Posts by scratchme1010

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we have a laid off bethelite with an engineering degree!

by nowwhat? in

this guy have been at bethel for 25 years when he could have been making 75-100 thousand a year as an engineer.

so they kick him to the curb so they don't have to house him and his wife anymore.

they run into a problem at warwick and they ask him to come back for 3 weeks.

scratchme1010

How Can a guy with a college degree be so blind and stupid?!

Yet again, equating intelligence to brainwashing, confusing what a person knows with what a person feels.

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Are Jehovah's Witnesses a cult just as evil and dangerous as Islam?

by cookiemaster in

i know you might think i'm exaggerating but if you really think about it, maybe i'm not.

these two religions originate with the same ancient belief system.

islam is a dangerous middle eastern cult that seeks to control every aspect of its members' lives.

scratchme1010

I know you might think I'm exaggerating but if you really think about it, maybe I'm not.

Actually, you are exaggerating, especially all that nonsense about Islam.

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Awkward conversations of Governing Body Advisors - "Tony, you might what to take some time off, you're an asshole"

by jambon1 in

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friends

is there anyone who will just say it straight in bethel?.

"governing body members, you're embarrassing us with every broadcast.

".

scratchme1010

...my wife told me that even their clothes are washed separatly from the rest. Only special assigned sisters are allowed to do it.

Do they also have to wear sexy french maid outfits?

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Stonewalling and the Governing Body

by UnshackleTheChains in

why do the gb stonewall individuals with legitimate questions.

for example, they refuse to speak to investagative journalists like trey bundy, unless they happen to get caught somewhere walking about in the street by chance.. i remember the panorama documentary 'suffer the little children' where the presenter tried to arrange an interview with one of the gb.

i can't remember if the gb either refused or simply didn't reply.

scratchme1010

Why do the GB stonewall individuals with legitimate questions.

Because they are a cult and have things to hide. It's not in their best interest to be under scrutiny.

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Can the GB be directed by Holy Spirit and at the same time be not inspired ?

by Chook in

yes god directs our writings but they're not inspired, so gods directions are staggered and overlapping , so the genuine innocent believing jw has a wonderful life of overlapping bullshit.

so next time you meet a jw priest ask them what is the difference between being directed and inspired, then i promise you will hear first hand an example of overlapping bull..

scratchme1010

So next time you meet a JW priest ask them what is the difference between being directed and inspired, then I promise you will hear first hand an example of overlapping bull.

Nah, too much work. I just tell them to fuck off.

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Were You Surprised You Remained a JW As Long As You Did?

by minimus in

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we have been told there's no place else to go.

and to some degree mentally speaking, that is true especially if you were raised in the religion.

at 50 i was out of the organization's clutches.

scratchme1010

I'd say no. I left early in life, at 23. I was not depending on my parents since I was 19. 4 years after being independent from my parents and 5 years after reaching legal adulthood is not bad. One second is too much time in there, but considering that I was raised there, not bad.

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My 1 Year Update - I've Been Disfellowshipped One Year Today

by pale.emperor in

what a journey!.

it was a year ago today that i was announced from the platform by brother paul "twofaced" castley that i was "no longer one of jehovah's witnesses".

i didn't go to that meeting to hear the announcement because i already didn't believe the watchtower religion.. how was my first year?

scratchme1010

So there i was. An atheist. And guess what, life became so much simpler and less worrying with zero guilt for sleeping with a girl or not praying before i eat. Sometimes, even now, i get the urge to pray before im about to eat. So i look up the sky and jokingly say "Thanks Thor!"

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Are you a Christian Who Accepts Evolution?

by cofty in

if you identify as a christian but you have accepted that the diversity of life - including humans - resulted from a process of biological evolution could you add your name please?.

just to be clear i am referring to the fact that our physical lineage could literally be traced back all the way to non-human species.. if you like maybe you could comment on why you see not conflict between evolution and your christian faith.. there is a tendency to conflate evolution with atheism.

it would be good to show that this is not the case..

scratchme1010

I'm not a Christian, but I have a few Christian friends, one of which has PhD in Theology, and he believes in evolution.

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Comparing 1987 to 2017 --- cart witnessing

by pleaseresearch in

take a ride with me back to 1987. picture yourself in your town, or city centre.

remember the clothes people wore, the hairstyles etc.... now imagine yourself doing your ministry out on the street, engaging with people, speaking with them, striking up conversations.

now, how would you feel, and what would you say, if you noticed two people appear nearby with a cart.

scratchme1010

How would you back then, and how would other witnesses have reacted to the cart and this couples attempt at preaching?

Well, if it was me, in 1987 in was right in the middle of my fading, so since that year on I couldn't care less one way or another.

However, I still had the JW mindset in many things, so I would have been appalled if I saw that.

On the other hand, since I know that the WT is all nonsense, and I still can't care less about it, my position is "good for those JWs who have it easier now". At least they don't have to go through what some of us did.

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Another JW Urban Legend Thread

by Funchback in

threads about jw urban legends are nothing new on this forum.

they are loads of fun to read.

how many of you remember the one about the teenager who skipped the meeting and decided to get into a car with his worldly friends and they worldly guys decided to rob a store and the jw didn't know they were going to do so but he was arrested simply for being with them?.

scratchme1010

I also see some hate talk on these forums. Why the need to try so hard to prove Jehovah's Witnesses wrong or hate God for what the people in the religion have done to you. They are human too and are capable of misinterpreting the Bible.I believe God will make the misunderstandings come to light. We wouldn't want what we say to be misunderstood. I don't believe God will allow his words to be misspoken... I mean come on ... it's God. 😊... By the way I'm not a JW but I'm checking out religions and if the Bible is what we should follow and we need a group to follow the Bible with.. that's the only religion I have found that does just that.

What a party pooper!

This is a forum for EX-JWs. They are in different stages of leaving, staying or returning to the JWs. If you don't like what others have to say about them, just form your own. I don't like everything I read here, and I'm quite sure that there are plenty of members who hate my posts. That's just life in the Internet, period.

Why the need to try so hard to prove Jehovah's Witnesses wrong or hate God for what the people in the religion have done to you.

First, that's not everybody. I can't care less about what they say and them being right or wrong, period. I don't need to prove anything to them.

Second, there are people here who are in the process of realizing that they have made quite a few important life decisions based on the WT bullshit, and that's more than reason to be angry and therefore express how they feel. This may be the first time in their entire lives when they have the safe space to express how they feel, something that they were never allowed to express or even trust to feel while they were JWs. You are nobody to remove that from them.

They are human too and are capable of misinterpreting the Bible.I believe God will make the misunderstandings come to light. We wouldn't want what we say to be misunderstood.

Show me any JW admitting to that. Show me the WT or anyone in the GB publicly or openly admitting to saying or doing anything wrong. Even something as hideous as covering up for sexual abuse of children they fight in court. They don't even have the decency of doing anything about it. That's how their filthy minds think that they are right in everything.

No need to worry about what the WT says being misunderstood. We understand perfectly; we just treat is like the crap it is.

If you believe in your magic God to do great things, by all means. You have my support, I'll do everything in my power to defend and protect your right to do so.

I don't believe God will allow his words to be misspoken...

That said, so far seems like your God has done a very crappy job. Lawsuits? Scandals? Changing doctrines after letting people die? Continuously failing about when the end will come? That's a very mediocre God.

By the way I'm not a JW but I'm checking out religions and if the Bible is what we should follow and we need a group to follow the Bible with.. that's the only religion I have found that does just that

Then you're just talking out of your ass about what you don't know. Typical Christian. Go back to where you came from.