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  A 17 Year Old's Journey To Freedom

  by DLou278 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  hey guys!

  i have written an article on my exit from the watchtower.

  i am 17 years old and leaving has been the best decision that i have ever made.

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  TheOldHippie

  Welcome back when you are 67 and know A BIT more ..................................
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  United States baptism stats 1969-2015

  by the comet in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  whenever the new yearbooks come out, we all look at the figures and see the publisher increase never really matches up with the baptism figures.

  it never should match up as all newly baptized ones are already publishers, and may have been for many years.

  i, as an example, became an unbaptized publisher at age 11. i didn't get baptized until i was 17. .

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  TheOldHippie

  There is no reason why you should try to make the death rate so complicated. 1 % is a common rule when it comes to larger population groups. To make it simple and not having to look at the age groups and different "racial" groups, just stick to the 1 % rule. Each year, deduct 1 %. Some years ago, it was stated 1 % was df'ed each year and 2 % left. The problem with these two latter groups, of course is that up to half of them return. So using them in the calculations is tricky - but then, these are the ones you want to find the size of, so just use the 1 % death rate and you will get there.
  
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  What's up with the HEBREWS translation?

  by TTWSYF in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  this book states in verse 8 chapter 1 that the father calls jesus god.

  the nwt is very different.

  i wonder which one is the most accurate?.

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  TheOldHippie

  "What there isn't is any accolades from Professor so and so from Harvard or Princeton or Yale or any other scholarly source."

  Who, regretfully, can be quite as biased as Bill and Tim and Dan. Being a professor from Harvard and at the same time chairman of the board of the XXX Bible translation committee at times makes it plain where the mental attachment is.
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  Living Through the Brief Liberalization of Jehovah's Witnesses, Never Recovering

  by TMS in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  with the book crisis of conscience detailing the turbulence at bethel during the early to mid 70's, the transformation from autocratic rule to governance by committee or a body of men, many of us can speak to how that felt among the rank and file of the local congregations during those years.

  we learned new concepts based in large part to research done for the aid to bible understanding volume, then we were asked or coerced into unlearning those principles, going back to the old ways.

  some of us never readjusted, finding ourselves very different from our more hardline compadres.. the inertia for the changes that eventually were initiated in the congregations came from the discovery that the greek words episkopos and presbyteros were used biblically to refer to all qualified men in a congregation, not just one.

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  TheOldHippie

  I remember the kind of people who joined during that period – in the congregations in my area we welcomed a couple of medical doctors, a couple of pharmacists, quite a few artists – painters, singer/songwriters – many educated people, a couple of lawyers – one of them well-known – one scientist, political interested people, some from the hippie movement.

  Now the majority seems to come from among the poorer and vulnerable layers of society.
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  Dear Jehovah's witnesses, a question....

  by punkofnice in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  dear jehovah's witnesses and on-the-fencers.. isn't it even a little bit obvious that the watchtower organisation doesn't have jehovah's blessing?.

  if it did, why are your leaders, the governing body, asking you for your money and assets?

  surely, jehovah would provide for the organisation without having to use your hard earned money and assets?.

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  TheOldHippie

  Surely, Jehovah would provide for the organisation without having to use your hard earned money and assets?

  How? By miraculously printing money or making the staff never feeling hungry, by letting their clothes and shoes never be worn like in Sinai? By making companies suddenly feel the urge to give materials away for free? What is the alternative to letting the JW community come with their assests?
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  Are the 2015 Belgium Concert for Delegates and Kingdom Hall Cowboy Footloose Videos on Youtube for real?

  by Maryo in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oo0fxyk4iba.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qxdgtaskfm.

  i find these shocking.

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  TheOldHippie

  Funny to see how some are "more Catholic than the Pope"
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  Larry

  by Wild_Thing in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  in the congregation where i grew up, the witnesses converted this 20-something young man.

  he was very strange, lived in a very shady apartment, and he couldn't afford a car, so he rode his bike around the whole area, which was very strange for our rural part of the country.

  according to larry, he came from quite a wealthy family in the country he was from.

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  TheOldHippie

  Like a modern version of Hesse's "Steppenwolf".

  I truly enjoyed the story, and like you wonder where he is now, wonder along which roads or paths he is riding his bike, what stories he is telling .................
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  S.A.D. Observations from the assembly.

  by Darkknight757 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so we had brother losch visiting our special assembly day which was weird in itself.

  he's not a very good speaker and seemed like he was in dire need of a nap or something.. anyways just a few observations from the assembly program.

  theme: imitate their faith.

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  TheOldHippie

  

  Barrold Bonds 9 hours ago

  I don't know why they send him around to give talks in the US. You can barely understand his English.

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  Yeah. Send all the foreigners home. Let us get that good, old racist society back.
  
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  Fishing and JW's???

  by lurkernomore in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so i was just reading a thread and came across a completely new jw 'rule', that of not being allowed to go fishing!..

  at least it's new to me as i always enjoyed fishing as did others in my old congregation.

  anyone else heard of this or had this imposed on them in they're jw lives?.

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  TheOldHippie

  Please do not believe everything you are told. This is just plain old-fashioned stupidity.
  
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  My First post

  by Simple Minds in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i have been lurking on this site for 3 years and this is my fist post.

  i would like to thank everyone for helping me wake up.

  i was baptized at 24, married at 25, ms for 18 years mentally in for 24 years but started to wake up 3 years ago doing research to give public talks, and the actions of arrogant and narcissistic brothers and sisters did not help.

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  TheOldHippie

  How sad you did not seek professional medical help in time, and did not cut off those "100 % perfectionism" thoughts of yours, and in stead allowed yourself to drift too far off. Really sad reading indeed.