Posts by speargrass55

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Just joined

by Gojira_101 in

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.

speargrass55

Welcome. Enjoy your freedom. Pay your aunt no attention. She ain't worth it.

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

by Ding in

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?.

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

by Ding in

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?.

My family read 2 to 3 chapters of the Bible every morning before the daily text. That lead me how fight withmy mom on the way back from meeting when I heard something which wasn't supported by the Bible eg discouraging higher education, marriage to non witnesses etc.

From example from bible reading we learned that Jacob, David, Samson, Ruth, rahab's husband, Esther, Lois, Eunice the list is endless. All the above married non isrealites. That's stuff that preteen me, learned from bible readings and used to battle out with mybmom. I'm glad I'm out.

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Prayers

by Borges in

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

speargrass55

Personally I have come to realize witnesses don't know how to pray. How can the GB neglect such an important aspect of worship? I want to think it's because they don't know how to pray. Do you all know there is an art and science of praying? It is found in the Bible and has nothing whatsoever to do with religion.

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Your earliest doubt?

by Apognophos in

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).

speargrass55

my first doubts were on higher education. i was about 12. Talk given by a C.O. I remember fighting with my mom all the way home Every morning before the days text we did our family bible reading, so by that time we'd covered the time many times. I reasoned that if God reallycondemned higher education we would have run into it at least once in our bible reading. Then the creation story, noah, jonah etc.

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What does perfection mean?

by speargrass55 in

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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.

speargrass55

you raised a good point cobaltcupcake. Things is all material things age. Man, animals, plants, rivers, mountains, planets, stars all material things which have a begining do have an expiry date. so yeah, this inherited sin and death theorem makes no sense.

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

by stuckinlimbo in

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?.

speargrass55

someone give me the relevant scriptures

- these people honors me with their lips but their hearts are far removed from me. it is in vain they keep worshipping me because they teach commands of men as doctrines.

- the pharisees burden my people with heavy loads yet are unwilling to lift a finger to help them.

The Right to Family life is a fundamental human right. Seriously this df thing is despicable. it is psycholohical and emotional torture which again are violations of basic human rights.

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What does perfection mean?

by speargrass55 in

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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.

speargrass55

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. The Bible says we are six thousand yrs old. I would like your opinion on what the world was like from its formation till when man was condemned. Is it just man that is condemned or the whole earth? Is this condemnation restricted to earth or does it extend to mars, Jupiter etc. And since dinosaurs lived before the condemnation, how do they fit into the picture?

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New Here

by FingersCrossed in

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!.

speargrass55

Thnx Fernando and Retrovirus.

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New Here

by FingersCrossed in

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!.

speargrass55

Hi everyone,

I too am new here. Born a jw never got baptized. My family and childhood friends are still in and very zealous. In my teens started having doubts, the whole truth thing made no sense to me. I'll give you guys examples

The creation story, Adam and eve

Noah and his ark

How bloodthirsty the isrealites god was and how starkly he contacted with the God in the Greek scriptures. A couple of weeks later I was mentioned during the local needs part of the series ice meeting. Not by name but we all know ew who the talk was about.

I majored in physical sciences in university and cannot understand the society's obsession with higher education. Forgetting that the technology and logistics employed in making and distributing literature, lawyers who defend them, latest developments in bloodless medicine research are all products of higher education. All that without even going into the constantly changing truth. Sorry for the long intro, but that's me in a nutshell. Glad to have found you guys.