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  JW Parents getting... DIVORCED

  by raven in

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  2. experiences

  hello everyone!it has been quite some time since i've posted, but a lot has happened.

  i am still with my boyfriend (mentioned in my past and very first post!

  ) life is going well.

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  scratchme1010

  I'm glad to hear that you're doing well, and it seems like you're taking everything with good spirit. Happy to hear more, plus this is a great place to vent.

  Thank you for sharing. Who knows how many others may be going through similar situations.
  
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  Anyone interested in sending your name to Mars.

  by James Mixon in

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  2. friends

  nasa will upload the registered names to a dime-size chip and secure it to the insight lander deck, the last day to submit your name nov. 1st 2017.. enjoythesilence.today/2017/10/03/nasa-offers-program-send-your-name-mars/.

  yes i will send in my name and when i get to paradise i can tell those that are resurrected, you see that planet there my name is up there.i know it's hard to believe but our buddy adam didn't have a clue what was out there,the poor guy didn't realize there was a large village two miles down the road.. ok maybe i won't make it to paradise but a guy can dream crazy thoughts.....but seriously you can send your name to mars..

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  I'd prefer to take my name there myself. Thanks, interesting.
  
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  The Trinity Easily Explained in 29 Words

  by maccauk in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  a man can be a father .

  a man can be a son.

  a man can be a husband.

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  A man can be a father

  A man can be a son

  A man can be a husband

  He is the same man but three different aspects of him

  Who fucking cares.
  
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  EX Jehovah Witnesses Refuge Group a Place for Healing

  by maccauk in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  are you an ex jw or thinking about leaving the watchtower but still have faith in god.please join this new group to share your stories, hopes and fears and find support and healing.

  https://www.facebook.com/ex-jehovah-witness-refuge-468977380168882/about/.

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  Nice.
  
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  The Change

  by Counter-Watchtower in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  the change has begun.

  my jw friends that came to my house months ago finally have figured out i am in no way going to become a jw (how it took them that long i have no idea).

  now the change to them wanting to have nothing to do with me has begun.

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  A nice friend to the enemy. Not a very good Org model, makes the Org look bad.
  

  Or you just come across as a perfect jerk. JWs may not be the only ones.
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  THIS Is How JWs Feel About The Cut In Magazines And Content

  by pale.emperor in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i asked the question on quora "how do jehovah's witnesses feel about the announcement that the public edition of the watchtower and awake!

  magazine is being reduced to just 3 issues a year and the number of books, tracts, and online content are being discontinued?".

  https://www.quora.com/how-do-jehovahs-witnesses-feel-about-the-announcement-that-the-public-edition-of-the-watchtower-and-awake-magazine-is-being-reduced-to-just-3-issues-a-year-and-the-number-of-books-tracts-and-online-content-are-being-discontinued.

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  I know everything is been done for our own good
  

  That pretty much sums it up.

  Interesting experiment.
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  If WT are cutting back on mags will they also cut back on Bethelites?

  by truthseeker in

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  2. friends

  i was thinking after hearing about the agm cutbacks to the mags and other website content surely they will end up dismissing more bethelites?

  i would have thought in the old days, before the web, an artist or writer at bethel would have been a full time job making content for four 32 page mags a month.

  now what are these guys going to do?.

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  Maybe, if is suits their purpose, whichever it is.
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  Spiritual paradise is a heart condition and not connected to and ORG, that's what they said?

  by Crazyguy in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  according to a post over at reddit this was said at the annual meeting.

  did anyone else hear this?

  this is huge and very telling if they did actually say this.

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  I didn't but either way, to me the concept of spiritual paradise is the JW equivalent of a UFO coming to rescue us from Earth (that's from the Heaven's Gate cult).
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  AGM - Are they now teaching predestination?

  by Doubting Bro in

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  2. friends

  another agm thought.

  in tight pants tony's part, he mentioned several times that jehovah draws those he chooses and only those rightly disposed would come in.

  and individuals that liked the literature but made no progress towards becoming jw were a "waste of time".. was he setting the stage for them introducing the thought of predestination?

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  And next they will be talking about alien abductions. Personally I can't care less, maybe if I want to be amused at the crap they come up with and at the people who love following it.
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  Who has a harder time leaving JW's - Born Ins or those who converted?

  by HeyLittleGirl in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  my freind (who is also out) and i were talking about this the other night.

  i was a born-in, 3rd generation jw and she converted when she was in her late 20's.. when she left, she said that she knew the world wasn't as bad as she was told as a jw, so she knew she would be fine.

  also, she still had lots of "worldly" family who welcomed her back with open arms.. it was harder for me - i had nobody in the "world", no family or freinds.

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  I don;t think that that's the right approach to find out who has the harder time. I am born in, but in any way can I compare my process of leaving to those of other better families with better support.

  People's lives are different. People's positions in the congregation are different (i.e., even though we were raise the exact same way as JWs, the story of my heterosexual brother is quite different from mine and from my sister as a female; the three of those types of people are treated quite differently in the congregation).

  Also, people who have experienced life outside join the JWs for different reasons. You cannot compare a person who join to escape from abusing drugs and alcohol with a person who joins simply because they want to believe in something.

  Same thing for the process of leaving. I for once embraced my leaving and saw walking away from the Jehovah crap as the best thing that ever happened to me. Others leave full of fear of the uncertainty, sad and depressed from disappointing loved ones. Some who have something to go back to may have good things and people to return after leaving the JWs, others don't because the join looking for a better structure in their lives.

  It really is different from person to person.