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  Jehovah's Witness Elders Question A Brother For Not Turning In Field Service Time

  by Watchtower-Free in

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  2. beliefs

  found this on youtube.

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vy3zlxley6u.

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  cultBgone

  Sounds like the eldub mentioning the widow's mite is trying to shame him and take the conversation off-course.  Let's twist some more scriptures, shall we?
  
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  I'm at a loss at how to get thru to my parents. I fear they will die before they will stop shunning me.

  by cognisonance in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  all i want is this: for us to be a family, to spend time together enjoying life.

  i don't wish to debate about their beliefs when together.

  they can remain jws for all i care.

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  Wish I had answers to help.  All this proves is that the watchtower / jws should be ashamed of their horrible practices which absolutely serve to destroy families.

  The phony reinstatement idea is a bad one, imo.  You would be more intensely miserable than you are now.
  

  So sorry this is happening to you.
  
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  Interview with an Apostate: Downtowner

  by Downtowner in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  tell us a little about yourself and your family.i grew up in the organization and baptized at age 10 years 11 months.

  i lost my father to cancer and nearly lost my mom (thank goodness i didn't) to an illness both in 1999, i became inactive in 2000, and came out of the closet in 2001.. were you a born in or a convert?i was born in.

  are your parents / family jws?

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  Welcome, Downtowner, thanks for sharing your story.  Sorry your mom is stuck in but you have a realistic attitude about that and sound like a very caring person with a good heart.  It's a shame that so many have had their real lives damaged by the jdub's mean-spirited policies which are only geared toward keeping their numbers high and the money flowing in, rather than helping people to be the best people they can be.  Many hugs to you!!!
  
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  Time Magazine Article: It Happened to Me: I Grew Up as a Jehovah’s Witness

  by ToesUp in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  interesting article in time magazine, from a former witness.. time magazine.

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  Glad for her that Mom had sense enough to leave.  Sadly, current jdubs will see this article as something related only to Xmas instead of being able to see the craziness for what it is.
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  Hi! Long time lurker finally signing up!

  by LosingMyReligion in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  ok, so the time has finally come to register an account on this site.

  not that i think i have much to contribute to the discussions here, but more out of a desire to show that yet another person has learned ttatt.

  i am a fader, not discussing ttatt with anyone as i know the inevitable outcome it would have.

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  LMR, welcome to the site and congratulations on awakening to TTATT.  When I was first fading, this site seemed pretty hardcore and I found it difficult to enjoy.  I still have those days when I just shake my head and close the screen, but now I just attribute it to a few wacky or outspoken posters, not to a bunch of crazy apostates.   We are all unique but we've all been scarred to some degree by the jdub religion, so we're united like a huge extended family. 
  
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  Still pointing your Finger when having a Rafter in your eye?

  by DocHouse in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  yes- everyone has faults and makes mistakes; an organization even more so.. yet, you ignore all the fingers pointing at you.. many here have no faith.

  many here go to churches who lie about everything biblical; look at x-mas!.

  but at least we know god and christ and try to live up to their name!.

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  Why are y'all taking this silly bait?  Leave dochouse alone to ramble in his nonsense.  
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  Ever tried "Dry January"? Join Ms. OM & me for a 30 day liver vacation!

  by Open mind in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  there are a few things i picked up from watchtowerism that i still find value in.

  (although, i could have easily picked them up elsewhere.).

  one of these is the 30-day test to abstain from all booze.. .

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  I remember when the article came out.  My (now ex-) husband who was the lush of the land, a secret daytime drinker, nighttime pornography viewer, and one who made it a point to have beer at dinner on the way to the hall while the rest of us always decined, decided he would stop for 30 days but didn't tell me about "the challenge".  When his month was up, he pointed out to his elder buddies that I continued to have some beers of an evening and made it sound like I had NOT been able to stop like he did.  What a jerk.  So glad he's gone, better that he remarried and got (briefly - daddy an elder) disfellowshipped for adultery/not being "scripturally free".  He's a shining example of jwdumb.
  

  Not suggesting that anyone on this site would do this, but please be careful about using these types of admonishments as barometers of anyone else's behavior.  Jdubs love to treat suggestions like this as rules, and that stuff can stay with ya.
  
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  Have we been visited by alien's?

  by crazyguy1 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  there is a tribe in west african called the dogon, their mythology states that their gods came from a dark star that orbits around sirius.

  they claim this star went nova then condensed so that its now super dense.

  they have on their cave walls drawings of jupiter and its 4 moons and saturn with its rings.

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  Aren't the GB aliens?? 
  
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  Site issues: Jan 02 Update (Sign In)

  by Simon in

  1. forum
  2. announcements

  i've deployed a fix for people affected by sign-in issues caused by having multiple accounts associated with the same email address.

  here's how to activate the fix:.

  you must attempt to sign in using the email address associated with your account (not a username) and must have access to that mailbox.. if there are multiple accounts associated with the email address then you will be shown a warning message with the option to have an email sent to repair your account.. the email will contain a link to a page showing all the accounts associated with the same email address and allow you to select the one you want to be active (it will disassociate all the other accounts from the email address).. once you have completed the process then you should be able to sign in as normal.

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  Hi, Simon --

  I know you've synced the sites but although I used to have -1 Personal Messages, I now have 18 (not really):

  

  I don't mind the weird number staying there, but just thought you might be able to zap the counter somehow.  Because you ARE magical.  :D

  THANKS!!!!
  
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  small coloured icons

  by stan livedeath in

  1. forum
  2. tech-support

  what are those very small coloured icons to the right of the length of time since the thread was started ?

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  cultBgone

  Different icons...these are inside the individual comments.