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  I just want to say thank you

  by Sevan in

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  i've been gone for a while doing other research, checking out other forums.. this forum is the first place i went when i very first started waking up and i just want to say thank you.

  from the bottom of my heart thank you.. you guys were so helpful, so kind and so supportive.

  you guys got me and were there for me when my whole world was crashing in on me.

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  Anyway, I don't really want to get into a debate about religion or lack thereof. I just wanted to say thank you to everyone and let y'all know where I'm at. You do make a difference.
  

  Welcome back, and I'm glad to hear that you are in a better place in your spirituality. I do know that there have been debates and heated discussions about the theist/atheist thing. However, if you look at many other posts, they are about a large number of different topics.

  Reading your post helps me remember that once upon a time I was in a similar bad place; sometimes I forget that when some people who are starting to search for information come around.

  There's no need to get into a debate. Unlike the WT and any JW congregation, you are free to feel and believe whatever you want. That includes not answering questions you don't feel comfortable with if you feel it will take you to a "debate". No one here has to justify what they choose to believe, even when their believes are challenged.
  
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  Living with Your Parents Well Into Adulthood the Norm?

  by Sorry in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i don't want to seem like a jerk.

  i know full well economic times are not the greatest.

  there's no shame in struggling and staying with your family until you're back on your feet.

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  I personally believe you should stay with your parents until you're financially stable. Not the best idea to move out barely graduated from high school with little money resources. However, staying with your parents into your 30s and 40s isn't right either, especially if you're not even willing to obtain employment. I pray that is only my area and personal experience and not everywhere JW. Seems you never leave your parents unless you get married or they die. If you willingly leave on your own and get a job, you're the crazy one.
  

  They keep talking about "millennials" as if that generation is made of these exotic beings that are out of this planet. I mention this because every time someone talks about the younger generation, they come up with something along the lines of "this is the millennial generation", as if that explains everything, as if they are talking about a completely different breed.

  Yes, I notice that maybe due to both the culture of complacency and an unstable economy, more young adults are living with their parents with no real plans of leaving.

  However, although I agree that yes, people should make the move when they are somewhat solid about it, I don't think that should be the case all the time. In my messed up family, where my JW father was kicking me out every day and reminding me that nothing in that place was mine, that when my mom wasn't yelling at something or someone or having some kind of argument or tantrum, forced to go to the KH and preach, not to mention the difficult childhood I had thanks to them, the rest of the family, the JWs and the mediocre public school system I had to deal with, I think it was quite a good idea to leave as soon as possible and think about financial stability later.

  The reality is that home is not necessarily a refuge or a safe place for everyone. And that goes beyond social status.

  I agree with you, but only in those homes where people feel welcome, nurtured and safe.
  
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  If preachers were serious and open-minded

  by anointed1 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  if preachers were serious and open-minded, they could have seen themselves as the object of mathew 7:22-23 “many will say to me on that day, ‘lord, lord, did we not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out demons and in your name perform many miracles?’ then i will tell them plainly, ‘i never knew you.

  away from me, you men of lawlessness!”.

  people who operate in the name of jesus doing things such as preaching, casting out demons, or performing many miracles are called “men of lawlessness” (or “evildoers” in other translations) by jesus himself.

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  If preachers were serious and open-minded, they wouldn't be preachers.
  
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  The December Broadcast... OMG- what the heck was that?

  by Sliced in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  "of course not- we want to eat from clean dishes!

  dishes that have been cleaned thoroughly inside and out.

  " we have to be sure the things entering our minds are clean... rejecting exciting fun stuff that features sex.

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  Slice, I meant it as a dirty joke.
  
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  El General on the December Broadcast

  by Sliced in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  please see google article on the brother franco who just pleaded to all young ones to stay close to jehovah and learn from his past mistakes on the december broadcast to see the real reason he left the music industry.

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/el_general.

  later career[edit].

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  I don't think that celebrities are very good at using their status to bring in more people to the WT. The WT as an entity is quite self-centered, making a big point that nobody but them should have the spotlight.

  Good luck to "El General", whatever, dude.
  
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  Straight from the horse's mouth - Jehovah's Witnesses are mentally diseased

  by evilApostate in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  many of you may remember the july, 2011 study edition watchtower magazine which stated that, "apostates are mentally diseased" ( http://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/2011524?q=mentally+diseased&p=par ).

  to jehovah's witnesses, anyone who leaves "the truth" is an apostate.

  the funny thing is that logically, anyone who teaches false doctrines is also an apostate.. according to the watchtower, anyone who listens to false teachers also classify as apostates (see http://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/1200000309?q=false+teachers&p=par ).

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  There are countless other predictions and doctrines which have proven to be false. Hence, we can rightfully say that Watchtower is a false teacher. Since anyone who follows a follows a false teacher is an apostate, then anyone who follows Watchtower's teachings is an apostate. And yes, according to Watchtower, Jehovah's Witnesses are apostates. By logical deduction we can conclude that Jehovah's Witnesses "are mentally diseased" - Straight from the horses mouth.
  

  I agree, but can't help but wonder why still playing by their rules. Why using their language? Why still defining things by their own terms? I wouldn't call them mentally diseased, I'd call them full of --it.
  
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  This could prove to be awkward!

  by Thisismein1972 in

  1. social
  2. humour

  imagine noting the not at homes down in this village.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/fucking%2c_austria?wprov=sfla1.

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  I forgot:
  
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  This could prove to be awkward!

  by Thisismein1972 in

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  imagine noting the not at homes down in this village.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/fucking%2c_austria?wprov=sfla1.

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  We in the state of Pennsylvania are more polite:

  
  
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  WELL BEARDS ARE STILL A NO NO!!!!!!

  by DwainBowman in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  well beards are still a no no!!!!!!.

  in a new letter from the branch/gb nut's, beards are not acceptable in the us branch area!!!!!!.

  my eldub brother in law, shared this today.

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  Just how dumb can they be!!!!!!
  

  Please tell me you also notice other things?
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  Article: A Look at Canada's 12 Most Wanted Fugitives (Look who is #2)

  by AndersonsInfo in

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  2. friends

  http://www.vice.com/en_ca/read/a-look-at-canadas-12-most-wanted-fugitives.

  december 6, 2016. by sam cooley.

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  He may be safe in some congregation.