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  Are you angry for having been a JW?

  by Half banana in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i remember seeing the ex-jws parading around outside the assembly like lepers holding placards of hate.

  we were the righteous and enlightened ones... and they were lost in outer darkness.

  just dont look at them was the standard response to their unwelcome presence..

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  I don't feel that my life has been seriously hampered by having been raised as a Witness. Would I have made different choices? In some cases, yes. But I also realize that I must own my own choices instead of blaming others for everything. What I'm often angry for is the WASTED TIME and being LIED TO. Those are the things that make me angry the most. Then, historical carelessness of the Organization towards the lives of the rank and file makes me think of the leadership as criminals. Finally, the blatant ignorance and blind intolerance of most Witnesses gets to my nerves.

  But I also realize that dwelling in anger is only detrimental to ME and not to THEM, and displaying anger only reinforces their complex of persecution and their conditioned response to apostates. As others have said, let the media and the secular authorities chastise them and make their life difficult. My militancy against them will be limited to generate awareness about how harmful is this cult. But NEVER, EVER, display anger towards the JW people or bully them. That's completely off limits to me.

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  BBC interview about 1975 - never heard this before..

  by defender of truth in

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  2. beliefs

  for any lurkers who don't believe the watchtower taught that the world would end in 1975... rare jehovah's witnesses 1968 interview "armageddon and 1975" london watchtower rep speaks to bbc.

  http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=npmt-ml-m-g. --------.

  but where will this system of things be by that time?

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  SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT re: Riley Trust Tobacco Compan Stock & WTS

  by Oroborus21 in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  i have no interest in pontificating on this matter which to me seems so straightforward.

  however, since i continue to see newbies and others periodically post in error stating that the wts "owns" tobacco company stock i believe that this should be corrected and the matter put to rest, hopefully for good.. .

  facts:.

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  I would add something to this very old thread.

  Even the wicked Pharisees refused to accept the 30 coins that Judas wanted to return into the Temple's treasury, because it was money tainted with blood .

  How much more, then, should the sanctimonious self-styled 'God's sole mouthpiece on earth' - The Watchtower Society - refuse contributions from a fund that invests in shares of corporations that deal with tobacco and weapons, who are directly responsable for thousands of unnecessary deaths every year?

  
  

  Is it so hard to spot the blatant hypocrisy here?

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  The WTS invests in military industries?

  by Achille in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  what do you think of this document?

  the wts invests in military industries?.

  https://app.box.com/s/bwgbd3759t49wskwwdpo8lsgeu1rw5fc .

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  Participate In The EX-JW Personality Test!

  by C0ntr013r in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  first of all; i must admit that i'm not a huge fan of putting people in boxes like this, it is not an exact science.

  but i still think the data can be quite interesting and i intend to collect it and share it in a structured way with you guys.

  so without future ado here are the details.. link to test: .

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  Oh heck, I only now realized that the results of the two tests were different.

  On the 16personalities one I got INTP

  On the human metrics one I got INTJ

  What now? Is there a way to untie?

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  Participate In The EX-JW Personality Test!

  by C0ntr013r in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  first of all; i must admit that i'm not a huge fan of putting people in boxes like this, it is not an exact science.

  but i still think the data can be quite interesting and i intend to collect it and share it in a structured way with you guys.

  so without future ado here are the details.. link to test: .

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  Mrs. Eden's results: ENFJ

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  New light from GB member David Splane!

  by Island Man in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  in the latest jw broadcast splane is quoted as saying:.

  "suppose there was a man who died 10 minutes before joseph was born.

  would he be part of joseph's generation?

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  LOL you just can't make this stuff up, can you?
  

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  Participate In The EX-JW Personality Test!

  by C0ntr013r in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  first of all; i must admit that i'm not a huge fan of putting people in boxes like this, it is not an exact science.

  but i still think the data can be quite interesting and i intend to collect it and share it in a structured way with you guys.

  so without future ado here are the details.. link to test: .

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  EdenOne

  I tried D15's website for control and the results were the same: INTJ

  INTJ

  Introvert(12%) iNtuitive(47%) Thinking(34%) Judging(12%)

  • You have slight preference of Introversion over Extraversion (12%)
  • You have moderate preference of Intuition over Sensing (47%)
  • You have moderate preference of Thinking over Feeling (34%)
  • You have slight preference of Judging over Perceiving (12%)
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  Geoffrey Jackson's Golden Apple watch INVESTIGATED

  by C0ntr013r in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  i went through the original footage to get a good look at the watch.. from these pictures we can probably say that it is a apple watch and that it has a golden color.

  the color on the pin is black, and the band is white, grey, silvery or beige.. .

  the pin is in the exact place for it to be a apple watch.. only apple watch edition have the gold color.

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  EdenOne

  Back in the early 1990's I heard a talk by our CO that told an experience that went more or less like this:

  In a certain congregation in a poor neighborhood a brother who owned a manufacturing business bought a very expensive car. Nothing necessarily wrong with that, said the CO, except the brothers at the congregation were uncomfortable with that display of "materialism". So what did the good brother do? In order not to stumble his brethren, he sold the expensive car, and instead bought a much more humble, small, second-hand car. That way, the peace of the congregation was preserved and no one had any more cause to stumble.

  Boy, are we removed from those days, aren't we?

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  Participate In The EX-JW Personality Test!

  by C0ntr013r in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  first of all; i must admit that i'm not a huge fan of putting people in boxes like this, it is not an exact science.

  but i still think the data can be quite interesting and i intend to collect it and share it in a structured way with you guys.

  so without future ado here are the details.. link to test: .

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  EdenOne

  INTP here.

  Eden