Posts by newsheep

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Anti vaccines

by blisterfeet in

i personally feel that vaccinations are beneficial.

there has been a modern movement that vaccinations are more harmful than beneficial to which i disagree.

what is your stance as an ex jw on vaccinating your children?

As a child I ended up with red measles, german measles, chicken pox, mumps, whooping cough and roseola. Parents were dead against getting vaccines. Next time I'm at the docs I will ask if I can get these again or can adults still get the vaccines as to what they got as kids. Just curious. Our neighbor had gotten his flu shot and they didn't know what had caused his paralysis from head to toe. It was so bad they had to tape his eyes shut at night so they wouldn't dry out. In the end he ended up with Guillain-Barre syndrome. It wasn't until months and months later they connected his guillian-barre syndrome with the flu shot. He's highly allergic to the flu shot as he found out. Today he is back to normal but for sure you can get Guillain-Barre syndrome from it. The specialists told him he was very lucky that it started in his feet first and spread upwards. If the syndrome starts in the head and works down it could have killed him. He had also gotten an out of court pay settlement from the drug company

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/guillain-barre-syndrome/symptoms-causes/syc-20362793

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Religious experience

by rolliepollie in

have you had a religious experience, such as being saved, that made you beleive in a higher power?

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please share your experience..

newsheep

Yes, I was once a joho who was told we were the only ones that had the truth, the only ones that would make it out alive, the only ones that god chose as his organization here on earth, the only ones that would inherit his paradise on earth, the only ones that the 144,000 would come from and so on. So I guess that would make us saved, right??

But unlike most religions we didn't have to be treated like shit and threatened in order to be saved!!!

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Watchtower Study Edition - April 2019....Thank you for not doing enough in the field ministry

by RULES & REGULATIONS in

watchtower study edition- april 2019. are you fully accomplishing your ministry?.

the study article starts off with praise and admiration for members who are out in the field ministry.

the wtbts understand that you have family responsibilities, work, get sick, and have pains due to aging.

newsheep

Here's another comment we had heard one time from a CO: The reason why some are pioneering is because the others are not as spiritual as we are. I wanted to walk out then and should have!

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Old Goat

by vienne in

some of you may remember old goat who used to post here.

he died last night in his sleep.

he was 92 years old.

newsheep

Sorry to hear this. Glad to hear he made it to ninety-two. I wonder if he was a professor before or after the cult. Sending you (((BIG HUGS))) and thank you for letting us know.

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Prayer BANNED for Public Talks in KH's...

by The Fall Guy in

........back in 1949!.

w50 3/15 p. 96 letters - "jesus held many public lectures, but there is no record that he opened or closed any of them with prayer....surely those of the public who are not of the christian faith do not turn out to our meetings in order to join with us in prayer to our god, but solely to hear the speech which is the drawing feature.

so we give them that and do not think to impose upon them by attaching something else to the lecture which might offend or stumble them before they hear the speech they came for.

newsheep

Unbelievable! Wish there were more posts like this posted. It's posts like these that will make the jws want to do more research. It did us and we know for a certainty there are others that are in doing the same.

Thanks Fall Guy for your research and hard work. Hopefully others will do the same.

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Discontinue unproductive bible study - jw broadcasting

by Gorbatchov in

jw
friends

https://tv.jw.org/#en/mediaitems/latestvideos/pub-ism_2_video.

interesting video explaining how to end a bible study.. watch the kind of uber behaviour of the witnesses: make a choice or we leave.... so hard, so not christian.

no love for the person.. g..

newsheep

Does that mean you discontinue your studies with your children? What about those fifteen minute studies? What about those doorstep studies? Just maybe they have too many "studies" on their hands and want to keep all their wannabe studies and get rid of their potential studies.

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My highlights from GB member Jackson's ARC testimony

by The Fall Guy in

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erwv8yntfto.

nice to review how one of the "faithful snakes" slithered when he was captive to being questioned.. at 40 seconds, he is asked to swear an oath - and he swears on the bible.

obviously jesus' words slipped his mind: matthew 5:34-37 - "however, i say to you: do not swear at all, neither by heaven.....nor by earth,.... just let your word ‘yes’ mean yes, your ‘no,’ no, for what goes beyond these is from the wicked one.

newsheep

Fall Guy, excellent job and well done. It's posts like this that will draw lurkers away and want to research more. Always loved your posts and many others who are not posting anymore.

When I watched this video I didn't realize the flaws until you pointed them out. I guess I need to be more spiritually critical and keep on the watch as they would claim. Keep up the great work, my friend:)

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Today's wt. Par 12 Aaron left his Jewish faith because of what?!

by nowwhat? in

not because he discovered jesus was the promised messiah , but he learned that gods name "could" be jehovah?!

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newsheep

Idiots! Many years ago they had claimed if it wasn't for them no one would know gods name. Now they don't know his name. Bigger idiots for those that believe these stories from the witchtower.

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Definition Of A Friend JW.Org Style True Story

by newsheep in

jw
friends

thought i saw everything with publishers giving money to co's or leaving everything to the org through their wills which is their business.however when a brother(andre) whose job is to sign cheques going out from the georgetown, ontario bethel is signing cheques for relatives isn't that a conflict of interest?

the one nephew was doing woodworking but was never successful until bethel offered him a job doing signs for halls as well as making cabinets and podiums.

once he got the job he then went out and bought a cnc machine which is computerized.

newsheep

Thought I saw everything with publishers giving money to co's or leaving everything to the org through their wills which is their business.However when a brother(Andre) whose job is to sign cheques going out from the Georgetown, Ontario bethel is signing cheques for relatives isn't that a conflict of interest?

The one nephew was doing woodworking but was never successful until bethel offered him a job doing signs for halls as well as making cabinets and podiums. Once he got the job he then went out and bought a CNC machine which is computerized. You punch the design into the computer and the machine cuts out the shape. At that time these machines were very expensive. His cousin (the other nephew to Andre) had a trade in masonry but he overcharged himself right out of work. His two brothers predicted that would happen and it did. ( both nephews had a bad reputation for overcharging) So bethel hires him and his wife to do parking lots at the halls.

These two men had major drinking problems with their sons following in their same shoes. The two sons from the one brother got the boot out of bethel when someone sent in pictures of them in the nude wearing makeup.

Bethel would know of this since it's not that big (at that time there were under four hundred working there)and yet these two bum elders get jobs as well as get paid for them. When we were doing a service for bethel, we were told that the bethel doesn't care how much they have to pay for a service or product provided it's good and if it's a brother then that's a bonus. So they can name their price and no questions asked. I now see that the word "bonus" has more than one meaning for certain individuals.

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There is some GOOD news!

by The Fall Guy in

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-europe-46709311/police-diver-adopts-dog-rescued-from-icy-lake.

newsheep

This made my day and thank you Fall Guy. There are so many good good people out there. I would put my life into their hands any day. Was having a bad day today and this is just what I needed.