20yearfader

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  Why Does this super smart Bible God not perform miracles

  by confusedandalone in

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  let's be serious - if you really want people to have faith and to be able to now absolute truth why not perform miracles.

  why not make the bible a blank book and when you open it, it addresses you personally in writing of course.

  for instance it says, "hey confusedandalone this is what i need you to do.

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  20yearfader

  you sound the same way i use to think when i was in the org.I use to always say why doesnt god just speak to the whole world that way it would remove all doubt as to weather he is real or not.I always got the standard you must not put god to the test answer,but look at it this way if he spoke to the world that would greatly reduce the ones that would be in line for destruction doing the big A.At this point i no longer care if god exist or not it's obvious he doesn't care about us.No way a heavenly parent and that's the best example i have would allow so much suffering and misery just to prove someone wrong,and why did we get holding the bag we didnt question his authority,that's something i could never wrap my mind around as a jw it makes little or no sense,just like using men to write your word.
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  Goodbye JWD/JWN (my last post)

  by slimboyfat in

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  after some considerable thought i have decided that i will no longer post on this forum because i want to return to jehovah.

  thank you for all the kindness and many interesting discussions over the years.

  i wish you all well in the future and the decisions you make.

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  you can go back but you will never be happy,you know too much hell at the age of 7 i knew too much or rather had questions that they couldn't answer.Going back is like a person making the decision to switch off their brain in order to follow the herd again,return to that for me NEVER! but if it works for you then have fun
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  Gay MS??

  by andysmiles in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  about me, i am being raised in a jw family.

  all of my family expect for one aunt, who had left but not disfellowedshiped thankly, are in jw.

  my father is an elder and so is my grandfather.

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  20yearfader

  hey andy and welcome.
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  Why were we so fortunate to escape clutches of the WT?

  by jam in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  when i came out i knew of very few ex-jw's.

  for years i. question my decision.

  was i being selfish, couldn't cut the.

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  i was always curious not accepting the crap that came from brooklyn no man can tell me who and who not to speak too what are we 5 years old.i use to watch a lot of national geo when i was a kid an they would find objects that were 10 k years old and i would always say that can't be right man has only been here for 6k years plus i hated hated field service.
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  I'm thinking about going back

  by Corboy101 in

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  i have been out for 22 years.i was raised as a jehovahs witness.

  i was baptized in 1986 but soon after left the religion.

  theres a whole lot to the reasons why i left, but i left.

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  i could never go back,as a born in the only thing drilled into my head was how the generation of 1914 wouldn't pass....now they have and even as a mind controled jw i always had serious questions that couldn't be answered.I look at the members in my family that are jws,they are the older ones i'm looking forward to this cult dying out of my family it has caused so much harm and pain and if you look at the ones in the hall compared to the rest of my family they appear odd compared to the rest of the family.
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  I missed a lot of TV over the last 30 years

  by sosoconfused in

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  2. entertainment

  since i have stopped attending meetings i have realized that there are alot of good t.v.

  shows that i have missed as well as channels that i would not watch because they would no doubt be in opposition to the scriptures(har har).. .

  i have been watching the history channel and the discovery channel so much over the last few months that it is amazing.

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  20yearfader

  i reccomend my all time favorite Dr.who on the bbc america and grim on nbc
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  Disassociating

  by Godsendconspirator in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  hey guys.

  don't really post here much, mostly just lurk around.

  so here's just backstory: in 2012, after about half a year of research i decided to leave the organization.

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  20yearfader

  i wouldn't send a letter just fade i've been fading for over 20 years....no problems no calls no visits,the added perks are i can go to my jw family weddings and funerals without the df or da recoil from the jws lol.Only had one problem from a jw that was released from prison that i grew up with saw him at my grandmother's funeral he spoke later i tried to frien d him on fb and he asked what was my status ..lol he did 15 years for murder an he was still better than me go figure
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  Who from JWN would you most like to have dinner with?

  by laverite in

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  2. friends

  if you could pick anyone from jwn to meet in real life to meet and have dinner with, who would that be?

  let's exclude all those who you are already friends with, who you know and love from jwn in real life.

  so or me, that excludes my friend ann and also curious butterfly.

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  it would have to outlaw and unstoppableraven outlaw because he missed his calling to be a comic and un because we both are raven fans
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  Do you think "Blondie" is addicted to reading Watchtowers and Awakes?

  by booker-t in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i remember when i was a "devout" jws i could not wait to get the new watchtowers and awakes from the wednesday nite theocratic ministry school.

  i would actually salivate thinking of the new information jehovah had in the magazines for us.

  i was "franatical" and i would go home still in my three piece suit and devour the magazines that very nite.

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  20yearfader

  i always look forward to blondie's post on the watchtower and i hope she will continue exposing the bs in them
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  Hello and my exit story from WTS

  by free2Bme13 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i thought it was fitting for me to share my freedom from the witnesses story on independence day weekend.. i dont have any secret info, just experiences that happened to me and started to open my eyes.. i was a third generation, raised in the truth kid who was never supposed to be born, and then never supposed to graduate high school.

  ive now been out of high school longer than i was in school.. the beginning of the end started a little less than a decade ago.

  i was late 20s at the time.

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  20yearfader

  welcome free the COs you describe sound just like the ones we had when i was a kid in the org.Never understood how someone that really has nothing but the kindess of the cong could come in and talk so much crap to people,also that CO that was in salvadore i would have told him that doesn't impress me try speading the good news in a muslim country and tell me it was a calk walk i bet that will be the last we every hear of him.The issue of shunning relatives never sit well with me either.As a kid i always made an effort to speak to my dfed aunts that use to come to the district convention knowing full well i would face the wrath of my parents funny i had more sense then them at such a young age.