Posts by Newly Enlightened

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HA! Take that Watchtower! One less Borg for you!!!!!

by Gojira_101 in

jw
friends

last week a friend of mine contacted me out of the blue asking if we could have lunch together.

my friend has been studing with the jw's on and off for about 11-12 years i think.

she has told me everytime i see her that she can't wait for jehovah to end this evil world...she can't wait for the new system...the end is so close....etc.. i sent her a message back telling her that i left the jw's and asked her if she had heard that.

Newly Enlightened

Proud of you Sweetie. Keep up the good work!

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WT SHUNNING POLICY: What has it done, or could it do to you?

by flipper in

jw
friends

hi y'all, this is mrs. flipper.

please share your experiences with this, or possible consequences of being outed.. this recent controversy and resulting arguments all stem from people being outed - possibly losing friends and family because most jw's will blindly follow the watchtower's rules to shun them.. among people i know and experiences read here, the grief and loss caused by this is terrible, and maybe now is a good time to put up some experiences here, and put the focus on the worst villians of all - wt policymakers..

Newly Enlightened

Just because we've made a few comments and showed family members right from the WT literature they feel that we've developed an independent 'spirit' and no longer wish to be JW's and are shunning us. My Mom has not called me in 6 months and when I tried e-mailing her, my sister answered me and said not to contact them ever again.

So I agree, it's WT stupid policy and when you see the 1947 Awake 1/8 pg 27 It makes it look even more ridiculous.

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What is your experience when you stop turning in time?

by gingerbread in

for the past year or so, i've been turning in just one or two hours of service time.

it has been mentioned to me from an elder "friend" that i'm never seen at any meetings for field service.

i get his implication.

Newly Enlightened

ADCMS is correct. In our case, the elder did call the next 2 months and I finally told him, why should I go out in service and count time when you can't even get me my magazines to place. That shut him up, but then nothing ever since. I even e-mailed his wife [our cousin] and she can't even answer my emails now.

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Saw this and had to share

by ItsMyLife in

jw
friends

i intend no offence to those who have a firm belief in god.

i myself am currently on the fence.. http://i.imgur.com/9gajkpy.jpg.

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Newly Enlightened

I know it's difficult to see all these atrocities going on.

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I just feel alone

by joe134cd in

i just feel isolated and tired of the situation i am in.

no witness visits, and this just makes me even more spiritually lethargic..

Newly Enlightened

Hey Joe, You're not alone, we're here for you.

JW's only have conditional love. They will only associate with you if you are in the same box they are in. Itsy bitsy is right. Archeology & history is a great place to start.

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Snippet from Instructions for Credit Card Donations at Circuit Events

by Splash in

thought this was a clever little ruse.. it's on page 11 of the instructions booklet.. .

the refund function is used to reverse a credit card transaction after it has been settled.. the refund function has been disabled.

any donor whose debit or credit transaction.

Newly Enlightened

WOW! And I'm sure it will take them at least 6 months to get it refunded

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Are we all missing the true 'MARK' of the Wild Beast?

by Newly Enlightened in

disclaimer: hubby & i have been watching a 5 dvd documentary on the 'secret's of the founding father's' we're not sure if we believe everything they talk about but here is some interesting things to think about..... revelation mentions that the 'mark' would either be on the forehead, [for everyone to see] or, on the right hand [if you make a fist, it is hidden] rev also says that no one can buy or sell without this mark.

the wtbt$ isn't too clear on what they believe that mark is, so.... what is one thing that we cannot buy or sell without?.

money!.

Newly Enlightened

gnat: DID you even read your article posted above THOROUGHLY???? Here's a quote from it:

"" In a paper last year, two economists estimated that 18 percent to 19 percent of income nationwide is not reported to the Internal Revenue Service. "The estimated $2 trillion of unreported income gives rise to and annual tax gap of $450 billion to $500 billion," wrote Richard Cebula, a professor of finance at Jacksonville University in Florida, and Edgar Feige, a professor of economics at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

The underground economy runs on cash , which can't be traced....."

Anyone professing to be a Christian, would remember Jesus words, "Pay Caesar's things to Caesar..." It's very clear in this underground economy, Caesar is not getting paid his due tax, which puts the 'professed' Christian at odds against Christ and open for the government to come in and fine you for back taxes.

And I don't know how things work in Canada, but here in the U.S if you don't pay your property taxes, with CASH, the government TAKES your property and sells it for the back taxes due. When we sell items on Ebay, if we do not pay our sales tax to our state government then they take away our business license and fine us.

So truly, we are not free to use the barter system freely like you think we are. Most of that Bartering system is the Black Market as *Lost* so plainly explained it.

IT IS ILLEGAL!!!!

43

Are we all missing the true 'MARK' of the Wild Beast?

by Newly Enlightened in

disclaimer: hubby & i have been watching a 5 dvd documentary on the 'secret's of the founding father's' we're not sure if we believe everything they talk about but here is some interesting things to think about..... revelation mentions that the 'mark' would either be on the forehead, [for everyone to see] or, on the right hand [if you make a fist, it is hidden] rev also says that no one can buy or sell without this mark.

the wtbt$ isn't too clear on what they believe that mark is, so.... what is one thing that we cannot buy or sell without?.

money!.

Newly Enlightened

Here in the U.S Santeria is getting more well known: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santeria

But like you said VooDoo is real big down in New Orleans.

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Are we all missing the true 'MARK' of the Wild Beast?

by Newly Enlightened in

disclaimer: hubby & i have been watching a 5 dvd documentary on the 'secret's of the founding father's' we're not sure if we believe everything they talk about but here is some interesting things to think about..... revelation mentions that the 'mark' would either be on the forehead, [for everyone to see] or, on the right hand [if you make a fist, it is hidden] rev also says that no one can buy or sell without this mark.

the wtbt$ isn't too clear on what they believe that mark is, so.... what is one thing that we cannot buy or sell without?.

money!.

Newly Enlightened

Exactly. But I think a lot of people forget this, "The ENTIRE world is lying in the power of the wicked one". If Satan didn't have control of these 'entities' then how could he offer them to Jesus if he did an act of worship to him?

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The 24 Elders in Revelation are NOT the anointed......

by EndofMysteries in

today i just thought of this.

i had written a thread about the false teaching of the anointed being resurrected already.

anyway, the wt assumes the 24 elders in revelation are the 144,000, and the assumption is merely because both sit on thrones.

Newly Enlightened

I found the reference in my IDB, they're claiming that Duet 34:10 is the reason for his status, but they do state that all of this regarding Moses is 'retrojection', in identifying Moses as a prophet. Other references include: Num 12:4, Duet 18:18