I went last year so I can see what they were saying to people these days. It was awkward, my family barely spoke to me, just looking at me strange. When I go to their house, we can talk freely and everyone is normal, but there, it was so awful. My mom was close to tears and literally, a conversation was impossible. My mom invited me on a facebook message and I just responded "thanks for the invitation" But I am certainly not going through that again. And I believe we should take the emblems.
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Has anybody been guilted/emotionally blackmailed into attending the 2015 Memorial?
by Bucholz inhello everybody, i was wondering if anyone has been guilted or emotionally blackmailed into attending the memorial this year.
something along the lines of "if you loved your family you would at least attend the memorial".
i myself haven't attended in 5 years.
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Yesterday's a.m. shepherding call
by wheelwithinwheel inpainting an empty apartment knock at the door
ron the elder doing not-at-homes.
comments on: well how you doing dave?
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lriddle80
I love this!
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Listen to the Pilot Episode of JW Podcast
by God_Delusion inhi guys,.
check out our first ever podcast here - http://www.jwpodcast.org/2014/10/19/s01e00-macclesfield-forest, or download this episode (right click and save).
it's finally here, our first ever jehovah's witness podcast!
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lriddle80
I just saw a warning of this posted on facebook. It said it was by well-known apostates and it was directed to "true Jehovah's Witnesses" and my mom commented "Yes, they are busy" haha!
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From A Bublical Point Of View Did You Ever Think The Trinity Doctrine Made Sense?
by minimus ini see no logic in it.
i see what appears to be some scriptural contradictions but i see no merit in a trinitarian view of god.. .
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This will probably be heresy according to Cofty...but I think of it like a family. God is a family consisting of The Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit. All one in purpose and spirit. I don't think humans have it figured out, but I don't think God is mad at us for trying. We are trying to seek him and understand. That has to say something. I pray sometime that God would show me the truth or forgive our small minds for insisting that we know how everything is. I think if the bible had clear-cut answers to everything, we would just move on to something else. The problem is, that people want to be God. Everyone does, we want to control everything, know everything, be perfect. But, people are incapable of this and need to, instead, turn to God for all of that and worship him.
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Tv.jw.org - Average Jdub reaction? I'm getting NOTHING but Silence!
by 4thgen inhello all, as you know, when jw tv was announced, our board went wild.
many comments, much speculation and alot of negative feedback on the quality, etc.
well, what has me concerned is that i have not heard a peep from any of my connections left in kingdom-land.
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Maybe God is really directing this organization to go in the direction that they are to wake people up? To see how fake they are? It seems like in the magazines or whatever, there are nuggets of actual truth that go against them if one would read between the lines...maybe that's Jehovah's way of opening people' eyes to those who are really seeking the truth? I hope so...
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Tv.jw.org - Average Jdub reaction? I'm getting NOTHING but Silence!
by 4thgen inhello all, as you know, when jw tv was announced, our board went wild.
many comments, much speculation and alot of negative feedback on the quality, etc.
well, what has me concerned is that i have not heard a peep from any of my connections left in kingdom-land.
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lriddle80
My family are all drinking the koolaid. Oh, they love it. Food at the proper time...so wonderful. We watched all 4 hours of the annual meeting or whatever. I watched a Cedars review on youtube a few minutes ago and then watched a few minutes of the video from another youtube channel and it was weird. He talked weird, overpronouncing words, etc.
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I had an encounter today...
by lriddle80 inso, i had an unexpected encounter with a jw today.
she was the caregiver who came to work to relieve me and she pulled out a jw.org tract and i told her i knew all about it because my family were part of it and i see it everywhere on their fb.
i, without thinking about the consequences, told her that i used to be one and now go to a baptist church.
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lriddle80
Thanks so much for your comments! Very encouraging and some things to think about, too!
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I had an encounter today...
by lriddle80 inso, i had an unexpected encounter with a jw today.
she was the caregiver who came to work to relieve me and she pulled out a jw.org tract and i told her i knew all about it because my family were part of it and i see it everywhere on their fb.
i, without thinking about the consequences, told her that i used to be one and now go to a baptist church.
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lriddle80
Oh, and after she was talking about the paganism of christmas, I told her that our days of the week and calendar were of pagan origin, but she didn't mind writing the days on her papers. She said she'd have to look that up.
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What would you do if JW's lifted the shunning policy?
by bsand20 inhave you guys asked yourself that question?
what if the gb decided that "new light" revealed to them that disfellowshipping was wrong and they would do away with it for current dfd members as well...... .......16 years of my life.
would i welcome my family back?
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lriddle80
I would disassociate myself.
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I had an encounter today...
by lriddle80 inso, i had an unexpected encounter with a jw today.
she was the caregiver who came to work to relieve me and she pulled out a jw.org tract and i told her i knew all about it because my family were part of it and i see it everywhere on their fb.
i, without thinking about the consequences, told her that i used to be one and now go to a baptist church.
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lriddle80
So, I had an unexpected encounter with a JW today. She was the caregiver who came to work to relieve me and she pulled out a JW.Org tract and I told her I knew all about it because my family were part of it and I see it everywhere on their FB. I, without thinking about the consequences, told her that I used to be one and now go to a baptist church. We got into an intense discussion where I told her that we, at the foundation, believe that the only way to salvation is Jesus and he is the truth and with that we can worship shoulder to shoulder and Jehovah would accept us both. She kept going back to celebrating Christmas, believing in the trinity. I asked her if Jesus forgives her when she lies everyday or lusts everyday and she said she saw where I was going. I kept bringing Jesus up as the only way to salvation. And she kept pushing him aside and I kept mentioning that that is the most important thing and he shouldn't be pushed aside. I said that serving Jehovah shouldn't be put in a box and that I am so happy to have the freedom to express my worship to him any way that I wanted. I had this conversation: So, the only way to lose weight is through diet and exercise, correct? Yes, she said. Ok, the only way to salvation is through Jesus, right? Yes. Is there only 1 way to diet? No. Is there only 1 kind of exercise? No. Ok, then there are many ways to worship and many ways to serve, not just going door to door. Helping the poor, clothing the needy. If I even give a cup of cold water to a child in Jesus' name, that is worship. I told her that serving others is our work and she was so quick to point out that we have to serve Jehovah and I quickly said we serve Jehovah by serving others and she admitted that was the commandment. I told about different scriptures and she did not. But she did wish she had her bible.
Now, admittedly, I felt attacked (from the years of my family attacking my faith) and so I became defensive probably to the point that she felt threatened. But she would laugh at me and say "WOOOW" I can't believe you knew the truth (which I quickly said Jesus is the truth) and are choosing a different path.
I hated it because it was like talking to brick wall. I hated it because I couldn't convince her that my worship was acceptable also. I liked it because I spoke the gospel with boldness!
I left there, running, saying to myself that I hate them. I prayed today that God would transform my mind to start to forgive them. But to forgive a species that will not change and will always see me as inferior, that's going to take some effort and a lot of prayer. I did realize that I spend half my energy thinking I am inferior and trying to prove to people that I am just as good as they are.
So 2 things happened from it: I am going to accept that I am good enough, and that I need to forgive them. Once and for all!! And, also, don't engage a brick wall.