Posts by cultBgone

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the new exjw stars of youtube... discuss

by friendaroonie in

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since the creation of a few youtube channels i spend enormous amounts of time watching them.

they have basically replaced my activity on jwn and watching kelly and michael in the morning.

there are quite a few issues and implications that result from this trend.

"Please Help My Brother"

by Londo111 in

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

i've been enjoying this series quite a bit.

i believe this a non-jw from jamaica whose brother is studying and working toward baptism.. the playlist is here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/ucmfy5skgfysq36ug1ismnsg/videos.

Just letting you know I passed the exam

by will-be-apostate in

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hi, my apostate friends.. a couple of weeks ago i asked for some advice regarding studying methods.

then some of you asked me to let you know my score after i take the exam at mineralogy.. i scored 90%.

i'm pretty happy with it because the exams i take are not in my native language.. if i keep up with the good scores i might get a scholarship and then bye bye watchtower society.

cultBgone

Congratulations and hugs to you, well done! We look forward to hearing more of your success story as you achieve your goals.

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Help please!!!

by braincleaned in

my mom just hung up on me, convinced that the borg has never said that jesus was not the mediator between the sheep and him!.

i know they have presumptuously took the place of jesus as mediators can someone pleeeeeeze give me the wt references of this?.

she does not believe me..

Wearing a wire

by Hairtrigger in

hye folks-just wanted some info.

is wearing a wire to a jc or any other meeting an easy-to-do thing.

how do you go about trying to find to an agency that hires out equipment?

cultBgone

WTfree, how's the quality on the pens? Just curious...

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A Mormon becomes a JW in the Feb 2013 Watchtower...

by cedars in

glancing through the feb 2013 "public" watchtower edition, an interesting article appears on page 8.. here is the pdf download link.... http://www.jw.org/download/?fileformat=pdf&issue=20130201&output=html&pub=wp&langwritten=e&option=trgchlzrqvnyvrxf&txtcmslang=e.

it's interesting how, in the story, the young man's jw aunt and uncle switch him from mormonism to the jw faith using third-party material (the nov 8, 1995 awake!

article), and he ends up becoming a jw after confirming on the official mormon website that the claims in the awake!

cultBgone

I think the point Cedars made was that:

1. The article showed that the Mormon gentleman was persuaded by "worldly" sources that the jw teachings were correct.

2. As we all well know, jws are NOT allowed to read anything "worldly".

3. Therefore, the logic behind the article (whether it was true or not) was totally fallible.

It cannot be right for someone of another faith to use "worldly" sources to "come into the truth" but wrong for someone of the jw faith to NOT be able to use "worldly" sources to read about the jws.

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UNDERSTANDING money and the history of the Watch Tower

by Terry in

today the watch tower corp. is changing a long-standing policy in regard to donations which had been in place a long, long time.. to understand the original policies (about money) and the changed (new policy) we have to take a peek into the past.. .

i don't want to bog you down in history.

you can research on your own using google.. here are salient facts.. _________________________________________________.

cultBgone

Thanks, Terry. Nice historical data to share.

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I am on the edge of a freak out ..... I think???

by DATA-DOG in

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so the rc really sucked, but i made it through.

the propaganda was mind blowing.

i don't know if the crap will be available on the official website or not, but hopefully it gets leaked somehow.

cultBgone

DD, you've received some great advice here. Let me add to it: give yourself a break. YOU are not accountable for your wife's happiness, that's her problem. YOU are only accountable for You, and for your daughter getting out of the cult. You may do better withdrawing (call it depression or whatever) to allow yourself some down time. You need to sleep! And you're going to need to decide upon your exit strategy. Obviously you cannot keep up appearances for much longer and it's probably causing your wife to respond to your negative feelings. Perhaps if you were at home and more peaceful, she would respond in kind. In any event, you can't save your daughter without putting on YOUR oxygen mask first.

((((((((((((((((((DD)))))))))))))))))))

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My mother is in the hospital again

by JeffT in

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she fell again and had to have surgery on her other hip.

this is the fourth trip to the er since last fall.

needless to say, i'm not having a good week.

cultBgone

Jeff, hang in there and thanks for being such a good son.

And Jamie's advice sounds worth investigating!

for you and mom

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A few thoughts on the District, um, Regional... sigh....

by Apognophos in

i don't even know what the bloody event is called anymore.

i think it's still a district convention until it goes to two days, isn't it?

my convention program leaflet just says "convention of jehovah's witnesses", seemingly intentionally avoiding the change in wording.

cultBgone

Thanks for the blow-by-blow and for suffering so many of us never have to again! It is reassuring to know that the conventions are continuing to get worse/more boring/sleepworthy even than when I had to attend for the fam. Sorry you had to go but you did us all a good service.