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  SkyGreen is no longer one of Jehovahs Witnesses... Why?

  by SkyGreen in

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  2. friends

  wow it felt good to type that heading, if only it were officially true!.

  i guess i dont want to dwell on "ttatt" too much, though i am now an inactive jw now, and will be forever, i dont want to be defined by that.

  but i will certainly keep an eye on this forum, contribute where i feel i can, and i must say thankyou to those who moderate it and keep it running.

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  Another look at how the WBTS uses half truths to push garbage.

  by Defianttruth in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  http://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/102013047 .

  wow talk about a way to push your garbage.

  i can see it now the wbts is going to start taking their web pages down when people with open minds start picking apart what they write and openly publish for all to have this is only going to get better.

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  Just joined

  by Gojira_101 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  this is my first time posting on here.

  i've been inactive for 3 months now and my husband and i are going the fading way.

  i was born and raised in this religion and now after almost 30 years, they have taken most everything from me.

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  Prayers

  by Borges in

  1. jw
  2. friends

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  recently i was thinking about the prayers i used to say while i was a witness.. .

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  How Much Did You Actually Study the Bible as a JW?

  by Ding in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the wts says that people should read the bible daily, but did you really do that as a jw?.

  or were you kept so busy reading wt literature, attending meetings, and going door to door, that you basically had little time for the bible itself?.

  also, doesn't the wts teach that no one can understand the bible without "the slave" to teach its true meaning?.

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  What does perfection mean?

  by speargrass55 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i was reading the thread about inheriting condemnation from adam and eve.

  i would like your opinion on what was before that.

  we all know the earth is hundreds of millions of years old.

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  January 2013 warns parents to resist contact with df'd children again

  by stuckinlimbo in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  see page 15-16. full of "straw men" like:.

  * do not blame yourself it is the child that jehovah blames - parents do not care whose fault it is they just want their child not to be killed by god.

  * it is ok for parents to hope their df'd child returns - was anybody really asking if that was wrong?.

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  Your earliest doubt?

  by Apognophos in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  this might be an unfair question for those who have been out of the organization for decades, but i'm wondering if any of you remember your earliest doubt -- maybe something odd that occurred to you as a kid (if you were a jw then).

  please try to limit to two doubts at the most :-).

  i think my first "doubt" was simply realizing that at the time of the flood, every animal that wasn't in the ark died (well, besides the fish, supposedly).

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  New Here

  by FingersCrossed in

  1. social
  2. relationships

  i've been browsing and reading threads here for a while.

  i am never a jw, i am in a relationship with an inactive one, who in fact is in the middle (not knowing what to believe anymore).

  i have read some of the threads here about stories of those who have experience with jws and mostly ended up hurt but there also some who made it.. and some of the threads/info/works that you all have done here are really great!.

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  Where Are You From?

  by finallysomepride in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  alot of members don't have a flag or country name beside their user name, and well frequently one doesn't know where that particular person is from, tell us your country, state, county or what ever you feel like giving out.

  if you are going to post please at least devulge your country.. me, i'm originally from taranaki, new zealand via auckland.

  for the most of this decade i have been living & working in brisbane, queensland, australia.. .

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