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  Jehovah's Witnesses recieve $30,000 grant to cover for assembly costs

  by Watchtower-Free in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  see bottom of article.

  http://www.jaxdailyrecord.com/showstory.php?story_id=542296.

  friday, february 21, 10:08 am estby max marbut, staff writer.

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  William Penwell

  I like how the hypocrates are the first to get a government handout from "Satans" wicked world but won't do their share in ciivic duties like vote.
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  On a Scale of 1 to 10---How Devoted Were You To Being One of Jehovah's Witnesses?

  by minimus in

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  2. friends

  as i grew up in the religion, i was a 10. i wanted to be made a "servant" because that was instilled in me from infancy.

  i diligently studied ever piece of watchtower literature and defended my religion intensely.. when i got into my 30's, i started to see little cracks in the watchtower's surface but decided to "wait on jehovah".

  then i started to research a little more critically and realized i couldn't defend the prophecies, the treatment of people and the hypocrisy that was becoming more obvious, that especially an elder can see.. it was a gradual thing---from a 10 to a zero!.

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  I would say that when I was as teenager and young adult, I was as devote as a person could be to the "religion". Much like minimus comments I had much the same feelings. The real eye opener for me was the failed prophecies of 1914, even though I still gave them a chance but the more and more I read and studied the more holes I could see in the WTBS dogma. What I am saying is I did give it a chance as at first as I thought it was just me that was missing something but through scrutiny of their beliefs it just didn't hold up.
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  After years of Watchtower fighting the BAN in Russia.....

  by Newly Enlightened in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  i apologize if this topic was already covered, i didn't have time to look thru several pages of posts.... after several years of fighting their ban in russia.

  russian court declares jw's literature extremist:.

  http://en.ria.ru/russia/20140113/186483571/russian-court-declares-jehovahs-witness-brochures-extremist.html?fb_action_ids=530487500391762&fb_action_types=og.recommends&fb_source=other_multiline&action_object_map=%5b1377130229215916%5d&action_type_map=%5b%22og.recommends%22%5d&action_ref_map=%5b%5d.

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  I have to agree with the posters in here that said, I may not agree with what you say but I will fight for your right to say it. By banning the "cult" it will only drive some people to it. There are more productive ways in dealing with the WTBS then out right banning them.
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  The Judicial Committee videos in english

  by confusedandalone in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  not sure if this has been posted but the jwsurvey site received the videos in english from someone.. this crap is pathetic to watch.

  how to counsel someone who is suicidal... really.

  http://jwsurvey.org/cedars-blog/doubts-over-organizational-solidarity-as-disturbing-video-on-handling-suicide-is-leaked.

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  If it wasn't such a series subject it would be laughable. I went through the same BS 20 years ago. The elders did not care if I was suicidal or not but that the congregation is kept clean away from an evil person such as myself. Makes me wonder how many have commited suicide on this bad advice?
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  Overwhelming Fear of Death

  by Perversion of a truth in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  do any of the posters on here deal with this?

  i do, and i hate it.

  people (mostly my brother) tells me to not fear death and just to enjoy life and so on, but that doesn't seem to help any.

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  I think it was wayne Dyer that said until you embrace your death, you can not live life. I to have had to come with terms of mortality in the last 30 years. Like all of us on here that were raised a JW having to deny that we would never die but live on forever into a paradise earth was a diss-service to us. As I grew older and watch my family grow old and die the reality has suken in that it was all a big lie. It does take time to work through it. Like other posters on here said just live each day to the fullest and don't worry about tomorrow.
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  My JW mom is coming to visit this Friday!!

  by Faithful Witness in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  my parents are recent converts to jw (both baptized).

  i was never a jw, but did study with them for a long time.

  after doing research, my husband and i quit going to meetings and stopped the bs.

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  And they call it a religion of love.
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  The 1914 generation is still going strong 100 years later - 2014 study article.

  by THE GLADIATOR in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  january 2014 watchtower study article.

  let your kingdom comebut when?.

  this generation will not pass away.

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  I have heard this this same "end of system"message, 50 years ago. The urgency was needed, that it was only a matter of months, weeks or even hours to the end of the system. That we should sell out homes and go into the full time service.
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  "Apostates" Who Return To Their Own Vomit

  by minimus in

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  once you realize ttatt, how can anyone with half a brain, go back??.

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  It is hard to leave something like the JDubs when all your friends and family still belong to it and treat you differently. It has been almost 20 years for me and I still get some pressure and guilt trips from some of my family members. I have moved on and have my own circle of friends outside of the organization. Like a drug addict or alcoholic, it is not enough to just quit the addiction but you have to develop new hobbies and build new friendships outside of the addiction.
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  Participating on Assembly Programs and meetings... the hypocritical things that go on

  by confusedandalone in

  1. social
  2. humour

  i was thinking the other day about how i use to marvel at the idea of being on a ca or do program!

  when i was starting to get myself together so to speak i wanted to be one of those guys always giving the powerful talk to shut the assembly down.

  the one talk every spoke about in the car ride home.

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  William Penwell

  When I was a teenager the CO cut out a page from a Watchtower that pictures a young teenager. He wrote notations like, "notice the length of his sideburns" and "look what he is wearing". Your point 7 reminds me of one reason why I got away from the cult. It didn't matter how much you did, it was never good enough.
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  Historical evidence for Christmas and Christs birthday

  by DS211 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i just read this feom 4jehovah.org.

  there is a historical basis for the december 25th date of christs birth.

  justin martyr (100-165 a.d.) wrote marcus aurelius that jesus was born at bethlehem as you can ascertain also from the registers of the taxing.

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  William Penwell "The two indivuals you are quoting from as your proof material lived over a hundred years after Jesus was born."

  So you're saying they were from the same 'generation' as Jesus then.

  Splash

  I guess as far as the JW's are concerned that would be proof. There is no proof that a person by the name of Jesus even existed.