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  Do you know MORE about the bible NOW?

  by stuckinarut2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  how many of us would confidently say that we know more about the bible now that we have ceased being jws?.

  i know that i was proud to say that i was a "serious bible student" when a jw.

  we boasted about how much we learned each week, and how we shared bible truths with the community.. but it's only after leaving, and really delving into a broad range of research, that i realise how little i actually knew!.

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  Crazyguy

  Oh hell yeah, after I woke up I studied like crazy. Found out I could destroy almost all of JWs doctrines using just the Bible. Memorized scriptures etc.. Before I woke I could not remember a scripture to save my life. I think I studied so much because I wanted to make sure I knew it wasn’t the truth and so I could defend my self from the scriptures if someone wanted to discuss some things.
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  ECHR Rules Against Free Speech

  by cofty in

  1. social
  2. current

  the european court of human rights ruled against an austrian woman who claimed calling the prophet muhammad a pedophile was protected by free speech.

  ... the woman in 2009 held two seminars entitled "basic information on islam," during which she likened muhammad's marriage to a six-year-old girl, aisha, to pedophilia.. the marriage according to islamic tradition was consummated when aisha was nine and muhammad was around 50. aisha was the daughter of muhammad's best friend and the first caliph, abu bakr.. the court cited the austrian women stating during the seminar that muhammad "liked to do it with children" and "... a 56-year-old and a six-year-old?

  ... what do we call it, if it is not pedophilia?".

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  Crazyguy

  The world really has gone mad!
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  GcMAF - cure or major treatment for autoimmune disease, cancer, autism, etc, and being suppressed or hype?

  by Bad_Wolf in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  since most people in this group have been taught how to research and fact check with our jw history and getting out, this is a topic that can be constructive to check out.

  i stumbled upon this and spent some time researching it, and it's quite interesting.

  it's part of your immune system, gcmaf.

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  Crazyguy

  I had a friend and his father was an owner of a pharmaceutical company and knew many of the board members of the cancer society. He was told that they have no intentions on curing cancer only finding treatments for it.
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  Can someone help me figure out something, dealing with paganism?

  by Tameria2001 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the watchtower and quite a few other religious groups don't do certain things because of pagan origins.

  they go on about the different holidays, certain traditions, and say they don't do those things because of pagan origins.

  yet they turn right around and do other stuff, which does have pagan origins.

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  Crazyguy

  The JWs under Rutherford were on a path to be different from most of Christianity so they needed to change doctrine to be different. I think other sects of Christianity do the same or find one specific thought that they find pagan and run with it. That’s how we get groups like the Amish or Mormons etc.
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  Is the Sell-off of Kingdom Halls Just a Cyclical Process

  by RubaDub in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  with more and more kh's being sold off, will it only be a matter of time that there will be a push to build new ones?

  greater emphasis on donating to build new kh's since some brothers have to drive long distances to attend meetings?

  and that smaller communities should have a local kh that is visible to all in the area?.

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  I could see it happening. Once the consolidation is done then make the left over congregations pay for a new hall that’s a building that can be more easily flipped later on.
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  Do You Know Of Anyone Who Left JWs And Then Decided To Return?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  quite a few years ago there was a poster here that left the religion because he knew it was simply not true.

  however, he returned to jws because he wanted to be with his family.

  i don’t know how he is doing but gumby was his name.

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  My last hall I seen about 3 men come back to get reinstated then faded away. One of the three had left the cult and joined the Mormons in 1976. After years he left that cult and came back. I pretty sure his main motive was family since he has some siblings in the cult. Got reinstated then married. I could tell from taking to him I think he’s awake but and older gentleman with really no down side not joining the cult and having ready made friends and a new wife. He was also awake from the Mormons and new some deep secrets of that cult.
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  Narrow mindedness annoying

  by Lost in the fog in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  none of the brothers and sisters in indonesia were hurt or lost in the recent disaster, according to one of the friends who added "we were all praying for them as soon as we heard it on the news, as you do.

  and what about the rest of the population?

  i know its nothing new in their attitude to the world outside in general, but it makes me so angry!

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  But about in 2004 the big one and what about the 45+ killed in the Philippines from the cyclone a few years ago when three KHs were destroyed?
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  Family is now reaping what they sowed and they don't like it.

  by Gemmel in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i resigned from the jw's in my 20's over 30 years ago, i was immediately shunned by my entire family and it's remained that way with a few exceptions ever since.

  one of those exceptions was being contacted by a cousin a few years back and during that conversation i discovered that my mother had been and still was the prime mover in my complete and continuing shunning.

  i then used what contacts i had left to confirm it.

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  Crazyguy

  Good on you, yes many here would say be the bigger person and help out but screw that. These people are evil , so mind bent they can’t even think straight and would gladly pass you by if they saw you in the street beaten half to death by muggers.
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  Belief in God

  by jdash in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  when did you guys start to doubt your faith in god?'.

  what made you doubt your faith in god?.

  thanks !.

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  Crazyguy

  Was studying the Bible and getting a better understanding of what it’s like to be a true Christian not a JW when I say some kind of quote about the god of the Canaanites being called EL. I knew from previous studies that the Christian or at least the Jewish god of the Old Testament was also called EL. So I decided to do more research on this canannite god named EL.
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  References for "Second Temple Judaism"?

  by Doug Mason in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i plan to develop a study on "the second temple period", the first 600 years of judaism (520 bce to 70 ce).

  that's my hope, anyway.. i have listed potential resources, and i would like to know of other sources that could possibly be useful.. my list is at:.

  http://www.jwstudies.com/references_for__second_temple_judaism_.pdf .

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  Crazyguy

  That would be the first temple period for Solomon’s temple either didn’t exist or was in Tanis so no temple in Jerusalem.