When I first started waking up, I was still afraid of the big bad apostate sites. jwfacts was helpful, because it was facts...It was a jumping off site for me, I could take stuff from there and I could then research myself.
DanmeraDinglebum
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Did reading Jwfacts help you? Please take a moment to say thanks..
by The Quiet One init seems as though so many of the stories of people who are now mentally free that i read on here involved reading jwfacts.com at some point along the way.. he basically saved my sanity (questionable, i know!
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why not take a minute out of your day to say thanks for any difference that jwfacts made to your life, and tell us what it was that helped you?...
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Baptism reversal
by DanmeraDinglebum inhas anyone ever heard of someone getting their baptism reversed?
ever?.
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DanmeraDinglebum
Has anyone ever heard of someone getting their baptism reversed? Ever?
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How do I as a future "Therapist" help ex-jws that won't move on from the WT?
by booker-t ini am halfway through my master's program in psychology/sociology and plan on being a therapist/sounselor.
i left jw's in 1988 and i have never looked back.
i enjoy my life so much after getting my aa degree, then my ba degree, and now i will soon get my ma degree.
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DanmeraDinglebum
Wow, cold hearted "therapist".
"I've escaped the burning building, but that does not free me of the obligation of trying to save the others." That's how I feel. I have moved on, part of my "moving on" is being able to help others. If I was wasting my time, that might be another story....but people are waking up. I know for a fact, I am not wasting my time trying to help others.
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By my count there are 79 contradictions in Genesis alone!
by srd injust posted the last 2, which once again highlight the fact that later writers, compelled by differing historical circumstances, rewrote the "historical" narratives that they themselves inherited.
an even later editor then stitched together these two narratives to form the bible as it now stands.. thursday, we now move on to the book of exodus!
http://contradictionsinthebible.com.
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"WT Publications are all propaganda!" admits the Awake! magazine
by 00DAD inread this lovely little admission and judge for yourself: .
there is a differencea big differencebetween education and propaganda.
education shows you how to think.
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DanmeraDinglebum
One of my fav magazines. I have referenced in many times in my vids.
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Feeling cheeky this morning. Pick what I should do!
by Suraj Khan infriends, it's time for a real-life "choose your own story".
you remember those, right?
your choices for this morning are that i.
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DanmeraDinglebum
Why not do both? Moon the KH on the way to donating blood.
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It gets better. Part II of "Apostates are blown out of the water"
by never a jw injust a recap.. i posted a thread yesterday about an exchange of e-mails with a well known and respected elder and c.o.
sibstitute in a spanish circuit somewhere in the u.s. the man is about 50, raised in the truth, belongs to a family where all men are at least elders.
he is proud to have forsaken his dream of becoming a doctor to serve jehovah.
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DanmeraDinglebum
"Believe those who are seeking truth. Doubt those who find it" Andre Gide
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Are we all bitter?
by LouBelle ini posted a link on fb that lead to a topic here.
i then had one of my 'friends' start having a go about how bitter everyone is here....fact he said.
(he used to be a jw elder but left a while back, not sure why he left or if he has even researched the faith since leaving) the more i tried to reason with him that actually it is a support forum, the more he lashed out that everyone here bad mouths the jw's and only attack the jw's.
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DanmeraDinglebum
Find out you you were lied to your whole life, years stolen based on that lie, family destroyed based on a lie, etc....yeah I would say there is some bitterness.
Am I a bitter person? Angry? Sad? Etc. Not at all.
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Do you blame Jehovah, Yahweh, God, Jesus, etc. for the corruption of the borg?
by Fading Begins indo you hold god accountable for the corruption of the borg?
i've noticed there seems to be a bitterness, by some, that includes "god" in the equation, when discussing the borg and their policies, the governing body, elders actions, etc.
do the borg's transgressions originate with god, or does he feel the same disgust as we do?
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DanmeraDinglebum
No, the men who run the organization are evil and corrupt. God has nothing to do with it, other than the men in charge use Jehovah as a battering ram to keep the rank and file in line.
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Will Tort Litigations Involving Child Molestations Cause The Governing Body To Make Sweeping Policy Changes?
by frankiespeakin inthese guys on the governing body are all old and set in their ways much like the cardinals of the catholic church, and yet they the cardinals are responding somewhat quicker than the much younger governing body in making and enforcing policy change to protect the children.. perhaps they can't learn the lesson from their long time self made enemy the clergy of christendom.. http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/religion/church_in_crisis.html.
http://www.albanylaw.edu/media/user/faculty/lytton/framing-clergy-sexual-abuse-wm-law-rvw.pdf.
a tort is an act that injures someone in some way, and for which the injured person may sue the wrongdoer for damages.http://www.albanylaw.edu/media/user/faculty/lytton/framing-clergy-sexual-abuse-wm-law-rvw.pdf.
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DanmeraDinglebum
Losing the Conti case hasn't produced any changes, they only dug their heels in deeper. No they will not be reporting to the police, the legal department will decide if the person who molested the child is a child molester (yeah I can't figure that one out either) and that child molesters CAN get their positions back. There is an October 2012 letter to the BOE that spells it all out. You can probably do a search on here and find it.
