If you haven`t already read it HBF (sorry it sounds like a health fund ) I would recommend you purchase "Captives of A Concept" by Don Cameron an ex elder .,cheap as chips on line. LULU? and what about JW facts.com ?
smiddy3
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Hope someone does a documentary on JWs the same way Leah Remini did on Scientology
by HappyBlessedFree ini will be eternally grateful to leah remini for her docuseries on scientology.
it is what helped me to start waking up and seeing the org for what it is.
i remember thinking huh “they call it disconnecting, we do the same thing.
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No fun debating "imperfect" JWs
by Tantalon inwell that was no fun at all, just got a visit to invite me to the last supper memorial.
haven't had a call for a long long time.
i tried to engage them about following bible not watchtower, they just kept changing the subject as they have always done but this time every challenge was met with "we are not perfect,the slave is not perfect" and "we don't want to have a debate".
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smiddy3
Thanks for the prompt reply Tantalon and I appreciate your concern for us older folks LOL.
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What woke you up?
by HappyBlessedFree ini’m fairly new so i don’t know everyone’s backstory.
how did you realize the organization was false?.
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smiddy3
If i didn`t welcome you before HBF I do so now . With me and my family it was not any one thing but an accumulation of many things over the years that individually at the time didn`t mean much but all adds up overtime .
To the point you just can`t ignore it anymore and the penny drops .Somethings just not right and then you start to investigate a little bit more.
And Bingo the rosy coloured glasses fall off and the scales across my eyes fell off also and I/we saw the religion for what it really is .
My wife and I were in it for 33 years and brought our two sons up in it regrettably ,but thankfully we are all out now.
Take care .
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If shunning were no longer a JW policy, how many would leave the Org?
by HiddenPimo inadditionally - if this shunning rule was removed and everyone was made aware of the dirty secrets of the org.. (e.g.
csa-arc / un membership / malawi - mexico contrast / etc.).
would those leaving be higher?.
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the unofficial shunning of former JW who are neither DA or DF; they are shunned even though the rules don't strictly say JW must do that. Fundamentalist religionists think and act black and white, us vs them,
My DIL has been shunned by her parents and siblings for the past 15 years simply because she no longer attended the JW religion she was never DF or DA`d she just walked away from the religion
I say shame on them ,she is a lovely girl.and I`m proud of her and couldn`t ask for a better DiL.
I would be proud enough to call her my daughter .
And they say JW`s don`t break up family`s , I`ve got news for them .THEY DO .
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No fun debating "imperfect" JWs
by Tantalon inwell that was no fun at all, just got a visit to invite me to the last supper memorial.
haven't had a call for a long long time.
i tried to engage them about following bible not watchtower, they just kept changing the subject as they have always done but this time every challenge was met with "we are not perfect,the slave is not perfect" and "we don't want to have a debate".
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Tantalon , I`m just curious about what age bracket your callers were ? male or female ?
"we are not perfect,the slave is not perfect" and "we don't want to have a debate".
And they identify and call themselves Jehovah`s Witnesses ? pretty pathetic really .
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Bottlegate Revisited
by ZindagiNaMilegiDobaara inhilarious,enjoy.found on reddit.
this should set the mood for the weekend !.
zing.
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smiddy3
Very funny ,......though on the downside ,is that the GB/JW will discredit and deny the original and genuine clip of TPT buying 12 bottles of top shelf scotch.
And claim that is also photo-shopped , you will never get a JW to believe it now.
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The time periods of Daniel
by Leolaia inone of the most perplexing puzzles of daniel is the differing way the author referred to the length of time the rebuilt temple would be defiled during the persecution of antiochus epiphanes iv (175-163 bc).
historically, the period is known with some precision; the heathen altar (the "abomination of desolation" of daniel and 1 maccabees) was installed on 15 chislev 167 bc and the temple was rededicated on 25 chislev 164 bc -- a period of almost exactly 3 years (1 maccabees 1:57, 4:52).
the desolation of jerusalem however began some several months prior to this (cf.
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smiddy3
I thought I would bump this for the benefit of newbies and lurkers on here .
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National Siblings Day
by neat blue dog inas has been mentioned, jws on social media seem to go overboard for the whole sibling day bandwagon, like they're so thrilled to participate in a holiday of sorts that hasn't yet been explicitly forbid that it's pathetic.
so, it's okay to honor your brother and sister on a certain day, but it's wrong and pagan to honor your father and mother on a certain day, something that the bible specifically says to do?
has anybody ever called them out on this, or seen someone else do it?
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smiddy3
My mind boggles , Jehovah`s Witnesses actually engage in and celebrate National Siblings day ? my mind boggles.
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Advice from the WT regarding drinking alcohol.
by joey jojo injust posting these links for no particular reason :).
https://www.jw.org/en/bible-teachings/teenagers/whiteboard-animations/alcohol-think-past-drink/#?insight[search_id]=636e164a-d628-4c53-abb8-54b6c3767de6&insight[search_result_index]=2.
https://www.jw.org/en/bible-teachings/teenagers/ask/drinking-alcohol/#?insight[search_id]=863b31b6-ec9b-4c6d-b7a5-e7ee62b353c2&insight[search_result_index]=13.
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smiddy3
I`ll drink to that ,and maybe tight pants tony will join me in a drink or two or three.
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So I've been warned about whether I should reveal my feelings of a Deity
by HiddenPimo inall i have to say about that is that i agree with the following quote attributed to marcus aurelius:.
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smiddy3
To clarify my position if anybody cares is that :
If you want to believe in a GOD that`s your business and I have no right to ridicule you for that .
If I choose not to believe in a GOD that is my business and you can ridicule me or not all you like I don`t care .
Surely all of us can express opinions one way or another without getting into personal attacks on each other .
Just my 2 cents worth.
I hope your not put off with us here HiddenPimo with this thread we really are a great bunch of people with different views and many with a wealth of information ,so please stick around .