Suicide ? I have known a few who have committed suicide because of this religion and I will leave it up to others to fill you in on this sad aspect as I have been out more than 25 years now.
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  "Each year, this observance is the most amazing unifying event that takes place on planet earth." - Kim Jong-un

  by jwleaks in

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  smiddy3

  Catholics have Easter with over 1 billion members Earth wide celebrating along with the majority of Protestant Religions which number over 1 billion members also .

  And we have Jehovah`s Witnesses who have been preaching in all the inhabited Earth (gag) only in lands already witnessed to by Christendom whom they have poached from for about 140 years and only can muster up 18 million half of which do not and will not commit to the JW faith only going for family mainly and friends because of emotional blackmail.

  Correct me if I am wrong but I would hazard a guess that at least a third of the worlds population has never been witnessed to or even heard of Jehovah`s witnesses today in the year 2018

  So much for witnessing to the world or the ends of the earth.

  Not to mention all of the other Eastern Orthodox Religions ,Russian Orthodox Religions ,Polish National Catholics ,Greek Orthodox Religions and many many more
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  JWs line up to have Gov. Body members autograph bibles.

  by blownaway in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i was watching some of the videos on line and marc and cora had one where they said that after zone talks the gov body members would autograph bibles.

  anyone have any video of this?.

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  smiddy3

  Hero / Idol worship of brothers who were considered important in the circuits / assembly`s / conventions goes back a long long way .

  Nothing new here I had seen it often in my 33 years as a witness.

  And passed it off as immaturity of the publishers involved and not giving much thought as to how the recipients of such adoration were basking in their glory as objects of others adoration .
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  Today's Watchtower :Paragraph 5

  by jwdoctrine in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  1 cor 13:5:"keep testing whether you are in the faith; keep proving what you yourselves are.

  or do you not recognize that jesus christ is in union with you?

  by ‘testing whether we are in the faith.’ to do that, we do well to ask ourselves: ‘do i really believe that i am part of the only organization that jehovah has approved to accomplish his will?

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  By ‘testing whether we are in the faith.’ To do that, we do well to ask ourselves: ‘Do I really believe that I am part of the only organization that Jehovah has approved to accomplish his will?

  When Geoffrey Jackson the Australian Governing Body member was asked at the ARC into Institutional child Sexual Abuse about whether JW`s considered themselves as the only way God was dealing with humans ( or words to that effect )

  He said it would be presumptuous for him to say that ?

  Theocratic warfare ? or an outright lie under oath.
  
  
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  How do you deal with people who do not like you?

  by usualusername1 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  hi guysin the last year i have started to socialise a lot more.

  namely comedy and a tennis social club.. for a variety of reasons i find socialising tough.

  in my tennis club a couple of women have been extremely rude to me and i have blocked one from my phone and refuse to speak to both.. is my behaviour extreme?paul.

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  smiddy3

  As someone in the "truth" once said to me if anybody doesn`t want to know me or talk to me I take the upper hand that I don`t want to know them or associate with them , they have the problem not me.

  And I remain with a positive attitude in life.
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  Pondering the real numbers

  by Deltawave in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i was sat in the assembly hall yesterday, wondering how many pimo ones like me there was there.

  or even if they don't know ttatt still don't believe it for whatever reason.. i think there must be more of (us) there than we all realise.

  i mean, brothers reaching out is at an all time low, information via the internet is at an all time high and the preaching work has now become a motionless, speechless babysitting of a book shelf advertising a website as someone here pointed out!.

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  smiddy3

  I think it`s a lot easier in today`s world to learn TTATT and newbies and lurkers are finding it out a lot quicker than before the internet was invented.

  It took me quite a few years to get where I am today but it was certainly speeded up once I got on the internet and all the information that was forthcoming about JW`s in particular and about the Bible in general that I hadn`t thought about before .

  You guys were a Godsend and now I`m an atheist
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  My Dissociation letter

  by TJ Curioso in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  hi to everyone!i was summoned to the judicial committee and went.

  it was a respectful conversation from one side to the other.

  in the end i handed the dissociation letter in hand and a binding to each of the elders, with an article i wrote on the subject, "are jehovah's witnesses a destructive sect?

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  I think your letter was excellent well written from a christian viewpoint.Personally I have a problem with the name Jehovah in the Christian Greek Scriptures that you quote in your DA letter however.

  I would have made the point that the Tetragrammaton or the equivalent Greek letters representing the Tetragrammaton / name of God does not appear in the Greek text that the WTB&TS use for their basis of the NWT of the Greek Scriptures .

  See the Kingdom Interlinear Of The Christian Greek Scriptures a word for word translation of the Greek into English published by the WTB&TS .

  That name Jehovah / Yahweh nor any other name for God does not exist in the Greek text.

  None of the Bible writers of the Greek text use any name for God and even Jesus never used a personal name for God

  Jesus never uttered the word / name Jehovah and he certainly had more than one opportunity to do so had he thought it was of any importance.

  Just my 2 cents worth.
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  Digital Billboards and Anti Witnessing.

  by SnakesInTheTower in

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  2. friends

  just thinking out loud here.

  i drive a lot of miles for my job in the st. louis, missouri area.

  digital billboards popping up.

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  smiddy3

  Whats a digital billboard look like ? have they caught on here in Australia ?
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  Pedophile Elder Case in Warrensburg, NY 1982 - Nicholson

  by Seeker4 in

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  2. child-abuse

  i just came across a thread from 2002, (i'll link it here in the next post), about congregations in upstate ny, many that were with a vt circuit i was in for many years.

  in there i wrote the following about a infamous pedophile case involving an elder, don nicholson.

  here was part of one of my posts on that thread.

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  smiddy3

  Scherlemuch2tired

  Keep a look out in the top of your screen where the envelope is and if their is a number in it you will have a personal message just for you click on it to open it.

  I hope that helps.and good luck.
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  Circuit Overseer Meets with Elders and Ministerial Servants

  by accesible in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  ¿necesitan los demás bosquejos?.

  https://drive.google.com/open?id=1dvhuodkcahf6efu2xqxfk6o8ambqe5rm.

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  smiddy3

  Are their more pages than the 3 shown here ? as it doesn`t finish with the usual sign off ?