LevelThePlayingField
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Watch out where you tread
by LevelThePlayingField ini remember like it was yesterday.
my dad pounding his fist on the kitchen table and gritting his teeth as he tells me to get out!
he kicked me out of his house.
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LevelThePlayingField
I remember like it was yesterday. My Dad pounding his fist on the kitchen table and gritting his teeth as he tells me to Get out! He kicked me out of his house. I had just moved out as a young 21 year old. As the door swung shut hard with a slam, I remember the smug feeling inside. I was "witnessing to him" and he didn't like it. I was trying to slam the "truth" down his throat. I smirked, literally as I walked out of the garage toward the street where my car was. I thought that this was persecution. Surely I had nailed it on the head now. I am being persecuted I thought. But now, 30 years later, awake to TTATT, I realize that I just been breaking up my family. And I was the cause of it all.It's too late now. Way too late. My Dad's dead now. I can't reconcile that.So what's my message behind this post? If I could only tell everyone who is truly in deep with this religion, to watch out what you do. You may end up terminating the very family you love, all for persecution's sake. All for a bunch of, now out-of-date Watchtowers.Don't do it I cry out to all who may be aware of the danger. But hey, who am I? I am just a poster on this sub. And pretty much everyone on here already knows the truth about the truth. So, why am I even saying this? I guess because it's cathardic maybe.At any rate, just maybe some of you know the pain too. My best to you. -
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in retrospect: RBCs vs LDCs / the hype about a lot of new construction and subsequent abrupt halt to construction
by Magnum inso, now that some time has passed, i’d like some input/thoughts/analysis/etc.
on the jw construction situation in the last few years.. first, why did they discontinue the rbc arrangement and institute the ldc arrangement?
was it for more and/or better control?
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LevelThePlayingField
I smell a rat.
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New baby on the way... and transfusions
by Anony Mous init's been a while since i posted life updates.
this time we are having a baby boy come along in a few months.
off course nothing is ever easy, my wife is extremely anemic to the extent we are being referred to a hematologist for iron and/or packed red blood cells and potential full blood transfusions.
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LevelThePlayingField
Wow, this is not easy even without JW standards. My thoughts and prayers are for you both.
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Who can guess the number closest to memorial partakers ?
by Chook inmy punt 16144 , do you like my last three numbers !.
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LevelThePlayingField
Yeah, me too. I say 20k. People are waking up and some of those who wake up, keep hold as a Christian and start to partake.
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Are You Objective About Who You Were As a JW?
by Wasanelder Once intoday there was a jesus preaching head case with a bullhorn blaring "save yourself from the fires of hell!
accept jesus.
god loves you!
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LevelThePlayingField
I distinctly remember this one guy. He was mowing his lawn and I walked up to him and he said, "NO!" as in to say get lost. I asked him, "Do you know who we are?" He replied, "I don't care!" and turned his mower around and kept on mowing.
I thought to myself, ah, he's dead. I wanted to turn around and telling him, he's as good as dead, but didn't.
So, yeah, give me a blowhorn.
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LevelThePlayingField
It may make an otherwise NON thinking Witness into a thinking one. Who knows. :)
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Which Bible Translation
by moreconfusedthanever ini have seen a few comments about the nwt being an altered version of the bible and i must admit that when they released the new one it did not sit right with me.. i want to read the bible but not the nwt.
i also do not want to read one that has the thee and thou and ye etc because that will do my head in.. what translations do you recommend?.
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LevelThePlayingField
I have found the NIV to be good.
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I went Elder Hunting yesterday!
by Tight Pants Twinkle Toes inwin my first post i introduced you to tweedle dee and tweedle dum, ( surprise elders visit ).
well last sunday night i got phone call from t- dum, he informed me that t-dee was listening in, no doubt practicing his short hand.
t-dum went on to say how he was concerned that we were making the biggest mistake of our lives, yada yada.
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LevelThePlayingField
As fellow apostates, let's try to get along. I've said things that got a few votes down, but I don't let it bother me too much. It's actually a good thing that we DO have opinions, whereas JW's simply don't. They are afraid to disagree, they fear that.
Here we can vent. So go ahead and vent, but vent politely if possible.
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UN Association
by Jules Saturn inso this happened awhile back ago, i was talking to this bethelite that i respect, i consider him to be very sincere.
this was during the time i had discovered the un association the society had as an ngo.
i already knew the answer, but to see his response, i asked him "was the society ever part of the united nations?
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I tried to tell someone about the UN thing. All they said back to me is that I wasn't very humble if all I wanted to do was bring down the society and why am I not being humble. (be humble, sit down)
So if the "society" shot and killed a bunch of folks, then "all I'm trying to do is bring down the society". Hmmm.
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Why I like this site
by UnshackleTheChains inthe reason i like this site is in the fact that it speaks the truth warts and all.
the very title 'jehovahs witness discussion forum' draws the avarage witness to the site, perhaps thinking it is 'apostate' free.. the good thing is that jw's can read the real truth about the organisation/society...no holds barred.
my hope is that more people caught up in this captive religious organisation will open their eyes to reality!.
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LevelThePlayingField
I know I stumbled on this site when I was fully in a few years ago, and the rest is history. So, yeah, I hear ya.